Questions tagged [single-word-requests]
This tag is for questions seeking a single word that fits a meaning. To ensure that your question is not closed as off-topic, please be specific about the intended use of the word. INCLUDE A SAMPLE SENTENCE demonstrating how the word would be used. Click on "Info", or "View Tag" and "Learn more..." for more information. Please use the [phrase-requests] tag if you seek a phrase and the [terminology] tag if you seek a term in a specialized subject also.
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A word for the meaning of "over-constrained"
I want to express that I constrained something too much such that it is contradictory now. At first sight, over-constrained seems to fit, but I am not sure whether it is fine to use in a scientific ...
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Word that means "obsession with publishing"
I once heard a word, derived from Latin or Greek elements, construed to describe a person who has an obsession with being published. What word might that have been? For example, what would you call ...
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Is "dissatisfactorily" the correct adverb for not satisfying?
I want to express something like this:
She had asked him why he had done it, but he had replied dissatisfactorily; he said that he didn't know.
I also thought, maybe "dissatisfyingly?"
I'd like ...
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A Photoshop term for "body double" or "doppelgänger"
I saw a tutorial on TV. The tutorial was like this:
Take your snap sitting on chair, another standing on left side of chair and then last one standing on the right side of the chair. Now, use ...
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Is there an English word meaning "the use of uncommon words"?
Is there an English word meaning "the use of uncommon words" or similar?
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Word for referring to the arts of the carpenter
You can say "sartorial" to mean "of or pertaining to tailors of their trade." Is there an equivalent for carpenters?
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Infinitive of “may” and “might”?
What’s the infinitive of the verb I use when I say “I might go” or “May I come with you”?
I think in German it’s dürfen. Is there one in English? If not, why not?
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Infinitive of 'shall', 'should'?
What's the infinitive of the verb when I say "I should go," or "I shall go"? Is it a verb actually, now that I think about it? If not, what is it?
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Word for "device that provides constant doses of a liquid/dust/substance"
Think of a sugar dispenser. It provides an equal "dose" of sugar every time you push its button.
In my native language, Bulgarian, we have a specific word for this kind of object. The literal "...
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What word means "to speak something into existence"?
If someone says "the Yankees are going to lose", and everyone starts believing it, including the players, and it actually happens — what is the word for that?
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How to say "the quality of being accomplished"?
"to tire" is to become exhausted. "tired" means exhausted. "tiredness" is the state of being exhausted. Similarly, "to accomplish" means to complete a goal (let's say), "accomplished" means completed, ...
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"omni"-prefixed word for "all-hearing"
Is there an adjective that begins with the prefix omni that means all-hearing? I thought that an aural counterpart to omnipresent, omnipotent, and omniscient must exist, but after a few minutes of ...
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What is a good replacement for "ununderstandable"?
I want to tell a colleague of mine I'm doing something that will prevent her from getting "ununderstandable" errors. I have:
...so that you will not get unnecessary, [ununderstandable] errors.
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"-phile" word for someone who loves frogs
What would the best word be to describe a frog-lover that ends with the -phile root?
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Business model based on commission charging
I'd like to know the correct expression to point out the essence of this business model. I'm talking about web servers that gather users (offering and consuming services) and that charge them ...
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What is a single word to describe beating someone brutally?
What is a single word to describe "beating someone brutally"?
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'Eat' is to 'feed' as 'wear' is to...?
To eat is like to feed to yourself; is there a similar word for to wear? For example, I wear pants, but when I do the same activity to another person, what is the word?
Also, is there a name for such ...
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What's the word that combines inclusion/exclusion?
Like visibility combines show/hidden, what's the word that combines inclusion/exclusion?
EDIT:
The problem is inspired by the VIM reference manual:
A character motion is either inclusive or ...
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Word for when people store scarce resources to increase demand and sell at higher price
Like storing gasoline to create an artificial demand and sell it a higher price later.
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What is the word to describe a single object to represent the many?
If I am writing a poem, I might use the word peaches to symbolize all fruit. Is there a specific word for this type of symbolism?
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Weekly, Daily, Hourly --- Minutely...?
What is the correct word for "happening every minute"? How do you pronounce it?
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Inverse of "being a fan of"?
"Y has 1250 fans" means there are 1250 X for which X is fan of Y. If there are 12 Y for which the "X is a fan of Y" relationship holds for a given X, what's a word or phrase to say "X has 12 __" ?
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Word for person who loves to share knowledge
What is a word for a person who loves to share knowledge? So far I have educator in mind. Is there any other word?
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Word to describe "fleeting, wandering and prone to drifting off" of thought
I was wondering if someone could help me find a word based off of my description.
I would like a word that means something along the lines of "fleeting, wandering and prone to drifting off" or ...
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What's an English word that means "a community of experts"?
There is an English word that begins with "con" and means "a community of experts in a certain field". I am not able to recollect that word. Can someone please help me?
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Best way to call an artist that is not famous
What is the best way to call an artist that is not famous?
Emergent artist
New artist
Any other
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Is there a more common phrase that means "preponed"?
I was aware of this and this stackexchange post discuss the same. There is no prepone in English. Ok, then how do I say Our meeting is preponed in correct way? What is the correct word/phrase for ...
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What's a word similar in usage to "diatribe," but not as harsh?
According to the Oxford English Dictionary, a diatribe is defined as a forceful and bitter verbal attack against someone or something. I had previously understood it to mean something more along the ...
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In a project, what is the relationship between dependent tasks called?
If I have two tasks, called "Design" and "Development", what are the relationships between the two called?
Clearly, this is a type of dependency, but I need to be more specific.
That is, I need to ...
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Word meaning the reverse of 'Xenophobia'
Xenophobia refers to the irrational fear or hatred of foreigners. But recently I've seen people displaying (in newspaper articles and other places) an irrational fear or hatred of their own countrymen....
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"Visualized" equivalent adjective for audio
Are there such words as "audiolized" or "audibilized"?
EDIT: Merriam-Webster has the word Audibilized indexed with no definition! What I was trying to achieve was to say that something is an ...
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English term for a word that differs from another one by just one letter
When I was a child, pretty much every children's magazine I subscribed to used to publish those little word-chain games where you had to get from one word to another — often an antonym — by replacing ...
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Read ( Beautiful + Interesting ) stories
I'm looking for a word to express something that is beautiful and interesting at the same time, to use in this sentence:
Read [term] stories
Can you help me find one?
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What can a man that owns land for agriculture be called without using "farmer"?
Does anybody know?
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Term for catchy tune that stays in your head
Is there a term for a catchy tune that stays in your head after you hear it? The Germans call it an earworm.
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What is a word called that has more than one syllable?
You can say e.g.:
The word "on" is a monosyllable.
but it seems that the word "multisyllable" has been outdated since 1913.
What is the correct term for a word that has two or more syllables, e.g....
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What is a less offensive synonym for "retarded"?
I occasionally use "retarded" when chastising myself or other friends. I know it's not Politically Correct, but am I only allowed to say stupid? How long before we can't say that anymore?
Other ...
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