"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
  • The same year, he was called upon for a survey to define the western border of Pennsylvania.
  • Political boundaries play no part in this, apart from defining the national border.
  • For most of its length, it now defines the border between these two provinces.
  • If a cease-fire ever comes, the peace plan requires that experts go over the ground and finally define the border.
  • Here's a pretty homogenous group that has fairly defined borders if you ask them.
  • "Line them up and they define the eastern border."
  • The treaty defined the border in only three articles.
  • He has erected a berm that for the first time defines the border with Iraq.
  • Still, defining the border between the public and the private can be extraordinarily difficult for journalists, whose work does not always fall into neat categories.
  • From there its route has been used to define the interprovincial border with Ontario.
(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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