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Can V3 form of any verb be used as an adjective to express a current state? If not, what kinds of verbs can be used that way?
Normally, because intransitive verbs cannot have direct objects, they cannot be passivized and so what you call the 3rd form of the verb, the past participle, cannot be used as an adjective. For ...
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Gender-inclusive word to mean "manned" but not "crewed"?
Occupied
This is the word often used with items that have no moving parts (like a chair), or vehicles that aren't controlled by the passengers inside. For example, see Occupied Vehicle Tow?. ...
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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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Gender-inclusive word to mean "manned" but not "crewed"?
“Manned” means that human beings are running it. “Populated” might work for passengers, whicj is of course what you’re talking about.
Also the vessel may be remotely controlled by human beings or it ...
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What word begins with "s" and means "separated from religion"
Strictly speaking, one does not get separated from religion but from a religious institution. If one is excluded from participating in the institution's activities by a formal decision of its ...
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A better term or phrase than "privileged", something akin to material advantage, time investment
You can refer to the group with the advantage as advantaged and conversely the other group as disadvantaged.
Merriam Webster:
advantaged
adjective
: having or providing an advantage and especially a ...
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Adjective meaning "with gaps" or "with holes"
Other possible words in ordinary English include: partial, incomplete and fragmentary, although some of these don’t have the right technical definition in mathematics. For example, a partial series is ...
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Adjective meaning "with gaps" or "with holes"
In a situation where humor is acceptable holey might work. It means "having holes" and is a homophone of holy.
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A better term or phrase than "privileged", something akin to material advantage, time investment
There are some words I can think of for a two class society.
The two groups would be considered bi-polar as a whole, the haves and have nots, highbrow and lowbrow, upper and lower class, even possibly ...
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Adjective meaning "with gaps" or "with holes"
Porous: "With many gaps"
Perforated: "Pierced with holes"
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Adjective meaning "with gaps" or "with holes"
It might help if we knew what the values are for or why there would be missing ones.
As for the words you could use;
Unfulfilled data,
Void points, since a void lacks anything,
Unnecessary data, but ...
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Adjective meaning "with gaps" or "with holes"
In IT, this would be a sparse list or array, and your favorite programming language likely already has an implementation: here's sparse-list for Python. The name comes from the mathematical concept of ...
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Adjective meaning "with gaps" or "with holes"
The word you want is lacunary, which means "relating to lacunae", which is just English, as usual, running off to Latin for a fancy word, in this case one meaning "gaps".
The only ...
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Adjective meaning "with gaps" or "with holes"
If an adjective is required, “gap” can simply be replaced by “gapped”. If this is relatively rare usage in standard English, “GappedList” seems perfectly acceptable as the name of a programming data ...
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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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Who can be proud of whom? Is there any limit?
As a matter of the meaning of the word proud, one can be proud only of something that one perceives as reflecting favourably on oneself. That most obviously includes one’s own achievements. It may ...
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A better term or phrase than "privileged", something akin to material advantage, time investment
The adjective "well-endowed" seems the perfect choice, as the idea of special right is not a part of the connotations this word confers.
(SOED) well-endowed a. a) Well provided with ...
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Who can be proud of whom? Is there any limit?
Who can be proud of whom? Is there any limit?
There is no limit.
Anyone or anything can be proud of anything or anyone.
The literal use is restricted to sentient beings (usually human) who have the ...
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Who can be proud of whom? Is there any limit?
It is common both to speak of being proud of, and to be proud of (genuinely esteem), notable men and women throughout history ... and we speak also of being proud of their achievements and wholesome ...
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Is there a word or idiom that describes an object which covertly harms or obstructs its user?
The belief in this as an innate property of things is resistentialism. Somebody let a feral object loose. As a mechanic and engineer, I have been gamekeeper of a resistential menagerie for 40 years.
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Is there a word or idiom that describes an object which covertly harms or obstructs its user?
This object could be called a booby trap (noun) or described as booby-trapped (adjective).
booby trap noun
1. A means of deliberately tricking or luring an unwary or foolish person into difficulty or ...
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Is there a word or idiom that describes an object which covertly harms or obstructs its user?
The objects were all monkeyed with.
monkey (with, about/around with) (v.)
Intransitive. colloquial (originally U.S.). To play mischievous or foolish tricks. Also: to fool or mess about or around; ...
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The most ancient language vs. The oldest language
To differentiate these terms, "ancient language" makes me think to a dead language, whilst "old" may mean still living.
This feeling is well illustrated by @StuartF comment :
The ...
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Is there a word or idiom that describes an object which covertly harms or obstructs its user?
You could call such an object a Trojan Horse. Collins gives the following definition:
If you describe a person or thing as a Trojan horse, you mean that they are being used to hide someone's true ...
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The most ancient language vs. The oldest language
If there is any difference, (a) it is slight (b) it is concerned with the differences in etymology of "ancient" (from the Norman French = old) and "Old" (from the Germanic ald/eald....
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Word for somebody who is only friendly to people who are in their group of people
They belong to a clique.
A small group of people who spend their time together and do not welcome other people into that group
Anyone in the group can be described as cliquey.
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Why is "brick" in "a brick house" a noun, whereas "plastic" in "a plastic bucket" is an adjective?
Whether brick in brick house is listed in dictionaries as a noun, adjective, or both (as it currently is) doesn't matter because brick house is classified as a compound noun, unlike plastic bucket.
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Help needed in identifying part of the sentence
Assuming one sticks to binary branching, as The Cambridge Grammar of the English Language (CamGEL) does, this is simplest diagram of the sentence:
Here, "Ruby's heart" is interpreted as the ...
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Help needed in identifying part of the sentence
In the sentence "It made Ruby's heart melt", made is a catenative verb and melt is its catenative complement. The catenative complement is a clause, which in this case is just a bare ...
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