"tendency" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés

tendency sustantivo

tendency + verbo
Kolokacji: 13
tendency makes • tendency leads • tendency causes • tendency exists • tendency seems • ...
verbo + tendency
Kolokacji: 9
show a tendency • display tendencies • exhibit tendencies • represent tendencies • tendency is seen • ...
adjetivo + tendency
Kolokacji: 127
natural tendency • strong tendency • suicidal tendency • general tendency • violent tendency • ...
collocations grouped by meanings
Grup znaczeniowych: 34
(2) strong, occasional
Kolokacji: 2
(8) unfortunate, regrettable
Kolokacji: 2
(12) homosexual, lesbian
Kolokacji: 2
(16) marked, pronounced
Kolokacji: 2
(18) genetic, familial
Kolokacji: 2
(19) disturbing, distressing
Kolokacji: 2
(20) nationalist, nationalistic
Kolokacji: 2
(21) alarming, nasty, disconcerting
Kolokacji: 3
1. alarming tendency = niepokojąc skłonność alarming tendency
2. nasty tendency = skłonność brudu nasty tendency
3. disconcerting tendency = wprawiając w zakłopotanie skłonność disconcerting tendency
  • Despite its prowess, the all-wheel-drive system had a disconcerting tendency, on all three tested Touaregs, to bind up at low speeds in tight corners.
  • Those who persisted discovered the drives' disconcerting tendency to implode or deliquesce at the merest touch of a screwdriver.
  • But Mitsubishi adds a "trace" function, developed to thwart understeer, the disconcerting tendency of front-wheel-drive cars to push toward the outside of a turn.
  • The weapon in his hand was heavy and uncomfortable and, if he wasn't attentive, it displayed a disconcerting tendency to aim itself at Spock's back.
  • Moreover, sliced grits show a disconcerting tendency toward self-healing.
  • But the biosphereans had a disconcerting tendency to hide many shortcuts until the press ferreted them out.
  • There is clearly something amiss since the commuter exhibits a disconcerting tendency to literally vanish on close questioning about this ephemeral town.
  • He kept his breathing deep, even though he felt a disconcerting tendency to pant in rapid, shallow spurts.
  • Oh, and its windscreen wipers no longer displayed the disconcerting tendency of slowing down as drivers accelerated.
(23) artistic, stylistic, literary
Kolokacji: 3
(24) sadistic, masochistic
Kolokacji: 2
(26) fascist, Communist
Kolokacji: 2
(30) latent, unhealthy
Kolokacji: 2
(31) inevitable, fatal
Kolokacji: 2
(34) overwhelming, high
Kolokacji: 2
preposición + tendency
Kolokacji: 12
for one's tendency • of tendencies • in one's tendency • about one's tendency • with a tendency • ...

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