"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
  • One new goal could be loosely described as cleaning up the 20th century.
  • The Government figures that 129 billion are in what is loosely described as circulation.
  • But he did make a few appearances for what can be loosely described as the first eleven.
  • Recording teachers teaching in order to play it back to them is sometimes loosely described as microteaching.
  • McAvoy was a player whose baseball career can be loosely described as a cup of coffee.
  • Many of these disorders can be loosely described as "overactive vision."
  • A collection of these smaller villages can be loosely described as a sub-district.
  • This disk can be loosely described as another ring.
  • In recent years his interest has shifted to the neurosciences, which might be loosely described as the study of the intersection between brain and mind.
  • These, she said, "are loosely described as amenities; but in any professional sense of the word, they are not."
(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
(34) therein, conventionally
Kolokacji: 2

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