"precious" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés

precious adjetivo

precious + sustantivo
Kolokacji: 130
precious metal • precious stone • precious thing • precious time • precious resource • precious moment • precious second • ...
collocations grouped by meanings
Grup znaczeniowych: 26
(5) resource, asset
Kolokacji: 2
(8) cargo, burden
Kolokacji: 2
(11) water, fluid, liquid, food
Kolokacji: 4
1. precious water = cenna woda precious water
2. precious fluid = cenny płyn precious fluid
3. precious liquid = cenny płyn precious liquid
  • The human came from a world where people fought over water; a bucket of the precious liquid was wealth.
  • Such a solution implies great potential profitability if applied to gasoline or any precious liquid.
  • Still he had not seen the precious liquid.
  • But he was only collecting drops of the precious liquid to examine through his pocket microscope.
  • It is in that valley you will find the precious liquid.
  • Before long, the site was to become a county seat; the precious liquid would give the Town of Waterville its name.
  • The land was transformed by hundreds of small wells sunk to extract the precious liquid.
  • I drink the third, spillin' some of the precious liquid on the front of me jacket.
  • Here are the lakes supplying the city its daily precious liquid.
  • The centrifugal motion loses only half the precious liquid.
4. precious food = cenne jedzenie precious food
(12) memory, knowledge
Kolokacji: 2
(15) item, icon, one
Kolokacji: 3
(17) day, opportunity, Bunny
Kolokacji: 3
(19) Love, darling
Kolokacji: 2
(21) Lord, son, word
Kolokacji: 3
(22) egg, seed, fruit, grain
Kolokacji: 4
(23) drop, pearl
Kolokacji: 2
(24) air, fuel, oxygen, oil
Kolokacji: 4
(25) coin, currency, dollar
Kolokacji: 3
(26) herb, spice
Kolokacji: 2
adverbio + precious
Kolokacji: 4
most precious • infinitely precious • overly precious • equally precious
precious + preposición
Kolokacji: 4
precious to • precious in • precious of • precious for

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