"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
  • The woman and her son continued on with their precious bottled water.
  • Rufus was there, his staff striking the man's hand away from the precious water.
  • After they had made houses for themselves, the next thing was to house the precious water.
  • However, the Union forces did not have control of the precious water in the bayou.
  • Provide your own precious bottled water to a man who may die anyway?
  • But I was not going to use that precious water for the toilets.
  • Why, they wondered, would a plant give up precious water?
  • Not a drop of the precious water did she spill.
  • The man set off and after several weeks returned with a skin full of that precious water.
  • Cubans do not have many containers to hold precious local water when it is available.
2. precious fluid = cenny płyn precious fluid
3. precious liquid = cenny płyn 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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