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I think that the phrase is intentionally ambiguous.
Originally 'by hand' meant nursed by someone other than ones biological mother (not necessarily by bottle). But Dickens is making a bit of use of amphiboly:
The full Dickens quote is:
My sister Mrs. Joe Gargery, was more than twenty years older than I, and had established a great reputation with ...
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This web site says that "brought up by hand" means that he was bottle- or spoon-fed rather than nursed by his mother or by a wet-nurse.
By hand, brought up: Infants, in the absence of the mother, were either sent out to be fed by a wet-nurse (another lactating woman), or were spoon- or bottle-fed. Mrs. Joe's claim to neighborhood fame -- that she raised ...
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Blackguard rating is not an official term; rather, Nightingale is describing her encounter with Barry as the most scurrilous scolding she had received in her life.
Etymonline has blackguard, a somewhat dated term, originating
1530s, scullion, kitchen knave. Perhaps once an actual military or guard unit; more likely originally a mock-military reference ...
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OED has a draft addition from 1993:
Typog. (a) The heaviness of a fount of type, determined by the thickness of strokes in the individual sorts; (b) the degree of emphasis or blackness of a typeface.
1771 P. Luckombe Hist. & Art of Printing 239 A Fount of Roman Letter, of what Body or Weight soever, is constituted of Lower-case Sorts, ...
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For example is the correct answer for that multiple choice question. Just to name a few is wrong because the phrase a few, which functions as a pronoun because it replaces the missing phrase has many functions, refers to nothing. The full sentence would be something like this:
Your smartphone, which has many functions, might give you a wake up call, send ...
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To be < verb >-ed out is a idiomatic phrasal verb means to have done something until you are completely spent and can't do it any longer.
You can be played-out, cried-out, practiced-out, etc. In fact this pattern has probably been employed by someone somewhere with just about every action verb a person can do. For example someone who's tired of dancing ...
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No. You are wilfully parsing it as though "7 - 10 day" is an interval to which within applies. But within does not take an implicit interval like that. You could say "within the period 7 - 10 days", but that's the only way I can see to get the meaning you want.
Which leaves the alternative (and clearly intended) parsing within x days after opening, where ...
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A rating is a “sharp scolding or rebuke.” A blackguard /ˈblæɡɚd/ is a scoundrel, especially one who uses foul language. (There's even a verb form of blackguard meaning “to ridicule or denounce with abusive language.”) A blackguard rating is therefore an extremely abusive and probably foul-mouthed scolding.
Nightingale is saying that she has suffered many ...
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Grammatical rules that apply to units larger than a word apply only to constituents.
"Puzzled why", however, is not a constituent, but rather a string taken from a sentence.
The psych predicate adjective (be) puzzled can take a number of complements, including tensed that- and wh-clauses
He was puzzled why she hadn't arrived yet.
He was puzzled that she ...
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The "Within" portion of the phrase is intended to eliminate the interpretation that you are trying to impose on it.
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0---1---2---3---4---5---6---7---8---9---10
(within 7 days .............)
(within 10 days .........................)
(within 7-10 days ..........?????????????)
The extended portion of the range covered by . is definitely good; the ...
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Off-the-shelf software used to refer to software you bought off-the-shelf in a software store strangely enough. This is clouded today with downloads and not much software being bought from stores, but in the context of your question, the mentor was meaning that you could use software that works straight away (and fit for purpose) without the need for ...
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After some research, I believe the answer is yes. Congenital anomalies (or congenital defects) are, inherently present at birth. The World Health Organization's first 'key fact' about congenital anomalies states:
Congenital anomalies (also referred as birth defects) affect
approximately 1 in 33 infants and result in approximately 3.2 million
birth ...
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Here's what Merriam-Webster's Medical Dictionary says about congenital:
1 : existing at or dating from birth (congenital deafness)
2 : acquired during development in the uterus and not through heredity (congenital syphilis) compare ACQUIRED 2, FAMILIAL, HEREDITARY
and here's what it says about congenital adrenal hyperplasia
any of several ...
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A 3-point shot is a shot taken from behind the 3-point line which delineates an area farther from the basket. The farther from the basket the more difficult the shot, and therefore more points are awarded for these shots.
