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- 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
- 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
- What does the expression brikking it mean? [closed]
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?
- word usage - English Language Usage Stack Exchange
Please don't say "You're becoming a real brick!" the phrase is "You are a brick" But old-fashioned as you say: some might think of "a brick in the wall" which is quite different
- 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!
- Compared with vs Compared to—which is used when?
From Strunk and White: To compare to is to point out or imply resemblances between objects regarded as essentially of a different order; To compare with is mainly to point out differences between objects regarded as essentially of the same order Thus, life has been compared to a pilgrimage, to a drama, to a battle; Congress may be compared with the British Parliament Paris has been compared
- 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 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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