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"I eat bread and ham" Bread and ham are not "typically-mixable" items (see clarification on "mixable" below). Default assumption/context is that you mean bread and ham either separately or separabl …

Redeem: gain or regain possession of (something) in exchange for payment. Find a different dictionary. Specifically, what redeem usually means is to trade some sort of non-cash/check/credit instrume …

English is all about the {head{body}} pattern, nested or distributed. The to X in an infitive is such a "head", like articles. So {to{drink,chat,taste,work}} is equivalent to {to drink, to chat, to t …

X but Y means: the same as and but where Y is the opposite of what is expected. I went to the store but I couldn't find any milk. (You were expecting to find milk) Y is an exception to/prevents …

Hook X does not automatically mean you are pulling or lifting X unless context strongly implies it. Valid contexts include: fishing places or scenarios where fishing is likely or possible when you …

Overall, yes. Spanish, for example, has a number of reflexive verbs that f rom my understanding are different in meaning from non-reflexive. For example, ir meaning to go and irse meaning to leave. E …

Even if heat and A/C come from the same device, they are separate functions. Heat and A/C then refer to functions on the device, not the device itself. To make the device put out more heat, you'd say …

how to describe when a hurricane ends and disappears? Out of your choices, die down will mean this and news broadcasts would use the term. The other four choices mean the hurricane loses strength, b …

If X is an action, it answers the question "what did someone/something do?" - Actions support concepts such as intent and cause. If X is an event, it answers the question "what happened?" - but does n …

At X - the preposition at makes X a place (something that can answer the question where?) Places are areas - often 2D but can also be 3D. When certain types of actions target an entire area (as oppose …

Workplaces treat people as resources, so utilize is appropriate here. There is no actual, real polite way to directly say "machines are better than people", so the least offensive way to express this …

Feel pleasure often refers to physical sensations and therefore can potentially have sensual or erotic undertones to it. Try to be pleased instead: I felt pleasure when I first played in front of a c …

Phrasal verbs are verbs that have an attached word (a "particle") that modifies the meaning of the verb, sometimes significantly. The "particle" behaves like an adverb. The word also has a possible …

In at X, X is a place or point on an area - and places/points are things that can be used to answer the question "where?" At the request of XXX, Y - seems to be modeling that the request is "putting …

Back can be used as an adverb, and it can mean a few things. One meaning is to emphasize that an action is returning something back to a normal state, after being in an alternate state temporarily. …