"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
3. spatial metaphor = przestrzenna metafora spatial metaphor
  • "My background in economics and management," he says, "gave me a very different metaphor for understanding public education."
  • Originally nirvana and bodhi refer to the same thing; they merely use different metaphors for the experience.
  • It suggested that software developers need not see themselves as part of the engineering tradition and that a different metaphor would be more suitable.
  • In situations like this, maniacs just conjugated different metaphors for bloody murder.
  • Each play finds a different theatrical metaphor to represent our brief and homely passage on earth.
  • Empson characterizes this as using two different metaphors at once.
  • Put another way in a different metaphor, a recision is an annulment, a rescission a divorce.
  • For their elders, however, late evening - and a different metaphor - is more conducive to what Cartoon Network has in mind.
  • At the end he tries a different celestial metaphor.
  • In Statement C a rather different metaphor is at work.
(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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