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- Lighter vs. brighter - English Language Usage Stack Exchange
I'm trying to find information about the grammatical correctness of interchanging lighter and brighter in the sense of: I turned on the lamp and the room became lighter I turned on the lamp
- Abbreviation “n. d. ” in citation? - English Language Usage Stack . . .
I’ve just come across “n d ” used as an abbreviation, as a bibliographic reference in an academic essay, along the lines of: Smith (n d ) discusses the subaquaeous pliability of rattan fibres… Is
- meaning - I would want to vs. I would like to - English Language . . .
What is your exact context? For most purposes you should probably stick to saying what you would like to do But, consider I will come to your party tonight, but I probably won't stay long If John isn't there to drive us back, I would want to leave before midnight to catch the last bus I find want better than like there, because idiomatically speaking I would like [to do X] has become so
- Word usage - Dark color or bright color - English Language Usage . . .
The Whiteboard has a white or high luminance level Brighter - having or reflecting elevated luminance level Lighter - having or reflecting elevated luminance level Darker - having or reflecting reduced luminance level A fresh black marker would have been better to preserve a contrast necessary for optimal legibility
- word usage - Shine bright or shine brightly? - English Language Usage . . .
The moon shone bright like a diamond in the sky 2 The full moon is shining bright in the sky Why not they are brightly? Are they correct?
- light at the end of the tunnel earliest occurrence
In April of 1947, when the Commission began its work, that dim light at the end of the tunnel was so dim as to be no light at all Russia, an Russia only, among the great nations of the earth, has been unwilling to take those steps which might make that dim light brighter
- I am searching for a word or phrase that describes reflected light . . .
More specifically, a caustic is where light is either reflected or refracted such that it is concentrated in an area that is brighter than the surroundings -- so it's the bright lines that are seen on the bottom of a swimming pool, but not the space between them (even though that space also is receiving reflected or refracted rays)
- Which is higher — hyper-, ultra- or super-?
According to OED, hyper-: over, beyond, over much, above measure ultra-: beyond super-: over, above, higher than They all have the meaning "higher than", but what is the order of them
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