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What to call women whose husbands are biological brothers?
I would like to know what someone could call the women whose husbands are biological brothers? It isn't sisters-in-law of course, nor wives-in-law!
Can someone help? I am in total confusion.
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Adjective for adult children
Is there an adjective in English to describe grown-up children? In context, I was writing about family dynamics and the "parental duty of care" towards children, but got stuck on a word describing any ...
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A better term for 'going through'
I am writing an abstract for a conference, to present a software project. I want to say I will go through all aspects of the project and would like to have better wording instead of "Going through" in ...
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A word/phrase to describe a person who attends vocational school to become a house painter/decorator
I am wondering how I could say this with just one or a few words, but I cannot seem to be able to find a correct sounding way of saying it. House painting student? House painter in training? Soon-to-...
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A word meaning sth I extremely hate [closed]
Could the word chastise be used to describe something I extremely hate?
Example:
I chastise football. (I hate football immensely).
If chastise does not work, could you please provide an alternative?
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What would be the word to describe the following
You are working in your office. There is a candidate who is waiting outside to be interviewed.
Its been half and hour and nobody has gotten up to go and conduct the interview.
You are feeling uneasy ...
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Word representing the "giving up" or "relinquishing" of control for part of a process
Is there a word that defines the act of giving up control of part of a process to a separate entity.
For example, in a website you can often use Google or Facebook to log in. Or a website might use ...
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Suggestion for someone who talks a lot but says little [duplicate]
I know many politicians that avoid interview questions by talking a lot but not really communicating anything.
You could say that what they were saying was full of banalities or canned answers or ...
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What is a noun for a person who is underrated despite being really good at something? [closed]
I'm looking for a word (a noun) to describe a person who is really good at something but somehow underrated.
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What is the general name for someone who does fraud [closed]
What is someone who does fraud called?
I tried to look in the dictionary with words like 'frauder' and similar things but did get any results.
I tried google with searches like 'What is someone that ...
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Low-variance time set or Low-varying time set
I have a time set like: {5 seconds, 5.1 seconds, 4.9 seconds ....} -> the time values do not change much (has low variance).
Can I define it as: Low-variance time set or Low-varying time set?
I mean,...
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Is there a word for a place where things are stored temporarily? [closed]
I'm not sure I can elaborate much more than what you already know from the title of this question - I need a word that means, or almost means, 'temporary storage space'.
Is there a word for a place ...
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human synonym for the word 'medicine' [closed]
What is the human synonym for the word 'medicine'? Basically, I want to know what do we call a human who can act like a medicine for curing our emotional wounds?
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Adverb of Frequency for "Sprint" [closed]
Re: Agile Software Development -
Is there an accepted adverb to describe an activity that happens once per Sprint?
Following the pattern daily, weekly, fortnightly etc, the obvious answer would seem ...
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What's the AmE and BrE for "tartaruga"?
In Italian the term "tartaruga" (turtle) is used also to refer to well defined abdominal muscles on the notion that they look like a turtle shell:
Is there a slang/colloquial term or short ...
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