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- idioms - What does the expression brikking it mean? - English . . .
I have a British friend, and we text each other sometimes Yesterday she sent me a message with the expression "brikking it" Could someone explain it to me?
- Which is correct: rack my brain or wrack my brain?
Which is the correct usage: "rack my brain" or "wrack my brain"? Google turned up pages with conflicting recommendations One argument is that to "rack a brain" comes
- Do native speakers ever use the expression problems crop up?
“More security issues crop up for UEFI” (headline for a post that begins: “About half the computers employing the Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) boot sequence are vulnerable to rootkits because of firmware installation failure by manufacturers and an indeterminate number can be ‘bricked’ through the operating system
- Single word for spaced evenly - English Language Usage Stack Exchange
Also various statistical terms: regularized, parmaterized, normalzied, etc If you want to comment on the dimensionality of regularity, that can elicit more colorful or poetic word choices In addition to some of the examples above, here are others: checkered, dotted, striped, matrix, bricked PS - homogenized!
- Why does defenestrate mean throw someone out a window and not . . .
The bricked-up windows can be seen today in many existing buildings of the period to this day, particularly in London and Edinburgh, Scotland "Throwing someone out of a window" is not an appropriate meaning of this term
- Compared with vs Compared to—which is used when?
Bryan Garner, Garner's Modern American Usage, fourth edition (2016) provides what I take to be the current (and traditional) formal prescriptivist view among U S usage authorities of when to use compered with and when to use compared to: compare with; compare to The usual phrase has for centuries been compare with, which means "to place side by side, noting differences and similarities
- single word requests - Derogatory term for electronic device - English . . .
Solid term, but the definition is a little off - bricked implies a state of worthlessness due to an attempt to reconfigure or update a device, rather than its size or age See your own linked wikipedia article
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