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This tag is for questions seeking a word that fits a meaning. Please demonstrate why you expect the word to exist in English. For example you could tell us a word that means the same in another language. Please use a bilingual dictionary and include the result of your research. Please include a sample sentence demonstrating how the word would be used. If you actually seek a phrase, or don't care, see the "phrase-request" tag.
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What do you call a place where certain ideas are prevalent?
"Hotbed" could work. Also consider "bastion", which is often used to describe a place in which certain political sentiments are strongly held:
anything seen as preserving or protecting some quality, …
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Are these Asian food establishments called a cafe or a restaurant or a stall?
It meets the definition of "restaurant", so you could call it that. However, it seems like a relatively small and informal restaurant, so I'd prefer to call it a "cafe":
a usually small and informal …
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What do you call an episode that is not closely related to the main plot?
If it doesn't fit neatly into an overall story arc, then it is often called a "standalone episode" (or a "self-contained episode"). It may also be described as "episodic".
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Do we say "cold" to refer to any illness that makes you cough, have a runny nose, a fever et...
In the U.S., we usually distinguish among those illnesses. You could simply say that your children are sick or, as KB said in a comment, that they have "cold-like symptoms". It's OK to ask, "Have you …
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a word for the degree of how far an artillery system can send its missiles
As noted in a comment, this is called the munition's "range". From M-W:
the horizontal distance to which a projectile can be propelled
If you think that that word might get confused with another mea …
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An incompetent person in some actions (Informal AE)
In New York at least, we'd often call such a person a "schlemiel". If that doesn't work for you, then I'd recommend a thesaurus, as Ethan Bolker suggested. E.g., there are plenty of synonyms here: htt …
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What do you call a person who eats products to test their quality?
In the U.S., we often call such a person a "taste tester". From vocabulary.com:
someone who samples food or drink for its quality
From Wikipedia:
taste tests are sometimes used as a tool by compani …
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What do you call someone who is the "external" contact person for a department or section wi...
Such a person is often called a "point of contact". If you want to emphasize that this POC is only for external relations, then I can't think of a better way of saying that except explicitly, e.g.:
H …
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What is opposite of "inherit" verb from the point of view of parents?
You could say that a parent "passes on", "passes down", or simply "gives" a trait to his or her children. In a slightly more figurative sense you could say "bequeath".
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Is it correct to say "the tiny ball is just around the corner of the drawer"?
Grammatically the sentence is fine, but I think that many English speakers would find it a bit strange for two reasons:
Saying that something is "just" somewhere often implies that if you go a little …
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Can we say "a piece of equipment turns on/off"?
I don't know which dictionaries you're using, but M-W lists intransitive senses for both "turn on" and "turn off". It also includes an intransitive definition for "turn" that is relevant:
b(1): to pa …
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What is the American equivalent of "catch out"?
First of all, let me say that "relevance" is very subjective. AmE is more relevant in some contexts, and BrE is more relevant in other contexts. Neither is inherently more relevant than the other.
As …
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What is the opposite expression of "She is my boss" or what is the general term for someone ...
A common term in the commercial business world (not usually on a farm, for example) is “direct report”. Of course, this implies that the subordinate reports directly to the superior.
I am his boss, a …
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Looking for the right word for error. "Tendency"?
You could write:
The magnitude of the error is proportional to a car's distance from the origin.
Of course, "magnitude" and "distance" are normally non-negative. If you want to account for negative …
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What do you call these supporting furniture that are used to display objects in a museum or ...
They may be called "pedestals" (as noted in a comment above) or "stands":
pedestal noun
: the base of an upright structure
// the pedestal of a statue
stand noun
: a frame on or in which something …
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