"mean" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés

mean verbo

mean + sustantivo
Kolokacji: 283
mean trouble • mean business • mean death • mean money • mean people • mean jobs • mean things • mean war • mean life • ...
(4) money, thing, saving, wealth
Kolokacji: 4
(12) hill, mountain, lot, valley
Kolokacji: 4
(14) hell, mischief, annihilation
Kolokacji: 3
1. mean no harm = nie chcieć nikogo skrzywdzić mean no harm
2. mean fire = chciej ogień mean fire
3. mean pain = chciej ból mean pain
4. mean inflammation = chciej zapalenie mean inflammation
5. mean starvation = chciej śmierć głodowa mean starvation
  • Losing the battle might well mean starvation would kill them all slowly in the end, but not today.
  • However, even at best, rain can be unreliable and a dry year will mean a lean harvest and hunger, if not starvation.
  • He is disgusted, and decides then that he would rather take the path of righteousness even if it meant starvation.
  • For the natives, the enforced deliveries often meant starvation, since they were left with no time to grow and harvest their crops.
  • It does not kill, but it crushes people's spirits and often leaves poor farmers unable to work, which can mean starvation.
  • But remaining at this level meant starvation.
  • Regular inundations were a cause for celebration; low waters often meant famine and starvation.
  • Defeat had been at hand for a sedge now within the citadel would surely mean starvation and death.
  • To have gone up the mountains would have meant early starvation.
  • Half a million would have meant starvation.
(19) word, news, book
Kolokacji: 3
(25) opportunity, chance, luck
Kolokacji: 3
(26) profit, tax, sales, income
Kolokacji: 4
(27) food, game, fish, bird, animal
Kolokacji: 5
(28) kind, color
Kolokacji: 2
(31) danger, engine, risk
Kolokacji: 3
(32) way, mail, access, road, path
Kolokacji: 5
(33) disaster, layoff, hardship
Kolokacji: 3
(36) king, competition
Kolokacji: 2
(37) love, sex, lover
Kolokacji: 3
(38) growth, flower, fruit, culture
Kolokacji: 4
(39) return, mouth, customer
Kolokacji: 3
(40) church, servant, service
Kolokacji: 3
(41) forest, tree, wood, garden
Kolokacji: 4
(45) Fort, castle, fortress
Kolokacji: 3
(48) revenue, gate
Kolokacji: 2
(49) light, look, sword
Kolokacji: 3
(50) horse, bay, minute
Kolokacji: 3
(52) control, demand, escape
Kolokacji: 3
(53) car, boat, gun, foreigner
Kolokacji: 4
(54) wind, rain, condition, weather
Kolokacji: 4
(55) eye, view
Kolokacji: 2
(56) meadow, clearing
Kolokacji: 2
(58) dragon, lizard
Kolokacji: 2
(59) disruption, delay
Kolokacji: 2
verbo + mean
Kolokacji: 18
give meaning • interpreted to mean • seem to mean • come to mean • used to mean • ...
mean + preposición
Kolokacji: 37
mean by • mean for • mean to • mean about • mean that • ...
mean + adjetivo/adverbio
Kolokacji: 57
literally mean • necessarily mean • originally meant • simply mean • generally mean • actually mean • clearly meant • merely mean • ...

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