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This tag is for questions which a dictionary cannot answer about the several possibilities available for a particular meaning, and which one of them would be the most appropriate.
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Check? Confirmation? Verification?
I am developing a piece of software which shows a verification message when the user does something. For example he wants to do something and the message says (the pattern is decided as in Title, Mess …
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Henceforth, Henceforward, are they normally used?
I am translating a document to english and there is a part in which I have to compare some objects, first on their "current state and then in the state that is going to be the standard from now on.
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Submission and the nuances of it
Merrian Webster dictionary defines Submission as either:
1.An act of submitting
Condition of being submissive.
However in the synonyms, the list is "compliance, obedience, subordination".
It se …
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Can I use a "Film" to wrap something?
I am looking at the Merriam Webster definition of "film"
In its point 3. it says "b (1) : a thin flexible transparent sheet (as of plastic) used especially as a wrapping"
How common is this usage? …
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