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What's "Hey, I think you missed a few transactions when you broke out your charges on our credit card bill." mean?
The conversation involves two people who are sharing a credit card account. The situation is that when the bill comes, they determine which of them made each purchase. One of them then pays the bill ...
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Can you use the word "bill" to as your friend to check what movies are being screened at the cinema? (What other words can you use?)
“Bill” or “playbill” used to have this secondary meaning, but I have not seen it used in print for 50 years easily, except in the (rare and metaphorical) fixed phrase “what’s on the bill?”, meaning ...
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Can you use the word "bill" to as your friend to check what movies are being screened at the cinema? (What other words can you use?)
I haven't heard the word "bill" used for movie schedule.
"Show timings" or Show time are more common in our country.
We even have a movie magazine named, "Showtime"
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Can you use the word "bill" to as your friend to check what movies are being screened at the cinema? (What other words can you use?)
The short answer is "yes".
As you see from the definition, the bill is a timetable of films showing at a cinema either posted outside on a noticeboard or published in the local newspaper, ...
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What is a difference between "this is a beginning" vs "this is beginning" concerning nouns?
The differences in meaning are extremely subtle, and answering your question at all, requires native competency.
"A beginning," in English, refers to a specific event, defining a beginning, ...
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Funeral Rites vs. Funerary Rites
Funeral and funerary are related words but they are not identical. Consider these definitions from Merriam-Webster:
Funeral (adjective)
of, relating to, or constituting a funeral
(a funeral [noun] ...
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Funeral Rites vs. Funerary Rites
Both funeral rites and funerary rites are valid. The funeral version is much more common than the other one.
Similar usage pattern is seen in phrases with other nouns, which more likely follow ...
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What do the words "bond issue passes" in "bond issue passes council" mean?
The word "issue" is used with this meaning:
a. The act of circulating, distributing, or publishing by a business, government, or organization: government issue of new bonds. (American ...
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What is the indefinite article used in "like a jean"?
We often use a definite article when asking to confirm our understanding of something someone has referred to, e.g. Person A: My name is Joe Lion. Person B: Like the big cat in Africa? Person A: That'...
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What is the indefinite article used in "like a jean"?
The main point of course is that Frank is asking the question to confirm that he's heard the name correctly:
"Hi, I'm Mr Denham.
"Do you mean Denham like the denim material they use to make ...
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Difference between "cord" and "rope"
Rope is the really thick threads or strings that are weaved together to make one bigger strand. Save a few idioms, it's not really used to describe anything else..
Cord refers to a single strand, but ...
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Difference between "cord" and "rope"
You've pretty much answered your own question - one is thicker. It's like the difference between a stream and a river, a twig and a branch, a rock and a pebble. They can be the same material, ...
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Is the omission of "the" before "teacher/student" in the sentence "Knowledge is transmitted from teacher to student" correct?
Yes, it is correct. It is an example of zero article.
'Teacher' and 'student' are countable nouns, but they are being used in a general, non-specific sense to describe the roles or categories of ...
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Is the omission of "the" before "teacher/student" in the sentence "Knowledge is transmitted from teacher to student" correct?
If I say
I've never driven from coast to coast.
the intended, and understood, meaning is "from the Atlantic to the Pacific", assuming the conversation has the USA as context.
Only a non-...
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