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Asked on May 24, 2021 in Single word requests.
A Dictionary
of the English Language, By Samuel Johnson and John Walker; accessed via Google Books — Merriam-Webster : to swallow in large quantities
Why are most people familiar with “regurgitate,” which is another word for “hurling,” but far fewer know its unofficial antonym ingurgitate. If a word gets used everyday, but neither in a spelling bee nor a conversation, it’s a sentence. It’s quite a word and can be seen in a dictionary. “Regurgitate” and “ingurgitate” (as well as “gurgitate,” an even rarer synonym of “ingurgitate,” and gorge, meaning ” to eat greedily”) can be ultimately traced back to the Latin word for “whirlpool,” which is “gurges. “TheWorld is giving up on us “
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Asked on May 24, 2021 in Single word requests.
A Dictionary
of the English Language, By Samuel Johnson and John Walker; accessed via Google Books — Merriam-Webster : to swallow in large quantities
Why are most people familiar with “regurgitate,” which is another word for “hurling,” but far fewer know its unofficial antonym ingurgitate. If a word gets used everyday, but neither in a spelling bee nor a conversation, it’s a sentence. It’s quite a word and can be seen in a dictionary. “Regurgitate” and “ingurgitate” (as well as “gurgitate,” an even rarer synonym of “ingurgitate,” and gorge, meaning ” to eat greedily”) can be ultimately traced back to the Latin word for “whirlpool,” which is “gurges. “TheWorld is giving up on us “
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Asked on May 22, 2021 in Single word requests.
A Dictionary
of the English Language, By Samuel Johnson and John Walker; accessed via Google Books — Merriam-Webster : to swallow in large quantities
Why are most people familiar with “regurgitate,” which is another word for “hurling,” but far fewer know its unofficial antonym ingurgitate. If a word gets used everyday, but neither in a spelling bee nor a conversation, it’s a sentence. It’s quite a word and can be seen in a dictionary. “Regurgitate” and “ingurgitate” (as well as “gurgitate,” an even rarer synonym of “ingurgitate,” and gorge, meaning ” to eat greedily”) can be ultimately traced back to the Latin word for “whirlpool,” which is “gurges. “TheWorld is giving up on us “
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Asked on May 21, 2021 in Single word requests.
A Dictionary
of the English Language, By Samuel Johnson and John Walker; accessed via Google Books — Merriam-Webster : to swallow in large quantities
Why are most people familiar with “regurgitate,” which is another word for “hurling,” but far fewer know its unofficial antonym ingurgitate. If a word gets used everyday, but neither in a spelling bee nor a conversation, it’s a sentence. It’s quite a word and can be seen in a dictionary. “Regurgitate” and “ingurgitate” (as well as “gurgitate,” an even rarer synonym of “ingurgitate,” and gorge, meaning ” to eat greedily”) can be ultimately traced back to the Latin word for “whirlpool,” which is “gurges. “TheWorld is giving up on us “
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- 459 answers
- 208884 votes
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Asked on May 15, 2021 in Single word requests.
A Dictionary
of the English Language, By Samuel Johnson and John Walker; accessed via Google Books — Merriam-Webster : to swallow in large quantities
Why are most people familiar with “regurgitate,” which is another word for “hurling,” but far fewer know its unofficial antonym ingurgitate. If a word gets used everyday, but neither in a spelling bee nor a conversation, it’s a sentence. It’s quite a word and can be seen in a dictionary. “Regurgitate” and “ingurgitate” (as well as “gurgitate,” an even rarer synonym of “ingurgitate,” and gorge, meaning ” to eat greedily”) can be ultimately traced back to the Latin word for “whirlpool,” which is “gurges. “TheWorld is giving up on us “
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Asked on April 22, 2021 in American english.
The word centers has some instances that don’t overlap with “middle” at all, like in the names of organizations (“The Center for X”).
Is there a number of fixed expressions where the words obviously cannot be interchanged, like “the middle of nowhere”, “the middle ear”, “the Middle East” or “the Arab world”?
Is there a difference between “middle” and “center” in other contexts?
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If we can say the middle of the day and vice versa, then in our daily life we don’t say the center of the day. The phrase “In the middle of” is often used to refer to something that is still in process.
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u00abThe exact center of the bullseyeu00bb sounds better to me than the exact middle of the bullseye.
I think my advice here is supported by the results of a Corpus of Contemporary American English comparison that I looked at between “the center of” and “the middle of” The top collocates that were used with “the center of” more often than “the middle of” included places like “galaxy”, “universe”, “attention”, “labyrinth”, “planet”, “cosmos”; The top collocates that were used with “the middle of” more often than “the center of” included places like “night”, “afternoon”, “decade”, “July”, “January”, “sentence”, “century”, “div
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Asked on April 22, 2021 in American english.
