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Word that means "outdated name"
Is there a word that means "outdated name"?
For example:
Record, although very little music is on vinyl
Film, although most movies are digital
Horsepower, although no one uses horses as a metric ...
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What's the single-word for "left or right handed"?
'Male'/'female' is to 'gender' as 'left-handed'/'right-handed 'is to...?
Is there a word to describe this? For example, if I ask a guy
What's your ____?
It should mean I'm asking whether he's ...
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Hypernym for "movie" and "TV series"
What is the hypernym for movie and TV series?
I read that medium might be possible, but it doesn't sound that good.
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Is there a hypernym for debit/credit?
I’m looking for a generic word that means “debit or credit”.
Say I have a transaction, and I don’t know whether it’s a debit on the account or a credit on the account, and I want to ask about it, is ...
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What is the category name to describe "day", "night", or "dusk"?
I'm applying tags to a set of recorded data files, and I have to classify by when the recording appears to be taken (if it's light or dark).
TimeOfDay: Day
TimeOfDay: Night
TimeOfDay: Dusk
TimeOfDay:...
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Hypernym for "clients", "members" and "partners"
We're building a feature for a website and trying to think of a hypernym for clients, partners and members so that the feature remains generic enough for re-use later on other websites.
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A word for clothes, shoes, accessories?
I'm looking for a word that applies to all the things a person can wear, e.g. clothes, shoes, accessories, etc. It musn't be too generic, e.g. product, item, etc.
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Generic name for places like village, town and cities
There is the German word Ort or Ortschaft which is a hypernym for places where people live like
villages
towns
cities
etc.
Is there a correspondent word in English?
I don't want to use location ...
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Is there a word like "sides" that means "top or bottom"?
"Sides" can be used to describe positioning relative to the left or right of an object. Is there a corresponding word that has the same meaning for the top or bottom of an object?
For example, if I ...
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Hypernym for "audiobook", "podcast", "speech", etc.?
I am looking for a short and concise term (preferably one word) that can be used as a hypernym for essentially everything that contains (audio) speech (e.g. audiobooks, podcasts, recorded news ...
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Is there a single term for "nieces and nephews"?
I find it handy when talking about my sons and daughters I can just say my children. It's nice to say nieces instead of sibling's daughters. I wonder if there is a similar term for nieces and nephews ...
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What overarching category do "street," "road," "avenue", etc. belong to?
Apple belongs to the category of Fruit.
What category do street, road, and avenue belong to?
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Generic term for songs, movies, TV episodes, etc
For the model of a software project, I need a generic term that is abstract enough to encompass a single song, TV episode, movie, audiobook, etc.
The word content comes to mind, but it is plural. The ...
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What is the proper name for "AM" and "PM"?
I know that AM/PM is for ante/post meridiem, but what is it actually called? Meridian indicator? 12 hour indicator? Something way more clever?
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What word defines a category suited for both header and footer?
So there I was, trying to ask a question (now on SO) on Webmaster.SE partly involving a 'header' and a 'footer'. One part of my code defines shared aspects of both the header and the footer.
Anyway to ...
