"description" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés

description sustantivo

sustantivo + description
Kolokacji: 41
job description • description of several species • type description • character description • description of events • ...
description + verbo
Kolokacji: 46
description includes • description makes • description fits • description appears • description matches • ...
verbo + description
Kolokacji: 35
use descriptions • match the description • fit the description • defy description • contain a description • provide a description • ...
adjetivo + description
Kolokacji: 204
detailed description • brief description • accurate description • physical description • vivid description • general description • ...
collocations grouped by meanings
Grup znaczeniowych: 58
  • The workers said that in some cases they had invented terse descriptions of the patients as poor homeless people or drifters with no fixed addresses.
  • "Unpleasant" was the terse description that one adviser used for the feeling when the first voter polls came in.
  • What lay within we knew not, beyond the terse description in the catalogue.
  • It has been said that this work represents the height of Hawthorne's literary genius, dense with terse descriptions.
  • After Cardona gave a terse but graphic description of what the body looked like, the detectives lost their curiosity.
  • And then, when he had given her a terse description of the runaway float, "So you were the hero!
  • Following his terse description of it, the euro fell against the dollar.
  • John got out several photographs of the missing girl and passed them around, along with a terse typed description.
  • No, the answer was to get out a terse description of "discovering" the object and a list of its properties.
  • The description, though terse, sounded more like pitched battle than the arrest of two half-sized bank robbers.
(4) physical, personal, sensual
Kolokacji: 3
(10) early, recent, later, previous
Kolokacji: 4
(12) better, best, high-level
Kolokacji: 3
(14) scientific, technical
Kolokacji: 2
(16) official, federal
Kolokacji: 2
(18) vague, definite
Kolokacji: 2
(19) lengthy, long, extended
Kolokacji: 3
(20) verbal, narrative
Kolokacji: 2
(22) far, exaggerated
Kolokacji: 2
(30) glowing, lyrical, enthusiastic
Kolokacji: 3
(33) unflattering, flattering
Kolokacji: 2
(34) common, usual, popular
Kolokacji: 3
(35) audio, dramatic, play-by-play
Kolokacji: 3
(37) colorful, picturesque, florid
Kolokacji: 3
(39) quantitative, qualitative
Kolokacji: 2
(40) useful, functional, structural
Kolokacji: 3
(42) legal, valid
Kolokacji: 2
(43) theoretical, abstract
Kolokacji: 2
(44) straightforward, frank, blunt
Kolokacji: 3
(45) lurid, gruesome
Kolokacji: 2
(46) humorous, hilarious, amusing
Kolokacji: 3
(47) alternative, equivalent
Kolokacji: 2
(48) informal, cursory, intimate
Kolokacji: 3
(49) misleading, fictional
Kolokacji: 2
(50) architectural, geometric
Kolokacji: 2
(51) loving, sexual, romantic
Kolokacji: 3
(52) lively, animated
Kolokacji: 2
(53) phenomenological
Kolokacji: 1
(54) poignant, harrowing
Kolokacji: 2
(55) approximate, rough
Kolokacji: 2
(56) pejorative, derogatory
Kolokacji: 2
(57) informative, illustrated
Kolokacji: 2
preposición + description
Kolokacji: 21
beyond description • with descriptions • in one's description • to one's description • from one's description • ...

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