"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
(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
1. adequately define = wystarczająco określać adequately define
2. sufficiently defined = wystarczająco określić sufficiently defined
  • Contracts must have terms that are sufficiently defined for a court to be able to determine where a breach has occurred.
  • He doesn't stop a moment to examine what these interests are, as though they are defined sufficiently by being different from interests of others.
  • The situation was not sufficiently defined.
  • This highlights the difficulty with the word contemporary when defining photographic expression, as some feel this term is not sufficiently defined.
  • The World Bank's mandate is not sufficiently defined in terms of environmental governance despite the fact that it is included in its mission.
  • Plants and animals lacked sufficiently defined auras, so when their physical forms succumbed, they died.
  • The guidelines have not defined sufficiently precisely how the market share of a manufacturer and a wholesaler should be determined.
  • Sufficiently well defined unit tests address this problem: if unforeseen dependencies create errors, then when unit tests are run, they will show failures.
  • "Apple has not sufficiently defined a cohesive strategy for the future," Ms. Painter wrote.
  • If, however, the testator "had sufficiently defined" the way in which trustees should exercise their judgement, it would be valid.
(24) strongly, effectively, weakly
Kolokacji: 3
(25) neatly, perfectly, cleanly
Kolokacji: 3

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