collocate (with something)(of words词语)to be often used together in a language搭配;连用
‘Bitter’ collocates with ‘tears’ but ‘sour’ does not.bitter 可与 tears 搭配,而 sour 则不可。
‘Bitter’ and ‘tears’ collocate.bitter 和 tears 可搭配使用。
Word Originearly 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.