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You're probably looking for "ostensible origin", "apparent origin", "perceived origin". But you need to sort out your language, and possibly your thinking, in relation to the traffic. A spam message ( …

The sentence isn't very well written, but since it isn't yours (I presume), you can't revise it. To answer your question, the difference is largely one of education. "Professions" are followed by peop …

One of Shakespeare's plays has the full title, Twelfth Night or What you Will, which is a way of saying,"the kind of comedy you like". Hardly different from the title of another of his comedies, As Yo …

You could re-write it as "he that held it last held it upright, lords."

But if a word-pair is acceptable, you could consider the word veiled combined with another that points more specifically at the meaning you intend: veiled invitation, veiled threat, veiled challenge... …

If it's one...away that is the problem, a parallel case would be we are three days away from Christmas, meaning three days will pass before Christmas arrives. …

During the ordeal, the colonel gave reporters and TV crews the run of the base grounds still in Ukrainian hands, and held impromptu news conferences in front of brigade headquarters. The colonel …

"...but if one turns it thither ever so little..." equals: "...but if one turns it even slightly in that direction.." BTW the direction spoken of isn't towards "the mathematical way", as you assum …

I believe it's a reference to the feature of an office phone by which you can connect to someone in the same office by pressing a single button, called an "extension". It might have been better to say …

A circular argument is one where Fact A is the explanation for Fact B, and Fact B is the explanation for Fact A. Asians are motivated to educate their children because they have an education culture, …

I believe explanation 1 is the better guide. When you're talking about the same yarn, you'd say "lengths of yarn", but if there were two different kinds of yarn in the same weave, you'd say "the two y …

He asks how much he'll be paid, and when they tell him, he says, "Bene", meaning "Fine". …

It simply means feeling fragile or vulnerable, the way you do when you've over-indulged the night before.