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idioms - English Language Usage Stack Exchange What does it mean? A young man who has read the life story of every eminent athlete of the twentieth century, or a coed who has steeped herself in every social-protest novel she can get her hands on, may very well be learning all there is to know in a very limited area Source: 1100 Words You Need to Know meaning idioms Share Improve this question
Replacement for brethren to refer to mostly female group c 1100 Anglo-Saxon Chron (MS D) ann 1067, Mid his modor his twam sweostran [c 1160 Hatton Gosp Mark iii 35 Se is min moder min broðer mine swustren ] c 1290 S Eng Leg I 435 Þat þou sum-ȝware þine sostrene do in-to ane nonnerie 1297 R Gloucester’s Chron (Rolls) 7560 His moder is sostren tuo mid him sone he nom
Correct usage of lbs. as in pounds of weight Assuming it's not casual usage, I'd recommend "All items over five pounds are excluded," instead Most style guided recommend spelling out numbers of ten or less, and in such a case I'd spell out the unit, too
Is there a gender-neutral prefix for parent? The prefixes "patr-" and "matr-" refer, respectively, to father and mother--e g , a patriarch is a father who rules a family, and a matrilineal society is one where property is passed from mother to
example - How to use which when in a sentence? - English Language . . . Here are certain examples of using "which when" in a sentence taken from searchsentences com Within was a carved box which when opened showed a massive golden circlet From this stone there comes a seed which when planted produces a new tree By the way, the ice, which when I wrote you last was ten feet thick, is now thinner It is a sleep which when compared to the day-consciousness
Did the Tironian et (⁊) have any impact on the ampersand being . . . On many early teletypes and terminals (and also, BTW, on the Apple ] [), the shift key toggled bit 4 of the character being produced, thus it would turn a 1 (011 0001) into ! (010 0001), and , (010 1100) into < (011 1100) Since the digits 1-9 received consecutive code, so did the characters produced by combining them with the shift key
what is the word close to but not stronger than spiky At the risk of sounding facetious, non-uniform Mathematical language generally works in pairs: prime non-prime, continuous discontinuous*, where the first describes something that fits a rule, and the other something that doesn't Where something is defined as "not fitting this rule", the word to describe it follows from that negation The reason for this is that it's obvious from the word
word choice - Following a suggestion vs. taking a suggestion . . . As WS2 says, they both mean the same thing In general, follow occurs more often with suggestion That preference still applies in most contexts, but (probably influenced by the "idiomatic standard" take my advice) I note that follow take your suggestion has recently shifted towards "take" Non-native speakers should take my advice - treat follow take as interchangeable, but go for a simpler