"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
(19) famously, brilliantly
Kolokacji: 2
  • One Fed chairman famously described his job as being to "take away the punch bowl just when the party gets going."
  • He famously described his own style as an attempt "to give the mundane its beautiful due."
  • Indeed, he famously described apocalypticism as "the mother of Christian theology".
  • The blood circulation was famously described by William Harvey in 1628.
  • Durkheim famously described law as the "visible symbol" of social solidarity.
  • Jacques Cousteau famously described it as the "rapture of the deep".
  • Cicero famously described it as 'obscure' but others have seen some playfulness in its tone.
  • For the man famously described as "mad, bad, and dangerous to know", see Lord Byron.
  • Labor's interminable 1983 election manifesto was famously described at the time as "the longest suicide note in history."
  • Milton Friedman famously described this situation as "too much money chasing too few goods".
2. brilliantly describe = błyskotliwie opisz brilliantly describe
(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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