"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
  • They are rightly described as the key area of the European economy today.
  • These are rightly described as pressure-points in the lives of women.
  • And memory may, I think, be rightly described as the preservation of consciousness?
  • The Convention was rightly described as 'constitutional', for its work shows the way ahead, over and above economic cooperation.
  • It is rightly described as a new year festival.
  • But Darfur is a special case, which the Bush administration has rightly described as genocide.
  • The first concerns small and medium-sized enterprises which he rightly describes as the backbone of the European economy.
  • He rightly described similar cuts proposed by Steve Forbes as snake oil.
  • The cotton textile industry is rightly described as swadeshi industry.
  • People rightly describe her technique with adjectives like "impeccable" and "flawless."
2. fairly described = uczciwie opisać fairly described
3. justly described = słusznie opisać justly described
(32) beautifully, elegantly
Kolokacji: 2
(33) bluntly, candidly, pointedly
Kolokacji: 3
(34) therein, conventionally
Kolokacji: 2

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