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Idioms or phrases to answer to obvious (yes) questions? Is the pope catholic? Do vacuum cleaners suck? Is water wet? Is the hypotenuse the longest side of a triangle? Does a bear live in the woods? I’ll answer you with my favorite ‘Y’ word—Yes! Is the sky blue? I totally ‘scored’ getting asked by you Yes! How do you spell yes? Would you take ‘yes’ for an answer? I haven’t said no
differences - English Language Usage Stack Exchange Perfect vacuum does not exist - there will always be some energy, some particles manifesting themselves spontaneously from quantum uncertainty, but generally lack of matter, including air is considered vacuum
What word would you use for movement of bushes? According to the Free Dictionary, you have it backwards: rustling refers to the movement, and the sound is thus implied Personally I associate the word so strongly with both the movement and the sound that I would use it for either meaning So, stick with rustling To add to the other answers, a simple accurate word: shaking
Referring to objects as she [duplicate] - English Language Usage . . . I wouldn't be surprised in the slightest if a man referred to a vacuum cleaner as "she" even though there is no life-threatening situation or potential harm Likewise, objects with the label "she" are not necessarily unknown to the men involved
Who changed the way vacumn was spelled 40 years ago? According to the Online Etymological Dictionary, vacuum entered English in the 1540s directly from Latin as the substantivized, neuter form of the adjective vacuus The earliest use was as an abstract, non-count noun denoting the emptiness of space, later any void or empty space, for which one could use the Latin plural vacua or simply tack on
pronunciation - Why is vacuum pronounced [ˈvæ. kjuːm] and not [ˈvæ . . . +1 It seems that vacuum is the odd word out when placed in a lineup with (for example) continuum, individuum, menstruum, and residuum I don't know why the -uum in vacuum came to be pronounced differently from the -uum in the others, but to judge from the pronunciation offered in John Walker's A Critical Pronouncing Dictionary, and Expositor of the English Language (1807), 'twas not always thus
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
meaning - English Language Usage Stack Exchange The black skin stretched upon the bones and their faces split and shrunken on their skulls Like victims of some ghastly envacuuming IMO, McCarthy is employing the prefix en- to conjure up a vision of corpses which have been vacuum-ed from the inside, causing their skin to stretch tautly, and faces to shrink Ugh!
Is the word mistake a concrete or abstract noun? [duplicate] You seem to use 'tangibility' as the only criterion to distinguish concrete and abstract nouns But the question remains whether something is tangible or not For example, is information tangible? If you can see some information, it's tangible and thus a concrete noun, and if you only have some information in your head, it's intangible and thus an abstract noun? How about 'atmosphere'? In The
Single word for lack of community spirit e g "The x caused by the complex housing situation " I have had no luck with antonyms for community or synonyms for diaspora I can no longer remember the word or the article It may mean the degradation of community or the circumstances preventing it What word is used to define this asocial vacuum?