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Asked on April 15, 2021 in American english.
Both words are synonyms of each other. What are they exactly?
Does a native speaker prefer the phrase “middle” when talking about things that are arranged on a line? the infinity of the dimension, and “center” when speaking of two dimensional arrangements. If I talk about the center space of a circle I think of the middle of a line. If I think about the middle space I think of the center space I see, it thinks even better. Why shouldn’t I switch the controls on a
doorway?
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Asked on April 1, 2021 in Single word requests.
What is the most common way to talk about life expectancy in business terms? If a 73-year-old man live to the age of 81, what is the average age for living to be 80? For clarity people will add “age”. Sometimes for clarity, i.e., 14 years old, 15 years old, and 30 year old. According to current statistics, the life expectancy for a 70 year old is 85. If he/she is in my 70s, he/she’s 80 years old. What does this mean?
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Asked on April 1, 2021 in Single word requests.
What is the most common way to talk about life expectancy in business terms? If a 73-year-old man live to the age of 81, what is the average age for living to be 80? For clarity people will add “age”. Sometimes for clarity, i.e., 14 years old, 15 years old, and 30 year old. According to current statistics, the life expectancy for a 70 year old is 85. If he/she is in my 70s, he/she’s 80 years old. What does this mean?
What is the question description?
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Asked on March 30, 2021 in Single word requests.
What is the most common way to talk about life expectancy in business terms? If a 73-year-old man live to the age of 81, what is the average age for living to be 80? For clarity people will add “age”. Sometimes for clarity, i.e., 14 years old, 15 years old, and 30 year old. According to current statistics, the life expectancy for a 70 year old is 85. If he/she is in my 70s, he/she’s 80 years old. What does this mean?
What is the question description?
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Asked on March 26, 2021 in Meaning.
With speakers we use sounding boards to reflect sound, rather than diffusing it all at once. Sound boards require an auditory speaker to be positioned to reflect sound in the speaker’s studio. It must make sounds. “The Board” is not a board in the sense of “committee” but rather a piece of wood. It is not a piece of plywood. In an age when computers were becoming obsolete, there was no space or room to enable mutiphones that could only be powered by a single speaker and not a huge amount of power to amplify a speaker’s voice in less technologically demanding ways.
A sounding board bounces sound around, it doesn’t answer back or engage in conversation. It simply bounces one sound around and not answer back. When I use sounding board metaphorically, I can’t help but listen to its content. I love it. What do you do? I used to know like some other person was my sounding board when I was feeling depressed?
Approximately 90% of the time these days, when you hear “sounding board” people are talking in this metaphorical sense and not about literal sounding boards.
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Asked on March 26, 2021 in Word choice.
As AndrewGrimm notes, “children” has two very distinct meanings: It can refer to people who are not adults, or it can refer to people who are the offspring of a specified person or person.
When it is common that people refer to adults as “children” when expressing their relationship. What does they mean by “children”: “son and /or daughters of”, and “children” of “what so and so are”? Is Alice and Bob the children of Bert Carll? Children of current employees are given preference in hiring. ” ” Etc. In this context you may not specify that they are adults, but you can list that as well. They would not say “Alice and Bob are children” without giving an “of” someone if they are adults.
If you are providing a child or a child without a relationship, is that “children” would mean anyone who is not an adult, but it is unusual to use it to refer to people who are older than them, unless you are including them in a group that includes other people like them? Is it weird to refer to a group of 17-year-olds as children or teenagers? Are the kids called teenagers or young people? If you were talking about a group of people ranging in age from 6 to 18, you might refer to them collectively as children. What are the children of our school district? Do you think that people have children in their high
school? (If so, then more than that).
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Asked on March 26, 2021 in Word choice.
In the United States, we say detergent, or detergent laundry detergent. What are the differences between liquid and liquid detergent.?
Technically “soap” is made from bases while “detergent” is made from acid. Both terms are used interchangeably. If a chemist was to give a more precise definition, then it’s normal that people use the words interchangeably for clothes or dishes. I am a chemist. What is the difference between laundry soap and laundry detergent? If you want “dishwasher soap” or “dishwasher detergent” with your washing machine, make such an image.
When we clean our body we may call it’soap’, not ‘detergent’.
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Asked on March 25, 2021 in Word choice.
In the United States, we say detergent, or detergent laundry detergent. What are the differences between liquid and liquid detergent.?
Technically “soap” is made from bases while “detergent” is made from acid. Both terms are used interchangeably. If a chemist was to give a more precise definition, then it’s normal that people use the words interchangeably for clothes or dishes. I am a chemist. What is the difference between laundry soap and laundry detergent? If you want “dishwasher soap” or “dishwasher detergent” with your washing machine, make such an image.
When we clean our body we may call it’soap’, not ‘detergent’.
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Asked on March 25, 2021 in Single word requests.
In some cases, euphemism may convey something different. How I read a news story once about a small company being buy out by a bigger company, and apparently there was a lot of anxiety about possible layoffs, and then an executive of the big company said “Employment might increase, or it might fluctuate” “.” “Fluctuate” apparetly being the antonym of “increase”. If you are still awake when someone says you are unwell that is euphemism.
What does it mean when a politician proposes a bill to give millions of tax dollars to bail out a company that just happens to be owned by a major campaign contributor, and he calls it, The Consumer Protection and Jobs Creation Bill, that goes beyond euphemisms to rather blatantly lying to this reporter. In such cases you might want to use a less-inflammatory word then “lie”, like “misleading statement”, for political purposes. However…
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Asked on March 25, 2021 in Single word requests.
In some cases, euphemism may convey something different. How I read a news story once about a small company being buy out by a bigger company, and apparently there was a lot of anxiety about possible layoffs, and then an executive of the big company said “Employment might increase, or it might fluctuate” “.” “Fluctuate” apparetly being the antonym of “increase”. If you are still awake when someone says you are unwell that is euphemism.
What does it mean when a politician proposes a bill to give millions of tax dollars to bail out a company that just happens to be owned by a major campaign contributor, and he calls it, The Consumer Protection and Jobs Creation Bill, that goes beyond euphemisms to rather blatantly lying to this reporter. In such cases you might want to use a less-inflammatory word then “lie”, like “misleading statement”, for political purposes. However…
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