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etymology - What is the origin of stat? - English Language Usage . . . The word stat is an abbreviation of the Latin word statim, which has the meaning "instantly immediately" This usage was then generalized beyond the domain of prescriptions to refer to any action that needed to be taken immediately
Status vs. state - English Language Usage Stack Exchange Stack Exchange Network Stack Exchange network consists of 183 Q A communities including Stack Overflow, the largest, most trusted online community for developers to learn, share their knowledge, and build their careers
What is the origin of the suffixes statin and medin? -stat is a very common suffix in medicine -Medin comes from the same rood as mediate, the Latin word mediāre (past participle: mediātus), to be in the middle, to intercede, + -in (it's also a peptide ) A hormone which intercedes (or up-regulates) something else can have the suffix -medin Somatomedins are hormones that promote cell growth in
When should ‘state’ be capitalised? - English Language Usage . . . U S style guides From [Merriam-]Webster's Standard American Style Manual (19885): Words designating global, national, regional, or local political divisions are capitalized when they are essential elements of specific names
What is a state of being? - English Language Usage Stack Exchange Stack Exchange Network Stack Exchange network consists of 183 Q A communities including Stack Overflow, the largest, most trusted online community for developers to learn, share their knowledge, and build their careers
What is the plural form of status? - English Language Usage Stack . . . What is the plural form of "status"? I agree that today a similar question would be considered off-topic and probably migrated to ELL but the risk with closing under researched questions is that one day, not today, not tomorrow but maybe in six months time or in five years, this page will be deleted
Etymology of Buff and Nerf as used in video-game slang Wikipedia gives info on origin and context of both terms: Nerf (computer gaming): In video gaming a nerf is a change to a game that reduces the desirability or effectiveness of a particular game element
What does the phrase Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish mean? Stay hungry = Always be curious to learn more and achieve more Stay foolish = Dare to make unconventional decision as Steve Jobs did when he quit his college to persue his quest, as Gandhi did when he adopted satyagraha against oppression, as Buffet did early in his career when he made some well calculated investments in low priced high potential companies