cave
 I. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
Aladdin's Cave
▪ Her apartment is an Aladdin's Cave of antiques, old books, and fine paintings.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
 ADJECTIVE
dark
▪ The door was flung wide, and inside lay a dark cave.
▪ We pass rocky beaches, secret inlets, muddy coves, dark hidden sea caves pounded by surf.
▪ When Jean-Claude emerged from the hide-out, he held out his arm and dragged me into the dark cave.
▪ Others, such as the Delphic Python, live in dark moist caves.
▪ Inside, these dwellings were dark like caves.
▪ He carried her off to the dark cave.
▪ No more visits to dark, ghostly caves, Roman!
NOUN
art
▪ Primitivism To look at the mystery of cave art means first of all to look at our own prejudices.
dweller
▪ Aggression would have given a survival advantage in cave dweller days and earlier and so would have been favored by natural selection.
entrance
▪ Gnome passage, where we headed after leaving the cave entrance, was one of the highlights of the cave for me.
▪ Prior to each flight, rangers offer free programs in a seating area near the cave entrance.
▪ Some of these riverbank cave entrances are submerged when the river is in spate making their underground passages subject to sudden flooding.
▪ The enterprising walker could reach Cape Matapan and look for the cave entrance to Hades.
▪ He became very aggressive to any other fish that came near his cave entrance.
painting
▪ Certainly some of their art, such as cave paintings, survives and may provide a clue as to how they thought.
▪ In other words, the dangers of the Internet are as old as cave paintings.
▪ All these concepts have been applied, successively, to prehistoric cave paintings, with different but always arbitrary results.
▪ Siberia became a center for the same culture that had produced the cave paintings.
▪ The opportunity for cave painting, in an artificial cave, demonstrated man's earliest use of pigments as paints.
▪ The Cro-Magnon cave paintings demonstrate that wild animals also can be part of the family.
system
▪ Intermittent drainage, underground watercourses and vast cave systems are features of the karst.
▪ At 3.1 kilometers, this dive is the longest underwater traverse of two cave systems in the world.
VERB
enter
▪ As they enter their caves, they start producing a series of high-pitched clicks.
▪ After entering the cave, Hawk senses such awesome power that he flees in terror.
▪ And for that to happen you must do one day as I did, and enter the crystal cave of vision.
▪ Previously, people entered caves to Join with the Goddess's body.
▪ Not everyone wants to enter the cave on such terms.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
an Aladdin's Cave
city/town/cave etc dweller
▪ Added to this is the vibration caused by heavy goods vehicles and the annoyance of air traffic suffered by all city dwellers.
▪ Bartlett drew from the old-fashioned uniforms of the virile football player and the preening perfection of the city dweller.
▪ But then, city dwellers have never been long on modesty.
▪ It is the dilemma of city dwellers, of all those refugees from the past in search of the future.
▪ Most shoppers know that only cave dwellers would pay the list price for electronics goods, for example.
▪ Poverty has become persistent, and apparently self-reinforcing, for millions of city dwellers, most of them black or Hispanic.
▪ This assistance inevitably spilled over as an increase in general prosperity for the ordinary Milanese city dweller.
▪ Unlike many town dwellers, farmers can at least eat well.
the roof falls/caves in
▪ The Warriors were leading, with only a few minutes of the game to go, when the roof fell in.
▪ It may not be long before the roof falls in.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ He looked inside the cave and saw a lion.
▪ He spent many nights sleeping in an open orchard in torrential rain until he located a small cave.
▪ It was inside a cave, but bigger than any cave had a right to be.
▪ One day he heard a noise coming from a cave.
▪ Only a few of us knew about the cave.
▪ She'd feel safer trapped in a cave, with some dark formless danger lurking in the shadows.
▪ The largest system is the Lancaster-Easegill complex where there are around 30 miles of cave passages.
▪ We pass rocky beaches, secret inlets, muddy coves, dark hidden sea caves pounded by surf.
II. verb
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ In October, on 3 October 1985, I was feeling so depressed I thought the walls were caving in on me.
▪ It is clear that the walls around the governor are caving in.
▪ Newport looked poised to run away with it, but Bridgend refused to cave in.
▪ Sixty foot drops are not really much to write home about when some one's been caving as long as he has.
▪ Will Grijalva cave in and go with Postil?
cave
I. cave1 /keɪv/ noun [COUNTABLE]
[date : 1200-1300; Language : Old French; Origin : Latin cava, from cavus 'hollow']
a large natural hole in the side of a cliff or hill, or under the ground ⇨ caving:
▪ the entrance to a cave
II. cave2 verb
[date : 1700-1800; Origin : Probably from calve 'to cave in' (18-19 centuries), perhaps from Flemish inkalven; influenced by ⇨ cave1]
cave in phrasal verb
1. if the top or sides of something cave in, they fall down or inwards
cave in on
▪ The roof of the tunnel caved in on them.
2. to finally stop opposing something, especially because someone has persuaded or threatened you
cave in to
▪ The chairman is expected to cave in to pressure from shareholders.
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