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- word choice - What is the name of the symbols - and gt;?
22 They can also be called chevrons, or angle brackets While these terms can be interchangeable in a layman's context, and would not look so different when written by hand, there are 4 different symbols in the Unicode standard, and they have different usages In mathematics, "greater than" and "lesser than" would be the correct precise terms
- Named vs called - English Language Usage Stack Exchange
Over on Stackoverflow, I keep seeing questions wherein posters say: *I have an item named SoAndSo (a table, a file, etc ) Shouldn't it be: *I have an item called SoAndSo Is "named" an accepta
- questions - What is it called? VS What is it spelled? - English . . .
Is it because, in 'what is it called?', we are asking about the name of the object, and not necessarily the way to call it? I think if I write this, that will confuse my readers even more because they can also think that the name of the object is also the way we call it
- Is there any difference between is called the vs. is called a?
The identifier immediately following the define is called the macro name This pattern is called the usual arithmetic conversions: The least significant bit is called the low-order bit; the most significant bit is called the high-order bit After preprocessing, a preprocessing translation unit is called a translation unit
- grammar - referred to as vs. called - English Language Usage . . .
In a sentence, is it better to use referred to as sth or called sth In the sentence I'm talking about TLS which is: most frequently referred to as SSL or most frequently called SSL I k
- What the #$@ %*! is that called? - English Language Usage Stack Exchange
These have also been called obscenicons Several links on Language Log offer an in-depth look at their usage More on the early days of obscenicons Obscenicons a century ago CALL ME UNPRONOUNCEABLE The "word" represented by the symbols could be pronounced bleep: So people came up with a small set of conventional euphemistic readings for <expletive suppressed>: "bleep", "bleeping", "bleepity
- What do you call the male equivalent to Cougar (woman)?
What is the male equivalent to the term "cougar"? Clarifying The term "cougar" describes an older woman seeking younger men So a male equivalent would be an older man seek
- single word requests - What would male concubines be called? - English . . .
I’m asking this with a “concubine” being a woman, or one in a group of women, that one man considers routine sexual partners, with no intention of assuming marriage or a romantic role beyond what m
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