"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
(20) correctly, wrongly
Kolokacji: 2
(21) properly, appropriately
Kolokacji: 2
(25) proudly, modestly
Kolokacji: 2
2. modestly describe = skromnie opisz modestly describe
  • Shavon Green, 25, arrived with her hair in a stiff, platinum peacock array, which she modestly described as "just a ponytail."
  • He modestly described his own fiction as "boy meets girl, people hanging out, in progressively more exotic locations."
  • He modestly described himself as being "fortunate for having been part of the process of putting together video fragments and fusing them into art."
  • The artist modestly described the painting in 1906:
  • It has even reached my ears - I have heard him described modestly as our only hope of victory in the upcoming invasion.
  • Mr. Blair modestly describes his Whitewater work as "janitorial services."
  • On his personal web page Barron modestly described himself as "old-fashioned scholar, relic of the past".
  • A local historian modestly described it as "easily the most beautiful structure ever erected on earth," until it burned to the ground a year later.
  • He modestly describes his book "Modern Technique of the Pedal" as "quite a useful work."
  • Members of the ordnance board, who had been detailed to witness the test, were also much interested as Tom modestly described his work on the giant cannon.
(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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