verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
be discussed/described in chapter 1/2/3 etc
▪ These points will be discussed in chapter 8.
describe an incident
▪ Police asked the victim to describe the incident.
describe/explain sth in detail
▪ The doctor spent time describing the treatment in detail to me.
fully described
▪ The changes in policy are fully described in the review.
variously described as/known as/called etc sth
▪ the phenomena variously known as ‘mass culture’, ‘popular culture’, or the ‘public arts’
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
above
▪ The Zone will be either the Master, Primary or Secondary as described above.
▪ Perhaps we might slow down a moment here and look at the realities described above.
▪ This Job Control file is sent to the batch queue by the SUBMIT-JOB command as described above.
▪ Primidone is only used when control is not achieved with one of the other drugs described above.
▪ Romaine, Le Page and Tabouret-Keller and others have raised serious theoretical objections to the continuum hypothesis itself, as described above.
▪ The measures being used for coping with ash handling problems for the first four options described above would also be applicable.
▪ Long-term capital is mainly that provided by selling shares as described above and by retaining profits within the company.
▪ Fill wrappers and cook as described above.
as
▪ One they describe as mechanistic, the other as organic.
▪ In this light, the Queretaro workshops must be described as externally controlled enterprises aimed at proletarianization.
▪ Aromatherapy is the only healing art which could be described as creative in an artistic sense.
▪ Sypherd was described as arrogant, incompetent and hypocritical, and Pacheco was called ineffective, invisible and weak.
▪ Frans Hals had painted portraits of girls who could only be described as plain, but something lively and piquant redeemed them.
▪ The unit is affected by fear as described in the Psychology section of the Warhammer rules.
▪ Special Rules Fear Trolls are large and extremely repulsive monsters which cause fear as described in the Psychology rules.
▪ Deletions were cloned as described in Materials and Methods and transfected into F9 cells by electroporation.
how
▪ That, in the most general of terms, describes how the nursing process method is applied.
▪ He describes how he killed two young workers taken prisoner in a pitched battle inside a factory workshop.
▪ If so, please describe how this would be achieved.
▪ He describes how the basic system has been tested and extended throughout the Authority, location by location and application by application.
▪ Customers described how salesmen had continued their sales pitches for hours on end.
■ NOUN
chapter
▪ In the next chapter, we describe a series of experiments designed to explore the extent of this problem.
▪ This chapter describes that law, answering such questions as: What materials can be copyrighted?
▪ In the remainder of this book and especially in the concluding chapter I will describe this reconfiguration in more detail.
▪ This chapter will describe a structured, time-limited, assessment interview, and later examine a number of helpful questionnaires and inventories.
▪ See previous discussion in this chapter describing treatment of trigeminal neuralgia, for the dosage schedule.
▪ This chapter describes the research project that was carried out to develop the method.
detail
▪ Parents should also be carefully questioned about how they are using it and should describe in detail what they do.
▪ Instead, describe each step in detail.
▪ For this reason it will be described in some detail.
▪ The elements of quality assurance and the steps to develop a quality assurance program in ambulatory care are described in detail.
▪ Some of the key plants are described in more detail below.
▪ These stages are described in more detail in my books First Feelings and Playground Politics.
▪ He described details that had been forgotten.
▪ And he described in detail his hopes for Pantisocracy.
experience
▪ In this issue, you will find a number of reports from centres describing their own experience of offering the new awards.
▪ She talked to many patients who described near-death experiences, in which they encountered white light and unconditional love.
▪ She wrote a long and moving letter, describing her terrifying experience of being raped whilst on holiday with two friends.
▪ To describe the experience is not easy.
▪ There can be little doubt that Hoccleve is describing his own experience.
▪ At supper that night he tried to describe the experience to Kathy.
▪ How can I describe that experience in just a few words?
▪ One such teacher described her experiences with Ellen.
method
▪ Before describing each of the methods in greater detail, one further point can be made about them as a whole.
▪ Walton, using audio clips for illustration, describes some popular methods of representing bird song.
▪ Randi describes their methods in detail, except where some professional magicians' secret would otherwise be exposed.
▪ The methylase assay was performed as described in materials and methods.
▪ It could be described as the Fordist method of international political regulation.
▪ In the next section we will describe a method for finding all efficient tableaux.
▪ The first two volumes describe methods used in microscopy.
process
▪ In the chapter on technique the author describes the process of carving a figure from a wood with particular properties.
▪ Some products on supermarket shelves are simply described as pasteurized process cheese product.
▪ All of these functions are composite in the budgetary process, which can be described as a two-stage process.
