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col·li·gate

 (kŏl′ĭ-gāt′)
tr.v. col·li·gat·ed, col·li·gat·ing, col·li·gates
1. To tie or group together.
2. Logic To bring (isolated facts) together by an explanation or hypothesis that applies to them all.
[Latin colligāre, colligāt- : com-, com- + ligāre, to tie, bind; see leig- in Indo-European roots.]
col′li·ga′tion n.
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Colligation

 conjunction; alliance; union; the binding together or the linking of a number of isolated facts—Wilkes.
Examples: colligation of facts, 1837; of kingdoms, 1651; of [blood] vessels, 1646.
Dictionary of Collective Nouns and Group Terms. Copyright 2008 The Gale Group, Inc. All rights reserved.
ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:
Noun1.colligation - the state of being joined together
conjugation, conjunction, junction
anastomosis, inosculation - a natural or surgical joining of parts or branches of tubular structures so as to make or become continuous
synapse - the junction between two neurons (axon-to-dendrite) or between a neuron and a muscle; "nerve impulses cross a synapse through the action of neurotransmitters"
unification, union - the state of being joined or united or linked; "there is strength in union"
2.colligation - the connection of isolated facts by a general hypothesis
connexion, association, connection - the process of bringing ideas or events together in memory or imagination; "conditioning is a form of learning by association"
generalization, inductive reasoning, generalisation, induction - reasoning from detailed facts to general principles
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Kolligation
종합
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Halliday's syntax view for the fact that he inexplicably locates collocation both within syntax and colligation (a major mismatch between Halliday's thinking and that of Firth) and for his ignorance of grammatical collocates (40-43).
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Thus, the effects observed in the studies might be due to the binding of HMGB1-LPS colligation to TLR4 [87].
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The result is that they remain deprived of the knowledge of collocation and colligation two essential elements needed to master the use of English vocabulary and grammar.
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The last contribution to the section, and in the book, is Paul Thompson's "Exploring Hoey's Notion of Textual Colligation in a Corpus of Student Writing." With the twofold aim of (i) revising the concept of textual colligation, and (ii) exploring the writing of UK undergraduate students of different levels, the author studies how certain contiguous (n-grams) and non-contiguous (P-frames) sequences are used by students in their academic essays.
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