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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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Gender-inclusive word to mean "manned" but not "crewed"?
Wiktionary gives passenger as a verb with past tense and past participle passengered.
The OED also includes the verb:
transitive (in passive). Of a vessel or vehicle: to be occupied by passengers; to …
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A single verb for "repair/correct", "finish", "improve", "redone"
Set has something close to these meanings, as well as dozens of other meanings. Quotes from Merriam-Webster.
to repair or correct something: "to restore to normal position or connection when dislocat …
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Adjective meaning "with gaps" or "with holes"
You would probably get a better answer on a mathematics or computer science forum. But one candidate is sparse, defined in Wiktionary as:
(mathematics) Having few nonzero elements
It is particularly …
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To “digitize” means to turn something into a digital format that was previously not digital....
Cloudify - wiktionary:
(computing) To convert and/or migrate data and application programs in order to make use of cloud computing.
There's also a noun, cloudification.
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What do you call a person who takes a casual acquaintance's family tragedy and pretends it’s...
Wikipedia defines sadfishing as "a behavioural trend where people make exaggerated claims about their emotional problems to generate sympathy." It's a form of attention-seeking behaviour.
The name is …
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When a computer process hangs, what verb means, "The process became unstuck?"
Unfreeze is a good choice.
Merriam-Webster has page for that verb which doesn't specify what types of freezing "unfreeze" applies to. But it includes in "Examples of freeze in a Sentence" (this is the …
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What's the counterpart to "spheroid" for a circle? There's no "circoid"
An oval is a plane figure sometimes defined as egg-shaped or like a stretched or deformed circle. Wikipedia says that in geometry "generally, to be called an oval, a plane curve should resemble the ou …
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What is a word that describes when someone requires a certain quality of another person in o...
Another possibility for something you require of a partner is adjective non-negotiable, noun non-negotiable(s). They mean not open to discussion or reconsideration, or a thing which is not open to dis …
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Is there a better word for 'anonymity' here?
The idea of a city as providing anonymity is a common one, so that's probably as good a word as any. Some examples follow.
In 2017, the BBC quoted Peter Swire, professor of law and ethics at Georgia I …
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Word for the dust carried by wind
Loess is the geological term.
According to Wikipedia:
A loess (US: /ˈlɛs, ˈlʌs, ˈloʊ.əs/, UK: /ˈloʊ.əs, ˈlɜːs/; from German: Löss [lœs]) is a clastic, predominantly silt-sized sediment that is formed …
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Is there a word or phrase for questioning authority?
Freethinking (or free thinking). Cambridge dictionaries defines this as:
forming your own opinions and beliefs, especially about religion or politics, rather than just accepting what is officially or …
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Academic word that means "ghost lover" (one who loves ghosts)
Spectrophilia is sexual attraction to ghosts or sexual arousal by ghosts. It has a Wikipedia page, which notes that although it may not be a genuine paraphilia in psychiatric terms, it is common in my …
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A word for a business that makes supporting products for another, specific business?
Supplier is the usual term in business.
Cambridge Business Dictionary defines supplier:
a company that provides a product, or the materials to make a product:
supplier of sth to sb/sth The company i …
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Any words that mean "relating to the action of reading"?
If you want an erudite adjective that refers to reading, there is nothing common, but one rarer word is lectional, from Latin legō, "I read". It is very obscure and obsolete except in specific senses, …
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What do you call an elementary, middle and high schools sharing the same space?
According to Wikipedia this is an all-through school. "All-through schools educate young people throughout multiple stages of their education, generally throughout childhood and adolescence." This app …
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