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This tag is for questions which a dictionary cannot answer about the meaning or correctness of a word in a sentence. Give as much context as possible.
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What is the difference between "management" and "administration"?
These two words mean different things.
A manager's job is to determine needs, allocate resources, and delegate tasks/responsibility. This often includes hiring, evaluating, and firing people.
An ad …
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An official sheet or ...?
I would appreciate it if someone could tell me that what the natives call the official sheet of a company, with the name and address of this company printed at the top?
It's called letterhead.
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"A kind of" vs "A"
The second sentence has a chance of meaning a person who "gets up early in the morning" for a reason other than it's the type/kind of person he is - i.e. the person has to for his job, but the person …
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What is the meaning of "I am so fly"?
This is a slang term that I've heard in the late 80's/early 90's and it means "good looking" or "really good." I believe it was prevalent throughout that time period among the young in the U.S. at le …
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The usage of "From X point of view"
From Web accessibility/usability point of view, speech rendering of the main content can provide better access to web pages for visually impaired users.
"Point" is a singular non-proper noun (wit …
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A is "Hard", B is "Easier"?
The first thing that comes to my mind as the opposite of hard meaning "difficult" is easy. Easily is the adverb form as @Victor Bazarov says. (Be careful - hardly is not an adverb form of hard)
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It's correct to call "deployment" to the group of pieces to be manufactured?
Deploy X means "to send X to a wide area or many number of places/recipients." It's also used when there is only a single recipient or destination, if the method used to send would also be the same a …
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I abandoned or broke or aborted my thesis
Abandoned is often used to describe properties or large objects that are no longer wanted by their owner, or that their owner has been forced to part with. It can have the underlying meaning that the …
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Is concision needed here?
Economical means "efficient", or "doesn't cost a lot of resources/money." You can usually substitute the phrase "low-cost".
Economic means "to contribute to or having do with an economy," in the sen …
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"I cannot seem to find it"
It seems I cannot find it.
I'm emphasizing the situation here, implying that the circumstances or situation is causing my inability, not me.
I cannot seem to find it.
I'm emphasizing myself …
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How to use the word “purge"
Purge means "to remove all unneeded/unwanted items" or "to make empty."
Purge is weird because it takes an object, but that object can be the thing X needing items Y removed, or it can be the items Y …
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What is the difference in meaning between credit and accredit?
To credit means to add something to an account, or to say that someone participated in completing a project or job.
To accredit can be used to say that someone participated in completing a project or …
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Can you pick up a fever?
Pick up can mean "to acquire incidentally or passively", e.g. "I dragged the net through the water and picked up seaweed." As no one really intends to get a disease, this isn't really a wrong use of …
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My cellphone bill cost too much
X cost(s) y means X has a price of Y. When used in the past tense, it can mean that Y was already spent and you now have X, and it can also just mean X had a price of Y in the past.
It may seem odd …
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Is it correct to say "I hurt"?
Hurt means "causing oneself/experiencing pain" with no object. When used with personal pronouns as subjects it means "something indefinite/general causes X pain" or "X experiences pain in general."
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