"explanation" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés

explanation sustantivo

sustantivo + explanation
Kolokacji: 7
explanation of one's behavior • explanation of Commonwealth • explanation of Allied unit • explanation of one's methodology • ...
explanation + verbo
Kolokacji: 40
explanation comes • explanation makes • explanation includes • explanation lies • explanation seems • ...
verbo + explanation
Kolokacji: 43
require explanation • accept one's explanation • hear one's explanation • demand an explanation • offer an explanation • ...
adjetivo + explanation
Kolokacji: 198
possible explanation • simple explanation • only explanation • full explanation • detailed explanation • alternative explanation • ...
collocations grouped by meanings
Grup znaczeniowych: 50
(3) only, single, sole
Kolokacji: 3
(7) far, long, lengthy
Kolokacji: 3
(14) best, better
Kolokacji: 2
(16) obvious, apparent
Kolokacji: 2
(17) common, public, popular, usual
Kolokacji: 4
(22) theoretical, hypothetical
Kolokacji: 2
(24) immediate, quick, ingenious
Kolokacji: 3
1. immediate explanation = natychmiastowe wyjaśnienie immediate explanation
2. quick explanation = szybkie wyjaśnienie quick explanation
3. ingenious explanation = pomysłowe wyjaśnienie ingenious explanation
  • In 2006 an English botanist named Andrew Goldsworthy came up with an ingenious explanation of why plants reacted positively to electrical current.
  • Observations and calculations were repeated, and ingenious theoretical explanations were suggested; but the truth remained completely hidden.
  • I am sure you have some ingenious explanation for this senseless attack on my mother, too.
  • However, the issue is settled by positive evidence not by ingenious explanation of the failure to confirm the idea.
  • That's a very ingenious explanation.
  • This ingenious explanation for the existence of interest also demonstrates that interest is simply an aspect of property within the regime of private law.
  • It would take an even more ingenious explanation to account for it than that he had given about the shoes.
  • A Soviet baseball writer gave an ingenious explanation to his red-blooded compatriots about why Russian athletes have taken up the American national pastime.
  • An ingenious explanation.
  • "And I suppose you have some wonderfully ingenious explanation of how you killed these fiends?"
(31) additional, reductive
Kolokacji: 2
(32) causal, genetic, theological
Kolokacji: 3
(37) basic, sinister, fundamental
Kolokacji: 3
(38) mechanical, mechanistic
Kolokacji: 2
(39) vague, deep, cryptic, mystical
Kolokacji: 4
(40) suitable, convenient, awkward
Kolokacji: 3
(41) mathematical, verbal
Kolokacji: 2
(42) sociological, anthropological
Kolokacji: 2
(45) ultimate, final, conclusive
Kolokacji: 3
(46) cultural, excellent
Kolokacji: 2
(47) main, primary
Kolokacji: 2
(49) lame, feeble
Kolokacji: 2
(50) mythological, allegorical
Kolokacji: 2
preposición + explanation
Kolokacji: 16
without explanation • of explanation • in explanation • on explanations • for an explanation • ...

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