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Asked on March 26, 2021 in Word choice.
The ornate carvings near the top of older buildings are often called ‘gargoyles’. In your first picture, we’re having a goose in the middle of the world. In your second picture, she’s hanging on top of a gargoyle. I don’t see her right, she’s a cow! The second movie is about Spider Man being painted like a gargoyle. From the Shorter OED:
A grotesque carving usu. XLIY XIX. In the form of a human or animal mouth, head or body, projecting from the gutter of a building esp. primarily in Georgian Gothic architecture. acting as a spout to drain off rainwater.
What exactly are you saying by roof, gutter? ”
What is a good word for a bad boy?
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Asked on March 16, 2021 in Meaning.
With regard to means “about”. Both
in this sentence is “Where you stand”. The other expression in this sentence is ” Where you come from. In your position of balance, you can stand. These are a bit trickier. But I like that you have those five phrases together. I like that you have them together.” To be positioned to gain or lose. Where you stand would mean something like “whether you are positioned to gain or lose.” What
are goals that are measurable
or can be established from them? Run tests to find out whether you expect to gain or lose regarding the metrics for your goals.
Of course, the meaning of where you stand is a little wider than gaining or losing. Is it difficult to say something or to explain it without
context?
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Asked on March 14, 2021 in Word choice.
What makes a person happy in our unhappy situations?
Your example described a glass half full person on an island in South Korea. In the link to Wiktionary, the definition is given as “optimistic”, but to me it is slightly less in that direction, more someone who would make the best of whatever life sent their way. If you really want one word, go with sunny.
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Asked on March 9, 2021 in Single word requests.
I often hear high maintenance bandied about for this sort of
person: who, (figuratively, pejorative, of a person) requiring a lot of attention or reassurance;
emotionally needy It suggests someone who requires a lot of work. I’m a woman who’s
difficult to please.
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Asked on March 6, 2021 in Other.
In addition, it might jump to a random vertex in the graph to which the current vertex is not necessarily connected, with a certain probability.
Removing the comma after graph shows that the “with a certain probability” clause refers to “it” jumping, and not to its connection to the “current vertex. Do you understand the clause?
If no particular vertex
is connected to the current vertex, the other vertex is not necessarily connected.
I’m not thinking they know the clause, so
sorry if I’m not understanding it properly.
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