Questions tagged [single-word-requests]

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Is there a sales term for how "hot" or "strong" a prospect a customer is?

I'm pretty sure my grammar is off in that title, because I'm awkwardly writing around a missing word. If a salesperson has time to call one of two customers, he or she will want to reach out to the ...
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An inoffensive word for "stupid"?

In my native language, there is a word that has a meaning similar to stupid, but it is friendly and usually used for a close friend or loved one. It even helps the target people to feel happy in some ...
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Situation when a sentence can't be appealed

After a specific period, or if the appeal is found invalid for any reason, or was issued at the final instance court, a sentence becomes valid and is to be executed. I found the translation of the ...
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Word for someone who loves bright colours

How do we call a person having deep love towards bright colours (like he loves to wear very brightly-coloured clothes)?
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Word meaning "feather-like"

I need a word for feather-like. Pinnated doesn't fit, nor fern-like or anything I have thought of. I'd love something to use as in phocine for seal-like.
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What is the name for punctuation marks such as commas and periods that separate things like clauses or sentences?

When I'm editing people's writing, I recently started writing the comment "put an article here" rather than "put a 'the' or 'a' here". Similarly, right now I have to put, "you need a comma or period ...
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Is there a word for "active activities?"

What can I use as the opposite of "passive activities"? "Active activities" sounds too complicated due to the repetition. For example, I enjoy active activities such as sport, dancing or laser tag.
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One word for someone who eats hurriedly

What do we call someone who hurriedly pounds on food and eats like as though never seen before. I would like to know an alternate word for that person, either an adjective or noun.
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Adjective for exclusive/selective/picky with positive connotations

I'm working with a friend who's looking for a word/phrase to describe her clientele. She's good enough and well-respected enough that she commands top dollar in her field and usually only works with 2-...
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Terminology for items made by recycling craft

Recycling craft is the art of making usable items from recyclable stuff. What would be a suitable term for the items produced by this craft?
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What is the adjective equivalent to "content"?

For example, how does one say the equivalent to "a day which made me content" or a "contenting" day?
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Is there a verb that means "to alert audibly"? [closed]

When I am writing programs, I like to keep the methods as concise and clear as possible. In a class that contains many methods of signaling a user, one possible way is to explicitly create an audible ...
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What is a word to describe a person who wears several masks?

What word best describes a person who is deceitful and very complicated to understand? As they say, he wears several masks.
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Most common name for this kind of image, where the sun illuminates the horizon

What’s the most common name for this kind of image? I want to find other similar images, but I don’t know how to formulate my search request.
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An alternative word for "lest"

Reading a book from 1995, I encountered the word lest in the proof of a theorem. I had not seen it in about twenty years of reading and working on mathematical contexts. Is this word used nowadays? ...
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What do you call the crunching sound from bone joints?

When I wake up and do stretching I hear some sounds from my joints. What do you call this crunching sound from bone joints?
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Word choice: An example that is used throughout a thesis

I am writing a thesis in which there is an example that will be used throughout the thesis (repeatedly) to illustrate various methods or various aspects of the theory. I will introduce the example in ...
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How to derive a noun from "up-to-date"?

I'm looking for a noun that would represent the state of being up to date. I want to say this The documentation is not accurate and up to date. like this The documentation has problems with ...
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SSD Analogue for non-SSD

Sorry for the pun, but I couldn't resist. Is there an easy to speak and explain acronym or word for non-solid state drives? Or what, if any, is the antonym of solid-state? Addendum: After reading ...
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What do you call someone who likes variety? [closed]

I don't mean a variety in a certain field or area like food, but in general. I'm developing an iOS quiz app with different sections to be quizzed on. For example, there is a math quiz, a history quiz, ...
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Terminology for fake photograph

I think there is a good chance that a new word or phrase has been coined to mean fake photograph. Is there a single word to express it?
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Word for someone quick to blame others

What is a single word to describe a person who is quick to blame others or the system in almost any situation, regardless of whether that is legitimate or not?
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How to say "Pending review" in a shorter way [closed]

What word can I use to describe that a set of submissions of an assignment are pending review. I want the shorter word. Right now I say: '8 pending review' But that is too long. I would like to use ...
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Is there any synonym for "abyss" with a non-negative connotation?

Could somebody tell me, what is the positive of the word "Abyss" ? As I know, abyss means an infinite depth or abode of evils, Hell. So isn't there any word which will mean the same as infinite depth ...
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What's the name of a person doing assurance

This has come to my mind, person doing test is a tester, person doing development is a developer, person doing consultation is a consultant, etc. My question, as written on the title, is, what's a ...
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Word for "knowing the feeling from X situation"?

