"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
(30) eloquently, verbally
Kolokacji: 2
(31) rightly, fairly, justly
Kolokacji: 3
2. fairly described = uczciwie opisać fairly described
3. justly described = słusznie opisać justly described
  • It can be justly described as the world's first garden suburb.
  • In fact, are all the persons and groups Wills studies justly described as "antigovernment"?
  • The last few miles led us through Cave Creek Canyon, which friends had justly described as a little Yosemite.
  • With the addition of Hugo's art, the house was justly described by Hugo's son as an "autograph over three storeys".
  • Shop for spice baskets at the market in the capital, St George's, justly described as the prettiest town in the Caribbean.
  • The resultant paranoia in the underground - perhaps more justly described as a "deterrence effect" - tends to quell local lawbreaking for quite a while.
  • The Reflections, written in failing health, are justly described by Heywood as 'able' and 'uncouth.'
  • Sitting demurely in London's backyard, Kent is justly described the garden of England.
  • The stage show bears little or no resemblance to the 1975 Ken Russell film version, which has been justly described as delirious.
  • The night had been justly described.
(32) beautifully, elegantly
Kolokacji: 2
(33) bluntly, candidly, pointedly
Kolokacji: 3
(34) therein, conventionally
Kolokacji: 2

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