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Asked on March 16, 2021 in Single word requests.
Are people in libraries borrowers?
Is reading history books all too often? In the dim past they were called lending libraries.Borrower as in
Borrower’s card. Noun 1.
the bearer’s card – card certifying the bearer’s right to use the library;
The librarycard: which library card is required to use the card for a library card?
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Asked on March 16, 2021 in Meaning.
The number nine is often assită with eternity. All movies in u-tube are infinity of 9. See full episodes here. Is there evidence Chris Rice is paying attention to human behavior?
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Asked on March 9, 2021 in Single word requests.
Is it possible to make yourself independent thinking without any support or guidance from anyone who is strong minded?
Strong-minded : adjective ( Collins) having
strength of mind; firm, resolute and determined.
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Asked on March 5, 2021 in Single word requests.
The most widely-used technical term is’scatter’ and this is studied in Physics (Light), Astronomy, Meteorology and Hydraulics (measurement of flow). (click @ermanen’s link)
So many authors use the term scatter, but always’motes’ and many people claim that scintillation is the same as a beam, but that is not always correct. so, scintillation by itself might not be the best theory (perhaps you mean “throw” or “rotation”)?
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A few motes of straw managed to scintillate in any shaft of sunlight.What is the best way to increase your earnings?
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Asked on March 5, 2021 in Word choice.
Is it almost exactly the same
but….
Your examples 1, 2,5 and 6 don’t work precisely because you cannot simply pretend
that I am not interested in other meanings or arguments.
“… help him organize his work papers”. is clear and unambiguous. If I order he work papers, can ‘help him place.a order for stationery and office supplies’?
I spent some time searching my closet and finally found the one I like. The second meaning of “I spend some time looking at my wardrobe” meeans I browsed through all of the catalogues and decided on the one I like. ” If you mean tidy up and arrange, then choose “organise. And maybe you can explain how you did it? Of
course in conversation the ambiguity would soon be sorted out, but in writing…
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Asked on March 5, 2021 in Word choice.
Contrariwise is not just old fashioned, It was (very likely) invented to fit Tweedledum and Tweedledee who have been fished out of a nursery rhyme where they fight over a rattle, and are odd little kids. But take your fate.
in reverse.
“Tweedledum said Tweedledee had started it and vice versa. Tweedledum
said Tweedledee had started the fight; contrariwise Tweedledee said it was Tweedledum. ”The opposite,
” Tweedledum said the tar-barrel was a crow; contrariwise Tweedledee said the crow was a monstrous tar-barrel. The
Tweedledum crow was tar barrels, while Tweedledee said the very opposite. ”On the contrary
Tweedledum said Tweedledee had forgotten what the quarrel was about, contrariwise Tweedledee forgot where he put his helmet on. Here is where I would use on the contrary.
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Asked on March 1, 2021 in Other.
The long velvet train of a dress’sweeps across’ the floor, trailing behind the novelist George Eliot, and Roland imagines she is still a visitor and researcher in the Library. Where did the penultimate take the ‘Mill on the Floss’? “Her
character George Eliot is compressed because she is only glimpsed between the heavy Patristics books on the shelves., she does not have many references, though “Mysteries” does. “And every time I see George Eliot in the room she is compressed by strange realities.”
A “Ring” as you guess suggests the sound of (leather) shoes on the cast iron galleries and stairs where there is a staircase.
Is there any news on the possibility of a cancer cure?
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Asked on February 27, 2021 in Grammar.
Shorter Oxford (revised Onions 1933) lists yesterday as noun and adverb.
Yesterday Sbn. What is my last Sunday Day post? Byron. Is this true?
All our history have lighted fools the way to dusty death. Is Will Shakespeare?“He
was to dine as yestesterday with the Frazers (Adverb) the whole time.” Jane AustenNevertheless is only listed as adverb. However is not recorded.
Where Fotwithstanding is given in the text: preposition, (notwithstanding their objections…); as adverb, (he saw it would come to pass notwithstanding); and conjunction, (Notwithstanding that they were once burned by the Duke of Burgundy). 1595;
read the translation correctly and understand well.
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Asked on February 27, 2021 in Other.
From the point of view of the powerful contacts in this scenario they may be ‘placemen’. In British
law, oxforddictionaries n
placeman & oxforddictionaries are employed for personal gain, or in government functions for political support.Does government always need more than one organisation?
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