"purpose" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés

purpose sustantivo

sustantivo + purpose
Kolokacji: 104
tax purpose • research purpose • training purpose • security purpose • business purpose • purpose of one's visit • entertainment purpose • ...
purpose + sustantivo
Kolokacji: 5
purpose vehicle • purpose computer • purpose entity • purpose processor • purpose fund
purpose + verbo
Kolokacji: 16
purpose seems • purpose includes • purpose builds • UK purpose defeats • UK purpose solves • ...
verbo + purpose
Kolokacji: 102
give purpose • intend for purposes • provide for purposes • suit one's purposes • purpose listed • achieve one's purpose • ...
collocations grouped by meanings
Grup znaczeniowych: 15
(5) list, put, guess
Kolokacji: 4
(8) defeat, lose, forget, leave
Kolokacji: 4
1. defeat the purpose = mijać się z celem (robić coś bezsensownego) defeat the purpose
2. lose one's purpose = przegrywać czyjś cel lose one's purpose
  • But once he was dead, the security police "lost their purpose," he said.
  • The journey had lost its purpose, and the end of the river was no longer their goal.
  • These have lost their purpose as the environment around them changed.
  • His hand reached halfway to Quentin's and seemed to lose its purpose.
  • Many people here say that as a nation, too, Japan seems to have lost its purpose.
  • By the 19th century, the wall had lost its defensive purpose and was dismantled.
  • For a moment, he felt as if life had lost its purpose.
  • In recent years, this magnificent room had lost its purpose.
  • In the following centuries, the castle lost its military purpose and became a ruin.
  • By the 1920s however it had lost its social purpose to become an urban design type.
3. forget one's purpose = zapominać czyjś cel forget one's purpose
(10) need, lack, distract, want
Kolokacji: 4
(11) understand, scan
Kolokacji: 2
(12) keep, maintain, enter, remain
Kolokacji: 4
(15) visit, tour
Kolokacji: 2
adjetivo + purpose
Kolokacji: 290
main purpose • primary purpose • sole purpose • practical purpose • informational purpose • original purpose • political purpose • ...
preposición + purpose
Kolokacji: 15
on purpose • without purpose • for purposes • of purpose • from one's purpose • ...

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