"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 • ...
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 • ...
(3) actually, practically
Kolokacji: 2
(4) simply, literally
Kolokacji: 2
(5) wholly, entirely
Kolokacji: 2
1. wholly invented = całkowicie wynaleźć wholly invented
2. entirely invented = całkowicie wynaleźć entirely invented
  • It was equally possible that the simulation had invented it entirely from scratch, to kill the time while all his routines booted.
  • The central conceit of Iolanthe's blindness is entirely invented.
  • The last story turned out to have been entirely invented.
  • And my feelings aren't even accurate, they are just mine, almost entirely invented.
  • Holmes has said that the only plot element entirely invented by himself is Kathryn's infidelity.
  • Anthos is the only 5th century Athenian drama we know of whose plot was entirely invented by the poet.
  • Reality could now be entirely invented and history revised.
  • This "exotic" styling of "Russia" was not just self-conscious but entirely invented.
  • His calligraphic characters are entirely invented (some have little faces and hats).
  • A number of scenes were entirely invented.

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