"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
1. jokingly refer = żartem odnosić się jokingly refer
3. jocularly referred = żartobliwie skierowany jocularly referred
4. half-jokingly refer = pół żartem odnosić się half-jokingly refer
  • They half-jokingly referred to him as their guru.
  • Many players refer to it half-jokingly as "NeverRest" and "EverCrack" (a reference to crack cocaine).
  • The Year 2000 team only half-jokingly refers to the meetings as a kind of quiz game called "Stump the Commish."
  • A sensitive boy, Marko has a talent for composing poetry; a character half-jokingly refers to him as "Kočo Racin II".
  • They half-jokingly refer to their journeys as "pilgrimages to the homeland."
  • Mr. Wittmann continued, only half-jokingly referring to the protest organized by Republicans at a critical moment during the Florida recount.
  • She half-jokingly refers to her program as the Marilyn Graman Finishing School for Feminists.
  • Generations of servicemen would probably half-jokingly refer to boot camp as "concentration camp," as Mr. Wicker calls it.
  • Born to poverty, he came to live regally and until his death half-jokingly referred to himself as "The Great One."
  • Television stations have adopted what many people only half-jokingly refer to as "all Elian, all the time" programming, and viewers, including even some Cuban-Americans, are beyond angry.
(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

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