"theory" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés

theory sustantivo

sustantivo + theory
Kolokacji: 165
conspiracy theory • probability theory • quantum theory • string theory • chaos theory • field theory • graph theory • music theory • ...
theory + verbo
Kolokacji: 117
theory suggests • theory predicts • theory explains • theory holds • theory goes • theory says • theory includes • theory states • ...
verbo + theory
Kolokacji: 80
teach theory • study theory • discuss theories • theory known • include theory • test one's theory • prove one's theory • ...
collocations grouped by meanings
Grup znaczeniowych: 15
1. teach theory = głoś teorię teach theory
2. explain one's theory = wyjaśniać czyjś teoria explain one's theory
8. set theory = teoria zbiorów set theory
10. theory is modified = teoria jest zmodyfikowana theory is modified
11. theory is expanded = teoria jest rozszerzona theory is expanded
12. theory posed = teoria stanowiła theory posed
  • A third, older, theory, posed by T. von Mörner and G. Fainck, says that Orosius undertook the work before he travelled to Palestine.
  • The novel theory posed by prosecutors here, in which they maintain that a driver's negligence makes a clear intent to kill unnecessary, shows how far the legal and social movement against drunken driving has advanced in the last decade.
  • Pembleton instead pursues a theory posed by Felton (Daniel Baldwin) that Watson was killed one day earlier than they first believed, and rigor mortis was slowed because her body was stored in a cool place.
  • Theory of generations (or sociology of generations) is a theory posed by Karl Mannheim in his 1923 essay, The Problem of Generations.
  • The other competing theory, posed by linguist Noam Chomsky and evolutionary biologist Stephen Jay Gould, is that language evolved as a result of other evolutionary processes, essentially making it a byproduct of evolution and not a specific adaptation.
  • According to David Sloan Wilson, part of the reason there's such controversy around the subject is because of an early popular theory posed by Leda Cosmides and John Tooby [source: Huffington Post].
  • "Recent scholarship has revived a theory first posed in the beginning of the 19th century that our 'Perseus' may be the first version," Mr. Soultanian said.
  • A third theory posed by some historians and several American Indian activist groups contends that the gunstock war club is simply a coincidence of design, developed independently years before the arrival of Europeans.
(3) discuss, encompass, cover
Kolokacji: 3
(7) base
Kolokacji: 2
(9) propose, advocate, imply
Kolokacji: 3
(10) offer, provide
Kolokacji: 2
(11) reject, discredit
Kolokacji: 2
(13) call, mention, invoke, label
Kolokacji: 4
adjetivo + theory
Kolokacji: 316
economic theory • general theory • scientific theory • evolutionary theory • critical theory • mathematical theory • legal theory • ...

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