"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 • ...
collocations grouped by meanings
Grup znaczeniowych: 26
(3) well, easily
Kolokacji: 2
(6) legally, statutorily
Kolokacji: 2
(9) strictly, rigorously
Kolokacji: 2
(10) vaguely, ambiguously
Kolokacji: 2
  • The professor was doing research on a vaguely defined project and needed less than an hour of someone's time.
  • The middle class is perhaps the mostly vaguely defined of the social classes.
  • The faces of the two men were pale, vaguely defined.
  • All it will do is "suggest that the president could, not should, begin to withdraw forces in the vaguely defined future."
  • The government says these efforts are moving Venezuela toward a vaguely defined "21st-century socialism."
  • The current standards, with little changed since 1969, rely on a vaguely defined concept of "community benefit."
  • That is clearly progress, and 4.1 percent does not seem like a lot if you're thinking only about nebulous, vaguely defined workers.
  • The current law vaguely defines a broadcaster's responsibility to serve the public interest.
  • But beyond establishing the job of deputy, Albany officials left it vaguely defined.
  • He said there was only one path and that it was but vaguely defined.
2. ambiguously defined = niejednoznacznie określony ambiguously defined
(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
(19) uniquely, unambiguously
Kolokacji: 2
(20) solely, exclusively
Kolokacji: 2
(22) virtually, most
Kolokacji: 2
(23) adequately, sufficiently
Kolokacji: 2
(24) strongly, effectively, weakly
Kolokacji: 3
(25) neatly, perfectly, cleanly
Kolokacji: 3

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