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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 word for a travel guide specifically for emergency situations?
In the US, many municipalities and government agencies refer to "emergency preparedness":
OSHA's emergency preparedness page.
The CDC's emergency preparedness page.
The National Safety Council's emer …
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Word for nemesis that does not refer to a person
There's no reason you can't use nemesis. Merriam Webster's definition page gives several examples where the word "nemesis" doesn't refer to people:
On just the kind of putt that had been a career-lon …
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Word that means oft-repeated pleasantry
A thesaurus.com search on synonyms for "cliché" yields some likely candidates. I plucked out the ones that seem most likely to have the meaning you want:
bromide, platitude, potboiler (which I have o …
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Is there a word for children under 10 years old?
I don't think you're going to find a single word--if there were one, education departments would use it. Across New York State Education Department documents, students in elementary school (usually ki …
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What do you call an object that "compares"?
Perhaps you are looking for "comparator:"
a device for comparing something with a similar thing or with a standard measure
(Merriam-Webster)
Example sentence:
I'm developing a comparator pr …
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What's the best word for a worker's proof of income?
You could mean pay stub, which shows how much you received in a paycheck but is not a check itself.
You might also mean W2 form, which shows a calendar year's worth of earnings. This is typically on …
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Single word for describing someone who suffers from a kind of speech impairment
In the field of Speech-Language Pathology, speech that cannot be understood by a listener is referred to as unintelligible, which Merriam-Webster defines as
impossible to understand.
There is …
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What is a word that means a collection of a set of smaller collections, that does not use "s...
While this is a suffix, not a word, you could look in to using -ana to form the word you want. Depending on the nature of the collections, you might be able to use the suffix -ana to make a word that …
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Fill in the blank: "____ of mythology"
Mythology is associated with a culture, religion, geographic region, etc. Merriam-Webster's sense 5b of culture is
the customary beliefs, social forms, and material traits of a racial, religious, …
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What is the word for the universe a movie lives in?
"Fictional universe" is the formal term I've seen used most often:
Wikipedia Fictional Universe
However, in the fan-fiction world, "universe" or even the shortened form "'verse," with or without the …
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Is there a word for the feeling that there ought to be a word for something?
As a person who is fascinated by language and language development in children, I think about words and concepts a lot (probably too much). I often have the feeling that there should be a word for som …
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More formal word for the chronic state of being in a snit
One word that immediately comes to my mind is irascible: "becoming angry very easily; having a bad temper." There's also one sense of "contrary" that fits--"temperamentally unwilling to accept contro …
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What's a word/phrase like "compulsion" or "addiction" that is more about guilt than physiolo...
This question came about because there has been an drought in our area, which is resolved for now, and I am beginning to stop practicing some water-saving measures, but feel discomfort or guilt at no …
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Is there a word for turning something into a competition?
I'm looking for a word, expression, or more succinct phrase that captures the idea of taking something that did not start as or was not originally intended to be competitive, and making it into a comp …
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What's the male version of "hottie"?
Merriam-Webster has a gender-free definition of "hottie:"
a physically attractive person.
A quick Google search on "he's a hottie" yields many results.
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