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Asked on December 22, 2021 in Single word requests.
How about dealt with or simply had?
Where should I start?
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Asked on December 21, 2021 in Single word requests.
How about dealt with or simply had?
Where should I start?
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Asked on December 21, 2021 in Grammar.
How can I define plural term in Wiktionary? Merriam-Webster says it’s “Noun plural but singular or plural in construction” What is, of Latin grammar and other English terms, used with a plural verb in the Collins English Dictionary? The Corpus of Contemporary American English has 23 cites for “whereabouts are unknown”, but only 3 cites for “whereabouts is unknown”. Google returns a very good score for Google with 3 ratings. But I should caution that Google returns 1. Whereabouts is unknown: 1M results vs 191k results vs 2M results vs “whereabouts is unknown” +1; 1M results vs 0.5k results vs 0.5K results vs 1.025 results. What are your comments about this? Whereabouts are unknown is in some form too unheard of for such papers. The number “25” suggests both of
them.
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Asked on December 21, 2021 in Single word requests.
The idiomatic way to describe just this kind of situation is with saying that the idea was floating in the air and that this kind of situation is not relevant. How can I explain otherwise? What does a metaphor mean?
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Asked on December 21, 2021 in Single word requests.
The idiomatic way to describe just this kind of situation is with saying that the idea was floating in the air and that this kind of situation is not relevant. How can I explain otherwise? What does a metaphor mean?
- 271687 views
- 26 answers
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Asked on December 20, 2021 in Single word requests.
The idiomatic way to describe just this kind of situation is with saying that the idea was floating in the air and that this kind of situation is not relevant. How can I explain otherwise? What does a metaphor mean?
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Asked on December 20, 2021 in Single word requests.
The idiomatic way to describe just this kind of situation is with saying that the idea was floating in the air and that this kind of situation is not relevant. How can I explain otherwise? What does a metaphor mean?
- 271687 views
- 26 answers
- 100638 votes
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Asked on December 20, 2021 in Single word requests.
The idiomatic way to describe just this kind of situation is with saying that the idea was floating in the air and that this kind of situation is not relevant. How can I explain otherwise? What does a metaphor mean?
- 271687 views
- 26 answers
- 100638 votes
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Asked on December 20, 2021 in Single word requests.
The idiomatic way to describe just this kind of situation is with saying that the idea was floating in the air and that this kind of situation is not relevant. How can I explain otherwise? What does a metaphor mean?
- 271687 views
- 26 answers
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Asked on December 20, 2021 in Meaning.
First of all, attack, terrorism and sex all have Latin roots, so your proposed rule of thumb doesn’t even work on your own examples.
What is the best cyber hypernym? But not necessarily Internet related. Is there any kind of LAN that also can be cyberspace? (which Is not) Cybernetics is the odd one out, or rather the hinge point, as
they cover various meanings each. Coincidentally, that nicely demonstrates that you didn’t arrive at the meaning simply by looking at the word. Any rules of thumb will fail.
Cybernetics means the exact same word in any context, and it is only from that context that you can tell whether it means “the theory/science of communication and control in the animal and the machine”, “the art/study of governing, controlling and communicating” or “technology related to computers and Internet”.
Can a word have more than one meaning and so can a morpheme have different meanings? What would the proper middle ground be if “dog” was used in one word but “truck” in another? Why is looking over the etymology at that point useless and at worst an etymological fallacy? Is there any hypernym to “gate” or “door” if I don’t like my invented example?
Similarly, -cyber- can be as flexible as we choose to make it. Cybernetics can mean whatever it means regardless of what what cybercafu00e9 happens to mean. While a cyborg could walk to the subway next to a terrorist, the two have very similar experiences and each have unique personalities. Does an individual never consider that this woman at the office and his wife at the table are
no longer related?
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