"key" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés

key adjetivo

key + sustantivo
Kolokacji: 463
key role • key player • key element • key figure • key issue • key part • key factor • key point • key member • key component • ...
collocations grouped by meanings
Grup znaczeniowych: 82
(19) ring, victory, song
Kolokacji: 3
(33) city, port, work, laboratory
Kolokacji: 4
(41) skill, acquisition, logger
Kolokacji: 3
(45) vote, constituency, university
Kolokacji: 3
(50) works, mechanism, lock
Kolokacji: 3
(52) date, meeting
Kolokacji: 2
(55) importance, value, barometer
Kolokacji: 3
(57) fob, hanging
Kolokacji: 2
(60) criteria
Kolokacji: 1
(61) supplier, weapon, provider
Kolokacji: 3
(64) initiative, trait, personality
Kolokacji: 3
(66) defender, sponsor, backer
Kolokacji: 3
(69) basket, hit, pass, achievement
Kolokacji: 4
(70) customer, client, fixture
Kolokacji: 3
(73) fortress, stronghold
Kolokacji: 2
(75) gene, species, similarity
Kolokacji: 3
1. key gene = kluczowy gen key gene
  • If a key gene is permanently damaged, there are usually extra copies of the gene nearby.
  • All we have to do is read it all - to prioritize, to find the key gene, the master switch that drives others.
  • Drugs are also being sought to hamper the action of key genes of the virus.
  • As a result, the mother gives birth to mutants, which lack key genes necessary for health.
  • British researchers identify key genes that "switch off" as the human body ages.
  • Recognition of these key genes was prerequisite to successful tissue and organ transplantation.
  • If two populations have common ancestors but a large difference in certain key genes, a guess can be made about how long ago their ancestral peoples separated.
  • This danger can be avoided by the use of viruses which lack key genes, and which are thus unable to replicate after entering a cell.
  • This effort led to many discoveries in the genetics of cardiovascular disease, including the identification of key genes associated with heart attack.
  • Dr. Richard Young of the institute has isolated key genes from the bacteria that cause leprosy and tuberculosis.
2. key species = kluczowy gatunek key species
3. key similarity = kluczowe podobieństwo key similarity
(76) interception, rebound
Kolokacji: 2
(77) commodity, export
Kolokacji: 2
(78) starter, grip, crop, file
Kolokacji: 4
(79) cog, facilitator
Kolokacji: 2
(80) technique, competency
Kolokacji: 2
(81) testimony, assertion, claim
Kolokacji: 3
(82) entry, gateway
Kolokacji: 2
key + preposición
Kolokacji: 3
key to • key in • key for

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