"describe" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés

describe verbo

describe + sustantivo
Kolokacji: 293
describe activities • describe species • describe things • describe people • describe one's experience • describe one's work • ...
collocations grouped by meanings
Grup znaczeniowych: 55
(3) thing, effect, circumstance
Kolokacji: 3
(11) feeling, reality
Kolokacji: 2
(17) visit, encounter, meeting
Kolokacji: 3
(18) view, scene, background
Kolokacji: 3
(20) appearance, show, content
Kolokacji: 3
(21) technique, method, solution
Kolokacji: 3
(25) family, origin, home, name
Kolokacji: 4
1. describe one's family = opisywać czyjś rodzina describe one's family
2. describe the origin = opisuj pochodzenie describe the origin
3. describe one's home = opisywać czyjś dom describe one's home
  • He describes his home, dealing with the country in a very fresh and vivid way.
  • Their descriptions, in other words, seemed to follow a set pattern, which we would describe as a 'schema for describing one's home'.
  • The judge described the foster mother and her home in the following passage from his judgment:
  • Ms. Ward described his new home as something akin to a college dormitory.
  • Here he describes his early home when he came "back to Nature".
  • She described her new home as "completely in the countryside.
  • I have still to describe my home, chamber, garden, people of the house, etc.
  • She was silent for a time when he finished, then said, "I like how you describe your home.
  • He later described his home as "a place of unalloyed happiness.
(26) symptom, track
Kolokacji: 2
(28) treatment, relation
Kolokacji: 2
(30) adventure, project, invention
Kolokacji: 3
(36) song, lyrics, word, vocals
Kolokacji: 4
(38) father, son, parent, Jesus
Kolokacji: 4
(39) album, novel
Kolokacji: 2
(41) research, experiment
Kolokacji: 2
(42) works, plant, deed, escape
Kolokacji: 4
(43) marriage, ritual
Kolokacji: 2
(44) moment, period, youth, hour
Kolokacji: 4
(45) God, King
Kolokacji: 2
(46) patient, client
Kolokacji: 2
(47) village, city
Kolokacji: 2
(49) procedure, software, function
Kolokacji: 3
(50) claim, grant
Kolokacji: 2
(51) atrocity, corruption
Kolokacji: 2
(52) item, particle, unit, rock
Kolokacji: 4
(54) curve, electron, wave
Kolokacji: 3
(55) upbringing, training
Kolokacji: 2
verbo + describe
Kolokacji: 19
coin to describe • used to describe • try to describe • ask to describe • begin to describe • ...
describe + preposición
Kolokacji: 45
described by • described in • describe to • described under • describe on • ...
describe + adjetivo/adverbio
Kolokacji: 148
once describe • originally described • accurately describe • formally described • variously described • later describe • ...

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