James Waldby - jwpat7's Profile

6
Points

Questions
3

Answers
216

  • Asked on March 28, 2021 in Word choice.

    In common usage there may be little or no difference in meaning; but in mathematical writing, divisible has an accepted usage not held by dividable. Oxford Dictionary gives “Mathematics (of a number) containing another number a number of times without a remainder “24 is divisible by 4, as sense 2 of divisible. Sometimes redundant wording such as evenly divisible is used, and I suppose evenly dividable could be used, but it isn’t.

    I don’t know of a general rule. No example of that. In fact, as seen via links in google book, dividable is a word respectable enough to use, in spite of suffering some disrespect, as in following :

    • 749837 views
    • 2 answers
    • 275936 votes
  • In United States, neither term is acceptable. Ordinarily, other than or but and not rather than is used in sentences like these. If I wanted a perfect answer, I’d prefer “can don’thing other than” or “can don’thing but” to “can’t do anything other than”.

    After those substitutions, the phrasing with wait is closer to grammatical correctness. What are you thinking with the following conversation, and imagine it with waiting more than waiting?

    What will you do when you stop examining what happened?
    I will wait because I can don’thing other than wait.

    Is it true that we can’t do anything to get people to stop saying NO to something, why do we have to give reasons?

    • 616003 views
    • 3 answers
    • 227556 votes
  • For your specific diagram, the eighth part is an octant, using the following senses of the word.

    1. The Eighth part of a circle; an arc of 45 degrees.
    2. What is the eighth part of a disc; a sector of 45 degrees; half a quadrant.

    The fourth is a quadrant, in the sense “One fourth of a circle or disc; an angle of 90u00b0”. (More commonly, quadrant has the sense “One of the four sections made by dividing an area with two perpendicular lines” or of being one of the regions of the Cartesian plane that are bounded by the x-axis and y-axis; the “first quadrant” being the region where x> x> y> 0, y> 0, and x> “second quadrant” where x>

    0, y> 0, y; “equivalent quadrant”, where x0,

    • 619658 views
    • 10 answers
    • 229048 votes
  • For your specific diagram, the eighth part is an octant, using the following senses of the word.

    1. The Eighth part of a circle; an arc of 45 degrees.
    2. What is the eighth part of a disc; a sector of 45 degrees; half a quadrant.

    The fourth is a quadrant, in the sense “One fourth of a circle or disc; an angle of 90u00b0”. (More commonly, quadrant has the sense “One of the four sections made by dividing an area with two perpendicular lines” or of being one of the regions of the Cartesian plane that are bounded by the x-axis and y-axis; the “first quadrant” being the region where x> x> y> 0, y> 0, and x> “second quadrant” where x>

    0, y> 0, y; “equivalent quadrant”, where x0,

    • 619658 views
    • 10 answers
    • 229048 votes
  • In United States, neither term is acceptable. Ordinarily, other than or but and not rather than is used in sentences like these. If I wanted a perfect answer, I’d prefer “can don’thing other than” or “can don’thing but” to “can’t do anything other than”.

    After those substitutions, the phrasing with wait is closer to grammatical correctness. What are you thinking with the following conversation, and imagine it with waiting more than waiting?

    What will you do when you stop examining what happened?
    I will wait because I can don’thing other than wait.

    Is it true that we can’t do anything to get people to stop saying NO to something, why do we have to give reasons?

    • 616003 views
    • 3 answers
    • 227556 votes
  • For your specific diagram, the eighth part is an octant, using the following senses of the word.

    1. The Eighth part of a circle; an arc of 45 degrees.
    2. What is the eighth part of a disc; a sector of 45 degrees; half a quadrant.

    The fourth is a quadrant, in the sense “One fourth of a circle or disc; an angle of 90u00b0”. (More commonly, quadrant has the sense “One of the four sections made by dividing an area with two perpendicular lines” or of being one of the regions of the Cartesian plane that are bounded by the x-axis and y-axis; the “first quadrant” being the region where x> x> y> 0, y> 0, and x> “second quadrant” where x>

    0, y> 0, y; “equivalent quadrant”, where x0,

    • 619658 views
    • 10 answers
    • 229048 votes
  • Also consider malformation, which means abnormal formation. In the example sentence, it might imply either badly-formed ships or a badly-formed fleet.

    • 823728 views
    • 4 answers
    • 304687 votes
  • Also consider malformation, which means abnormal formation. In the example sentence, it might imply either badly-formed ships or a badly-formed fleet.

    • 823728 views
    • 4 answers
    • 304687 votes
  • Consider the term traduction as “Act of passing on to one’s future generations” which derives from an archaic sense of traduce: “To pass on (to one’s children, future generations etc.); to transmit”. Note, among its senses, tradition has one that’s related: “The act of delivering into the hands of another; delivery”

    Convention (“A generally accepted principle, method or behaviour”), conventionality (“The state of being conventional”), peer pressure (“encouragement or influence by one’s peers She vowed to give up drinking during the exam period, but eventually succumbed to peer pressure and was out drinking with her friends within a week of the resolution “) also are relevant.

    Equally consider inertia; “In a person, unwillingness to take action”, also “(medicine) Lack of activity; sluggishness; said especially of the uterus, when, in labour, its contractions have nearly or wholly ceased”, from which derives the saying, of some custom or another, that it exists for hysterical reasons.

    • 829908 views
    • 28 answers
    • 308480 votes
  • Asked on March 25, 2021 in Word choice.

    “A rumble of men’s voices” might be an appropriate phrase, using rumble’s sense “a low, heavy, continuous sound, such as that of thunder or a hungry stomach”. Heavier

    and sound “Something else”.

    • 824145 views
    • 12 answers
    • 305922 votes