oak tree
collocation in Englishmeaningsofoakandtree
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oak
noun[C or U]
uk/əʊk/us/oʊk/
a large tree that is common in northern countries, or the hard wood of ...
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tree
noun[C]
uk/triː/us/triː/
a tall plant that has a wooden trunk and branches that grow from its ...
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(Definition ofoakandtreefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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For them theoaktreewas the seat of liberty.
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It is sheltered by a singleoaktreethat creates a suitably informal focus to the space.
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Such things may be useful, but they mean that anoaktreefails to become what anoaktreeis supposed to be.
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To plant anoaktreeis an act of faith in the future.
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Anoaktreegrows for perhaps 500 years.
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I am proud to be a branch of the greenoaktree.
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The isolatedoaktreeis a particular example.
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He tried to make that littleoaktreegrow faster than it had before.
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But you cannot cross a donkey with anoaktree.
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Theoaktreewas twice as tall as me, which would not be very difficult.
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It now employs nearly 100 and is a real acorn tooaktreestory.
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Anoaktreeshakes 10,000 acorns upon the ground, but only one or two may survive.
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I only want to say that anybody who plants anoaktreeis himself, or his son or possibly his grandson, unlikely to see the result.
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You stood away from school and expected the schoolman to find you where you were hiding up in anoaktreeor somewhere on the mountains.
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Let us suppose that a district council that wished to build a car park were to cut down anoaktree.
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When one plants an acorn one has to wait quite a few years for it to grow into anoaktree.
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From the point of view of size, if we look upon the bacillus as the size of anoaktree, the virus will be the size of a pinpoint.
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I do not think we should try to plant a wholeoaktree, with all its branches, which has to be propped up and which then dies.
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It is an "oaktree" discretion.
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