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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 practicing in secret to surprise or impress?
There are a great number of words for operating secretly (clandestinely, covertly, furtively, surreptitiously, stealthily, unobserved), but none in common usage that implies a happy revelation at the …
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What is a single word to describe beating someone brutally?
One word missing from the list at this point is savage (usually used in the past tense or in its adverbial form, savagely).
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What to call the area where the hair directions all change on the head?
I've always heard barbers refer to it as the crown, not matter where on the head it may lie.
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Odd use of agnostic
You've extended the phrase "platform agnostic" (a computing term) beyond its boundaries. In the case of platform-agnostic software, it's not so much that the software doesn't care about the host opera …
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Can anyone tell me the word or phrase that means 'someone who things are done to'?
One of the more colourful variations on this theme comes to us from Yiddish. The hapless victim would be a schlemazel, and the careless inflictor of the damage would be a schlemiel.
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Alcoholic beverage brought by groom as a gift to bride's family
There is an incredibly archaic word, bridesmead, but it hasn't had any currency (except as a placename) in hundreds of years. (We did keep the mead month, or honeymoon, in the language, but the meanin …
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Colloquial expression for "compliment" that carries negative feeling
In this sense, something along the lines of Brownie points would seem to fit the bill. It has that combination of childishness, contempt (from peers) and favoritism (from the teacher) that you'd expec …
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Synonym or short phrase for 'entablature'
There isn't really a synonym, but you can give a short list of example types rather than an alternate word (lintel, architrave, frieze, cornice, etc.) in the running text to give the reader a hint, an …
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What is the term for an integer one larger than a given integer?
"The increment" would be technically correct, but it really depends on the structure of the sequence, the context in which you are writing/speaking, and the assumptions that can safely be made about t …
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Is there a more eloquent word for a zigzag?
For the metal inlay strips in your example photograph, zigzag is probably the best word. If there were many identical strips inlayed in parallel (and "in phase", so to speak) you might get away with c …
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Is there an English word for "fargin"?
There is no single-word equivalent for fargin in English, though there are single-word antonyms like begrudge and resent. In the same way, there is no single-word equivalent in English of the French w …
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You "show" someone a picture. You "---" someone a song?
In English, we would usually use the word play. That covers both the act of performing the song on an instrument (perhaps while singing, if the instrument permits) and the act of playing a recording o …
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Is there a word or expression for someone who takes an over-optimistic view of things?
In the sense of my country (or culture) right or wrong (and there's nothing wrong, so there's no point bringing it up in the first place), either chauvinist or jingoist would fit, depending on whether …
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