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Is "sinnate" a word? What does it mean?
From Typee by Herman Melville (1846):
The loins of the warrior were girt about with heavy folds of a dark-coloured tappa, hanging before and behind in clusters of braided tassels, while anklets and ...
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A descriptive noun (slang term?) for “cordial while also inept and disagreeable”
Context: a business manager who supports their team but refuses to enable them through innovations.
I am looking for a noun that describes a particular type of person (male, female, or trans) by ...
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Is there a specific word/phrase for when you recognise a location from a film/TV/the News?
I'm thinking about the eerie feeling you get when you go to a place and you recognise that it was once plastered all over the news because a serious crime was committed there - or if a serious crime ...
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What's the meaning of "QTY"? [closed]
I found the abbreviation "QTY" in an assay (not essay!😊). Can you tell me the meaning of this abbreviation? How can I paraphrase/explain it into ordinary words?
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Word for a path that already exists made by others of an archtype?
I'm looking for a word here; the word for what the user made path is...
Let me tell you a story...a story about users...
When I was in college; there was a well trampled bit of grass next to the ...
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Can I use "prone" in (1), if can't, why? [closed]
I'm wondering if I could use the word "prone" in this sentence. If not, is there any reasoning to back it up?
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What is the word for something being called something incorrectly, based on its appearance?
My example is a plate of food that looks like cookies, but are actually savory and tomato-basil flavored. Supposing that it's agreed that calling them "cookies" is incorrect (maybe debatable ...
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What's the exact meaning of 'Temprist'?
I look for a word that describes a person who loves music, food, jokes, metaphorically getting high. I mean a person whose MOOD or Temper is usually good and cheerful. And it's better to be a slangy/...
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What is it called when you mess up or fumble on simple task in front of someone you are attracted to?
For example, most adults can drive well enough it's an unconscious know how to the do's and do nots of the laws of the road. Yet when they have their crush as the passenger they almost crash because ...
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What is the glass circle in a door called? [duplicate]
Some doors have a glass circle near eye level that you can look through to see what's outside. They have a fisheye effect when you look through them, with the image being most accurate in the center ...
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Meaning of "she has hern" in Faulkner's 'As I Lay Dying' [duplicate]
I am reading "As I Lay Dying" and have usually been able to look up the meaning behind the choice of words that Faulkner uses. However, I am unable to find a satisfactory definition of the ...
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What does "Sandbagging" (or sometimes sandboxing) mean as an expression in startup or sales and where is it coming from?
I have heard one meaning of it in the context of a personal goal is to set a too-easy goal (i.e., that you know you can easily achieve). I also heard it is coming from golf. Can someone shed more ...
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Is there a word like "likeness" referring to a person's appearance, but their voice instead?
AI is topical at the moment, with some actors' likenesses being used as training data for some purpose or another. "Likeness", however, has the connotation of being about appearances, i.e. ...
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A word that means "given to frequent censorship"?
I always assumed that the word censorious meant someone or something that is given to censorship. Like if you say that a community, an organization, or a person is overly-censorious, that means they ...
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Word to describe someone with all knowledge in some field [closed]
Word that describes someone that has all possible knowledge in some specific field, like an expert.
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