"invention" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés

invention sustantivo

invention + verbo
Kolokacji: 22
invention makes • invention includes • invention leads • invention allows • invention comes • ...
verbo + invention
Kolokacji: 14
use one's invention • know for one's invention • create inventions • develop one's inventions • invention called • ...
adjetivo + invention
Kolokacji: 82
new invention • great invention • modern invention • recent invention • pure invention • ...
collocations grouped by meanings
Grup znaczeniowych: 21
(4) pure, patentable, sheer
Kolokacji: 3
(5) American, Canadian, Western
Kolokacji: 3
(6) greatest, top, best
Kolokacji: 3
(7) human, cultural, visual
Kolokacji: 3
(11) comic, theatrical
Kolokacji: 2
(13) useful, fictional, practical
Kolokacji: 3
(14) independent, related
Kolokacji: 2
(15) British, Chinese
Kolokacji: 2
(16) ingenious, clever
Kolokacji: 2
(17) literary, formal, poetic
Kolokacji: 3
(18) artistic, choreographic
Kolokacji: 2
(19) mere, simple
Kolokacji: 2
1. mere invention = zwykły wynalazek mere invention
  • Or are these tales mere anti-Communard inventions?
  • At least part of the personal history of Mandeville is mere invention.
  • I told myself that my fears were mere inventions of my mind, but I watched the shadows all the same.
  • The story of the drinking contest was a mere invention of Clegg's to blind Findhelm to the truth!
  • Scholars are unsure how much of Aristophanes' portrayal is fact and how much mere comic invention.
  • All these stories about people 'returning' might be mere inventions.
  • The mere invention, and, as we may say, charpentage, are of the first order.
  • Reason, however, is not a mere human invention.
  • The idea of a 'present' was not mere hobbitlike invention, all the same.
  • It is therefore misleading to comprehend customary law as a mere "invention".
2. simple invention = prosty wynalazek simple invention
(20) European, German, Greek
Kolokacji: 3
(21) unique, strange
Kolokacji: 2
preposición + invention
Kolokacji: 15
of invention • for one's invention • on inventions • from one's invention • about one's invention • ...

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