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- meaning - English Language Usage Stack Exchange
The following criteria are required to classify an event as an inattentional blindness episode: 1) the observer must fail to notice a visual object or event, 2) the object or event must be fully visible, 3) observers must be able to readily identify the object if they are consciously perceiving it, and 4) the event must be unexpected and the
- word choice - Glaringly obvious vs. blaringly obvious - English . . .
With this interpretation glaringly would be the adverb of choice for visual events while blaringly would be the adverb of choice for audible events I feel that both these words, glaring and blaring, have an inability-to-ignore connotation, but that is tangential
- punctuation - What is the proper way of using triple dots and spaces . . .
This is a matter of pure style I've worked in houses where the style sheet called for spaces before and after points of ellipsis, and in other shops where you close up the spaces fore and aft What matters most is being consistent once you've selected one style or the other My preference is for the Chicago Manual of Style method, which closes up the spaces There are other, more subtle rules
- What is the meaning of “mantle” in this sentence?
In a visual novel written in American English, I have found the following passage, as a character is describing the contents of his room, which is themed around car racing (emphasis is mine): Damo
- Crank call vs Prank Call - English Language Usage Stack Exchange
After doing some research, my answer would be: it depends on who you ask Wikipedia says that crank call is another name for prank call: A prank call (also known as a crank call) is a telephone practical joke Prank phone calls began to gain an American following over a period of many years, as they became a staple of the obscure and amusing cassette tapes traded amongst musicians, sound
- Single name to cover drawing, painting, sketching etc
The fine or applied visual arts and associated techniques involving the application of lines and strokes to a two-dimensional surface The fine or applied visual arts and associated techniques in which images are produced from blocks, plates, or type, as in engraving and lithography
- What to call the symbol where there is a break in content or a break in . . .
I don't know if this is the official term for it, but I found many results on Google images for the terms graph break and break symbol break A zigzag on the line of the x- or y-axis in a line or a bar graph indicating that the data being displayed does not include all of the values that exist on the number line being used Also called a Squiggle - Mainland High School, Vocabulary reference
- Vision Problem vs Visual Problem - English Language Usage Stack Exchange
A visual problem also occurs (significantly less often), but might be misinterpreted as "a problem presented visually" Omitting the article is a "non-standard" feature of Indian English, but it's perfectly normal to pluralize as He has vision problems, or recast as He has problems a problem with his vision [eye]sight
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