"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
(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
1. refer ironically = odnieś się ironicznie refer ironically
  • Beust himself considers his sexual orientation a private matter; when asked directly he usually ironically refers the interviewer to his father.
  • The term is now common parlance in French political commentary, used both critically and ironically referring back to de Gaulle.
  • He referred to her ironically as la fille de mon concierge.
  • Local and national media refer to him ironically as "The Squire of Ravensworth".
  • In Conspiration Nizan ironically refers to school life as a barrack-room existence cut off from the reality of the outside world.
  • They referred to it ironically by an older, obsolete name: the Nursery.
  • The name, however, ironically refers to the celebration that students haven't committed suicide due to stress of exams.
  • Like the artist himself, the pieces refer ironically to their own fragile existence in the modern world.
  • The title refers ironically to the fact that the space is not an object but a vaccum which we endow with its physical attributes.
  • The title refers ironically to the type of man the female subject of the book is looking for.
2. wryly refer = cierpko odnieś się wryly refer

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