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This tag is for questions about the meaning of a word, which a dictionary cannot answer. If the question is about the meaning of a word that can't be understood outside its phrase or sentence, the "meaning-in-context" tag should be also used; for the meaning of a phrase, use the "phrase-meaning" tag instead. Your question should normally include the dictionary definition of the word, and explain how the dictionary does not answer your question.
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Which one is the closest meaning to the "secured" in the sentence?
The dictionary defintion of secure that is being used here is:
To put beyond hazard of not receiving; to make certain;
The meaning is close to guaranteed. …
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"It seemed like a good idea at the time", not now?
You may infer from this that it now seems like a bad idea. It could also mean that circumstances have changed, so that an action which seemed a good thing when you did it has since turned out to have …
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What's the meaning of 'For justice speaks thus to me'?
There a metaphor, but not a special meaning here.
For (meaning "because") justice ("justice" is personified, we treat the concept of justice like a person) speaks thus (in this way) to me. …
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meaning of "not playing with a full deck"
Yes, it is a bit rude. I think the poster is saying that "You don't have all the knowledge of grammar and books on linguistics that I have". So I don't think that they are being intentionally rude. …
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meaning of "practice test notice"
And in this old practice test, notice that it says "...."
The word notice is a verb, in its imperative form. The speaker is telling you to be aware of the something written on the paper.
The "old …
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What does the phrase "gone too far to brain" mean here?
"Brain" seems to be used to mean "A state of favouring intellectual over physical skills" This is a form of metonymy.
It is a figure of speech, invented by the writer.
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What does it mean to make note on sth?
This is an error in the original. The proper expression is "make notes on". It means "write down any thoughts or feelings in your notebook (so you can remember them later)"
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What does "to flip a wallet on its feet" mean?
Not a common idiom. It is probably meant to be criminal/pickpocket slang. It may have been made up by the writer to sound like slang, with no basis at all in "natural" English.
From the context we ca …
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I wouldn’t take too long thinking about it, if I were you
The idiom is "take too long". Here is an example in another context
I took too long planning my essay, so I ran out of time in the examination.
Here is is put into a conditional sentence that is us …
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What does "they sing no songs" mean?
When old time knights came back from a quest, they would tell stories and sing songs of their adventure.
The mother is warning her son not to be foolhardy. She is reminding him that not all people who …
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What is the tense of the sentence? past or present?
The tense is past tense. "She was having long hair". We learn in this paragraph that the girl's mother is dead.
The narrator is a 14-year-old Nigerian girl, and not a speaker of one of the standard d …
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Does a leaf mean a "leaf" or a "sheet"?
In context it almost certainly means "a single piece of paper"
If you happen to know that she was in the habit of keeping leaves from trees and plants in her diary then I suppose it could mean a tree …
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Why does the author define music as 'a very small word'?
He means that music is a short word (5 letters) for a very wide range of human activity, and warning us not to think that just because there is a simple word, that the activity that it refers to is si …
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What does "realizing you never want to be like him is a kind of whiplash that you can't prep...
"The wheels are coming off" is an expression to mean "things are going very badly wrong very quickly" (If the wheels come off your car you crash suddenly)
"Someone" is literal, it is being used as a w …
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Differences between onward, forth, ahead, front, fore, forward
They differ in meaning, and in register.
The simplest words in your list are ahead, front and forward. …
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