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"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 • ...
colocaciones frecuentes
Kolokacji: 23
collocations grouped by meanings
Grup znaczeniowych: 26
(1) metal, material, mineral, stuff, paper, ...
Kolokacji: 9
(2) stone, gem, jewel, gemstone, jewelry, ...
Kolokacji: 7
(3) thing, commodity, artifact, good, specimen, ...
Kolokacji: 11
(4) time, moment, second, minute, hour, ...
Kolokacji: 10
(5) resource, asset
Kolokacji: 2
(6) gift, possession, treasure, bundle, collection, ...
Kolokacji: 11
(7) object, relic, piece, space, part, ...
Kolokacji: 10
(8) cargo, burden
Kolokacji: 2
(9) Blood, right, plant, hoard, works
Kolokacji: 5
(10) life, energy, freedom, moisture
Kolokacji: 4
(11) water, fluid, liquid, food
Kolokacji: 4
(12) memory, knowledge
Kolokacji: 2
(13) book, wood, volume, journalist, artwork
Kolokacji: 5
(14) child, daughter, baby, creature, friend, ...
Kolokacji: 8
(15) item, icon, one
Kolokacji: 3
(16) content, secret, substance, body
Kolokacji: 4
1. precious content = cenna zawartość precious content
2. precious secret = cenna tajemnica precious secret
3. precious substance = cenna substancja precious substance
  • Figure 2 The use of precious substances through time.
  • Again, methods for displaying precious substances were of an elementary character.
  • It remains to consider the third phase in the history of precious substances.
  • As with other precious substances, ivory was used far beyond the areas where it occurred in nature.
  • It was this precious substance which brought life to the machines.
  • He reached out and captured some of the precious substance.
  • It is the scarcest, most precious substance in our world.
  • It seemed to help, yet the doctors had very little of the precious substance.
  • Water-perhaps the most precious substance in the System, for the purposes of man.
  • Iraq started producing this precious substance before the war, but never got close to making enough for a bomb.
4. precious body = cenne ciało precious body
(17) day, opportunity, Bunny
Kolokacji: 3
(18) document, manuscript, instrument, letter, violin
Kolokacji: 5
(19) Love, darling
Kolokacji: 2
(20) supply, bottle, box, vase, reserve
Kolokacji: 5
(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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