"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 • ...
collocations grouped by meanings
Grup znaczeniowych: 75
(3) mention, footnote, name
Kolokacji: 3
(8) sight, mile, heap
Kolokacji: 3
(10) percent, possession, sum, gain
Kolokacji: 4
(14) formality, politeness
Kolokacji: 2
(17) chance, luck, by-product
Kolokacji: 3
(22) appearance, beauty, prettiness
Kolokacji: 3
(26) rumor, anecdote
Kolokacji: 2
(29) shell, stone, pebble
Kolokacji: 3
(32) machine, mechanic, artisan
Kolokacji: 3
(33) pound, dot, symbol, dollar
Kolokacji: 4
(36) memory, jealousy, association
Kolokacji: 3
(39) fragment, sliver
Kolokacji: 2
(43) pawn, instrument, cog
Kolokacji: 3
(44) expression, propaganda, slogan
Kolokacji: 3
(46) scrap, brush, slap, skirmish
Kolokacji: 4
(48) blip, backdrop, background
Kolokacji: 3
(49) extension, afterthought
Kolokacji: 2
1. mere extension = zwykłe przedłużenie mere extension
2. mere afterthought = zwykła refleksja mere afterthought
  • All the president has done is to give prominence to ideas about alternative fuels and new technologies that were mere afterthoughts in the 2001 Cheney energy report.
  • In such a place the food is very often a mere afterthought, the perfunctory, tolerated grill to some bar.
  • In baseball, with a 162-game schedule, games played in April are mere afterthoughts in September.
  • Vala was a mere afterthought, one even Galaeron would have forsaken for a slight increase in their chances of success.
  • Their owner coming out of the house packing a gun with a double load of buckshot was a mere afterthought.
  • Having open hearings in order to avoid gerrymandering is a mere afterthought at this point.
  • With food stalls galore and roaming vendors out in full force, a sit-down meal often becomes a mere afterthought.
  • 'We'd still want you to discount our bills over that time,' John warned, as if it were a mere afterthought.
  • It had been the merest afterthought.
  • Issues such as these can determine elections, transforming the more "basic" questions of taxes and budgets into mere afterthoughts.
(50) bagatelle, piece, lump, stump
Kolokacji: 4
(51) apprentice, beginner, novice
Kolokacji: 3
(52) whiff, talk, puff, utterance
Kolokacji: 4
(53) legend, myth
Kolokacji: 2
(55) rhetoric, image, metaphor
Kolokacji: 3
(56) page, tourist, messenger
Kolokacji: 3
(57) money, bundle
Kolokacji: 2
(58) prelude, beginning
Kolokacji: 2
(59) accompaniment, adjunct
Kolokacji: 2
(60) pretext, pretense, affectation
Kolokacji: 3
(63) illustration, excuse
Kolokacji: 2
(64) instinct, cleverness
Kolokacji: 2
(65) conduit, passage
Kolokacji: 2
(66) penny, cent
Kolokacji: 2
(67) size, fashion
Kolokacji: 2
(68) taste, preference, admiration
Kolokacji: 3
(69) crawl, translation
Kolokacji: 2
(70) oversight, negligence
Kolokacji: 2
(71) prejudice, freak
Kolokacji: 2
(72) politics, anarchy, politician
Kolokacji: 3
(73) quibble, facade
Kolokacji: 2
(74) hole, pinprick
Kolokacji: 2
(75) smudge, streak
Kolokacji: 2

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