"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 • ...
collocations grouped by meanings
Grup znaczeniowych: 35
(9) boundary, limit, border
Kolokacji: 3
2. define freedom = określ wolność define freedom
3. define happiness = określ szczęście define happiness
  • A few weeks ago, while trying to define happiness, she said: "The only way to be happy is to be of service to another.
  • Since this is the case we should be aware of limits in attempting to define, quantify or track well-being or happiness.
  • He defines happiness as "an abstract, moral concept.
  • For example, a researcher might try to use job satisfaction to define overall happiness.
  • A variety of biological, psychological, religious, and philosophical approaches have striven to define happiness and identify its sources.
  • Philosophers and religious thinkers often define happiness in terms of living a good life, or flourishing, rather than simply as an emotion.
  • Psychologists have defined happiness as a combination of life satisfaction and the relative frequency of positive and negative affect.
  • And Tennessee Williams once famously defined happiness as "insensitivity."
  • The characteristics that are looked for in happiness seem also, all of them, to belong to what we have defined happiness as being.
  • The dictionary defines happiness as a feeling of pleasure or contentment.
4. define membership = określ członkostwo define membership
(14) rule, principle, guideline
Kolokacji: 3
(16) value, religion, orthodoxy
Kolokacji: 3
(18) relation, politics
Kolokacji: 2
(19) criteria
Kolokacji: 1
(21) method, solution
Kolokacji: 2
(22) crime, attempt, rape, treason
Kolokacji: 4
(23) unit, terrorism, intelligence
Kolokacji: 3
(24) problem, job, risk
Kolokacji: 3
(25) circumstance, thing
Kolokacji: 2
(28) pornography, obscenity
Kolokacji: 2
(30) path, pathway
Kolokacji: 2
(32) love, God
Kolokacji: 2
(33) sense, insanity, consciousness
Kolokacji: 3
(34) socialism, liberalism
Kolokacji: 2
(35) obesity, gender
Kolokacji: 2
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 • ...

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