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One definition from the Free Online Dictionary is "To examine closely; scrutinize." That's what you do when you study someone.

If something breaks down, it falls apart or stops working. In this case, schizophrenics have a thought process that doesn't work. The wikipedia entry that you have quoted (http://en.wikipedia.org/wi …

Once and again is pretty old-fashioned to me. I would use "now and then", "from time to time", and "time and time again" for various shades of meaning. "Now and then" means occasionally; there's a s …

I have a slightly different take on this. Catch and take are interchangeable, both in AmE and BrE (I have caught and taken quite a few buses both in the US and in the UK). On the other hand, there i …

I'll expand a bit on Damkerng's answer. To "close" a sale means to get the customer to agree to buy what you're selling. Salespeople always talk about "closing" as the most important part of the sale …

I believe that what the individual is saying is that he does not want brokers ("recruiters") to contact him about work they have solicited from a third party. This is typical of a freelancer websit …

You are, as P.E. Dant has said, quite clear on the meaning of this. The reason that you are seeing the unusual word order in the Python book is because that word order is sometimes clearer when you h …

Your dictionary link has this definition: "A mixture of substances or factors, especially when dangerous or unpleasant." This is the meaning here: the "stricter liquidity rules" and "negative rates" a …

Despite might not be the right word if grammar really had nothing to do with the CPA exam. But I think grammar has a great deal to do with the exam. Here are a few sample questions from a CPA exam: …

No, that isn't quite what it means. To bake something into something else means to make something an inherent and unremovable part of something else. If you bake eggs into a cake, you can't take them …

You are breaking down the sentence incorrectly. Think of it this way: "He resumed packing. While he was packing, he had a hard knot in the pit of his stomach." I think you are thinking of the hard kno …

edit: My answer doesn't apply to the above after Tyler edited it, so to avoid confusion, here is what the quote said originally: Johnny was about sitting down when his father came into the house …

I think Damkerng has the sense of it. She's saying that she doesn't want a man to perceive her as an extension of himself rather than as a person equivalent to himself with whom he interacts. (If yo …

To say that someone is a demon in some context means that he has an ability bordering on the supernatural. Horowitz was a demon on the piano. Lionel Messi is a demon with the football. Bobby Fische …

It is in fact the third conditional. The confusion lies in having two different uses of the verb have. First, have (and would) are auxiliary verbs used to denote the conditional mood. Second, have i …