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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 • ...
frequent collocations
Kolokacji: 4
collocations grouped by meanings
Grup znaczeniowych: 13
(1) apt, appropriate, fitting, unfortunate
Kolokacji: 4
(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
1. vivid metaphor = żywa metafora vivid metaphor
2. colorful metaphor = barwna metafora colorful metaphor
  • No other colorful metaphors occurred to me and I quickly grew bored.
  • Data realized absently that such colorful metaphors would never have occurred to him prior to the installation of his emotion chip.
  • Using colorful metaphors and an advocate's passion, he said his agency was "incapable of protecting America" against dangerous drugs.
  • Braithewaite's expression was for all the world like Spock's when he did not comprehend some colorful human metaphor.
  • He speaks with a southern accent and commonly uses colorful metaphors.
  • "I believe," Spock said, "that this may be an appropriate time for a colorful metaphor."
  • The teachers were fond of using colorful metaphors in describing the science, if science it was.
  • A colorful metaphor makes a theory stand out among the crowd.
  • But the Amby is not merely a colorful metaphor.
  • It is the way in which the song accomplishes this, with some very colorful and imaginative metaphors.
3. resonant metaphor = donośna metafora resonant metaphor
4. brilliant metaphor = błyskotliwa metafora brilliant metaphor
(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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