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This tag is for questions which a dictionary cannot answer about the meaning or correctness of a word in a sentence. Give as much context as possible.
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What does "figure" here mean?
In the book What Do Pictures Want?: The Lives and Loves of Images, page 48, there is a paragraph that using the word "figure" that I don't understand:
What pictures want, then, is not to be interpret …
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How to say I fulfill the requirements with the word "satisfy"?
I am applying to a job and I want to write a letter expressing that I'm the one they are looking for. I want to use the word satisfy but I don't know how to use it properly. Neither "I satisfy" nor "I …
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How to say I fulfill the requirements with the word "satisfy"?
I mistook the correct usage "I satisfy your requirements" with "I satisfy with your requirements".
"I satisfy with your requirements", by itself, is a wrong use of "I'm satisfied with your requiremen …
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Is there a word for a skeptical thought?
We have:
critic: a person giving criticism
criticism: the practice of judging the merits and faults of something
critique: one specific item of criticism
And we also have:
skeptic: a person givi …
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Can we use "former" and "latter" for plural nouns?
I usually see "former and latter" as replacements for nouns:
The person in the right is young, the person in the left is old. The former is tall, the latter is short.
But can we apply them to pl …
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Do bathtubs strongly associate with "freestanding"? [closed]
From the definition of freestanding in Collins COBUILD:
A freestanding piece of furniture or other object is not attached to anything, or stands on its own away from other things.
It can be abo …
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Does "all-month" mean "from month to month"?
There is all-day, but I'm not sure whether all-month exists or means "from month to month" or not. I can use month to month too, but all-month seems more suited in this writing:
No parenting book …
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Two whos in one sentence
Recently, I just have read an article about Jeremy England, a physicist who has his own lab in MIT, who has derived a mathematical formula that he believes explains the living things.
I think it …
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