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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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A day or festival dedicated to a town or city
The equivalent in English-speaking areas are American county fairs, British county shows, and (patron-)saint's days. Municipal festivals as such are less of a done thing, although some cities have fav …
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Farthing / Riding
How do we call each of the parts of a circle divided in 3 parts?
Like with alephzero's trine, this mostly just shows up in astrology, but another term that shows up is
trigon
Astrology (a) A set …
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Word Choice: 'Like' or 'As'
Like
You can use like or as in comparisons, but they go with different grammatical follow-ups.
Like goes with nouns:
Chugging alcohol is like talking to G-d.
Similar works the same way but ironicall …
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Is there such a word as "foresitter" in English? Can I use it instead of "chairman"?
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To iterate, foresitter wouldn't look uneducated per se—it's not anything poorly-educated native speakers would say—but it most certainly would look like a weird calque created by someone who may be …
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What is the proper term for promotional items given out to employees for an internal campaign
Depends.
The generic term is “promotional materials” or (somewhat obnoxiously) “promos.” That’s the term used within the finance industry and their regulators and covers everything from informational …
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Should I say : Like the one of Robin & Batman, Or, like Robin & Batman's
A few things:
It's Batman and Robin.
There's a period missing from the second example.
Friendship is usually between two people, not of them.
Superman's appeared together with Batman more than Robin …
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Adjectives for a person with a certain belief
Obviously the go-to is selfish. You can look up synonyms for that pretty easily if you needed something more latinate or particular.
Going beyond that, the other people having left their resources wh …
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State of the art "of" or "in" model checking
It depends on what you mean
state of the art in model checking
means, within the field of model checking, this is the state of the art model. In most contexts, you could use for here and keep th …
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Toxicity, venomous and poison
A bit of additional context to Xanne's answer:
Am I right in believing that venomous and poisonous are not interchangeable?
Yes, albeit not for the usual pedantic reasons.
Toxic is 100% a synonym of …
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Whilst or while, etc - Oxford Spelling
It's more important to be consistent (even if you're consistently using while for one context and whilst for another), but in short the answer is
While
Oxbridge English is of course definitionally Bri …
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Word for knowing something as a fact, but not fully comprehending its reality?
The word you're looking for is
know:
to have knowledge of, regardless of the level of understanding.
To perceive... to recognize... to identify... to distinguish... to be able to recall...
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What's the difference between 'china' and 'porcelain'?
Generally speaking,
“porcelain” is the name for the kind of vitrified ceramic that export-quality Ming and Qing-era Chinese pottery was made of; “china” is the collective noun for goods, especially f …
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Can 'operation' be accepted?
Eh, kinda.
If these were all given as multiple choice answers,
A. Transplant B. Procedure C. Operation D. [Sth Obviously Wrong]
then—having just looked up what actually occurs during a bone marrow t …
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I am a pansexual trans/gender-fluid person
The other answers are well-taken. To attempt a tl;dr:
Q1. What is the difference between a bisexual and a pansexual?
The people? Probably nothing. But the difference between the terms 'bisexual' …
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Are you sick "at" your stomach, or sick "in" your stomach?
Sick to your stomach
In both British and American English, having a literal illness would be expressed as having food poisoning or a stomachache or heartburn or ulcer &c. You can also express it in o …
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