great lake

collocation in English

meaningsofgreatandlake

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great
adjective
uk
/ɡreɪt/us
/ɡreɪt/
large in amount, size, ...
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lake
noun[C]
uk
/leɪk/us
/leɪk/
a large area of water surrounded by land and not connected to the sea except by rivers ...
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(Definition ofgreatandlakefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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The surface would become either waterlogged or agreatlake.
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Thegreatlakeof profit that is there to be reaped makes one's mouth water.
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He should have headed the ship towards one of the great lakes, a newgreatlake—thegreatlakeof unemployment.
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Ivrea lies in a basin that in prehistoric times formed agreatlake.
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The night was dark, and thegreatlakewas cold.
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The former was a warship; the latter was a merchant vessel meant to serve the establishment of the fisheries on thegreatlake.
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The goal of the center is to promote environmental awareness among the local community as well as visitors to thegreatlake.
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Because of the stories of the local people, early geographers believed that there was agreatlakeat the peak of the mountain.
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Storsjn, thegreatlakeis a remnant of this large ice lake.
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When they reach thegreatlakeof boiling oil, they think their time is done.
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Institutional arrangements for managing the great lakes of the world: results of a workshop on implementing the watershed approach.
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Uniamsi was thought to contain agreatlake.
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The term may be objected to, as the result of a grammatical abbreviation, but if not adopted practically, it may do as a poetical synonym for thisgreatlake.
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He has special expertise in coral reef biology, the evolution and ecology of tropical great lakes fishes, and ecosystem-based management of marine resources.
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Back on dry land, he pledged on camera that he would one day make a film about surfing the great lakes.
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The player must defeat the sheriff and send him plummeting toward one of the great lakes before exploding.
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Boats rang from 10 ft to upwards of 21 ft on the great lakes and rivers.
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Beneath the cliff itself, the lake's depth reaches 476 feet (145 m) making it the second deepest lake besides the great lakes.
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A fourth will cause the great lakes to evaporate, and a fifth will dry the oceans.
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