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Without any context, the sentence "Tom has been seeing Mary for a while" would strongly imply that they had a romantic relationship. In the dictionary entry that you cite, the only example that uses t …

I believe that you're referring to this definition of "consider" (from M-W): 1: to think about carefully: such as a: to think of especially with regard to taking some action b: to take into account …

Actually, "Carol dare not ride on the crocodile" sounds more natural to me than "Carol dares not ride on the crocodile". (I'm a native speaker of Northeast AmE.) I would be interested to see the Ngra …

Unless you're talking about a specific market (and your example sentence doesn't seem to be doing so), the most common expression (at least in AmE) would be "to market". Here are some examples: Sever …

No, you can not say "I earned an interest of 5000 dollars from my savings account". Uncountable nouns can sometimes be preceded by indefinite articles, but in this case doing so would not make sense. …

Yes, you certainly can. To be even clearer, you might write I swapped the positions of the apple and the orange. or something similar. "Interchange" is another word that you could use, as well as so …

We usually surround nonrestrictive / parenthetical phrases with paired commas. However, whether a phrase meets that condition is often quite debatable. When a phrase follows a verb that it modifies, w …

Yes, you could say "arm" and "disarm". However, those words carry connotations of weaponry. (Saying that a person is "armed" usually means that he or she has a weapon. That is probably why FF said in …

No, they aren't the same. Your first sentence (with "naked") would be unnatural. Your second sentence (with "bare") is possible but would still be very uncommon. In general, we use "bare" instead of " …

In the United States, we don't usually use the term "old age pension". (It sounds like the equivalent of what we call "Social Security". A person who receives it may be called a Social Security recipi …

What you came up with is correct grammatically and easily understood. The following sentence uses a similar metaphor but would be more common, I think: He needs help every step of the way. "Spoon fe …

Is the second "people" appositive? Yes, I would consider it an appositive. It is possible that the comma replaces the conjunction "and", but I think that that is unlikely in this case. (A series of …

You mention "a mechanical switch, such as the ball valve", but a switch and a valve are two different things. A valve is usually "open" or "closed" (rather than "on" or "off"), and Google Books seems …

Yes, "for" would usually be considered a coordinating conjunction in your examples. (It is one of the so-called "FANBOYS" coordinating conjunctions.) As you note, many sources (especially more traditi …

"A minor scratch" is fine. You could also say "a small cut" or "a nick". (A minor cut that draws little or no blood is a "paper cut", but that looks a bit bigger than a paper cut.)