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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 • ...
collocations grouped by meanings
Grup znaczeniowych: 3
(1) describe, refer
Kolokacji: 2
(2) suggest, imply
Kolokacji: 2
1. metaphor suggests = metafora wskazuje metaphor suggests
2. metaphor implies = metafora oznacza metaphor implies
  • Actually, metaphor implies a comparison among four terms.
  • Even the metaphor of the lawsuits implies that one side in each suit is 'lawful' and should win.
  • It is more common to encounter sibling partners in ballet, but even there, the romantic metaphor implied by a pas de deux makes such pairings an exception.
  • The movement does act as a metaphor for the relationships implied.
  • As Heywood's metaphor implies, a good wife knew her place as her hus band's lieutenant, backing him up and holding the fort in his absence on business.
  • This economics-as-war metaphor falsely implies natural conflict - that their gain is our loss.
  • This metaphor also implies that while God will meet basic needs, there is no basic for expecting extravagances.
  • This metaphor implies that the dynamics of Sabbatical are sexual.
  • Above all, however, she resists the illicit deduction that HIV infection, as the metaphor implies, is just as lethal as the final manifestations of the disease.
  • The metaphor in this verse implies that the path of sin is an easy one to follow, and that one will do so without conscious effort not to.
(3) abound, come
Kolokacji: 2
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 • ...
preposición + metaphor
Kolokacji: 7
of metaphor • with metaphors • in metaphors • for metaphor • to metaphors • ...

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