▪ A more organic metaphor is needed to describe the process of transition.
▪ The first are words which describe the process of listening - hearing, concentration, silence.
▪ And every time I speak, without influencing what I want my audience to think, I describe this process.
▪ Francois Michelin describes this secret process as the equivalent of float-glass making, which transformed the manufacture of sheet glass.
▪ My daughter would describe a process called heredity.
section
▪ This report is described at Section 6.
▪ An example of this phase is gigabit networking, described in Section 3. 4. 3.
▪ The most favourable field is in the local government service, which will be described in the next section.
▪ The Problem Report Form is described at Section 3.
▪ All the phenomena to be described under the section Complex Partial Seizures strongly suggest a temporal lobe origin.
▪ They have further suggested two possible extensions which will be described in the next section.
▪ The five-step process is described in the following sections.
situation
▪ There are many new words to describe eternal responses and situations.
▪ Usually these reports concentrate on prophecies of a forthcoming Armageddon but many also describe a dire contemporary situation.
▪ Certainly it is clear from what Deborah describes that the situation is out of control.
▪ These are particularly useful to describe situations where events occur in parallel or in patterns rather than in a single series.
▪ Lenin described such a situation as revolutionary.
▪ Friends of the Earth has described the situation as scandalous, and called on the National Rivers Authority to prevent further seepage.
▪ To describe the situation fully needs recourse to the clock.
term
▪ We will adopt only two terms to describe the major functions of language and emphasise that this division is an analytic convenience.
▪ The extent of the commitment was best seen in the New Look, a term Eisenhower coined to describe his military policy.
▪ Hence a set of terms emerged for describing these different patterns, and this set of terms is still in use today.
▪ This term describes the choreiform disorder that rarely occurs in aged individuals.
▪ The term is used to describe grace periods that often go into effect when new geographic area codes are set up.
▪ This table is based upon interviewees' detailed descriptions of their desired practice, not upon terms they used to describe them.
▪ Downbeat nystagmus is a term used to describe nystagmus with fast-phase beating downward when the eyes are looking forward or down.
word
▪ Though I lack words to describe such devilry, I will try.
▪ Put a check in the box beside the word or words that describe the clues you get from the box.
▪ There are many new words to describe eternal responses and situations.
▪ Most of the wordings initially used for trusts in Roman law are words that could be described as precatory.
▪ Too many words trying to describe a small detail or a momentary glance will only destroy the image.
▪ Similarly young children resort to screaming because they can not use words to describe what they want.
■ VERB
use
▪ In addition, the coding system used to describe the condition of items was designed to be as simple and unambiguous as possible.
▪ The words people use to describe this event are not the event itself and are only abstracted re-presentations of the event.
▪ The global rating scale was used as described by Jaeschke.
▪ More commonly, the term is now used to describe any really frightening dream.
▪ Batt: The term used to describe a sheet of wadding.
▪ Similarly young children resort to screaming because they can not use words to describe what they want.
▪ Crystallisation Crystallisation is the term used to describe the process by which a floating charge is converted into a normal fixed charge.
▪ What words would you use to describe your emotional characteristics?
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
aptly named/described/called etc
▪ In that regard, this disc is aptly named.
▪ It was aptly named the Plough & Harrow.
▪ The aptly named Honda Accord has been produced in co-operation with Rover.
▪ The latter was aptly named, so tart that the first gulp curled your lips back.
▪ The Manor might be aptly described as a spiritual College.
▪ The Moonlight Restaurant was aptly named.
▪ The parish was recently founded and aptly named.
▪ Then it was being run by the aptly named Thomas Mill.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Could you try and describe the man you saw?
▪ How would you describe yourself?
▪ I tried to describe the feeling to my doctor, but she didn't understand.
▪ In her book, she describes her journey across the Sahara.
▪ It's difficult to describe how I felt.
▪ Police described the attack as particularly violent.
▪ This Navajo folk tale describes the creation of the Earth.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ I will also try to describe why, after a decade of using Macintosh, I still find it exhilarating.
▪ It would be impossible to list them all or to describe how at different times they have been better or worse.
▪ Many of the players to whom we spoke described in some detail their own experiences of playing when injured.
▪ Our other project for this year - the Glenburrell bridge - was described in detail in the last Journal.
▪ Piaget described and accounted for the change of schemata with accommodation.
▪ The brokerage we just described is but one example of an enterprise at odds with itself.
▪ The need for time-cues to produce a body clock with a stable 24-hour period has already been described.
▪ To describe myself as Black in a situation where most people shared my complexion was absurd.