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"metaphor" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés

metaphor sustantivo

sustantivo + metaphor
Kolokacji: 7
sports metaphor • desktop metaphor • baseball metaphor • animal metaphor • war metaphor • ...
metaphor + verbo
Kolokacji: 6
metaphor describes • metaphor suggests • metaphor referring • metaphor implies • metaphor abounds • ...
verbo + metaphor
Kolokacji: 6
use a metaphor • mix metaphors • use as a metaphor • employ metaphors • metaphor drawn • ...
adjetivo + metaphor
Kolokacji: 48
apt metaphor • visual metaphor • perfect metaphor • mixed metaphor • central metaphor • ...
colocaciones frecuentes
Kolokacji: 4
collocations grouped by meanings
Grup znaczeniowych: 13
(1) apt, appropriate, fitting, unfortunate
Kolokacji: 4
1. apt metaphor = apt metafora apt metaphor
  • The job, he said, is an apt metaphor for the town.
  • They felt this was an apt metaphor for reading and intellectual excitement.
  • We believe that this is the most apt metaphor for electronic media.
  • It's an apt metaphor for a move into a relative wilderness.
  • Lauren thought it was an apt metaphor for her entire generation.
  • In another sense, it is an apt metaphor for the state of the profession at the moment.
  • But the report found neighborhoods where a stew would be a more apt metaphor.
  • And that is an apt metaphor for the stock market.
  • Perhaps volleyball is an apt metaphor for politics, after all.
  • The more apt metaphor, some suggest, would be a railroad.
2. appropriate metaphor = odpowiednia metafora appropriate metaphor
3. fitting metaphor = trafna metafora fitting metaphor
4. unfortunate metaphor = metafora nieszczęśnika unfortunate metaphor
(2) visual, good, favorite, bad, better, ...
Kolokacji: 8
(3) perfect, military, political, biblical, accurate, ...
Kolokacji: 6
(4) mixed, sexual, biological
Kolokacji: 3
(5) central, cultural, famous
Kolokacji: 3
(6) extended, poetic, musical
Kolokacji: 3
(7) powerful, useful, potent
Kolokacji: 3
(8) common, literary
Kolokacji: 2
(9) new, conceptual, spatial, different
Kolokacji: 4
(10) obvious, dominant
Kolokacji: 2
(11) vivid, colorful, resonant, brilliant
Kolokacji: 4
(12) elaborate, mere, theatrical
Kolokacji: 3
(13) striking, wonderful, poignant
Kolokacji: 3
preposición + metaphor
Kolokacji: 7
of metaphor • with metaphors • in metaphors • for metaphor • to metaphors • ...

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