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Is there a single word for both "atom" and "ion"?

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answered May 13, 2018 at 15:42

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If a picture of a screen is a screenshot, what is a video of a screen?

answered Dec 6, 2019 at 15:00

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lie vs fabricate. When to use which one in what situation?

meaning word-choice word-usage connotation register

answered Aug 7, 2021 at 4:49

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What does "unanimously disagreed" mean?

oxymoron

answered Oct 16, 2018 at 0:38

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What is the meaning of the word "cop-flat"?

meaning adjectives

answered Oct 17, 2018 at 15:31

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Word for a person or entity who is permitted by society to do bad/greedy things because they have been charitable

single-word-requests word-choice phrases synonyms

answered Dec 5, 2021 at 19:39

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Which "bra" came first?

etymology

answered Jan 22 at 22:29

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"watching the television" or "watching television"?

definite-articles

answered Apr 30, 2018 at 13:20

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Origin of colloquializing suffix -o

etymology suffixes

answered Jan 29, 2021 at 17:48

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What do you call a 'usury' ('bad deal') agreement that doesn't involve a loan?

single-word-requests

answered Jan 18, 2021 at 23:31

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The grammaticality and function of "people ages 20 to 30" (as opposed to "people aged 20 to 30")

grammaticality participial-phrases grammatical-roles

answered May 18, 2018 at 23:26

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Help me to explain this sentence's grammar

syntactic-analysis ellipsis

answered Sep 11, 2018 at 15:26

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Verbs after 'as well as'—is this Merriam-Webster example wrong?

style-manuals

answered Sep 24, 2018 at 22:19

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Why don't we say "We're going eating"?

grammaticality phrases

answered Sep 10, 2018 at 20:44

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Synonym for blindly, without worry

single-word-requests

answered Nov 30, 2021 at 6:38

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Origin of ending a sentence with a preposition-German separable verbs?

prepositions german

answered Oct 17, 2018 at 22:55

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Is "commerical" a valid and different word from "commercial"?

orthography writing is-it-a-word typographical-errors

answered Jan 19, 2019 at 18:39

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Where should "never" go in "Harris Should Have Never Run for President"

negation

answered Dec 4, 2019 at 18:55

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How to express temperatures greater or less than

single-word-requests

answered Aug 1, 2019 at 23:26

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Where does the mathematical use of the word 'root' come from?

etymology mathematics

answered Dec 15, 2019 at 2:39

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Where does the expression "to sell your soul to the devil" originate

expressions idioms phrase-origin

answered Jan 14, 2021 at 15:09

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What exactly is tense?

grammar tenses

answered Sep 22, 2018 at 23:54

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How can I express the shape of a leg of an ant? Abrupt change of direction?

single-word-requests adjectives

answered Dec 12, 2021 at 5:29

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Gerund or Infinitive after an adjective

grammar gerund-vs-infinitive

answered Jan 22 at 4:26

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What is an adjective for somone who displays ‘fake’ gravitas?

single-word-requests

answered Oct 19, 2018 at 19:36

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Other than “to be”, what verbs in English change in the subjunctive past tense?

verbs subjunctive-mood inflectional-morphology irregular-verbs

answered Jan 13, 2021 at 19:06

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one or [the] other in American and British English

definite-articles dialectal

answered Aug 4, 2019 at 7:46

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What is the plural for "Egg in a hole"?

phrases irregular-plurals

answered Jan 22, 2019 at 23:00

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Does ‘overleaf’ necessarily imply turning over paper?

meaning-in-context terminology

answered Jan 23, 2019 at 19:31

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How did “to wish that” come to hate the present tense in the subordinate clauses it governs, and why is it alone in this?

grammaticality subjunctive-mood historical-change subordinate-clauses sequence-of-tenses

answered Jul 23, 2019 at 5:25

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Is there a single word for both "atom" and "ion"?

If a picture of a screen is a screenshot, what is a video of a screen?

lie vs fabricate. When to use which one in what situation?

What does "unanimously disagreed" mean?

What is the meaning of the word "cop-flat"?

Word for a person or entity who is permitted by society to do bad/greedy things because they have been charitable

Which "bra" came first?

"watching the television" or "watching television"?

Origin of colloquializing suffix -o

What do you call a 'usury' ('bad deal') agreement that doesn't involve a loan?

The grammaticality and function of "people ages 20 to 30" (as opposed to "people aged 20 to 30")

Help me to explain this sentence's grammar

Verbs after 'as well as'—is this Merriam-Webster example wrong?

Why don't we say "We're going eating"?

Synonym for blindly, without worry

Origin of ending a sentence with a preposition-German separable verbs?

Is "commerical" a valid and different word from "commercial"?

Where should "never" go in "Harris Should Have Never Run for President"

How to express temperatures greater or less than

Where does the mathematical use of the word 'root' come from?

Where does the expression "to sell your soul to the devil" originate

What exactly is tense?

How can I express the shape of a leg of an ant? Abrupt change of direction?

Gerund or Infinitive after an adjective

What is an adjective for somone who displays ‘fake’ gravitas?

Other than “to be”, what verbs in English change in the subjunctive past tense?

one or [the] other in American and British English

What is the plural for "Egg in a hole"?

Does ‘overleaf’ necessarily imply turning over paper?

How did “to wish that” come to hate the present tense in the subordinate clauses it governs, and why is it alone in this?