"set" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés

set verbo

set + sustantivo
Kolokacji: 262
set standards • set fire • set foot • set goals • set limits • set priorities • set sail • set guidelines • set rules • set targets • set prices • ...
verbo + set
Kolokacji: 54
help set • help set up • try to set • begin to set • want to set • ...
set + preposición
Kolokacji: 126
set up • set out • set off • set down • set back • ...
set + adjetivo/adverbio
Kolokacji: 124
set aside • set forth • originally set • set apart • set free • set high • immediately set • initially set • set earlier • later set • ...
collocations grouped by meanings
Grup znaczeniowych: 30
(1) aside, apart
Kolokacji: 2
(2) forth, forward
Kolokacji: 2
(4) free, automatically, jointly
Kolokacji: 3
(5) high, low
Kolokacji: 2
(8) well, easily, wide, fully
Kolokacji: 4
(10) firmly, hard, resolutely
Kolokacji: 3
(11) finally, eventually
Kolokacji: 2
(12) carefully, closely
Kolokacji: 2
(14) actually, truly
Kolokacji: 2
(15) tentatively, provisionally
Kolokacji: 2
(16) properly, improperly
Kolokacji: 2
(17) entirely, equal, alone
Kolokacji: 3
(18) simply, merely
Kolokacji: 2
(19) clearly, exactly
Kolokacji: 2
(22) deeply, deep
Kolokacji: 2
(23) straight, squarely
Kolokacji: 2
(24) permanently, temporarily
Kolokacji: 2
(25) officially, formally
Kolokacji: 2
(26) gently, quietly
Kolokacji: 2
1. gently set = łagodnie umieść gently set
2. quietly set = cicho umieść quietly set
  • At length he came to the port and set quietly about finding men.
  • Instead, he quietly set about fishing in his small bag for a change of clothes.
  • In so doing they quietly set the record straight.
  • So on the morning that the trial convened, Kamejiro was quietly set free.
  • My brothers, he thought, setting the bowl down quietly and pushing it away from him.
  • The gun he set quietly on the table in front of him.
  • Hofstra, meanwhile, quietly set about getting its academic house in order.
  • "Your work just wouldn't look like relevant scholarship, and would be quietly set aside."
  • Bay shut the wallet and quietly set it on the seat.
  • After a short period of final meditation, they quietly set about the necessary rites to close down the circle.
(27) barely, hardly
Kolokacji: 2
(28) explicitly, definitely
Kolokacji: 2
(29) beautifully, elegantly
Kolokacji: 2
(30) vertically, horizontally
Kolokacji: 2

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