collocate

present singular third person collocates · participle present collocating · participle past collocated · past collocated

1. human sciences(said of certain words) To be often used together, form a collocation; for example strong collocates with tea.
2. To arrange or occur side by side.

   Synonyms: co-locate

3. obsoletetransitiveTo set or place or station in the same place as something else.

   to marſhall and collocate in order his battayles

   1548, Edward Hall, The Union of the Two Noble and Illustre Families of Lancastre and Yorke

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   that S. Peter will have transferred from his episcopate of Antioch to Rome, and in Rome the Church with the episcopate, the primacy likewise itself, and himself the rock of faith and the Church to have been constituted and collocated

   1600s, Cornelius a Lapide, Commentaries in Sacred Scripture,Tomus IX, p.35

   Synonyms: co-locate

plural collocates

1. human sciencesA component word of a collocation; a word that collocates with another.

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   A list of collocations to accompany the SVL words providing their important lexico-grammatical associations could therefore be a useful supplementary resource. Thus, we took an extra step not present in previously developed academic wordlists and created lists of each word's discipline-specific collocates.

   2018, Clarence Green, James Lambert, “Advancing disciplinary literacy through English for academic purposes: Discipline-specific wordlists, collocations and word families for eight secondary subjects”, in Journal of English for Academic Purposes, volume 35, →DOI, page 109

1. not comparableobsoleteSet; placed.

   of that creature you must take the parts wherein that virtue chiefly is collocate

   1627 (indicated as 1626), Francis [Bacon], “X. Century.”, in Sylua Syluarum: Or A Naturall Historie. In Ten Centuries. […], London: […] William Rawley […]; [p]rinted by J[ohn] H[aviland] for William Lee […], →OCLC