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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
(8) common, literary
Kolokacji: 2
(9) new, conceptual, spatial, different
Kolokacji: 4
1. new metaphor = nowa metafora new metaphor
2. conceptual metaphor = pojęciowa metafora conceptual metaphor
3. spatial metaphor = przestrzenna metafora spatial metaphor
  • This spatial metaphor can be analysed by sociologists and realised in diagrammatic form.
  • Complex social and environmental issues are often illustrated through a visual, tactile, or spatial metaphor.
  • Examples of file managers that use a spatial metaphor to some extent include:
  • The spiral is an illuminating spatial metaphor for the development of self-understanding.
  • Legolas adds a spatial metaphor with his 'Few can foresee whither their road will lead them.'
  • Amy was particularly perplexed by spatial metaphors for time, such as "that's behind us" or "that's coming up."
  • Examples of file managers that use a spatial metaphor by default include:
  • The spatial metaphor can seem awkward to those accustomed to browser-style file managers.
  • In this usage, the spatial metaphor of "bridge" would describe lateral promotion or entry.
  • I don't use that 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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