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I answered this same question on ELU, and I think the answer is applicable here too (semi-paraphrased). The word here is “damned”. The OED, in an entry that seems to have been written in 1894 and not …

The cool thing about the Bible is there are so many different translations. You can use a site like this one to see several different versions of the same verse at once. The New American Standard Bib …

Do you know what a dividend is? It's the money (or stocks with a stock dividend) that a company periodically gives to its investors, the shareholders. The the longevity and gender dividends are simil …

You’re not going to find this definition in normal dictionaries because the word is not really used that way anymore. This is one of the definitions for lot in the OED: Any of a set of objects, su …

The relevant definition is in the dictionary you linked to (and others I’ve checked). You’re just not saying it exactly right; it’s just “shoot”: exclamation UK /ʃuːt/ US /ʃuːt/ informal used …

It's an inclusive range, not an exclusive one. "A Knut under twenty" means 20 Galleons minus a Knut. Thus it means that he will not accept 19.99 Galleons (I forget how much a Knut comes to exactly, bu …

The relevant definition of important is: (of a person) having high rank or status. This could be a boss (as it is in Cambridge's example), a politician, or a celebrity, for example.

It’s this OED definition (under anyway): Used for emphasis at the end of a question; ‘may I ask?’, ‘would you say?’ Also sometimes used to indicate firmer intent to direct the conversation, or to …

The article clarifies the choice of wording with what follows: “doesn’t cry much unless he’s hungry”. Chill in this context means the baby is usually calm and not upset. Compare these related slang …

The phrase "commit to page" means write down (or record). The expression "commit to paper" is a more common way of saying this and it's specifically defined in Collins.

"Go Blue" is similar to "Go Wildcats", where the second word refers to a school or sports team. In this particular case, blue is one of the colors of the University of Michigan, which is where Criss …

It sounds idiomatic to me. Compare with the phrasing in Collins: The first sound is as in English syrup, where y is a vowel with the same sound as [i] The expression "as in" is used to make a clarif …

The first bolded part means you're looking for a number. For example, 2 if you're analyzing the non-contiguous US (Alaska & Hawaii). Remember, you're looking to analyze a part of the country with this …

Export has several meanings. If you were referring to the product iron ore, you would use export (singular, because it's one type of product). However, your graph uses this definition: Sales of …

In this translation of the Bible, it means she was reprimanded: Thus she was reproved, or admonished to be more circumspect for the future BibleHub: Matthew Poole's Commentary It's important …