ADJ
- comprehensive, complete
- detailed
- general
- alphabetical
VERB + INDEX
- appear in, be in
- Although the book was devoted to cancer, the word 'cancer' did not even appear in the index
- consult, look (sth up) in
- Why don't you look up her name in the index?
- compile
INDEX + VERB
- give sth, list sth
- The index only gives the main towns
PREP
- in a/the ~
- Is there any reference to it in the index?
- ~ to
- It's a general index to the whole work
ADJ
- subject, title
- card
- computer, computerized
VERB + INDEX
- have, keep
- We keep a card index of all the titles on the shelves
- compile, create
- consult, look (sth up) in, search
- Look up 'The Waste Land' in the index. Search the index to find the address of the data file
PREP
- in a/the ~
- cards in a card index
ADJ
- good, reliable, sensitive
- high
- low
- weighted
- official
- general
- a general index calculated from death and population information
- world
- The world index fell 3.1%
- cost-of-living, market, retail price
- futures, share, stock
- Dow Jones, FT-SE 100, etc.
VERB + INDEX
- have
- Those who lived in the inner cities had a high index of deprivation
- use (sth as)
- The test results were used as an index of language proficiency
- compile, construct, create
- calculate, compute
- The index was calculated with a computer
- publish
- The retail price index is published monthly
- drag, drive, push, take
- A wave of frenzied buying pushed the index up 136.2 points
INDEX + VERB
- measure sth
- an index designed to measure monthly changes in the volume of industrial production
- be based on sth
- an index based on incidents causing a loss of production
- be linked to sth
- The increase in our standard rates will be linked to the retail price index
- cover sth
- an index covering some 1,700 companies
- open
- close, end
- The hundred shares index closed down 15 points
PREP
- in an/the ~
- dividends on shares in the index
- on an/the ~
- people dealing in options on the FT-SE 100 index
PHRASES
- a drop/fall in an index
- a 28.2 point drop in the FT-SE 100 index
- changes in an index, an increase in an index, as measured by an index
- Inflation, as measured by the retail price index, is expected to drop