"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
(43) porcelain, China
Kolokacji: 2
1. delicate porcelain = delikatna porcelana delicate porcelain
  • This time, we drink from delicate Herend porcelain decorated with butterflies and flowers.
  • The delicate porcelain tinkled as he stacked the cups, gilt and rosebuds and tea-leaves.
  • His face, like theirs, was tautly fleshed, the bone structure extremely fine, as if made of the most delicate porcelain.
  • Towards the end of the eighteenth century other Staffordshire manufacturers introduced bone china as an alternative to translucent and delicate Chinese porcelain.
  • But I loved the chintzware and the china, the tradition of teatime, and the delicate porcelain.
  • The lamps were all of delicate porcelain, thin enough for light to shine through.
  • She was young yet somehow ageless, with gentle blue eyes and unblemished skin like delicate porcelain.
  • He pulled back and looked at her, put his hand against her face as if he was touching delicate porcelain.
  • The doll was exquisitely made, fashioned of delicate bone-white porcelain.
  • Khelaryt picked up the cup in a hand that dwarfed the delicate porcelain and sipped the soup.
2. delicate China = delikatne Chiny delicate China
(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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