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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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Is there a single word meaning "a repulsive or loathsome person"?
Does the English language have any words in present use that would be synonymous with the figurative sense of the now obsolete mesel, 'a repulsive or loathsome person'?
I am well aware of the tons of …
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Hypernym for "clock" and "watch"
I know this is very old and this will be buried at the bottom but the ticked and much-upvoted response of timepiece matches the dictionary definitions—although Wiktionary's can be at least be quickly …
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What is the word for a person or entity that has one or more avatars?
Since everyone else currently upvoted seems to adding in some fairly inappropriate duality except 7868, I guess I should at least offer some alternatives.
There aren't any perfectly good ones of cours …
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"Poison" is to "poisoned" as "venom" is to what?
OP asked:
poison:poisoned::venom:_______???________
The answer depends on the context, because you've got words there that can be used as nouns, verbs, and adjectives and the verbs can involve actio …
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How do you describe a young woman who, while pretty when seen from behind, is ugly when seen...
Well, helloooo from the neck down...
—Zap Branagan
The most common is going to be CornbreadNinja's butterface, although increasingly few people understand that it comes …
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What is a single word alternative to "whispered"?
You're going the wrong way about it.
Use whisper for the neutral whispering—like you just did in your own explanation of what you were asking about—where the most important thing is only the volume of …
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Is there an English transitive verb meaning "to make someone/something valuable"?
There is one. No one uses it.
invalue, v.²
transitive. To make valuable; to give value to.
Literally no one. The OED notes that, as far as it can tell, it has only shown up in dictionaries glossing …
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Does the word "chevronman" make sense?
No, chevronman would mean a man who works for Chevron, if anything. Most people would just draw a complete blank.
The usual tack for English would be to just figure out the roughly equivalent rank or …
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Auditory Equivalent to 'Observation'
The word you're theoretically looking for is audition in its original sense
1. a. The action of hearing or listening.
It's the abstract noun describing the latinate action of hearing, similar to wha …
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Word for "to make something productive"
As with the other posters, the idiomatic ways to say "stop dawdling" or "wasting time" are (go) do something useful, the ruder (go) make yourself useful, don't waste (your/my/everyone's) time, and sto …
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Is there a more British way to talk about tackling problems?
I can see that the Cambridge Dictionary is at least aware of the use of tackle meaning "come to grips with a problem" and I can see that the Sunday Times has used it on occasion. It still seems so con …
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A better word than 'cathouse' for an outside shelter for 1 cat
Mu. If you aren't going to follow the Yanks' ideas on what you consider a garden, there's no reason at all you need to worry about their Puritan snickering or tut-tutting over what they themselves cal …
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Is there a word for returning to unpreparedness?
I'm trying to describe a situation in which a person prepares for an event, then realises the event won't happen, and so they undo their preparations, returning to a state of unpreparedness.
You're …
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What do you call the action of someone tackling a stronger person?
Edit: Seeing @Zack's answer, I'll leave it out here. "Poking a/the bear" is right on the money. I'll leave in my bit about "sleeping giants" though since it has more links and the Napoleon context.
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What do you call the action of someone tackling a stronger person?
A weak person's action of fighting stronger opponents is
punching up
To attack or target a group of greater power and/or status than oneself.
Instead of criticizing a foolhardy action like you're lo …
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