"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
(28) pornography, obscenity
Kolokacji: 2
(30) path, pathway
Kolokacji: 2
(32) love, God
Kolokacji: 2
(33) sense, insanity, consciousness
Kolokacji: 3
1. define one's sense = określać czyjś sens define one's sense
2. define consciousness = określ świadomość define consciousness
3. define insanity = określ obłęd define insanity
  • So how do you define insanity here?
  • The miscreant was usually insane-and defining "insanity" for a Charonese was a pretty problem-within a few days.
  • Don 't they define insanity as persisting in the same course of action in the hope of a different outcome?
  • I think it was Einstein who defined insanity as continuing to do the same thing whilst expecting a different result.
  • In any event, he said, "the state has discretion to define insanity as it sees fit."
  • Q. How does the law define insanity?
  • That's what defines insanity--for you, at least.
  • Overall, Prichard defined insanity as a "chronic disease, manifested by deviations from the healthy and natural state of the mind."
  • Each state and the federal court system currently uses one of the following "tests" to define insanity for purposes of the insanity defense:
  • But psychiatry defines insanity more broadly than the legal system does.
(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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