"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

(8) common, literary

Kolokacji: 2

(9) new, conceptual, spatial, different

Kolokacji: 4

1. new metaphor = nowa metafora new metaphor

When I come across a new metaphor, one that stretches my understanding, I feel cold.
It's obviously impossible to predict which, if any, of these new metaphors will catch on.
But maybe the letter would bring evidence of a new metaphor, something vivid and powerful and true.
Mr. Forbes even offered a new metaphor for the American tax system.
"I urge you to search for some new metaphors."
As it happens, a new metaphor has arisen just in time to fill the breach.
They take iconic and commonplace elements from modern material culture to create new social metaphors.
He does so by beginning a new metaphor, wholly separate from the wolves and sheep one of the previous verse.
Are crimes against children becoming a new metaphor for universal evil?
"Now it's time to throw everything out and find entirely new metaphors."

2. conceptual metaphor = pojęciowa metafora conceptual metaphor

3. spatial metaphor = przestrzenna metafora spatial metaphor

4. different metaphor = inna metafora different metaphor

(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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