"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 • ...
adjetivo + purpose
Kolokacji: 290
main purpose • primary purpose • sole purpose • practical purpose • informational purpose • original purpose • political purpose • ...
collocations grouped by meanings
Grup znaczeniowych: 70
(6) political, governmental
Kolokacji: 2
(8) agricultural, horticultural
Kolokacji: 2
(19) whole, entire
Kolokacji: 2
(22) peaceful, ideological
Kolokacji: 2
(27) high, noble, lofty, grand
Kolokacji: 4
(32) social, cultural
Kolokacji: 2
(33) great, large, astronomical
Kolokacji: 3
(34) ultimate, final
Kolokacji: 2
(36) basic, traditional, underlying
Kolokacji: 3
(42) humanitarian, human
Kolokacji: 2
(43) major, better, tax-exempt
Kolokacji: 3
(45) evil, malicious, malevolent
Kolokacji: 3
(46) aesthetic, artistic
Kolokacji: 2
(47) dramatic, musical, theatrical
Kolokacji: 3
(50) avowed, alleged
Kolokacji: 2
(54) comparative, far
Kolokacji: 2
(58) selfish, benign, altruistic
Kolokacji: 3
(60) federal, legislative
Kolokacji: 2
(62) literary, rhetorical
Kolokacji: 2
(64) environmental, evolutionary
Kolokacji: 2
  • Certain tastes are more enjoyable than others, for evolutionary purposes.
  • A girl, he hoped, and not just for evolutionary purposes.
  • The evolutionary purpose and benefit of the paralysing toxin is not clear.
  • That gene could be said to possess an evolutionary purpose, he theorized, the furthering of the human race.
  • That is, the evolutionary purpose of the brain is to predict the future, in admittedly limited ways, so as to change it.
  • Some experts say a fetus's awareness that its mother is stressed may serve an evolutionary purpose, preparing it for entry into a difficult world.
  • What evolutionary purpose was served, then, by tripling our cerebral real estate?
  • Is there an evolutionary purpose to feeling really sad?
  • Money is a human invention intended to serve an evolutionary purpose.
(65) navigational, touristic
Kolokacji: 2
(68) clinical, institutional
Kolokacji: 2
(69) satirical, humorous, satiric
Kolokacji: 3
preposición + purpose
Kolokacji: 15
on purpose • without purpose • for purposes • of purpose • from one's purpose • ...

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