"mere" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés

mere adjetivo

mere + sustantivo

Kolokacji: 345

mere fact • mere presence • mere mention • mere thought • mere mortal • mere word • mere minute • mere month • mere day • ...

frequent collocations

Kolokacji: 43

collocations grouped by meanings

Grup znaczeniowych: 75

(1) fact, point, detail, technicality, trifle, ...

Kolokacji: 6

(2) presence, existence, survival, absence, subsistence, ...

Kolokacji: 6

(3) mention, footnote, name

Kolokacji: 3

(4) thought, idea, suspicion, notion, opinion, ...

Kolokacji: 8

(5) mortal, man, threat, human, servant, ...

Kolokacji: 23

(6) word, description, statement, assertion, sketch, ...

Kolokacji: 7

(7) minute, month, day, second, hour, year, week, ...

Kolokacji: 14

(8) sight, mile, heap

Kolokacji: 3

(9) coincidence, touch, accident, flick, happenstance, ...

Kolokacji: 10

(10) percent, possession, sum, gain

Kolokacji: 4

(11) foot, inch, yard, meter, kilometer, ...

Kolokacji: 7

(12) child, boy, woman, girl, lad, ...

Kolokacji: 7

(13) suggestion, hint, breath, glimmer

Kolokacji: 4

(14) formality, politeness

Kolokacji: 2

(15) shadow, trace, ghost, eccentricity

Kolokacji: 4

(16) act, number, parody, routine, performance

Kolokacji: 5

(17) chance, luck, by-product

Kolokacji: 3

(18) handful, speck, skeleton, drop, shred

Kolokacji: 5

(19) fraction, appendage, accessory, stub

Kolokacji: 4

(20) matter, curiosity, object, thread, proximity, ...

Kolokacji: 10

(21) whisper, sound, noise, step, murmur, ...

Kolokacji: 6

(22) appearance, beauty, prettiness

Kolokacji: 3

(23) slit, decoration, slip, toy, commodity, ...

Kolokacji: 11

1. mere slit = zwykła szpara mere slit

2. mere decoration = zwykła dekoracja mere decoration

3. mere slip = zwykła pomyłka mere slip

4. mere line = zwykła linia mere line

5. mere toy = zwykła zabawka mere toy

6. mere commodity = zwykły towar mere commodity

7. mere ornament = zwykła ozdoba mere ornament

She would become a mere ornament on his arm rather than an independent woman.
I take it those pistols are not mere ornaments?
No mere ornament would require that rugged mounting.
Metaphor is not mere ornament, but an indispensible means of articulating the shape of reality.
The two great stone mastiffs on either side of the walkway to the front door were not mere ornaments, but guardians.
There are so few cars near the shore that traffic signals are mere ornaments.
Unlike the situation in a criminal trial, counsel are mere ornaments in a Congressional inquiry, there to pay lip service to the appearance of fairness.
A studio was essential; a woodshed would have been a mere ornament.
My object is to find out with various animals how far the mane is of any use, or a mere ornament.
The smaller ring symbols placed between the larger repetitions of No. 14 are considered as mere ornaments and thus not counted.