"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 • ...
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 • ...
collocations grouped by meanings
Grup znaczeniowych: 35
(1) once, formerly
Kolokacji: 2
(4) formally, officially
Kolokacji: 2
(6) well, easily, extensively
Kolokacji: 3
(7) fully, poorly
Kolokacji: 2
(8) simply, merely
Kolokacji: 2
(10) frequently, occasionally
Kolokacji: 2
  • From the Zeya he sent a report to the Yakutsk Voevode matter-of-factly describing the burning of villages, slaughter of natives and the torture of prisoners.
  • With a knack for epidemiology and laboratory research, he was soon building what he describes matter-of-factly as "the world's most efficient assembly line for the mass production of weaponized anthrax."
  • I dropped in on a question-and-answer session with the "schoolmaster" of the local school for Indian boys, and heard him matter-of-factly describe their "typically Indian" lack of punctuality, ambition and modesty.
  • The Pope matter-of-factly describes this division of the world into blocs, without taking sides, and criticizes "liberal capitalism" and "Marxist collectivism" in parallel fashion.
  • In a letter to Polly two days earlier, Teacher described the situation more matter-of-factly.
  • Niccolò da Conti in his relations of his travels in Asia between 1419 and 1444, matter-of-factly describes huge junks of about 2,000 tons:
  • The employees, some of whom testified under grants of immunity, matter-of-factly described the daily mechanics of the fraud.
  • Under Ms. Lederer's direction, he described matter-of-factly how he had been surrounded and attacked by the youths while jogging along the reservoir.
  • They are very direct, matter-of-factly describing the benefits of their product over their competitor's.
  • Lamb launched C-SPAN, a public-affairs network (subsidized by other cable channels) that "puts a camera on the political process," as he matter-of-factly describes it.
(14) best, better
Kolokacji: 2
(15) aptly, helpfully, effectively
Kolokacji: 3
(16) adequately, inadequately
Kolokacji: 2
(19) famously, brilliantly
Kolokacji: 2
(20) correctly, wrongly
Kolokacji: 2
(21) properly, appropriately
Kolokacji: 2
(25) proudly, modestly
Kolokacji: 2
(30) eloquently, verbally
Kolokacji: 2
(31) rightly, fairly, justly
Kolokacji: 3
(32) beautifully, elegantly
Kolokacji: 2
(33) bluntly, candidly, pointedly
Kolokacji: 3
(34) therein, conventionally
Kolokacji: 2

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