"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
(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
  • When researchers describe case studies as using qualitative data, they usually mean the "thick" description.
  • Researchers present the dialogue connected with each theme in support of increasing dependability through a thick description of the results.
  • Goldhagen's book was meant to be a "thick description" in the manner of Clifford Geertz.
  • For him, the anthropologist's task is to use what he called thick description to interpret symbols by observing them in use.
  • Such observation is part of the richness, immediacy, and "thick" description of a case study.
  • His idea of "thick description" doesn't only describe anthropology's possibilities, it also limits those possibilities.
  • Rather, the reader is left with a thick description from which any number of interpretations might be drawn.
  • He advocated what he called thick descriptions to interpret symbols by observing them in use.
  • Geertz aimed to provide the social sciences with an understanding and appreciation of "thick description."
  • Geertz's interpretive method involved what he called "thick description."
(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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