"refer" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés

refer verbo

verbo + refer
Kolokacji: 16
begin referring • used to refer • keep referring • come to refer • say referring • ...
refer + preposición
Kolokacji: 37
refer to • refer by • refer for • refer during • refer of • ...
refer + adjetivo/adverbio
Kolokacji: 136
commonly referred • generally refer • refer specifically • frequently referred • refer incorrectly • simply refer • originally referred • ...
collocations grouped by meanings
Grup znaczeniowych: 30
(3) frequently, occasionally
Kolokacji: 2
(5) simply, merely
Kolokacji: 2
(7) collectively, jointly
Kolokacji: 2
(10) repeatedly, continually
Kolokacji: 2
(11) directly, immediately
Kolokacji: 2
(12) once, formerly
Kolokacji: 2
(15) mistakenly, erroneously
Kolokacji: 2
(18) exclusively, solely
Kolokacji: 2
(22) indirectly, pointedly, bluntly
Kolokacji: 3
  • For the rest of the campaign Bush aides referred disparagingly to the panel as "the national tax commission."
  • For this reason, it has been disparagingly referred to as the Millennium Tent.
  • Many of his early films are disparagingly referred to as "quota quickies".
  • These women are often disparagingly referred to within business as 'golden skirts', something that is not exactly favourable to the working atmosphere.
  • I once heard one refer to it disparagingly as "the sand box."
  • It is disparagingly referred to here as "the night party" or in the words of one editor, "the Ceausescu party."
  • She is disparagingly referred to as "la rara (the weird one)."
  • What kind of democratic ideals does he think we should fight for, if not what he disparagingly refers to as "truth in government"?
  • He acknowledged that the right was not absolute, referring disparagingly to the "somewhat vaguely termed police powers" of the state.
  • They are disparagingly referred to as clichés or bromides.
2. pejoratively referred = pejoratywnie skierowany pejoratively referred
3. derogatorily referred = uchybiająco skierowany derogatorily referred
(24) sarcastically, sardonically
Kolokacji: 2
(25) hereafter, hereinafter
Kolokacji: 2
(26) publicly, privately
Kolokacji: 2
(28) particularly, especially
Kolokacji: 2
(29) evidently, ostensibly, plainly
Kolokacji: 3
(30) ironically, wryly
Kolokacji: 2

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