"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
  • It was very simple: I merely described myself in my own words.
  • The words were merely describing what the book was about.
  • The warden merely described him as "a big nothing doing time."
  • But such action is not merely described; it pops right up from the pages.
  • I merely described the various different definitions of what it is to be 'winning'.
  • It merely describes what is done to plants to force them to develop side shoots.
  • In this context "death" describes merely the state where something has ceased, for example, life.
  • Wooden Leg had merely described the markings he saw on the body.
  • The mathematical term merely describes something whose rate of growth is proportional to its size.
  • The authors stress that they are merely describing this development, not celebrating it.
(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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