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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 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'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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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 ...
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Is there a term which covers ATM cards, credit cards, and debit cards?
I work in accommodation for international travelers, and people can pay with various kinds of cards:
In some countries such as USA, credit cards are very common, but debit cards are not so common.
In ...
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"Left" and "right" are to "side" as "front" and "rear" are to what?
Is there an equivalent word to "side" when speaking of the front or rear of something (e.g. a car)?
So, a mechanic might say:
You damaged your wing-mirror? Ok, which side?
... or...
You ...
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Collective word for food and drink
Is there a word that best describes food and drink taken at the same time? I've thought of refreshments and consumables but neither seem right to me.
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Generic word for uni-, bi-, tricycle, etc.?
Is there a generic word for bicycle-like vehicles that may have 1,2,3,4 or more wheels?
I want motorcycles excluded; only pedal-driven vehicles should be included.
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Hypernym for "approve" and "reject"
User A goes to the web page and clicks a menu called 'Submit Request', where User A will fill out a form request and submit it to his/her Supervisor.
Then User A's Supervisor will go to the web page ...
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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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What do you call a unit of beer within a pack?
This is for academic writing purposes.
I am trying to come up with a word that could indistinguishably describe a bottle or a can within a pack of beer. I cannot say "a unit" because "a unit" in my ...
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Generic term for 'row' and 'column'
Is there a single, more generic term that can be used to describe both a row and a column?
In English, we can refer to a line as being horizontal or vertical, but unless we say ‘a line of something’, ...
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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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Verb to describe "to enable or to disable"
I'm looking for a word that describes "to enable or to disable". This related question found the hypernyms mode and state, but I am looking for a verb. I.e. a word for "(potentially) change mode/state"...
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A word that describes both "encoding" and "decoding"?
I am looking for a word that describes both of these activities, however the word coding does not seem to be suitable.
Likewise with encryption and decryption, cryption does not work well.
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