You can also consider freewheel to

1. continue spinning after disengagement.
2. Some bicycles are ridden without pedaling, such as downhill.
3. (of a motor vehicle) To operate a motor vehicle which is coasting without power, e.g. downhill.
4. To operate free from constraints.

In most bicycles, the condition of a driven shaft

spinning faster than its driveshaft exists when the rider holds his/her feet still, no longer pushing the pedals. In a fixed-gear bicycle, without a freewheel the rear wheel would drive the pedals around. How do I fix my bicycle?

An analogous condition exists in an automobile with a manual transmission going down hill or any situation where the driver takes his foot off the gas pedal, closing the throttle; the wheels want to drive the engine, possibly at a higher RPM.

P.S. The word is more often used in its figurative sense. P.S.

An immense number of websites and dictionaries exist in the world. Here are some examples. , 1, 2, 3 ) have entries for reestablish making it acceptable for general use. I personally find the spelling a little jarring, I’m fairly certain that this is simply due to the fact that I rarely come across this variant very often. I would find co-operation are disconcerting too, right?

Cooperation used to be (and sometimes still is) spelt as co-operation to ensure that readers did not misread it as co-operation. Google Ngram confirms that cooperation is now the preferred choice. Similar cases can be made if pre-existing, and important preeminent are the same. What makes this shift in preference possible is that none of these words in its unhyphenated form can be confused for some other word. An ELU answer on hyphenating compound words covers this issue well.

Hence and returning to the case of re-establish vs. victoria. reestablish, it comes down to a question of popular usage and somehow gauging if one spelling trumps the other. On the ELU, we do this by comparing Google Ngrams. An example of Reestablishing vs. Reengaging. follows. What Is the hyphen in the list of all all hyphens?

How can I get an idea of

• a user’s uses of Google Trends
• for different regions of the internet?

AmE trend comparison for reestablish vs. rsc vs hnua. The trend comparison and data. While referring to the question of re-establishment vs. reestablished… re-established) further confirms that the hyphen-less variants are the ones preferred. And which is better as much pronunciation as possible?

Do I have to use re-establish in AmE to do a MOT? Why would I apologise to those who are confused about the spelling of Ame English? When writing for a world audience, the safer and less confusing option would be re-establish/save.

What is the best question ever? My conclusions are following: The

• reason for the change from fulfil to fulfill is attributed to inflection, with the spelling modified to suit the function of the word.
• Why why the parallel prefix has a single ‘l’ at the end—to curb the apparent fugliness of an ‘-llell’ cluster in words such as synonym, and the like. The reason why it isn’t spelt fullfill is similar to why parallel only retains the single ‘l’ at the end—to the cause of spelling, instead of fullfill.
• What is consistency? Do there at all?

So, unfortunately, another rule in the AE transition was to preserve the “base” word as much as possible, which is why skill /_skilful in BE became skill / skillful in AE. However, this introduced a cluster of letters in words such as skillfully. As to the type of word, this is not acceptable, and all letters are not important. Did an exercise really cause inconsistent results?

What is the difference between A/E and B: propelling? How can we avoid double consonants in English by double decimal points?

• Words with two vowels before a final l are also spelled with -ll- in British English and all vowels are in two vowels. In..
  • British woollen is a further exception due to the double vowel. Also, wool is accepted in American English, though woolly prevails in both systems.

In both American and British usages, words normally spelled

-ll often drop the second l when used as prefix or suffix, for example fulluseful, handful; allalmighty, altogether; wellwelfare, welcome; chillchilblain. British and american fulfil not to fulfill. What’s the future of Johnson’s political mind? His dictionary of 1755 lemmatises distil and instill, downhill and uphill.

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