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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 'own' appropriate for an email address?
One of the meaning of own (as verb) is "have something as one's own," and I think it applies in this case: Email addresses are unique in the same domain; if you have [email protected] as email, nobody …
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Are 'effectually' and 'effectively' completely interchangable?
The NOAD has the following notes about effective, effectual, efficacious, efficient:
All of these adjectives mean producing or capable of producing a result, but they are not interchangeable. Use …
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Difference between 'infectious' and 'contagious'
The NOAD has the following notes about the usage of contagious and infectious:
Strictly, a contagious disease is one transmitted by physical contact, whereas an infectious one is transmitted via m …
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When to use 'click' and when to use 'click on'
The NOAD reports that, in computing contexts, click means "press one of the buttons on a mouse to select a function or item on the screen."
The examples shown from that dictionary are the following o …
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What is the right phrase describing a meeting in school with parents?
I would use the first sentence ("We have a teacher-parent meeting on Monday 9th"), but the other two are equally valid. The third sentence uses conference, for which one of the definitions is "a forma …
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Prepositions for "Wednesday night" and "the night of Christmas Eve"
In the examples you make, there is no need to use any preposition.
We can get together Wednesday night.
Since there was nothing I could do, I wandered downtown the night of Christmas Eve.
At l …
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Is the word "management" singular or plural?
The NOAD reports that management, when used to mean "the people in charge of running a company or organization, regarded collectively," is treated as singular or plural.
Looking at the Corpus of Cont …
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"Sour cream" versus "soured cream"
Looking at the entry for sour (the verb) in the NOAD, I find the following definition:
make or become sour: [with object]: water soured with tamarind | (as adjective soured): soured cream | [witho …
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"A classmate and I was" vs "A classmate and I were"
If the subject of the phrase is in the form A and B, then the verb uses the form for the third person plural; if the subject of the phrase is in the form A or B, then the verb uses the form for third …
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Mix and Mixture
Mixture can be used to mean:
a substance made by mixing other substances together
[a mixture of] a combination of different qualities, things, or emotions in which the component elements are individ …
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Does "8 days" mean "after 8 days"?
In is used for "expressing the length of time before a future event is expected to take place"; the event could possibly happen before, or later.
For example, if somebody tells you "I'll see you in f …
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"Heat up" or "heat"
Heat up can be used, as heat too, to mean "make or become hot or warm"; heat up has also additional meanings, though:
[of a person] become excited or impassioned
become more intense and exciting
[ar …
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Is "triple" the proper counterpart of pair when describing a group of three items?
Triple is also used as noun, but its meaning is different from the meaning of the adjective. Among others, the meanings of triple as noun reported by the NOAD are the following:
a thing that is thre …
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What can a user do with a checkbox?
You could consider select too.
Please select the checkbox.
The meaning of checkbox reported by the NOAD is the following one:
a small box on a computer screen that, when selected by the user …
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Difference between "function" and "operation"
Operation can be used to mean:
a business organization; a company
an activity in which such an organization is involved
a piece of organized and concerted activity involving a number of people
The …
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