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Party organized by the students of a department
At German universities, there student councils, called "Fachshaft", which is an extracurricular representative structure for students.
Each year (or semester), the student councils organize parties ...
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What is the name of a repair shop specialized in fixing flat tires?
Here in Brazil we have "borracharias" a repair shop with many tires where they replace or fix flat tires. "Borracha" means rubber. Neither Google Translate nor Wikipedia could help me to find an ...
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Single word for “unqualified truth”
Suppose someone (let's call him Alex) is bad at playing soccer, but he does not want to hear that.
Now if someone says to Alex in his face, "you are a really bad soccer player", what would be an apt ...
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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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What is the English equivalent to the Japanese word 学者バカ, “Scholar’s fool”?
I’m interested in the words “instant omniscience,” which Calvin Trillin, a former editor for Time magazine, used in a New Yorker magazine article (March 20) entitled "Time Edit":
“There were some ...
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“hanging on the rope of”
I'm looking for two single words, a verb and a noun, with similar content, which could be best inserted in these sentences:
In some countries workers are entirely _______ 1 of/to/on their ...
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Is there a single noun in English for “jerry-rigged”?
"Gambiarra" in Brazilian Portuguese means a device, solution, or means to an end made impromptu, usually in a sloppy way and lacking care. I was wondering if there was a single word in English for ...
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What would be a colloquial word for using public transport for free?
My English roommate and I were just having a conversation about what colloquial word(verb) you would use if you used public transport for free. In German we have the term "schwarzfahren." The ...
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A single word for “blind” and “slow on the uptake” [closed]
We have a word tiomny in Russian which has the meanings blind, dim, and dumb. Is there a word (possibly slang) in American English which is as close in meaning to both blind and slow on the uptake?
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Reflexive possessive pronoun
Is there a single word (similar to Russian свой for those familiar with Russian) which I could put into this sentence?
By tomorrow, one of us will see the money in __ account.
meaning that
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Friendlier way to express you paid for a person's drink/dinner and expect it to be paid back
In Dutch we have the word voorschieten. In English it translates — according to Google Translate — to "advance, lend, disburse". The Dutch word voorschieten is used in an informal setting between ...
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A case that exhibits all the possible conditions a subject can suffer from?
We have this Hungarian phrase "Állatorvosi ló", which literally translates to "Veterinarian horse".
It originated in 19th century Hungarian literature, when someone created an illustration of a horse ...
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What is the translation of the French word “erre”?
In French, there is a word erre which is the residual speed of a train, a ship or a car (or whatever is moving and needs propulsion).
For example, if you see a red light in your car, you stop ...
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English for French word “équivalence”, in an academic context
I'm looking for the English word for the French "équivalence", in an academic context. It is used when one has followed a course with material that is sufficient for another course, and as such, the ...
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Hypernym: Word that means 'window' or 'door'
There's the Italian word serramento which means "a window or a door", used in this way for example:
Our company produces [serramenti] in aluminium.
Is there an equivalent word or expression ...
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Measurements without a dimension (raw number)
I'm translating some documents to English which deal with some measurements. Most of the measurements have a unit dimension (length is in meters, weight is in kilograms, etc) but some of them do not ...
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What is the proper name of a “line account”?
I've come across having to translate the Danish word "stregregnskab" to English. The direct translation would be "line account", but I seem to recall there being a proper name for this sort of ...
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Word for “distance in time”
I need the correct English word for the German expression (zeitlicher) Abstand. Abstand means "distance", and zeitlich means "in time".
The "distance" between building maintenance dates is about ...
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What can I call the two possible directions on a line (as a category)?
In English, a vector is said to have two properties: a length and a direction. The possible directions correspond to half-lines out of the origin (so that, eg, up and down are different directions). ...
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Can I name one client of my application “tenant” if I have multitenancy?
I'm a software developer and want to add the feature "multitenancy" (German: Mandantenfähigkeit, see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multitenancy) to my application. Each entity in my ...
