collocate

Từ điển Oxford Advanced Learner 8th

▪ I. col·lo·cate [collocate collocates collocated collocating] BrE [ˈkɒləkeɪt] NAmE [ˈkɑːləkeɪt] verb intransitive (linguistics)~ (with sth)
(of words)to be often used together in a language
•‘Bitter’ collocates with ‘tears’ but ‘sour’ does not.
•‘Bitter’ and ‘tears’ collocate.
Verb forms:

Word Origin:
early 16th cent. meaning to place things side by side in a particular relation: from Latin collocat- ‘placed together’, from the verb collocare, from col- ‘together’ + locare ‘to place’. The current sense dates from the 1950s.
 
▪ II. col·lo·cate [collocate collocates collocated collocating] BrE [ˈkɒləkət] ; NAmE [ˈkɑːləkət] noun
•‘Bitter’ and ‘tears’ are collocates.
Main entry: ↑collocate_derived

• Từ đồng nghĩa / Synonyms:
  lump, chunk