"protective" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés

protective adjetivo

protective + sustantivo
Kolokacji: 181
protective clothing • protective custody • protective gear • Protective Service • protective measure • protective layer • ...
collocations grouped by meanings
Grup znaczeniowych: 35
(11) tariff, duty
Kolokacji: 2
(13) instinct, hand, power
Kolokacji: 3
(16) factor, action, agency, agent
Kolokacji: 4
(18) circle, escort, shed
Kolokacji: 3
(19) glass, plastic
Kolokacji: 2
(21) goggle, gesture, shadow
Kolokacji: 3
(23) bubble, foam
Kolokacji: 2
(24) mother, parent, father
Kolokacji: 3
(27) attitude, stance, posture
Kolokacji: 3
1. protective attitude = obronne nastawienie protective attitude
  • That doesn't seem like a protective attitude to me.
  • But the other staff take a protective and encouraging attitude with Julie.
  • (June 2001) Too many people have a sort of protective attitude about art.
  • Females are occasionally found coiled around their eggs in a protective attitude.
  • Children are likely to perceive this protective attitude as meddlesome rather than caring.
  • Such styles are protective attitudes developed early in life as necessary armor against an emotionally destructive environment.
  • It seems the protective attitude went both ways between Jeannotte and her students.
  • But Mark Nicholas, his captain, took a rather more protective attitude.
  • Officials stated that the youths had a "protective attitude" toward the park and claimed the right to "do their own thing".
  • He was a soft-spoken ex-football coach who took a protective attitude toward his younger wife.
2. protective stance = ochronne stanowisko protective stance
3. protective posture = ochronna postawa protective posture
(28) deity, goddess
Kolokacji: 2
(31) dome, cup
Kolokacji: 2
(32) zone, pouch
Kolokacji: 2
(33) brother, eye, lens
Kolokacji: 3
(35) symbol, rune
Kolokacji: 2
adverbio + protective
Kolokacji: 7
fiercely protective • extremely protective • overly protective • highly protective • oddly protective • ...
protective + preposición
Kolokacji: 5
protective of • protective against • protective towards • protective toward • protective in

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