adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
more
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They then worked as a class to produce a new rewritten version which they hoped would be more comprehensible .
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More than a third of directors want more summarised information and want to see it in a more comprehensible , graphic form.
■ NOUN
input
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The solution to our problems as teachers, then, is to provide comprehensible input .
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In this respect, the learner exercises his own initiative to ensure the proper supply of comprehensible input .
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At the same time, of course, it assures them of comprehensible input .
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What communication reduces to is comprehensible input .
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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comprehensible instructions
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Each entry in the guide is brief and immediately comprehensible .
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The music was experimental, and not comprehensible to the average concert-goer.
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Visual aids can make lessons much more interesting and comprehensible .
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Her speech was slurred and barely comprehensible .
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In so doing, it gave them system and continuity and went far to make economic life comprehensible .
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Land warfare sixty-five years after Waterloo would still have been comprehensible to Napoleon.
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Magnificence is admirable if not always comprehensible , humility is very unattractive to the modern Western mind.
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Metaphor, it turns out, is the key to making computers comprehensible .
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Our treatment in this chapter will try to be as informal as possible in order to be comprehensible .
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Photographic reportage, the cinema and television have produced a lingua franca of universally comprehensible pictures.
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The more directly comprehensible parts of the Challenger's programme were thus made available to the public at a provisional stage.