collocate
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You can offer the context, the precedents, the keys to interpretation that help to collocate the fact that has happened.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 19, 2021
It is thus that morphologists have been enabled to frame types or standards of reference, and systematists to collocate the organisms they deal with into groups.
From Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants by Masters, Maxwell T.
Put the three together and condense or collocate their several meanings in one compound qualification which you can write and another spell, and you do not compass the signification you want to convey.
From A Walk from London to John O'Groat's by Burritt, Elihu
If by heat or other causes this barrier is removed, the energy naturally changes direction in a corresponding manner and collocates the atoms accordingly for the formation of curd.
From A History of Indian Philosophy, Volume 1 by Dasgupta, Surendranath
Cyprian has never called prayer a "sacrifice" without qualifying terms; on the contrary he collocates "preces" and "sacrificium," and sometimes also "oblatio" and "sacrificium."
From History of Dogma, Volume 2 (of 7) by Buchanan, Neil
“This is even before you get to the communication challenges of concurrent, collocated hazards with contradicting lifesaving calls to action,” Nielsen said.
From Washington Post ● May 4, 2022
The article in question did not pretend to solve the mystery, but collocated the facts so as to put the case in a nutshell.
From The Secret Passage by Hume, Fergus
Thus for example the energy which collocated the milk-atoms to form milk was in a state of arrest in the milk state.
From A History of Indian Philosophy, Volume 1 by Dasgupta, Surendranath
These sentences are not thus collocated in the original.
From The Valet's tragedy, and other studies by Lang, Andrew
A cold, drenching rain was falling, darkening but not altogether hiding its extraordinary beauty, made up of lovely reaches and side fiords, feathery headlands and islands, beautiful every one and charmingly collocated.
From Travels in Alaska by Muir, John
It will very likely be of no other service than collocating some facts; though I myself think I see my way approximately on the origin of species.
From More Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 1 by Darwin, Francis, Sir
Collocā′tion, act of collocating: disposition in place: arrangement.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D) by Various
The flow of knowledge on account of the peculiarities of its own collocating conditions generates sometimes what we call right perception and sometimes wrong perception or illusion.
From A History of Indian Philosophy, Volume 1 by Dasgupta, Surendranath
At the first sound of their voices Lucian detected so pronounced a twang, and so curious a way of collocating words, as to conclude that Mrs. Vrain and her amiable parent hailed from the States.
From The Silent House by Hume, Fergus
It is not so much even as a collocating or placing force of matter itself.
From Life: Its True Genesis by Wright, R. W.
