"direct" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés

direct verbo

direct + sustantivo
Kolokacji: 138
direct episodes • direct plays • direct traffic • direct operations • direct one's attention • direct one's efforts • direct one's fire • ...
verbo + direct
Kolokacji: 16
begin directing • go to direct • hired to direct • start directing • want to direct • ...
direct + preposición
Kolokacji: 44
directed by • directed at • directed against • direct toward • directed towards • ...
direct + adjetivo/adverbio
Kolokacji: 66
specifically directed • later direct • primarily directed • mainly directed • personally direct • ...
collocations grouped by meanings
Grup znaczeniowych: 15
(1) specifically, generally
Kolokacji: 2
(4) well, simply, successfully
Kolokacji: 3
(5) once, formerly
Kolokacji: 2
(8) upward, downward
Kolokacji: 2
(10) skillfully, expertly, deftly
Kolokacji: 3
(11) frequently, occasionally
Kolokacji: 2
1. carefully directed = ostrożnie kierować carefully directed
  • His carefully directed plans to seek out and capture the Starfleet spies had disintegrated around him at the final moment, and now there was nothing.
  • In this case, it was a carefully directed reconnaissance plane.
  • Cal had carefully directed them away from the direction Circe indicated for the oncoming tsunami, so that the island stood between them and it.
  • Such tapped magic was often too unstable or volatile to use in such a carefully directed fashion.
  • Some of the poses seem casual; others, carefully directed.
  • But, Mr. Bush added, "the increases must be carefully directed and effectively spent."
  • Even grunts and groans are carefully directed.
  • He warned that antiterrorist efforts should be carefully directed and limited in scope.
  • Then, when the challenge did come, he could face it with all of his consciousness carefully directed and focused.
  • It isn't a balanced, carefully directed approach to copyright enforcement.
2. deliberately directed = rozmyślnie kierować deliberately directed
(14) outwards, inwards
Kolokacji: 2
(15) smartly, stylishly
Kolokacji: 2

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