Terminology is a system of terms belonging or peculiar to a science, art, or specialized subject, nomenclature.
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What is the term for an item that facilitates the tying of things together?
Is there some piece of equipment or item that allows you to tie two or more
strands of rope
threads of fabric
together? I imagine that (1) and (2) will be different items. If such things do ...
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What would be the complement of the title “Goals Achieved”?
What would be a title that is complementary to the title "Goals Achieved"?
By "complementary", I mean a title that can be used in contrast to "Goals Achieved" to refer to the goals that now need to ...
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What term captures “three groups”?
Is there any one-word term that can capture the meaning of "three groups".
For example, there are three groups of people in the world....
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What is the term used to describe the relationship between two words that are both the opposite of another word, but also the opposite of each other? [duplicate]
To start this off light, I was initially thinking about this with Oreos. There are fresh Oreos, and then there are two different ways they can go stale: dry/hard (in low humidity) and soft/mushy (in ...
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Anglicize for Japanese
English speakers will change pronunciation and spelling of foreign words to make them easier to manage and we call this Anglicization. Japanese do this too, adding extra vowels to foreign words to ...
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How to interpret polyhedron name “Rhombic Hexecontahedron”? [closed]
How to interpret polyhedron name "Rhombic Hexecontahedron"? What prefixes and suffixes that are generic and reusable? What're some examples to "make up" polyhedron names following the same style?
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What is the term for replacing one word/phrase with one that is more friendly/appropriate
I apologize for such a simple and stupid question but the word is completely skipping my mind and my google fu seems to be failing me for this one.
An example would be something along the lines of ...
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Looking for a good word that means “an open statement”
I'm trying to think of a word that means something along these lines:
An open statement. Not a number. Not something absolute. Not something calculable. A free statement. A literary premise.
E.g. ...
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Term for verb+adverb with distinct meaning
There are verbs that, when paired with certain adverbs, can have a distinctly different meaning. For example,
I looked up the word in the dictionary.
The phrase looked up functions as a verb ...
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Category name for “Other fun stuff” vs “Other serious stuff”
On my website, I currently have seven categories.
Games
Art
Music
Video
Text
Other
Misc
"Other" is for other things that are fun, like games, art, music, video, and text. For example, a fireworks ...
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What do you call the latter part of a sentence which spans two pages?
Does the sentence fragment after the simulated pagebreak (the horizontal rule) have a specific term associated with it?
The start of a new paragraph includes an indent ...
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What do we call for the old colored brown page of an old book
I want to know what that brown and a bit rough-textured paper called. Or if there is a word for it or none.
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But for the grace of God [closed]
I have heard it said "But for the grace of God there go I" Usually it forms in my mind when I see someone less fortunate. Recently I was around a lot of mean hearted and negative people and it spouted ...
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Is there a word to describe the organisation of cells?
For example whether an organism is unicellular or multicellular would be its _.
There is a word 'cellularity', though I don't think that is quite the word I am looking for.
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A soft substance that can be used to seal a seam between a bathtub and a wall [closed]
I need to go shopping for a certain thing, but do not know a proper English word for it.
It is a soft substance usually sold in a tube that can be used to seal a seam between a bathtub and a wall. It ...
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Name for a special type of abbreviation, such as “mart” for “market”
Is there a name for when an abbreviation deviates greatly from the main word, as "mart" does for "market"?
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Latin derivatives [closed]
My work is all about the structure and meaning of derivative adjectives. And it was quite easy with flower-flowered pairs. But what about such words as "final" or "annual"? Their stems "ann" and "fin" ...
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make question for periodic event
I like to make question about the happening of some events whether it is happened every day or every week or every month...etc
how can i make question?
this is my try:
Does this event happen every ...
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How do you say the coming week in the weekend?
Now it is on Saturday(25 May 2013), how do you say the coming week(the week from 27th-)?
Next week or is it already this week? Is there any other ways to say the coming week?
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In real estate, what is a split plan? [closed]
I'm looking through house listings and keep coming across "split plan." This is not a synonym of "split level," because the houses are pretty flat. What is a "split plan" house?
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Is there a word for selecting yourself as the target audience for an invention or product?
Let me explain this with an example. An inventor faces a problem, he decides to develop a solution for it. Initially, he is the main target audience for his invention.
I was wondering if there was an ...
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Etymology of “typeface Weight”
My boss stated that he noticed the word "weight" is used to refer to the boldness of a character, and stated that he felt this was a new occurrence.
My gut feeling is that this is an old term, ...
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What is the meaning of “down-level”
What does the word down-level mean?
I read an article here and it says:
But the versions for some browsers (like IE 10) aren't within those
ranges any more. Therefore, ASP.NET sees them as ...
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Is it “extreme” or “large” diversity for endophytic microorganism subject?
Do I need to substitute the word extreme to large in this text?
Endophytic fungi are molds that are found in the healthy plant tissues. Endophytic fungi is mold that exists in the plant tissue ...
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Difference between “jargon” and “technical terms”
Each subject matter has its own set of terms called jargon which is expressed in its particular grammatical rules. Technical terminology or Term of Art is the specialized vocabulary of any specialized ...
