"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
(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
1. lame explanation = wyjaśnienie chromych lame explanation
2. feeble explanation = nieprzekonujące wyjaśnienie feeble explanation
  • Bokin's feeble explanation for the disappearance of all the mirrors from his home was the truth!
  • My feeble explanation for why corporations seek cheaper labor in Taiwan and Korea only infuriate him further.
  • Do you think the noble Lord of Winterfell wanted to hear my feeble explanations?
  • One slip, one inadvertent noise, would wake the giant, and he doubted any of the feeble explanations he'd concocted would save him then.
  • Muttering some kind of feeble explanation to Mrs. Hassler, who appeared more intrigued than alarmed, he walked through her apartment to the back door, where he flicked another switch.
  • "Our feeble explanations must fill her with dismay," Stiros sneered.
  • I tried a last feeble explanation and said that all my life I had encountered people of my father's kind, who had, like my father, hooked me somehow into their schemes, and as a rule I had always been left dangling.
  • It's a feeble enough explanation what I gives to the captain but it can't be proved wrong, and it makes some sort o' sense.
  • Irwin may be saintly now, but the fact remains that he walked out on his family 26 years earlier, and his feeble explanations don't wash.
  • The nearest I can come to explaining it, and it's a feeble explanation, is to compare it with the body scanner that was developed on Earth a long time ago.
(50) mythological, allegorical
Kolokacji: 2
preposición + explanation
Kolokacji: 16
without explanation • of explanation • in explanation • on explanations • for an explanation • ...

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