"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
(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
1. new metaphor = nowa metafora new metaphor
2. conceptual metaphor = pojęciowa metafora conceptual metaphor
  • The conceptual metaphor to animal body complexity has been of use in energy economics and secession ideas.
  • An example of a conceptual metaphor is "love is a journey".
  • In fact, research demonstrated that conceptual metaphors are activated during idiom comprehension.
  • The result of normal adult cognitive capacities, in particular the capacity for conceptual metaphor, and as such is a human universal.
  • A conceptual metaphor uses one idea and links it to another to better understand something.
  • Instead of equations, however, we use what are called conceptual metaphors, in which space sits in for time.
  • A conceptual metaphor is an underlying association that is systematic in both language and thought.
  • At least in English, it is just one of many deep conceptual metaphors that involve up/down.
  • A conceptual metaphor for a shifting baseline is the price of coffee.
  • The bias he's referring to is the set of conceptual metaphors governing how people interpret observations.
3. spatial metaphor = przestrzenna metafora spatial metaphor
(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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