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This tag is for questions related to definitions and nuances of meaning of a word or phrase.
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What does "Oxford Classic" mean in this context?
From a letter from Charles Darwin to J.D Hooker in 1874 (Source):
It is, if you ever attend the Balloting meetings of Athenæum Club, to
attend the first one early in February & vote for my nephew, He …
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Meaning of the expression "labour under another "
Here's something that might help -
Labour under [something]
: [labour under something] to exist or try to live in a situation
where there are serious difficulties or problems.
Example sentence -
"M …
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What is the meaning of "silver-lined ashtrays"?
Here is what an ashtray means -
ashtray
/ˈaʃtreɪ/>/sup>
noun
a small receptacle for tobacco ash and cigarette ends.
Silver-lined means that this ashtray has a coating of silver on the lining (or on …
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What is "sun up" in the shopping situation?
SumUp is a card payment terminal used by small retailers. "Do you need SumUp?" – "Are you paying by card?"
Credit: Weather Vane
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What is the difference in meaning between 'was doing' and 'did' in American English?
"I did" is the "simple past" form. We use the simple past to express the idea that an action started and finished at a specific time in the past.
Here is a good example -
Sarah says, "I was doin …
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Who became a professor?
As requested by OP in comments to post this comment as an answer -
As it stands, the sentence is completely ambiguous. Without knowing
the historical facts, there is absolutely no way to tell wh …
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What are "hangers" in the context of American Revolution duel?
Collins Dictionary has:
: Obsolete
a short sword hung from the belt
and
a light saber of the 17th and 18th centuries, often worn by sailors
From the Wikipedia article for cutlass:
In England abou …
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What this means: "that is very nuanced"
Nuance
: a subtle difference in or shade of meaning, expression, or sound.
Source: https://www.lexico.com/en/definition/nuance
The definition of "nuance" is a subtle difference. …
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What is the meaning of "I'm on detail"?
Detail as a noun refers to a specific task that someone is (temporarily) assigned.
To be on detail means to be temporarily assigned to do a task that is different from one's regular assignment. Simila …
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What does "holding the cup at the other end of the string" mean here?
It's not an (established) idiomatic phrase, but a metaphorical one.
[...] holding the cup at the other end of the string.
Literally, it refers to two people talking to each other using only two cups …
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“One is done for you” or “One has been done for you”?
The difference in meaning is negligible for just about anyone not writing a treatise on English grammar (focus totally on the completed example ('is') vs focus rather more on the anonymous agent). …
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Word for unquestioning belief/opinion.... Doctrine? Ideology?
Here's what you might want -
Dogma
: a principle or set of principles laid down by an authority as
incontrovertibly true.
"The dogmas of faith"
(From Oxford)
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Why do job ads use the word "discipline" to mean different areas/types of jobs?
OED defines discipline as a subcategory or element of a particular subject or field (also mentioned in DjinTonic's answer). So the examples in the image you have posted are each a subcategory of a bro …
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"agenda-driven": single-word synonyms and a good definition
Here's something I found in Google books that might help -
(An APEC Trade Agenda?: The Political Economy of a Free Trade Area of the Asia-Pacific)
Implementing this will definitely require …
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In what contexts is the phrase "a recent point" used?
"A recent point" can be interpreted as "a recent point in time".
If this phrase were to be written using a single word, the word would be "recently".
So you can imagine what it literally means.
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