"delicate" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés

delicate adjetivo

delicate + sustantivo
Kolokacji: 256
delicate balance • delicate hand • delicate feature • delicate issue • delicate matter • delicate situation • delicate task • delicate touch • ...
collocations grouped by meanings
Grup znaczeniowych: 51
(2) hand, finger, fingertip
Kolokacji: 3
(5) matter, thing, affair
Kolokacji: 3
(9) negotiation, diplomacy
Kolokacji: 2
(16) sensibility, sense
Kolokacji: 2
(17) bone, wrist, skull, jaw, ankle
Kolokacji: 5
(19) shade, nuance, irony, wit
Kolokacji: 4
(27) sauce, broth, salad
Kolokacji: 3
(29) nose, nostril
Kolokacji: 2
(33) curve, arch, spire
Kolokacji: 3
(37) chain, strand, necklace
Kolokacji: 3
(39) melody, voice, lyricism
Kolokacji: 3
(41) shudder, cough
Kolokacji: 2
(42) leg, limb, filament, branch
Kolokacji: 4
1. delicate leg = delikatna noga delicate leg
2. delicate limb = słaba kończyna delicate limb
  • She woke with a little sob of fear--a shiver ran along her delicate limbs, and she stared upon my face with wide eyes.
  • Lumas's wife ran her fingers along a delicate limb of one of the sculptures.
  • Outside their shells they'd be about a foot long, with delicate limbs and big, flat paws that drove the spheres across dry land.
  • She had doll-like, almost delicate limbs, small hands, and hardly any hips.
  • Four layers - comprising 1,100 sheets - were laid down over the spongy floor that usually supports the delicate limbs of dancers.
  • Berlis lay unnecessarily restrained, his delicate limbs pinned with strips of cloth to the bio-bed.
  • Gtst collapsed all in a nodding huddle of white, delicate limbs, of swirling pearlescent draperies at the table edge.
  • She was quite slim, with delicate limbs and very small hands and feet.
  • K's't'lk reached up one delicate limb and laid it in Ael's outstretched hand.
  • I rose and I went to her, and I gathered her small, delicate limbs in my arms.
3. delicate filament = delikatne włókno delicate filament
4. delicate branch = delikatna gałąź delicate branch
(43) porcelain, China
Kolokacji: 2
(45) filigree, workmanship
Kolokacji: 2
(47) experiment, probe
Kolokacji: 2
(48) profile, note
Kolokacji: 2
(49) fern, herb
Kolokacji: 2
(50) psyche, ego
Kolokacji: 2
(51) surface, palate
Kolokacji: 2
adverbio + delicate
Kolokacji: 18
most delicate • extremely delicate • politically delicate • particularly delicate • surprisingly delicate • ...
delicate + preposición
Kolokacji: 4
delicate in • delicate of • delicate for • delicate with

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