collage
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5.1
- noun
- /kəˈlɑːʒ/
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mosaico
- At the art show, I admired a fascinating collage made from magazine cutouts and fabric.
- make a collage
- create a collage
- collage of facts
And so I called it, I said the analogy is probably to a collage.
- And so I called it, I said the analogy is probably to a collage.
Examples
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As a result, the text becomes a collage of different worlds with differing possibilities.
Academic text (1999) -
Right here is a collage I put together of just my friends and boyfriend and sisters.
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We're supposed to make a Christmas collage of things we wanna ask Santa for, but there is no...
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Ask the students to imagine other ways in which a song collage could be created.
Academic text (2011) -
If you could create a musical collage, what sounds would you use?
Academic text (2011) -
And so as far as applications go, this is a bit of a collage that Stephen put together from a year or two ago.
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You make this gorgeous collage of all this stuff that has nothing to do with your current life.
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Oh, I'm putting together a video collage for our anniversary party.
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Their classmates used the clues and the collage to guess the time period.
Academic text (1993) -
It combines and creates a fantastic collage of quotation from a wild variety of sources.
Synonyms
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2.3
A mixture of things or parts that form one thing
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4.1
The parts and amounts that make up something
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1.2
An action that brings two or more things together
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6.2
A group of images or short scenes joined to show a single idea
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3.5
A collection of songs, stories, and data gathered into one book or album
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5.8
A group of parts or details that make one complete design
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9.9
A way of making things from different materials you find or have left over
Antonyms
Compounds
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Etymology
Collage comes from French collage and the verb coller 'to glue'. A helpful way to remember it is to think of different things 'glued' into one scene, which is why collage can mean a mix or collection of different items joined as a whole.