"mean" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés

mean sustantivo

sustantivo + mean
Kolokacji: 13
mean of escape • mean of communication • mean of transportation • mean of transport • mean of production • mean of support • ...
mean + verbo
Kolokacji: 36
reproduced by any means • mean makes • mean achieves • mean gets • mean exists • ...
verbo + mean
Kolokacji: 49
find means • use means • seek means • justify the means • provide a means • live within one's means • ...
adjetivo + mean
Kolokacji: 222
only mean • effective mean • primary mean • modest mean • necessary mean • legal mean • peaceful mean • mechanical mean • ...
collocations grouped by meanings
Grup znaczeniowych: 55
(4) modest, small, humble
Kolokacji: 3
(10) best, major, better
Kolokacji: 3
(11) alternative, alternate
Kolokacji: 2
(16) different, similar
Kolokacji: 2
(17) conventional, formal, informal
Kolokacji: 3
(18) traditional, unorthodox
Kolokacji: 2
(19) simple, unspecified, mere
Kolokacji: 3
(22) visible, visual
Kolokacji: 2
(28) normal, geometric, primitive
Kolokacji: 3
(29) appropriate, proper, suitable
Kolokacji: 3
1. direct mean = bezpośredni oznaczać direct mean
2. indirect mean = pośredni oznaczać indirect mean
3. devious mean = pokrętny oznaczać devious mean
  • Half of the bribes taken in that vast government office went back by devious and secret means to the politicians.
  • Given the present situation, his plans had to be countered by equally devious means.
  • He usually killed through devious means, rarely in open combat against a worthy opponent.
  • "Well, don't expect me not to use every devious means I can think of to persuade you otherwise."
  • And what she didn't know, she endeavored to find out, often through devious means.
  • But it seemed an oddly devious means of introduction.
  • If the church is weak, it attempts by devious means to turn its creed and discipline into law.
  • There were some items he had managed to secure either by favors or more devious means.
  • Both in terms of getting the news back home by more devious means, and doing something direct about the problem.
  • But after all the canon had, by no matter what devious means, rescued him.
4. brutal mean = brutalny oznaczać brutal mean
(31) private, mysterious
Kolokacji: 2
(32) unknown, known, intrusive
Kolokacji: 3
(36) preferred, favored
Kolokacji: 2
(40) sophisticated, artistic
Kolokacji: 2
(43) harmonic, flexible
Kolokacji: 2
(44) creative, ingenious
Kolokacji: 2
(45) accurate, specific, skillful
Kolokacji: 3
(46) questionable, dubious
Kolokacji: 2
(47) basic, chemical
Kolokacji: 2
(48) external, national
Kolokacji: 2
(50) lethal, nonlethal
Kolokacji: 2
(51) quickest, quick, ready
Kolokacji: 3
(52) human, expressive
Kolokacji: 2
(53) empirical, theoretical
Kolokacji: 2
(54) Greek, Spanish
Kolokacji: 2
(55) rapid, speedy
Kolokacji: 2
preposición + mean
Kolokacji: 18
without means • by means • through means • beyond one's means • within one's means • ...

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