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What word defines a category suited for both header and footer?
So there I was, trying to ask a question (now on SO) on Webmaster.SE partly involving a 'header' and a 'footer'. One part of my code defines shared aspects of both the header and the footer.
Anyway to ...
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Collective word for food and drink
Is there a word that best describes food and drink taken at the same time? I've thought of refreshments and consumables but neither seem right to me.
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Hypernym for "approve" and "reject"
User A goes to the web page and clicks a menu called 'Submit Request', where User A will fill out a form request and submit it to his/her Supervisor.
Then User A's Supervisor will go to the web page ...
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Is there a word like "sides" that means "top or bottom"?
"Sides" can be used to describe positioning relative to the left or right of an object. Is there a corresponding word that has the same meaning for the top or bottom of an object?
For example, if I ...
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How do you refer to a hyponym that is the same word as the hypernym?
What word (or how do you phrase things) do you use when the ostensible word for the class is the same as the word for a subset of the class?
For example, in the United States, there are many brands ...
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Left and Right are "Sides"; Front and Rear are "Ends"; Top and Bottom are...?
I'm looking for a fitting word in the context of design/engineering. We have long structural members that go in an assembly and we need to be able to describe them based on their orientation and ...
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Hypernym for "customer," "supplier", "manufacturer"
I need an abstraction for the above terms.
In financial services, counterparty is often used.
Another hypernym could be account (although this sounds more like a bank account, or user/login account)...
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Dating equivalent of 'spouse'
I want to ask someone, "Describe the perfect girlfriend/boyfriend" but I don't want to be so hetero-normative. So I'm looking for a simple gender-neutral/gender-inclusive equivalent for boyfriend/...
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Hypernym for "audiobook", "podcast", "speech", etc.?
I am looking for a short and concise term (preferably one word) that can be used as a hypernym for essentially everything that contains (audio) speech (e.g. audiobooks, podcasts, recorded news ...
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Generic word for hyphen, dash, minus sign, etc.?
I look for a proper English word that could be an informal generic term for “bar-like” typographic marks such as hyphens, dashes, minus signs and so on.
Is it bar? line? stroke? or another?
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Hypernym for "interpolation" and "extrapolation"
Interpolation typically means modeling the values of some curve inside the given data, and extrapolation — outside the given data. For example, if I know the temperature on Monday and Wednesday, ...
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Equivalent word which represents 'Team' or 'Individual'
I am developing a coding contest project with multiple contests.
The participants can be a team or an independent individual, depending on the contest setting. I want to define only one model for the ...
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"Multimedia" or "media" for menu name [closed]
I'm developing a website on which photos and videos will be shared. But I couldn't decide on the main menu name to use under which there will be two subcategories Photo Gallery and Videos. Which one ...
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Alternative word for "media" for disks, USB storage etc
I'm looking for a generic word to describe (removable) computer storage such as CDs, USB sticks, floppies etc which is as clear as possible to non-technical people. It doesn't have to clearly ...
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Is there a collective term to describe "coffee" and "tea"? [closed]
Any term to describe both of them — coffee and tea collectively?
I wanted to call it beverages but that also includes drinks outside coffee and tea. Also, I could call it hot drinks but that would ...
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Referring to people from different parts of United Kingdom
I see four people in front of me. One is from Wales, one is from Scotland, one is from England and one is from Northern Ireland. I can say about each one "He is Scottish/Welsh/English". But, how do I ...
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Synonym for 'description'
Preferably a short one. 'Description' fits my purpose very well, but is longer than I'd like (3 - 5 letters are ideal).
It's going to be used as a heading, umbrella-term, button or similar for image-...
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Hypernym for "profile" and "preference" in the context of dating or match-making [closed]
The context is love-matching or match-making.
I am looking for one term/word to address a dating/mating condition that people would have when matching. It's more complicated and thorough than a ...
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What's collective term for clients, customers, students, donors or anyone who has a beneficial relationship with an organization? [duplicate]
My clients offer services that can be used by different types of organizations: schools, nonprofits, corporations, individuals, restaurants, etc. If I want to talk to all of their ____ simultaneously ...
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What's the word for a counterparty of a customer?
When I want to refer to the people (and organizations) who supply me with the goods and services I consume---that is, those of whom I am a customer---what word do I use?
My candidates:
Customee
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Need a word to describe book/academic journal as distinct from technical report
I am designing a database and I have an entity called Publication.
A Publication can be either a book/academic journal or a technical report.
So I need a word for book/academic journal as "Book/...
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hypernym for clients, suppliers, partners, public enterprises, employees [closed]
I need an abstraction for the above terms for using in a financial service application.
I am thinking to use "Current Accounts".
Is it appropriate to use this term to cover all of these terms that I ...
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Word for morally negative sexual behavior
I'm searching for a broad word that is summarized by sexual transgression. Is there a single word to describe a type of behavior of those that pursue rape, pedophilia, adultery, incest, or molestation?...
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Better hypernym to substitute for “business agenda”
I'm using the words “business agenda” to describe the set of tasks, documents, processes, features and other artifacts that are related to a single “function” executed by a business. In my language (...
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History and heritage = hypernym and hyponym?
I'm not quite sure how to phrase my question...but anyways.
History and heritage are often confused with one another.
"Heritage is owned by someone or some group; history is not. History is what ...
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What is an English term for grouping bills and credit notes?
I'm wondering if there is a generic term to talk about bills and credit notes, in other terms, the money I'll receive and the money I owe.
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General term for singularize and pluralize
I'm looking for a word (or small number of words) that is the general term for singularizing or pluralizing a word.
I've thought about "inflection"/"inflect", but inflection ...
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Which word is best; "population", "pick" or "combination"?
Please look at the sentence below.
The ________ of actors and actresses is very important in this movie I will make.
Which of the following three words fit best in the blank space?
population, ...
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Alternative for the word "options" as in "extra purchase possibilities to go with a booking"
Is there a better alternative to the word options when referring to "extra purchase possibilities next to a booking you have already made"? For instance, you can think of food and beverages, ...
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Generalization of "player" and "team" in sports [duplicate]
In a programming context, I need to refer to players and teams interchangeably (in sports). I'm looking for a word - noun or adjective - that would be a generalization of those two terms. I can't seem ...
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Word that covers the following: A single episode of a series, a single movie (in a series of movies or not), an audio track (on an album or not)
As described in the title, I'm searching for a word that covers all this different meanings. All of these meanings are in the field media but that didn't help me finding a word.
One first guess of a ...
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1 word for books, videos, podcasts, speeches, etc. (learning materials)
Do you have any suggestions? I have some already in my list which I am still not satisfied yet:
medium/media
asset/assets
publication/publications
resource/resources
source/sources
