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When did 'wyrm' lose its meaning as dragon?
I'm interested in finding out (roughly) when the Old English word 'wyrm' began to lose its meaning as 'A serpent, snake, dragon' due to the competing 'draca' and the later borrowing 'dragon'. I've ...
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Proper definition of validation and verification [closed]
I'm trying to find a definite, peer-reviewed and generally accepted definition of the words validation and verification when applied in the context of data acceptance (computer science).
In a related ...
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Idiom thesaurus? [closed]
Can you recommend some searchable resource that maps given expression onto idioms meaning that thing?
There are quite a few dictionaries that contain a list of idioms containing a given word which is ...
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Percentages of meanings in an English dictionary
Often when you look for some new word in a dictionary, you will find many definitions or meanings of the one word.
For example when you look for a word to in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary you ...
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Which thesaurus best describes the differences between several similar words? [closed]
Which thesaurus (online or paper) best describes the differences between several similar words? As a non-native English speaker, it is often difficult for me to distinguish the slightly different ...
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