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Adjective that means "snake-like"
If bovine means related to the cow or ox, what is the word that means related to the snake?
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What is the equivalent word for "flight" when riding a boat instead?
Example: My "flight" is at 2:00 PM.
I am a Filipino, and English is our second language here in the Philippines. We have 7,000+ islands here and travel by boat is very common, yet we don't have an ...
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"Adjacent" is to "adjacency" as "contains" is to what?
An adjacency relation is one which denotes whether two objects are adjacent.
The two neighbors are adjacent, and hence have an adjacency relation.
What is the equivalent for a "contains" relation, ...
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"Race" is to "racist" as "knowledge" and "disposition" are to what words?
race → racist
freedom → fascist (for example)
knowledge → ?
disposition → ?
What's the word to describe a person who is disrespectful of your knowledge or disposition?
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"Hungry" is to "full" as "thirsty" is to what adjective?
In Danish, we do have word for this ("set"), but absolutely nobody uses this...
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What is a term for the "process of copying somebody's work/invention"?
I need a phrase to mean process of copying somebody's work is in the context of industry/manufacturing. Is there a concise phrase with the meaning similar to "plagiarism" by a competitor in business (...
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Analogue of "orphan" for someone who's lost their siblings
As per title - is there such a word?
Either a noun:
John is an ?????? (his only brother died when he was 3)
or verb (or past tense as an adjective):
John was ????ed today (his only sister ...
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"More than one" is to "plural" as "less than one" is to what?
We call the quantity of more than one (singular) plural. Is there any general word similar to this for a quantity less than one (singular)?
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"Male/female" is to "gender" as "man/woman" is to what?
What is the hypernym for man and woman? I don't think it is gender because that would've been male and female.
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"View", but for hearing
I know a lot of words, but it's driving me crazy that I can't think of one for this. I'm sure there must be one. I want to be able to say:
I had not only a great view of the ocean from that room, ...
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A name for hat collectors?
The Stack Exchange Winter Bash 2013 has me thinking about hats, as my collection is growing. I know that the terms for people who collect specific things are generally obscure, but they do exist. ...
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What do electricians and mechanics "do"?
A carpenter does carpentry.
A scientist does science.
An engineer does engineering.
A blacksmith does blacksmithing.
(The grammar of these sentences may be poor; the point is to get the idea across.)
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Looking for the land cargo equivalent of a "stevedore"
A stevedore is someone who loads/discharges cargo from the docks. I'm looking for equivalent of this occupation for inland cargo "dischargers/unloaders".
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"Created" is to "creator", and "updated" to "editor", as "deleted" is to what agent noun?
I'm modeling a database and I have these three fields (among others):
created_by,
updated_by, and
deleted_by.
I'm using author as an alias for "created_by", and editor as an alias for "updated_by". ...
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"Technology" is to "technical" as "memory" is to what?
I'm writing a sentence about the job of the memory and am characterizing absorption with memory. How do I say "memorical absorption" correctly? Memorial sounds like a noun...
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