"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
  • However, the last eight minutes of his life have been minutely described.
  • To give a person an interest in the sport, the country must be described minutely.
  • Fraser had described them minutely in his report, after visiting Brunel.
  • Others minutely described some personal characteristics while glossing over others.
  • The later cursive manuscripts were too numerous to be minutely described as per the uncials.
  • How many times can one accurately and minutely describe some well-known possession we handle a hundred times a day?
  • The ritual books of old China minutely describe who was allowed to use what kinds of sacrificial vessels and how much.
  • There, fish were trapped in ways still so minutely described that the methods had been imitated in the Voral.
  • If it were up to me, each paragraph would minutely describe ambrosial meals, perhaps alternated with passages about picking tomatoes in the sun.
  • The smoothness of the stones, brought down from the snows of the Himalayas, and their dimensions, were minutely described.
(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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