"possess" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés

possess verbo

possess + sustantivo
Kolokacji: 119
possess weapons • possess knowledge • possess properties • possess qualities • possess powers • possess skills • possess strength • ...
collocations grouped by meanings
Grup znaczeniowych: 27
2. possess qualifications = posiadać kwalifikacje possess qualifications
3. possess truth = opętaj prawda possess truth
  • We are concerned with three main questions in this work: Do moral judgements possess objective truth or falsehood?
  • Statements, Schiller contends, cannot possess meaning or truth abstracted away from their actual use.
  • All religions possess truth, but all are to some extent erroneous.
  • Believing he possessed absolute truth, he fired us all with his messianic fervor.
  • However beautifully expressed, his theories possess no more objective truth than a work of art.
  • They did have a lunch date, which he had no intention of canceling, but the story possessed sufficient truth to be valid.
  • It is in totalitarian regimes, not democracies, that the claim of possessing absolute truth is most brazenly put forward.
  • Each possesses enough truth to meet the vague, unwritten standards for what is fair in political oratory.
  • Since the Party possesses absolute truth, memories have to be trained to forget the old and accept the new through doublethink.
  • It follows that the wise man must not only know what follows from the first principles, but must also possess truth about the first principles.
4. possess clarity = miej jasność possess clarity
(7) talent, gift
Kolokacji: 2
(10) firearm, reserve, firepower
Kolokacji: 3
(11) authority, confidence
Kolokacji: 2
(13) land, superpower, estate
Kolokacji: 3
(17) eye, magic
Kolokacji: 2
(18) beauty, Grace, agility
Kolokacji: 3
(21) value, merit
Kolokacji: 2
(22) expertise, competence
Kolokacji: 2
(23) material, equipment
Kolokacji: 2
(27) stamina, leg
Kolokacji: 2
possess + preposición
Kolokacji: 26
possessed by • possess of • possess in • possess with • possess at • ...
possess + adjetivo/adverbio
Kolokacji: 29
once possess • actually possess • alone possess • no longer possess • illegally possess • ...

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