Dictionary entry

Collocation

Pronunciation: /kɒləˈkeɪʃ(ə)n/

Pronunciation

/kɒləˈkeɪʃ(ə)n/

Myanmar Meaning

(n) တနေတည်း စုပေါင်းထားခြင်း။အစီအစဉ်ဖြင့်ထားခြင်း။

Definition

collocate /'kɒlǝkeÇt/ v ~ (with sth) ( linguistics ) ေဝါဟာရခ်င္း ေပါင္းဖက္တြဲသံုး၍ရသည္။ ‘Weak’ collocates with ‘tea’ but ‘feeble’ does not. ❍ ‘Weak’ and ‘tea’ collocate. ❏ collocation /kɒlǝ'keÇʃn/ n ၁။ [U] တြဲသံုးျခင္း။ ၂။ [C] စကားလံုးမ်ားကို ဆီေလ်ာ္စြာ တြဲသံုးျခင္း။ ‘Resounding victory’ and ‘crying shame’ are English collocations.

Examples

  1. collocate /'kɒlǝkeÇt/ v ~ (with sth) ( linguistics ) ေဝါဟာရခ်င္း ေပါင္းဖက္တြဲသံုး၍ရသည္။ ‘Weak’ collocates with ‘tea’ but ‘feeble’ does not.
  2. ‘Weak’ and ‘tea’ collocate. ❏ collocation /kɒlǝ'keÇʃn/ n ၁။ [U] တြဲသံုးျခင္း။ ၂။ [C] စကားလံုးမ်ားကို ဆီေလ်ာ္စြာ တြဲသံုးျခင္း။ ‘Resounding victory’ and ‘crying shame’ are English collocations.