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What is a 'beater restaurant'? [closed]
I was reading an article in the Denver Post and I ran across the term "beater restaurant." I didn't know what it meant, and I wasn't able to find the term via a Google search. The article is in the ...
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What does “pre-delay” mean in this conversation?
This short piece of dialogue appears in the movie "Faces in the Crowd":
Bryce: Shouldn't you be handing out gold stars instead of earning yellow
ribbons on FarmVille?
Anna: I was just ...
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What does “nukulate” mean?
What does nukulate mean in the following sentence from a question on Cooking SE?
Nukulate for 3 minutes on high.
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Romney, “regards to”, and disfluency
This is kind of a follow up to "in regard to" or "in regards to".
I have always considered that regards to means sending well wishes, while regard to means "concerning". Hence with regards to or in ...
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Alleged misuse of the word 'respective'
I was told I misused the word respective in the sentence 'If bilingual, please list the respective languages.'
My understanding is that the word points to the prior mentioned subjects. Here's a ...
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What does randomically mean?
I've just read an O’Reilly book and encoutered the word randomically. I highly suspect this is a made up word, but a quick google found it in use here, here, and here. Is this some obscure technical ...
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What is a “wreckless careerism”? [closed]
I have come across the following sentence:
The quickness of her ascent, and the fact that she revamped each orchestra’s administration before suddenly moving on, has led some in music business ...
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How to assess “an access of butchness”
I read this phrase in Alan Bennett’s Diary years ago and found it so unusual I’ve never forgotten it. Italics mine:
8 December. Trying to find someone a Meccano set for Christmas, I’m
reminded ...
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What does “Toff's error” mean?
"He's invited the wife and I" and other similar sentences are referred to as Toff's error. What is, precisely, the meaning of this term?
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Meaning of “panegoric”
What does panegoric mean? Yes, it’s panegoric and not panegyric. The word is given in my module with the meaning “medicine that allays pain”, but I can’t find any reference. Is it correct?
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What is the meaning of the phrase 'listing off'?
services
Listing off registered services (nova-scheduler, nova-compute and so on) and their current state.
The updated_at field is used to determine if a given service is considered healthy ...
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Does ‘long-molared’ have any special meaning?
“You’re joking, Weasley!” said Malfoy, behind them. “You’re not telling me someone’s asked that to the ball? Not the long-molared Mudblood?” (Harry Potter 4 [US Version]: p.404)[Bold font is mine]
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What does “It dopes it really really well. Dope even” mean? [closed]
Recently I came across a stackoverflow comment for a post. It goes something like this.
Dojo has an UpgradeBar that dopes
this:
Blah Blah Blah
and then somebody commented the post
It ...
