"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
1. clearly directed = najwyraźniej kierować clearly directed
2. properly directed = odpowiednio kierować properly directed
3. crisply directed = lakonicznie kierowany crisply directed
4. explicitly directed = wyraźnie kierować explicitly directed
  • The limits imposed by H.M.O.'s on pharmacy benefits are not explicitly directed at people with AIDS but affect them more than others.
  • While Portugal now has invoked that provision, American officials expressed relief that the talks are not explicitly directed toward reducing Portuguese military cooperation with the United States.
  • The liaisons, according to his briefing, had been explicitly directed to accompany the EF all the way to Diess.
  • All of these laws were explicitly directed against women, other than living on the avails.
  • Spence's utopian works "were directed explicitly at the major institutions, economic and political, of the time.
  • The critique was primarily and explicitly directed at Descartes, but also attacked Leibniz.
  • Hanuman's touch on Tunesmith's machines could only ruin them unless he were explicitly directed and guided.
  • However, one might argue that everyone has to die of something eventually, and so public health efforts should be more explicitly directed at preventing premature death.
  • However, his viewpoints on current regulation are; "there is every bit as much regulation by government as before, only now it is more explicitly directed to serve large corporate interests."
  • The tape was directed explicitly at the world's one billion Muslims, and took the form of an appeal for a worldwide uprising against the United States and against Americans.
5. exactly directed = dokładnie kierować exactly directed
(8) upward, downward
Kolokacji: 2
(10) skillfully, expertly, deftly
Kolokacji: 3
(11) frequently, occasionally
Kolokacji: 2
(14) outwards, inwards
Kolokacji: 2
(15) smartly, stylishly
Kolokacji: 2

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