"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
  • They are described carefully and have been designed to travel from here to whatever planet is to be settled.
  • She identified herself and said, "I need you to carefully describe the symptoms the children are showing."
  • The men's gestures are carefully described in almost photographic detail.
  • I had carefully described the exact target areas so that the main building would still be spared.
  • The guards might use their sticks in carefully described circumstances, but never otherwise.
  • But those rules, as the film carefully describes them, leave Sonia with a lonely life.
  • Mary's drama consists of carefully described objects, such as flowers.
  • She had no doubt that this was the place, for Willie had described the position carefully.
  • Each project is carefully described and illustrated to facilitate easy assimilation of the objective.
  • But he is less successful with his characters, who never quite break out of their carefully described lives to fully engage the reader's emotions.
2. thoroughly described = dokładnie opisać thoroughly described
(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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