"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
(24) problem, job, risk
Kolokacji: 3
(25) circumstance, thing
Kolokacji: 2
1. define circumstances = określ okoliczności define circumstances
  • Those at Thursday's session did not try to define extraordinary circumstances.
  • The most restrictive classifications apply to experimental blimps, limiting test flights to sharply defined areas, times and circumstances.
  • North American standards state that the neutral is neither switched nor fused except in very narrowly defined circumstances.
  • The new policy defines circumstances under which a district can test current employees suspected of using drugs.
  • I think that under those clearly defined circumstances, tearing out their fingernails or immersing them in boiling oil would be, yes, a reasonable policy.
  • It may check business emails to assess whether a crime has been committed or unauthorised activity has occurred, but only in strictly defined circumstances.
  • Division of work among judges should ordinarily be done under a predetermined plan, which can be changed in certain clearly defined circumstances.
  • Cosmologists have a term they use to define circumstances where the known laws of science collapse, like at the event horizon of a black hole.
  • Perhaps a slight change of costume or a portable prop would help define the new place or circumstances.
  • It should only be allowed in clearly defined circumstances, such as those proposed by the Flowers' Commission, which we generally support.
2. define things = określ sprawy define things
(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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