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Is it correct to say I cleared their path from snow? Vacuum the rug, or vacuum the dust (from the rug) Scrape the table, or scrape the grime (off of the table) Rake the yard, or rake the leaves Sometimes the verb gets tweaked - Mop the floor, or mop up the spill Wipe off the counter, or wipe up the milk Frequently, we want to include more information, so an object compliment is tacked on to
single word requests - English Language Usage Stack Exchange I am currently working on a paper that involves describing the conditions under which a rover sent to a celestial body (eg the moon) operates As a part of that, I want to say, The body of the ro
What does envacuuming mean? - 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!
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
Is there a difference between of and to in these cases? Not really -- in that particular case Of is more common, a simple genitive, which is multipurpose; to comes from a view of the door, frame, hardware, and installation as a unit, of which the hinges are a part The usage shows up in phrases like the top to this jar, the extension to the vacuum, etc
Is Jew gender-neutral? - English Language Usage Stack Exchange @Adam words don't live in a vacuum Where a word has a history of being used in an offensive way by oppressors and other offensive people then the word can develop an offensive association, especially from those who were the victims of offensive statements using the word "Jew"
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
must vs be required to - English Language Usage Stack Exchange I am a non-native speaker I understand that both sentences below have the same meaning However, I feel that the use of the word quot;must quot; isn't suitable for a document such as a questionna