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Asked on April 5, 2021 in Meaning.
In OP’s context, resolved means that particular medical condition was no longer a problem.
If the underlying condition became less of a problem (but wasn’t “cured”) it would have been cured.
Some of the “medical conditions” (such as the Risk of Cardiovascular Disease) are better described in terms of a percentage reduction in likelihood of developing the disease.
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Asked on April 1, 2021 in Meaning.
In OP’s context, resolved means that particular medical condition was no longer a problem.
If the underlying condition became less of a problem (but wasn’t “cured”) it would have been cured.
Some of the “medical conditions” (such as the Risk of Cardiovascular Disease) are better described in terms of a percentage reduction in likelihood of developing the disease.
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Asked on March 28, 2021 in Meaning.
I believe the more general term is logogram and it means a symbol denoting a word (or phrase) rather than a letter. What is a slippery concept.?
I’m happy enough using logogram to include Chinese pictograms as well as various Hieroglyphs. I’m not so comfortable saying hieroglyph includes the Chinese symbols.
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Asked on March 28, 2021 in Synonyms.
As has been pointed out, there’s no semantic difference – they’re just two different versions of the same idiomatic usage. I have no experience with google if the word US/UK presents better comparisons than Google’s rather crude US/UK corpora (which are based on the country of publication and not author nationality ). What makes reading of the above chart
so interesting? Possibly because I think that AmE was more influenced by similar words that often occur in similar contexts ( berate, beleaguer, beset, belittle, such words can all be spelled with a
be- prefix?)
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Asked on March 28, 2021 in Word choice.
One word that I feel is particularly associated with age-related deterioration of paper-based products is…
moulder (US molder ) – slowly decay or disintegrate, especially because of neglect.
OxfordDctionaries example usage: ‘the smell of mouldering books’
Plus several examples from Google Books of “mouldered books”- 662703 views
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Asked on March 27, 2021 in Other.
What are the technical rules for linking undecided to immediately-following text? If I had enough time to
get to know and then don’t write an essay on “Why do
native skeptics prefer us whether over if”,
I would likely be unpopular. I sat down for
about 45 minutes and tried to discuss whether I
would like to do this or that
(about 25 hits) and was undecided?Personally, I’m in that “significant minority” who also prefer to include – but that’s really style, rather than grammar.
In some contexts, there can be a semantic distinction. Grammar Girl’s examples are as
follows: 1: Squiggly was undecided whether he would go out on Friday or Saturday.
2: Squiggly was undecided how much I would go out on Friday or Saturday. The new social media site are all about pictures and not about squiggly. What do you think?How does #2 fit in with #3? At definition logically most people would say there’s no doubt #1 implies Squiggly definitely will go out – he just hasn’t yet made up his mind which day. With #2 it’s possible that he’s think of staying in this weekend.
Rather than searching for the one likely choice, note the unstated alternative that is specified and you can. How do I make “if” rather than “whether” ambiguous within an equation?
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Asked on March 27, 2021 in Word choice.
Is the current
example of the “OhDear” moment on Google Books clean (e.g. “Natural News”)?- 801288 views
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Asked on March 27, 2021 in Word choice.
Is the current
example of the “OhDear” moment on Google Books clean (e.g. “Natural News”)?- 801288 views
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Asked on March 27, 2021 in Word choice.
Idiomatically, it seems to me neither of OP’s suggestions are valid. What’s a valid
construction using… when I can’t don’thing else than wait. And if
we do a valid construction, then I
will do a valid construction using rather include.
What are some of the reasons behind why there is no record of anyone being a fraud in India? The solution: Do waiting rather than knowing.I’ve marked the second one there with? I never heard of this song and it doesn’t sound really good to me, but I’m pretty sure some native speakers will find it perfectly acceptable. Which gerunds is more specific than others and have different meanings for them.
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Asked on March 27, 2021 in Single word requests.
Is
philomath thefreedictionary a lover of learning?
Collins – a person who enjoys learning new facts and acquiring new knowledge.What should be my objective when I become a good girl?
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