The fan is urging to the player to attempt a 3-point shot. Probably because a successful 3-point shot would tie the game as the game ...
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It may be stretching it, but I think they could have different implications:
"price of delayed order" could mean the (total) price of the order, which happens to have been delayed (and/or distinguishing it from another order which wasn't delayed).
"delayed order price" could be the (extra) cost incurred as a result of the order being (or having been) ...
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I found this as definition #4 here: http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Buggerlugs and I think it stands a better chance of being the correct or most appropriate etymology than some of the references above.
An affectionate term for a child, particularly when it isn't listening to the adult, the implication being that the child's ears (lugs) have ...
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Pine has had a range of meanings, but in intransitive use it had by the middle of the 16th century pretty much settled down to the two fairly similar senses which survive today (OED):
5. intr. To become wasted or feeble, from suffering (bodily or mental), esp. from intense grief, etc., wasting disease, or want of sustenance; to lose vitality or vigour; ...
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You can use snapping out of a dream, which has that sudden meaning.
You can also use startle, as in startled from a dream, although this seems less sudden.
People are more often disturbed suddenly from daydreams than dreams, so you may find more uses by looking for daydream terms such as reverie.
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I think back to Physical Geomorphology -- the Eastern Seaboard in the US is a shoreline of emergence and the Western is not a "seaboard" -- because the west coast is a shoreline of nothing (it is totally different geologically).
There has to be something -- some journal -- that says Eastern Seaboard. I think it has something to do with the Louisiana ...
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The most common use of wanna is for want to. So, wanna can be used like this.
I wanna be a doctor.
shown here
But, there are some of the cases, where wanna is used for want a, as below,
I Wanna New Room.
referred here.
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Aspiring musician (as @mplungjan mentions in the comments) is what is used and makes sense. It does not suggest that you have started learning music any more than you have thought about and decided that being a musician is what you want to do. Someone who is learning music is already a musician.
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It all depends on context. If you want to constrain to, as you say, "I wish to be a musician in the future..."
...you have:
A promising musician
An aspiring musician
A budding musician
A potential musician
A studying musician
A wannabe musician
A hopeful musician
Essentially - they all need a little more context.
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Because anyone who can sing or play an instrument can be considered a musician, you probably want to unambiguate your musical status for this bio:
Do you want to be a professional musician in the future? If so, then you can say the following:
"I'm an amateur musicians aspiring to go pro in the future"
or
"It's my goal to become a professional ...
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I suggest the first sentence is correct "I have previous work experience in IBM in PHP domain during the period 2009-2010.".
Because that is the work experience we get in the past and now we stopped work there. And now, we have experience enough for these fields . So we use have for this sentence.
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"What am I to do?" is roughly equivalent to "What should I do about this?" where "this" is some kind of problem you have, specifics to be understood from context. It is not commonly used anymore, but will be understood by native speakers.
Native speakers of Standard American English (and I think also Standard British English) never say "the next" without ...
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Personally, I would probably just say "I called John to ask him when he might host his party". If you don't think "when" by itself gets at the whole meaning you're looking for, I would also say "I called John to ask him when exactly he might host his party" or "I called John to ask him for a more precise timeframe for his party". Your sentence is grammatical ...
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Since Jim has correctly answered your question (assuming that you already knew that a basket from inside the three-point line is worth two points, while a basket from outside the line is worth three points), I'll focus on the nature of the three-point line, in case you're interested. The Wikipedia article on "Basketball court" ...
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This argument about what is gramatically correct about "drive safe" and "drive safely"
seems to run on and on. Some people quote native speakers say "drive safe". To me it depends on which country you are native of.
I learned my English at the knee of my parents both of which were of British heritage
and consequently the use of the adverb as "drive ...
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Both are correct, there is not a need to insert a prepositional specifically because the word that the preposition would be associated with is a verb, if it were a noun or an adjective then it there be more president for a prepositional phrase.
To clarify, a Preposition does just what it sounds like, it pre-positions; quit especially in adjectives - in ...
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I suspect that the person who said "We're going off tangent here" may have had in mind not "off track" but "off topic." Going "off track" may indicate either jumping the track (as a derailed train might) or leaving the marked trail (and being in danger of getting lost). Both of those possibilities are fairly strong negative descriptions of going wrong.
In ...
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