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What is a generic word that describes something a person is or does like a skill? [duplicate]
I am in charge of deciding the name of a skill in a role-playing game that serves as a catch-all for abilities/skills that are otherwise unlisted in our handbook (think skills that will help players ...
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What is a hypernym for artificial regions, like cities, states or unions?
I am building a database of sorts and came across this question. I am looking for a word that includes every region that is declared and made up by humans. So no natural regions like forests or ...
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What is an object (talisman, amulet, salt circle etc.) that hinders or stops an evil spirit called?
What is an object that hinders or stops a spirit (specifically evil) called? I.e. a talisman, salt circle, or any other enchanted object.
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What is the trade of an electrician called?
For example, a carpenter works in carpentry and a plumber works in plumbing. So what trade does an electrician work in? Electrical?
I searched the definition for "electrical" and found that ...
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Is there a hypernym for “public” and “private”?
Regarding privacy (in general) or visibility (particularly in computer programming), “public” and “private” are direct dichotomous opposites.
It seems hard to find a superordinate term for it; “...
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A word or phrase to encompass both a long, flexible neck, and a long, flexible tail (but not normal arms and legs)
Consider a creature like a long-necked dinosaur:
The neck and tail share many functional (and presumably anatomical) similarities. Specifically, as far as I'm concerned, they are both flexible ...
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Is there a general word for inhaling and exhaling ? Something like ''haling'' or ''halation''?
I'm looking for a word that includes both inhaling and exhaling that derives from the same ''halare'' origin.
The word ''breathing'' obviously does the job but I'm wondering if other words exist such ...
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Is there a collective word for describing synonyms, antonyms, etc?
I'm trying to create a phrase stating:
Homonyms are my favorite [descriptor here].
However, I'm not having any luck finding anything that collectively describes words like synonym, antonym and ...
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What is the umbrella term for being bilingual or monolingual? [closed]
I want to statistically analyse data which includes bilinguals and monolinguals. Being bilingual or monolingual are my independent variables. To analyse I need to write a column referring to ...
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General term for singularize and pluralize
I'm looking for a word (or small number of words) that is the general term for singularizing or pluralizing a word.
I've thought about "inflection"/"inflect", but inflection ...
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What is the collective term for policy, standard and guideline?
I know they are distinct, but if wanted to refer to them as a single entity in the distance how would I do that?
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1 word for books, videos, podcasts, speeches, etc. (learning materials)
Do you have any suggestions? I have some already in my list which I am still not satisfied yet:
medium/media
asset/assets
publication/publications
resource/resources
source/sources
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What is a hypernym for different fields of expertise? [duplicate]
It was only after he mastered psychology, philosophy, history, spiritualism, prophesizing and religion, in his old age, that he knew his know he could be at peace. He mastered all these ____ (...
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Part-time vs full-time. How is this category called? [closed]
I want to give name to a column where values will be "full-time studies" or "part-time studies". How should I name the column?
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Umbrella term for Invoice, Debit Note, or Credit Note
I would like to find a generic term for a transaction of type Invoice, Debit Note, or Credit Note.
The term transaction is already reserved since the context involves other sorts of transactions ...
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