"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
(14) best, better
Kolokacji: 2
(15) aptly, helpfully, effectively
Kolokacji: 3
(16) adequately, inadequately
Kolokacji: 2
3. perfectly describe = doskonale opisz perfectly describe
4. exactly describe = dokładnie opisz exactly describe
  • As if it were some other woman talking, Dawnay heard herself meticulously describing her meeting at Oban airport.
  • In a 1723 document known as his "Spider Letter," he meticulously described how spiders spin their webs.
  • Staring straight ahead from her easy chair, she meticulously describes something that seems to have been a bit of the old S&M with an earlier lover.
  • The affidavit goes much further, though, in meticulously describing a pattern of violent sexual abuse in two generations of the family.
  • One of the ways he does this is by meticulously describing the hate-filled marriage of the parents, Mary and Axel.
  • Sephrenia meticulously described the ilness that had rendered Ehlana comatose.
  • The novel describes meticulously the problems the family has with coping with its traumatic past.
  • For all the talk, you're left sharing the confusions of a man who can meticulously describe but not fully understand himself.
  • For instance, US patent 3 852 787 has 57 drawings and meticulously describes how the camera is constructed.
  • In this one, he described meticulously the city's process of formation since the colonial times until the independence.
(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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