"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
(20) European, German, Greek
Kolokacji: 3
1. European invention = Europejski wynalazek European invention
2. German invention = Niemiecki wynalazek German invention
  • In this respect its model was the Trautonium, a German invention from the 1930s.
  • The chapter exposes a factor of complicity, and regards it, one might think, as a German invention.
  • The general view of historians and critics is that the legend is a German literary invention of the early 19th century.
  • This was what annoyed him about this wartime West German invention; it overdid its job.
  • The German invention of movable type around 1450 is one of the farthest-reaching technological achievement in history.
  • The modern bin is a German invention of the 1970s in a patent held by Schneider, and licensed to other companies outside Germany.
  • The German invention of movable type was as revolutionary for the 15th century as the computer was for the 20th.
  • Britain has declared that it will respect German inventions regardless of what the peace treaty may say.
  • "The pinnacle of German invention, can be kept in business by twelve little African boys and some elephant grass."
  • This German invention was the start of a long string of innovations that have led to present day magnetic tape recordings.
3. Greek invention = Grecki wynalazek Greek invention
(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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