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- Electronic vs. electric - English Language Usage Stack Exchange
A simple vacuum tube, a triode, with its heated cathode Source As expected with an insulator, electrons cannot move in vacuum, there is no electric current, the impatient electrons must stay on their wire! However, in a vacuum tube there is a way to transfer more energy to the heated electrons packed on the cathode
- Difference in meaning in insulation vs. isolation? [closed]
Electrical isolation amounts to using an air gap (or vacuum) as an insulating (nonconducting) medium; like most electrical insulators, air has a breakdown voltage, typically about 1000V mm, while the breakdown voltage in partial vacuum may be substantially less
- At hand vs on hand vs in hand - English Language Usage Stack . . .
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- What do you call the process of combining two words to create a new one . . .
Two very well established examples I can think of are: Guesstimate (i e Guess + Estimate) Chillax (i e Chill + Relax) I guess I am meaning the process where two words are artificially combined in
- Referring to objects as she [duplicate] - English Language Usage . . .
I only relate my own experiences in the matter Your observation that the objects a not necessarily unknown is valid, hence my frequent use of the weasel-word 'tends' I agree with your observation about the vacuum cleaner, although I would tend to think in that case the use of "she" would tend to lean toward the pejorative –
- verbs - Difference between stick with and stick to? - English . . .
The more I think about it the more confused I get: One good example is here: Hmm Maybe something like this It's the end of the day and things didn't go well
- word choice - Opposite to or opposite? - English Language Usage . . .
For this specific scenario, the usage of "opposite to" and "opposite" is indistinguishable in resulting meaning
- Phrases similar to one mans trash is another mans treasure
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