The word centers has some instances that don’t overlap with “middle” at all, like in the names of organizations (“The Center for X”).
Is there a number of fixed expressions where the words obviously cannot be interchanged, like “the middle of nowhere”, “the middle ear”, “the Middle East” or “the Arab world”?
Is there a difference between “middle” and “center” in other contexts?
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If we can say the middle of the day and vice versa, then in our daily life we don’t say the center of the day. The phrase “In the middle of” is often used to refer to something that is still in process.
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u00abThe exact center of the bullseyeu00bb sounds better to me than the exact middle of the bullseye.
I think my advice here is supported by the results of a Corpus of Contemporary American English comparison that I looked at between “the center of” and “the middle of” The top collocates that were used with “the center of” more often than “the middle of” included places like “galaxy”, “universe”, “attention”, “labyrinth”, “planet”, “cosmos”; The top collocates that were used with “the middle of” more often than “the center of” included places like “night”, “afternoon”, “decade”, “July”, “January”, “sentence”, “century”, “div
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Asked on April 22, 2021 in American english.
The word centers has some instances that don’t overlap with “middle” at all, like in the names of organizations (“The Center for X”).
Is there a number of fixed expressions where the words obviously cannot be interchanged, like “the middle of nowhere”, “the middle ear”, “the Middle East” or “the Arab world”?
Is there a difference between “middle” and “center” in other contexts?
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If we can say the middle of the day and vice versa, then in our daily life we don’t say the center of the day. The phrase “In the middle of” is often used to refer to something that is still in process.
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u00abThe exact center of the bullseyeu00bb sounds better to me than the exact middle of the bullseye.
I think my advice here is supported by the results of a Corpus of Contemporary American English comparison that I looked at between “the center of” and “the middle of” The top collocates that were used with “the center of” more often than “the middle of” included places like “galaxy”, “universe”, “attention”, “labyrinth”, “planet”, “cosmos”; The top collocates that were used with “the middle of” more often than “the center of” included places like “night”, “afternoon”, “decade”, “July”, “January”, “sentence”, “century”, “div
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Asked on April 11, 2021 in American english.
The word centers has some instances that don’t overlap with “middle” at all, like in the names of organizations (“The Center for X”).
Is there a number of fixed expressions where the words obviously cannot be interchanged, like “the middle of nowhere”, “the middle ear”, “the Middle East” or “the Arab world”?
Is there a difference between “middle” and “center” in other contexts?
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If we can say the middle of the day and vice versa, then in our daily life we don’t say the center of the day. The phrase “In the middle of” is often used to refer to something that is still in process.
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u00abThe exact center of the bullseyeu00bb sounds better to me than the exact middle of the bullseye.
I think my advice here is supported by the results of a Corpus of Contemporary American English comparison that I looked at between “the center of” and “the middle of” The top collocates that were used with “the center of” more often than “the middle of” included places like “galaxy”, “universe”, “attention”, “labyrinth”, “planet”, “cosmos”; The top collocates that were used with “the middle of” more often than “the center of” included places like “night”, “afternoon”, “decade”, “July”, “January”, “sentence”, “century”, “div
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Asked on March 27, 2021 in Grammar.
I suppose the presence of a premodifier might be relevant to the use of determiners in some cases, but I don’t see any general pattern along the lines of the one that you are suggesting. Is it absolutely possible for an uncountable noun to come after one or more premodifiers but no determiner? In fact, many common phrases are of this form: “hot water”, “cold water”, “whole milk”, “good advice”, “wet sand”. (Uncountable noun phrases can be used without a determiner whether in an anonymous or an oda.generalized context. I.e. the grammar of “noun phrase” can be interpreted in a specific context because of their meaning). “Good advice is valuable”, “Cold water is a common beverage” or “Alex gave you good advice that will help you solve your problem”, “I splashed cold water on my hands. Definitely not healthy.” “for the second pair of sentences here, the non-count indefinite determiner “some” could be used, although it is optional: “Alex gave you some good advice that will help you solve your problem”, “I splashed some cold water on my hands.” Is “some” useful for calculating “some.”? “A
wealth of X”, with the indefinite article, is just an idiom that can be used whether or not “wealth” takes a premodological: “George Curzon, for example, possessed a wealth of governmental and administrative experience” ( Stewards of the Nation’s Art: Contested Cultural Authority, 1890-1939, by Andrea Geddes Poole, 2010; p. 70).
The word wealth can be used with an optional premodifier and no determiner: “a person of great wealth,” “they possess great wealth”.
Which are the most highly valuable words in English today?
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