"invent" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés

invent verbo

invent + sustantivo
Kolokacji: 47
invent the Christmas card • invent things • invent a story • invent a machine • invent characters • ...
collocations grouped by meanings
Grup znaczeniowych: 12
(2) thing, detail, stuff
Kolokacji: 3
1. invent characters = wymyśl charaktery invent characters
2. invent sex = wymyśl seks invent sex
3. invent Hollywood = wynajdywać hollywoodzki invent Hollywood
4. invent personalities = wymyśl osobowości invent personalities
  • As he did for the Taffetas, Mr. Lewis invented personalities and a history for the Cardigans.
  • "He wrote a team book in a way that had characters relating to one another without phony sounding conflicts, without inventing one-syllable personalities."
  • They invent new pasts and new personalities; they have a vast repertory of wisecracks; and, best of all, they suffer.
  • With his brilliant meditations on "torque" and "grunt" and "handling", he invents personalities and virtues for these inanimate objects.
  • Over time, he invented new personalities to stave off ennui.
  • They have every right to be different - it's very presumptuous of us to invent personalities for them simply because we've seen them act on a cinema screen, but it can still be a shock when they're not as you'd hoped.
  • In his recent book on Joe DiMaggio, Richard Ben Cramer described how the owners, along with a complicit media, created an unofficial "hero machine" that invented entire personalities around the best sluggers.
  • Ever larger numbers of poseurs are inventing alternative virtual personalities in chat rooms.
  • "I sort of fell into this middle ground, average schmo kind of guy," he said in the interview, adding that he broke free by inventing personalities.
  • Alan Sepinwall of The Star-Ledger commented: "This episode makes clear that Cavil didn't invent entirely new personalities for his "parents" when he imprisoned them in new bodies.
(6) way, instrument, tool, crime
Kolokacji: 4
(7) word, dialogue, jazz
Kolokacji: 3
(8) product, scenario, scene
Kolokacji: 3
(9) camera, radio
Kolokacji: 2
(12) gunpowder, dynamite
Kolokacji: 2
verbo + invent
Kolokacji: 6
help invent • try to invent • start inventing • keep inventing • begin inventing • ...
invent + preposición
Kolokacji: 17
invented by • invented in • invent for • invented at • invent on • ...
invent + adjetivo/adverbio
Kolokacji: 22
newly invented • originally invented • virtually invent • independently invented • actually invent • ...

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