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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
(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
1. powerful metaphor = przejmująca metafora powerful metaphor
2. useful metaphor = przydatna metafora useful metaphor
  • It's too simplistic, by far, but it can serve as a useful metaphor.
  • Finally, the useful little extended metaphor made it.
  • A useful metaphor for this system is a freight train.
  • The recognition of city rhythms is a useful metaphor, helping to understand modern city life.
  • This problem has a useful metaphor in the leap-year problem.
  • It is sort of hard to see it as a useful metaphor for golf.
  • "It would be a shame not to bring the trampster with me, you know-such a useful metaphor for labor in the 1990s."
  • It's been striking me lately as a useful metaphor.
  • A useful metaphor for production in an economy comes from the kitchen.
  • I find this a useful metaphor for much of what is happening in the world of architecture today.
3. potent metaphor = mocna metafora potent metaphor
(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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