"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 • ...
collocations grouped by meanings
Grup znaczeniowych: 13
1. visual metaphor = wizualna metafora visual metaphor
2. good metaphor = dobra metafora good metaphor
3. favorite metaphor = metafora ulubieńca favorite metaphor
4. better metaphor = lepsza metafora better metaphor
5. bad metaphor = zła metafora bad metaphor
6. great metaphor = wielka metafora great metaphor
7. religious metaphor = religijna metafora religious metaphor
8. handy metaphor = przydatna metafora handy metaphor
  • And when talking about how immersed I became in my online life, I'm tempted to use this language because it provides such handy metaphors.
  • Awareness of autism has seeped into the culture enough to make it a handy metaphor.
  • Many modern physicists have found in Abbott's novel a handy metaphor for the predicament of our own physicists trying to come to grips with a 10-dimensional universe.
  • Sir James M. Barrie's creation has been a handy metaphor for eternal youth and a model of escapism since its first theatrical incarnation in 1904.
  • This theater work has taught Ms. Gilligan that "voice" is more than a handy metaphor for academics discoursing on identity.
  • If peace spreads and Beirut is rebuilt, will editorialists be able to conjure as handy a metaphor for the South Bronx?
  • For the ancient Greek philosopher Cleobulus, for example, interracial procreation provided a handy and benign metaphor for a riddle about day and night.
  • Honey is a miraculous sweetener, and it makes a handy metaphor for discoveries and compromises made late in a marriage.
(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
(10) obvious, dominant
Kolokacji: 2
(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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