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Asked on December 22, 2021 in Meaning.
And what is a pool? The pool is a collection of water. If allowed to run at low temperatures and not in direct sunlight, with natural temperature, it cannot be used by swimming.
What is definition 4 here.
So, in your specific Java example, the strings are collected together in a ‘pool’. If a pool needs a string, it’s ‘common’ because anything that needs a string will check this shared pool for the string it needs before creating a new one, which would then be added to the pool.
‘Pool’ can also be used as a verb which means
to put together; contribute to a common fund on the basis of a mutual division of profits or losses; to make a common interest of as, the companies pooled their traffic
Here on Stack Exchange, we pool our knowledge.
‘Pool’ is also commonly used in gambling scenarios to refer to the common collection of money that the gamblers can win. When I buy into a $10 poker game, I put my $10 into the pool.
The pool will have 20 players, not 20.
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Asked on December 22, 2021 in Meaning.
And what is a pool? The pool is a collection of water. If allowed to run at low temperatures and not in direct sunlight, with natural temperature, it cannot be used by swimming.
What is definition 4 here.
So, in your specific Java example, the strings are collected together in a ‘pool’. If a pool needs a string, it’s ‘common’ because anything that needs a string will check this shared pool for the string it needs before creating a new one, which would then be added to the pool.
‘Pool’ can also be used as a verb which means
to put together; contribute to a common fund on the basis of a mutual division of profits or losses; to make a common interest of as, the companies pooled their traffic
Here on Stack Exchange, we pool our knowledge.
‘Pool’ is also commonly used in gambling scenarios to refer to the common collection of money that the gamblers can win. When I buy into a $10 poker game, I put my $10 into the pool.
The pool will have 20 players, not 20.
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Asked on December 20, 2021 in American english.
The Chicago Manual of Style has only no ordinals, but the Chicago Associated Press stylebook says they do.
Since the ordinal is nearly always pronounced when the date is read, I think this seems absurd. Why do people leave out the ordinal of an appeal of appeal to the various authorities round the clock? What do people think of this style?
I write out the ordinals, and I encourage others to do so, style guides not withstanding.
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Asked on March 26, 2021 in Single word requests.
What is a Nation?
Beside ‘tribe’, consider also ‘nation’. Iroquois League (or ISL) is a legal association between Canada and the US. In the French language the Five Nations (the same nation as the African Union) are: “Because all the nations have equal laws”
Tribe is not well defined. Sometimes the whole nation is referred to as a tribe, and sometimes subunits of the nation are referred to as tribes.
With respect to people, each nation was made
up of own clans.
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Asked on March 8, 2021 in Grammar.
Which depends what’s it yo trying to express.
If a new thing will happen then the concept of ‘Would’ or ‘Will’ is better – or is it more accurate to say? If the ‘Would’ does allow for the possibility that it might not and then the rest of the statement is contingent upon it happening, so the value of ‘Would’ may not be affected.
If you absolutely already have the “second part”, and tonight is definitely happening, then use ‘will’.
If you are waiting for the “second part”, hope to be it available, then you would use “would”.
Based on some context in this example sentence, it looks like it’s probably best to use ‘will’.
Is our usage of “hopefully” redundant? “Good luck” already implies some doubt as to the outcome of the game. More importantly, the usage of “this”, rather than “the”, implies that “the second part” is already in hand, meaning that there’s no uncertainty regarding its availability.
Falling “hopefully”, you might have
The/this second part will come in handy tonight, no one knows how on earth does a song here or not?
Also this indicates you have the part, and sure will come in handy tonight.
How will the second part work tonight?
By this indicates that you don’t have the part yet, but if you do have it by tonight, it will indeed come in handy. No, you probably wouldn’t want to use “this” in a situation, rather than “the”, unless maybe you’re pointing at a drawing of the part or something like that.
With “hopefully” you might have
The/this second part will hopefully come in handy tonight.
If you have the part, and you’ll definitely use it, but it may or may not come in handy.
What are some useful examples of a second part that would hopefully come in handy in future?
Which animal sounds good to me? Does “hopefully” apply to? Is the speaker unsure if the part will come in handy even if available, or are they unsure if they’ll have the part or just say, “we have the spare parts”? Why do I keep addressing the parts of who have the voice, and even if I do, I’m unsure if I’ll have the part, but I hope it will come in handy (but I hope it does).If
we have the second part tonight, I hope it comes in handy.
How long do you wait for a solution?
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Asked on March 6, 2021 in Meaning.
With no context, that means that the answer is yes. Is this a phrase I’m familiar with that would not cause me any pause?
With context this might mean that the answer is a quantity, and that the quantity is non-negative, i.e. the quantity is a quantity. How do I go above zero?
I tried Googling “answer in the positive” to find you a definition, but found mostly scientific research papers, like this one. In these, a hypothesis was answered in the positive if it was found to be true, or a survey question was answered in the positive if the respondent said ‘yes’.
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