"explain" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés

explain verbo

explain + sustantivo
Kolokacji: 136
explain things • explain matters • explain one's decision • explain one's actions • explain one's behavior • explain one's position • ...
collocations grouped by meanings
Grup znaczeniowych: 25
(1) thing, effect
Kolokacji: 2
(3) decision, choice, vote
Kolokacji: 3
(7) presence, absence, lack
Kolokacji: 3
(11) attempt, crime
Kolokacji: 2
(12) origin, name
Kolokacji: 2
(13) policy, strategy
Kolokacji: 2
(18) feeling, desire, vision, dream
Kolokacji: 4
(20) time, history, life, past
Kolokacji: 4
(22) technique, rate
Kolokacji: 2
1. explain techniques = wyjaśnij metody explain techniques
2. explain the rate = wyjaśnij stawkę explain the rate
  • They also developed a theory to explain the apparent constant rate of molecular change in the crucial proteins, which still retained their functions.
  • This helped to explain the rate of the process, but the rate calculated by Salpeter was still somewhat too low.
  • This was also thought to explain, at least partly, the high rate of conduct disorder among children in low socioeconomic groups with discordant home backgrounds.
  • Other factors, such as the age and health of the mother, also fail to explain the rate.
  • But that didn't completely explain the higher rate.
  • She could not explain the higher rate.
  • This explains the high rate of nutrient turnover in deep sea sediments.
  • He said this could explain the greater rate of attacks on nests from which eggs had been experimentally ejected as seen in the new study.
  • Various factors explain the very high rate of economic development of the country in the 1950s and the general slowdown since the 1960s.
  • We have seen that there are two main competing groups of theories which attempt to explain the rate of inflation.
(23) predicament, plight
Kolokacji: 2
(25) reluctance, willingness
Kolokacji: 2
verbo + explain
Kolokacji: 32
help explain • attempt to explain • try to explain • seek to explain • fail to explain • help to explain • begin to explain • need to explain • ...
explain + preposición
Kolokacji: 30
explain to • explain by • explain about • explain in • explain during • ...
explain + adjetivo/adverbio
Kolokacji: 105
fully explain • partly explain • explain patiently • explained away • easily explained • clearly explain • later explain • further explain • ...

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