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Is there a (current or historical) word for the extremes on the left-right axis?
Probably not, because left and right are often more vague compared to the other "limits". If you're approaching e.g. a round hill, "top" means the hill's summit, "bottom" ...
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What is the origin of the verb 'foxed' in reference to book condition?
In the article about foxing of the American Institute for Conservation's (AIC) Wiki it is written that
[t]he term foxing is derived from the rusty red color of Reynard the fox and its use was first ...
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What is the origin of the verb 'foxed' in reference to book condition?
Arthur Lee Humphreys in the 1897 book The Private Library: What We Do Know, What We Don't Know, What We Ought to Know About Our Books (Google Books) describes books as being foxey and foxed, ...
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Is there a (current or historical) word for the extremes on the left-right axis?
If you assume that you are confined in a cube or cuboidal walled room or enclosure looking straight ahead or floating in a spaceship...
You can go up until you hit the top structure or roof.
You can ...
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Is there a (current or historical) word for the extremes on the left-right axis?
Imagine you are floating in a cube in space.
Port and starboard work well with marine vessels and aircraft who often deal with such orientation issues.
I presume space personnel use similar terms to ...
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Is there a (current or historical) word for the extremes on the left-right axis?
There's no single word for these, we would just say "left face" or "right face".
If, instead of a solid like a cube, we were talking about something more linear (like a line, or a ...
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What is the origin of the verb 'foxed' in reference to book condition?
For your consideration, I submit to you neither ferric oxide nor foxes, but rather mold . . .
Folk-Etymology: A Dictionary of Verbal Corruptions Or Words Perverted in Form Or Meaning, by False ...
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What are the things with information that are under or next to museum exhibits called?
They're called museum labels.
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What does it mean 'to reference' and what are the requirements of 'coreferentiality' in the context of descriptive grammar?
I'm not sure that we can expect everyone to use those terms in exactly the same way — especially if you're asking about people discussing English grammar online, who are not always known for using ...
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Why are bacteria referred to using botanic terms (flora, blooming)?
FumbleFingers has it wrong: Algae ARE plants! If you want to dispute this, you'll have to tell me the taxonomic kingdom to which they're assigned that's other than Plantae. Fungi also were formerly ...
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