"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
(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
1. define units = definiuj jednostki define units
2. define terrorism = określ terroryzm define terrorism
3. define intelligence = określ inteligencję define intelligence
  • He defined intelligence as "the ability to carry on abstract thinking".
  • The emerging discipline is still uncertain of even how to define intelligence.
  • There are several ways to more specifically define intelligence.
  • They may not be intelligent in the way we define intelligence, not as individuals, anyway.
  • Humans have done more than any other species to modify their environment, but is that how we want to define intelligence?
  • Others think common sense, problem solving abilities and "street smarts" define intelligence.
  • In doing so the first problem is defining intelligence.
  • "One might almost define intelligence as the level at which an aware organism demands, 'What's in it for me?' "
  • The first step to answering the question is to clearly define "intelligence."
  • They didn't seem to be intelligent, Kim thought, if you defined intelligence as tool-using.
(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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