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Difference between ‘“folder” and “directory”
What is the difference between folder and directory in the context of computer science?
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What are different kinds of shops based on the size, structure and location?
In my native language there are so many words to mean different kinds of shops based on the size, structure and location.
I'm not talking about the types like grocery shop, barber shop, meat shop, ...
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What is the term for words like “Look” and “Listen” followed by a comma at the start of a sentence?
What is the technical term for the part of speech in bold?
Look, I'm not sure what you've been told, but carrots don't glow in the dark unless they mean business.
or
Listen, the only thing ...
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Bringing word into existence just by calling and using it
Sometimes, when I read essays, I see that writers make up words and by using them, they bring those words into existence.
For example:
In her article "Juban America", Ruth Behar uses the term ...
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“The same X” and intransitive verbs
As I have had explained to me at great length, wonder is intransitive.
That's fine, but it can seem to take an object:
Jim: Yesterday I wondered what that mark on the wall was made by
Dave: I ...
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How should “The Cloud” be capitalized?
"We are migrating our core systems into (1) The Cloud ... or (2) the cloud ... or (3) the Cloud???"
I've googled (Googled?) this and found the usual range of differing opinions but as yet no ...
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A word to express “removing some parts of history from history books by authorities”
In some countries some parts of history books of students have been removed by authorities of the time. For example, it has happened for Achaemenid Empire (a part of ancient Iran history) 2 years ago ...
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A function of “that” in “who are you that you are afraid of man”
I, I am he who comforts you; who are you that you are afraid of man who dies, of the son of man who is made like grass,
(Isaiah 51:12 , English Standard Version ©2001)
How to express the ...
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Word for Hanging Water
Is there a word to describe a gathering lump of water hanging on a surface that has not yet produced a droplet? Imagine a small pool of water without the surface upon which it's resting.
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What kind of infinitive is it in “to come home to be killed”?
In this example:
Agamemnon comes home to be killed by his wife and her lover.
We are quite sure that he didn't plan on dying, so comes home to be killed is not the “infinitive of purpose”. What ...
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Any idea of the origin of using the term 'gucci' for parts?
A number of the guys who ride near me and have been riding bikes (mtb) since the 90s still refer to high spec parts as being 'gucci'. It's an effective term and easy to understand what they mean but ...
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Correct translatation of the German word “Folgeverhalten” in the technical domain of control feedback systems
I have asked various online dictionaries about the translation of the German word Folgeverhalten.
At these dictionaries it is translated as "subsequent behaviour" or "following behavior". I am in ...
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Is there a word for start and end of a time period? [closed]
Is there a word used to describe the extremities of an arbitrary time period? The word "weekend" refers to the end of a week, but it's limited to the week and it only describes the end, but not the ...
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What is it called when an hourly worker is paid at a different rate for doing different things?
What is it called when a worker is paid a different hourly-rate for doing different things during their shift?
The reason I'm asking is I want to learn a bit more about how payroll is calculated when ...
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cocktail knowledge
Some years ago in a computer science department I heard the term “cocktail knowledge” to refer to the knowledge that someone has on a subject when they can name techniques, results, and people but ...
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A term for non-player targetted information
I'm looking for a term that would describe the information that is not supposed to be known by players, not essential for their gaming experience.
Like a game object (or feature) that isn't actually ...
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Is there a term for a married couple who have the same christian and surname?
My wife and I share the abbreviated form of our name - Alex derived from Alexandra and Alexander respectively. As we are married, we have the same christian and surname when used in the short form.
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Is there a word or phrase for language and culture combined?
Mr. Doe is committed to learning and teaching language and culture.
Is there a term that embodies both language and culture? I want something concise, as I need to state it multiple times.
I ...
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Term for “sum of durations”
While writing to a friend, I attempted to ask which web browser they used most. In the end, I asked which browser they used “more frequently”, but this was not the true object of my curiosity. By ...
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Word for a pane showing fictional characters in columns [closed]
In the manga/anime world you sometimes come across panes that show some of the characters of a certain manga or anime series arranged into columns. Here are some examples:
Bleach Gotei 13
Bleach ...
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“nones” used to describe people who are spiritual, but not religious
I work for the Church and I've seen the term "nones" used to describe those who are non-Christian or those who are considered "spiritual, but not religious." I find the term belittling. What's the ...
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What is the term for a shortened word that is pronounced based on phantom letters?
I'm only posting out of curiosity. But recently I've begun to wonder what you would call a shortening of a word that only sounds correct when spoken, and the pronunciation cannot be inferred from its ...
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“Subpage” vs “sub page” vs is it even a word?
I would go with subpage, but the corrector on stackexchange thinks it's a mistake and shows a red underline. You can try it yourself. Click on "Ask Question" link and type subpage in a sentence to the ...
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"Science journal” vs. “science magazine”
What is the difference between the terms journal and magazine? Is it correct to call a magazine a journal?
For example, I found the Journal of Radio Electronics and the Radio-Electronics Magazine, ...
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What is the origin of the word “whitewash” in the context of sports?
The term whitewash is used in sports to describe a situation where the opponents are beaten in a series of matches failing to register a single win.
Merriam-Webster defines it as :-
to hold (an ...
