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This tag is for questions about choosing the best word FROM A GIVEN SELECTION for a particular context or meaning. The selection to choose from must appear in the question. If you do not know the word already, use single-word-requests.
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Is it 'what it looks like' or 'how it looks like'?
Irrespective of the context, it is either "what it looks like" or "how it looks", not "how it looks like".
However, let me add that as much as it is grammatically incorrect, you can find any number of …
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What do you call something that is not first in a sequence?
noninitial
The word has been used in literature on English grammar and other fields. Google books records, for instance:
"On the one hand, the finite verbal category seeks a noninitial position ..." …
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What is the best word for "brain drain" within a company?
The typical word for the general phenomenon of employees leaving an organization is attrition.
This word in reality can have a more significant meaning in the sense of loss of intellectual assets, …
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Antonym for "exceed"
maintain: i.e., stay within (the limits)
TFD: 3. to keep in a specified state, position, etc.
ODO: keep (something) at the same level or rate
When you have not exceeded, i.e., stayed wit …
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What's a word for "properly oriented"?
upright
Apparently, the author meant upright not upside.
I do not think there's more to it than that. The preceding sentences in that post too have spelling and grammatical errors, as the author do …
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Word to describe a person who decides what to eat amongst a group of people?
the decider
The term has long been recognized and adopted in legal, management, educational, medical, computer science and several other technical fields, to signify a person or thing that is assig …
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"Based on" vs. "based upon"
on, not upon.
Based upon might have been used in the past.
(src: Google nGrams)
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How can I reword "cross-gender" so it doesn't sound like I'm talking about transgenders?
This research has been focused on applications of such theories across geographies and genders.
is what I would suggest from the top of my head.
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Word for a body of water that is sufficiently populated with fish and worthy of fishing in
Good for angling?
East, Big Lava lakes look good for angling
(The Bulletin - Oct 12, 1967) [emphasis added]
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"rendered mute" vs "rendered moot"
Phrase "rendered moot," idiom:
At some point, this whole debate may be rendered moot.
(ODO, moot, adj, 2 - open 'More example sentences')
Phrase "rendered mute," literal/ metaphorical.
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"Childish", "puerile" and "juvenile" which is more derogatory?
Childish is primarily neutral, with a secondary meaning that is pejorative: "silly and immature". Puerile is pejorative per se, with no "respectable" sense of use. Juvenile, like childish is first and …
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Can the word "dehydration" imply "thirsty"?
No.
The word “dehydration” does NOT imply thirsty. Cause does not imply effect. Cause may lead to effect, or may not, depending on other factors.
You could be thirsty without being dehydrated in …
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"Duplicate data" or "duplicated data"?
Duplicate data.
What you discover and remove are instances of duplicate data.
What you or the processes create, mostly for a purpose, is duplicated data.
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"seem" or "seem to be"
Grammatically, they are both correct and semantically, either will work, to be being elided in the second case. But yes, something is indeed missing or amiss here.
You didn't say why "Both sound wei …
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"worse" vs. "less better"
Your alternatives might probably be worse than and not as good as. I know what you mean by less better than, but sadly, that's not a proper phrase.
Worse than puts your job a rank below my job, whil …
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