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Oct 12 |
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What's the difference between direction and orientation? You could say "the orientation of the directional light" and the sentence would have an identical meaning to your example without sounding as redundant. |
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Oct 12 |
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Painting term for the reflective lighting of a surface? Yep, I was going to respond that painters simply use the term "reflected light". |
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Oct 12 |
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Word for a part of a wooden railroad track I agree with @Zairja: introduce both words. Generically it's a connector; specifically a knob connector that fits in the slot connector. |
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Oct 4 |
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Single-word synonym for a “pedantic rule-follower”? I don't see the word as being a "pedantic rules follower" but rather a "rules enforcer". |
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Sep 27 |
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Word to describe “fleeting, wandering and prone to drifting off” of thought elusive and ephemeral were the first two words to pop into my head when I read the description. |
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Sep 27 |
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What's the difference between “lonely” and “lonesome” added 2 characters in body |
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Sep 25 |
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Why “off ” in jerk off, jack off, get off? I hear that as to "take" the personality/mannerisms "off" someone else and put them on display. |
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Sep 25 |
answered | Why “off ” in jerk off, jack off, get off? |
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Sep 25 |
answered | Word for people who change their opinions easily? |
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Sep 25 |
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Word for people who change their opinions easily? I wonder if you're looking for something else? Your example as given isn't necessarily a contradictory opinion. A person could truly believe both that they are a genius if they pass a test, and an imbecile if they don't. Those aren't two changed opinions, but rather two evaluations of different outcomes. |
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Sep 24 |
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What is an alternative to “hairy” for things which don't have hair? Due respect to the massive list of fancy words for hairs on leaves, but this is the correct answer. |
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Sep 7 |
awarded | Nice Answer |
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Sep 6 |
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Newspaper vocabulary for news positioning Before the advent of Desktop Publishing, page layout was also called paste up. |
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Aug 30 |
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Using “sorry” to mean “pardon” I can't speak to how common it is in the USA, but I wouldn't bat an eye hearing it in Canada, and in fact tend to use it myself instead of "what?" when I'm trying to be polite. The alternatives "beg your pardon?" or "pardon me?" are wordy and sound stilted; "excuse me?" sounds a smidgen rude. |
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Aug 30 |
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A word to describe the structure of “The Song That Never Ends” @Zairja By the way, if you're looking for an esoteric word that implies infinite self-regeneration I think Ouroboros works fine. |
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Aug 30 |
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A word to describe the structure of “The Song That Never Ends” @Zairja I knew an old lady that swallowed a fly, I don't know why she swallowed a fly. I guess she'll die. |
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Aug 30 |
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A word to describe the structure of “The Song That Never Ends” Also, I can't think of any definition of recursive that is not self-referential — that's the essence of the word's meaning, that is, it is implicit in the meaning of the word. I'm not sure what you're getting at when you say "language supports recursion but I don't see how it's self referential…" |
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Aug 30 |
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A word to describe the structure of “The Song That Never Ends” I wouldn't be too obsessive about finding a single word. Do you need a single word to convey the fact that it is also a children's song? If english were akin to german we could say it is an infinitelyrecursivekindersong. |
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Aug 30 |
answered | What is a song played at the end of a movie called? |
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Aug 30 |
answered | A word to describe the structure of “The Song That Never Ends” |
