"define" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés

define verbo

define + sustantivo

Kolokacji: 144

define areas • define one's role • define life • define marriage • define functions • define standards • define goals • define several types • ...

verbo + define

Kolokacji: 13

help define • try to define • used to define • help to define • come to define • ...

define + preposición

Kolokacji: 34

defined by • defined within • defined in • defined under • define through • ...

define + adjetivo/adverbio

Kolokacji: 116

clearly defined • broadly defined • sharply defined • loosely defined • narrowly defined • well defined • generally defined • ...

colocaciones frecuentes

Kolokacji: 27

collocations grouped by meanings

Grup znaczeniowych: 26

(1) clearly, sharply, variously, crisply, hazily, ...

Kolokacji: 6

1. clearly defined = jasno określony clearly defined

clearly define

2. sharply defined = ostro określić sharply defined

sharply define

3. variously defined = różnie określić variously defined

4. crisply defined = lakonicznie określony crisply defined

5. hazily defined = mętnawo określony hazily defined

As the movie veers from character to character, the dialogue is too fragmented and the situations too hazily defined for any of the stories to acquire much force.
The moral turf was hazily defined.
But in the hazily defined inner workings of Russian privatization, fair play is only in the eyes of the winner.
But Reverón's majas, hazily defined and set in some twilight space, are more plump water nymphs than vamps.
Then there is a House committee that plans to keep digging, although the panel is wracked by partisan divisions and its agenda seems at best hazily defined.
Since history and its changes in manners were hazily defined concepts then, painters invariably depicted the past in terms of the present.
Mr. Bush is asking for $20 million for a hazily defined effort to train lawyers, judges and prosecutors in capital cases.
The committee must decide whether Mr. Clinton committed hazily defined impeachable offenses.
His personal influence within the Administration remains hazily defined, and his standing as a political figure in the nation's capital has yet to recover from a disappointing start.
People don't think through the connections between the temporary visa program and permanent residency, and it leaves people in these hazily defined roles.

6. distinctly defined = wyraźnie określić distinctly defined

(2) broadly, loosely, narrowly, generally, specifically, ...

Kolokacji: 6

(3) well, easily

Kolokacji: 2

(4) precisely, far, largely, once, traditionally, ...

Kolokacji: 36

(5) poorly, fully, ill, negatively

Kolokacji: 4

(6) legally, statutorily

Kolokacji: 2

(7) formally, officially, conventionally, consistently

Kolokacji: 4

(8) originally, primarily, initially, essentially, necessarily, ...

Kolokacji: 6

(9) strictly, rigorously

Kolokacji: 2

(10) vaguely, ambiguously

Kolokacji: 2

(11) explicitly, implicitly

Kolokacji: 2

(12) better, best

Kolokacji: 2

(13) simply, merely

Kolokacji: 2

(14) carefully, closely

Kolokacji: 2

(15) commonly, normally

Kolokacji: 2

(16) differently, separately, independently, publicly, jointly

Kolokacji: 5

(17) roughly, completely, partly, partially, beautifully, ...

Kolokacji: 7

(18) properly, appropriately, suitably

Kolokacji: 3

(19) uniquely, unambiguously

Kolokacji: 2

(20) solely, exclusively

Kolokacji: 2

(21) actually, inductively, practically, truly

Kolokacji: 4

(22) virtually, most

Kolokacji: 2

(23) adequately, sufficiently

Kolokacji: 2

(24) strongly, effectively, weakly

Kolokacji: 3

(25) neatly, perfectly, cleanly

Kolokacji: 3

(26) culturally, socially, ethnically

Kolokacji: 3

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