"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
(32) beautifully, elegantly
Kolokacji: 2
(33) bluntly, candidly, pointedly
Kolokacji: 3
1. bluntly describe = otwarcie opisz bluntly describe
2. candidly describe = szczerze opisywać candidly describe
3. pointedly describe = w sposób ostentacyjny opisz pointedly describe
  • His announcement pointedly described that although SCORE was a peaceful mission, the U.S. now had the capability of delivering a nuclear weapon from space.
  • In fact, Akihito surprised some Japanese by pointedly describing his role as "joining together with you to preserve the Constitution of Japan."
  • Jack Quinn, the White House counsel, pointedly describes a recent Dole speech as "tired, old, worn-out rhetoric."
  • A Chinese official, confirming the visit, pointedly described it as private and mainly a chance for exiled Tibetan leaders to see the progress in their impoverished mountain homeland under Chinese rule.
  • Although Suchocka insists on the honorific "Ms.," she pointedly describes herself as "emancipated" rather than "liberated."
  • The day she left, Mrs. Clinton pointedly described this as an official trip and said she did not want it viewed in the context of a Senate race.
  • He pointedly described next Monday's session as a "quorum call" to receive the Senate version, not as a voting session, although the measure could be put to a vote at that time.
  • In a well-known passage, Petronius pointedly describes the difficulties of the historic theme.
  • But after a decade of sustained foreign investment, the State Department this month pointedly described a worsening in China's human rights situation.
(34) therein, conventionally
Kolokacji: 2

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