Yes, I know the same thing has been asked before, but there were no answers that fit the word I'm trying to find. Anyway, what is a word for "knowing the feeling from X situation"? That would be ...
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Word that means "one out of a series must be true"?

I am trying to come up with a word or phrase that means "one out of a series must be true". Example #1: I have a list of roles that a user can belong to. What is a word that describes a list of ...
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Word that means "outdated name"

Is there a word that means "outdated name"? For example: Record, although very little music is on vinyl Film, although most movies are digital Horsepower, although no one uses horses as a metric ...
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Pronunciation problem with "park" and "walk". Is there a name for this "phenomenon"?

Now and then, I struggle to say a pair of words such as "park and walk". It may come out as "park and wark" or "pork and walk". It occurs generally when the two words are close together in a ...
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Does the game shown in the following picture have a particular name? [closed]

Does the game shown in the following picture have a particular name? (I ask because a similar game does not exist in my country and I would like know its rules.)
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Opposite word of "addiction"

Though the very obvious opposite of the word addiction is "deaddiction", I couldn't find the latter in any dictionary (I checked in Oxford, Chambers and Cambridge). Why is it so? If "deaddiction" is ...
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Is there a word for how one feels when thanked?

People say "thank you" because they're thankful. One would responed "you're welcome" because they are what? Is there a single word to describe a state of happily doing something for someone else for ...
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What is the best word that defines the space shown in this picture?

American Heritage Dictionary defines: plaza: a public square or similar open area in a town or city. gallery: a roofed promenade, especially one extending along the wall of a building ...
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Is there a word for "extreme feminism"?

Feminism is defined as Feminism is a collection of movements aimed at defining, establishing, and defending equal political, economic, and social rights for women. in Wikipedia and A social ...
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A better alternative for the word 'urine' [closed]

I am writing a religious article that's related to urine. Since it will be on a religious website, I don't want this word 'URINE' to be in its heading. Please suggest a good word.
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A word for "something you want to know only to regret knowing it once you do"

Is there a word to describe "a piece of information that you only want to know until you know it, then you regret you ever asked about it"?
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Things we put on the left side of lists

I'm looking for an umbrella term (hypernym) that covers the things we put on the left side of lists — bullets, numbers, letters, etc. Is there such a word?
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"Whn U Ck Me, U WL Fnd Me Sez da Lord." in this picture (publicity)

Does the style (if it is) shown in the picture below have a particular name? “Whn U Ck Me, U WL Fnd Me Sez da Lord” In full: When you seek me, you will find me says the Lord.
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Word for: "dislike of people that has same gender as speaker"

Is there a word for "disliking people of same gender"? I.e. man that dislikes men in general (but not women), or woman that dislikes women in general (but not men)? There's "misanthropy", but it ...
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The wheel has become an eight

The title makes presumably little to no sense and is in fact a word-by-word translation of a German expression. I am talking about the wheel of a bike and a certain way it is deformed. I like the ...
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Assembler, Installer, Fitter

Say, you buy some new office furniture. You get the furniture parts delivered including the service to put the different parts - for example the desk top and the desk legs - together to complete ...
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A word that says a person is both female and your friend

It's often confusing for me to talk about my friends, especially my female friends. This is because in Dutch there are words for both male ("vriend") and female ("vriendin") ...
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Conference registerer

Maybe this is a Stackoverflow question, but I am not sure. I am looking for a word(or perhaps a phrase) to describe a person who registers for a lot of conferences but never bothers to attend them. ...
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"Enclosure" vs. "attachment"

If I understand it correctly, one usually uses the term enclosure when referring to extra documents to e.g. a letter. But what if these extra items are not other documents and papers? Say I have ...
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Word for large, short, wide, roundish, fat bottle

What word would you use to describe a large, short, wide, roundish, fat bottle, the kind used for some wines: tubby or chubby? This kind of flask called growler would match my request, but I'd like ...
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What particular word is used for this doll? [closed]

A doll is created which looks like a human and is kept near or among crops in the farm to keep animals like deer away. I don't know what it is called in English.
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What is an appropriate word for someone's "humanness"? [closed]

Is there a word that references someone's "humanness"? Something that one would posses, that would characterise them as human. I wouldn't say "human" in terms of morals, but "human" in the most ...
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What do you call a person who's grading exams?

I've recently had a job where I've read exams and graded them. I'm now going to put this on my CV but I have no idea how I should label this kind of work. What have I been? An examiner?
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Verb for meeting the requirements of a policy

I'm looking for a verb that would go with policy. Our company has a policy, which defines a set of requirements. I want to say that I am responsible for ensuring that the company meets the ...
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Word for "seeing without being seen"

Is there a word for seeing without being seen? I want to write about those on the advantageous side of tinted glasses. Visual/optical eavesdropping is the closest phrase I can think of.
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