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Single word request: a word between "projects" and "activities"
The context is time planning. Specifically, how to name these activities/projects/? that are needed for achieving your vision/dream. Which word would describe (cover) the following activities the best?...
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A specific word for not caring about an issue until you're personally affected or victimized by it [closed]
Suppose you read about suicides. The first few reads are dolorous, but over time, you become desensitized. You forget after minutes about a story that would've destroyed you five months ago. However, ...
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What noun or adjective describes a message/song/poem that is mournful, but intense?
I have a word on the tip of my tongue, but I’m not sure what it is. I’ve checked synonyms of words to see if something matched what I was thinking, but I can’t figure it out. I used Google’s generic ...
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How do I describe the feeling that the world is perfect for us to live in?
Sorry for the vague title but it’s going to take some explaining to try and get the point across.
So, Christians and religious people in general (I’m not bashing them or their religion this is just a ...
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if someone refers to the wife in the conversation, is that rude? [closed]
I'm not native speaker and my husband is native speaker one day after we argued I heard he was talking to his sister. I could hear her voice too, she said,
stop fighting you and the wife?
That ...
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What is a word ending in -phile that means somebody who likes arguing
I'm sure there must be one. I need it for a rhyme.
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An extension of the term 'anthropomorphism' to 'cultural anthropomorphism', or is there a better term?
We are perhaps familiar with the definition of 'anthropomorphism' as the assignment of human characteristics and culture to animals, or perhaps to gods.
Something that is happening more and more in ...
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What word describes whether a number is cardinal, ordinal, or nominal?
Cardinal numbers are those which represent a quantity and generally have some unit of measurement.
Ordinal numbers represent order, such as rank on a leaderboard.
Nominal numbers are those used to ...
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Reason, Discourse and Language
Reason (as in the cognitive skill, human property, logic latu sensu, thought) is translated in Greek as Λόγος.
But Λογος is also the ability and the skill of persons to speak, write and word their ...
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Can the word collective be used for a thing/content created by group of people [closed]
In a tweet, I want to refer a group as collective and the things they create together as a collective. Will that be right.
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Name for gap in a line caused by everyone stopping, and then having the front of the line start moving again?
You know when cars stop in a line and then the first car starts moving, causing the rest of the cars to have a big gap at the end? What is that phenomenon called?
A similar example is a line of kids ...
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Someone who denies talking about something but then indirectly drops hints
For example, someone had said something to me, obviously meaning something but then right after said that they weren't talking about that but then preceded to indirectly reference it, hint at it or ...
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He went to the cinema if a good movie was "on". He went to the theater if a good play was "on" or "up"?
A good movie was "on", sounds alright. A good play was "on" doesn't sound right to me. Does "up" work like coming up/scheduled/soon to appear?
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'' to '' meaning ? which one?
What is the meaning of the preposition "to" in these sentences?
The shoulder is proximal to the elbow.
The ribs are lateral to the lungs.
to :
used for saying where someone or something ...
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Is there a word in a dead or lost language that we lost the definition to? [closed]
Is there a word we lost the definition to?
A word whose definition we lost to history?
Something that is a part of our history but we forgot the meaning with time
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