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How do you describe this body position?
My best guess is "man putting his hand on his head" but I know there's something less gothic than that.
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Expression for "impression of a dead insect on a paper"
Is there a term to describe the impression of a insect that is formed if the same is crushed between the pages of the book. Or the impression of a mosquito that is killed in between our palms.
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What do you call a robe that's parted in the middle and is longer in the back?
I have a reference picture of what I'm actually talking about, it's the.. coat/robe that the elf is wearing below. It's got like this tear-drop skirt, and I'm not sure whether 'coat' or 'robe' is more ...
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Word(s) for cardboard box whose flaps slide into slots to hold lid closed
What is the word(s) for the type of cardboard box whose lid can be held closed without tape. Specifically, the sides have slots and the lid has flaps that slide into the slots to be held in place by ...
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How to describe this body position? [duplicate]
How to describe the body gesture in this image?
(Sculpture by Anthony Gormley, photo from Teri Gidlof via Pinterest)
Is it natural to say this guy is curling up himself, with his arms holding his ...
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What do you call an office separated into individual spaces?
I'm writing a paper and I have to describe what a certain work environment looks like. However, I don't know the proper term for this type of office layout. Surely you don't just call it a block ...
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Antonym of "upright" to describe the position of a phone [closed]
I have an issue with describing the following way of holding a telephone.
As held in the picture below, I would describe it as "upright"
However, I need to describe what it is like when it is ...
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What do we call the open part at the back of a snack pack?
I'm writing a packing procedure report. And I don't know what the open part at the back of a pack should be called. Does anyone know this?
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Is there a word for the particular usage of the curly brace, or a shape like it, to indicate part of a diagram?
Or for measurements.
Consider the green things in this image:
Sorry if this ends up being a duplicate, the suggested questions to me seemed to address slightly different topics.
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An expression for "Lying on your stomach, kicking your legs and feet up in the air"
What is a concise way to describe the following action?
Someone lying on their stomach, kicking their legs and feet up into the air behind them, looking sexy.
The description should be pretty ...
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What do you call the facial expression or the state just before bursting into tears?
What do you call this facial expression that forms just before bursting into tears? (Especially when a baby has been treated in a way he/she didn't expect and consider it unfair or feels neglected.
Of ...
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A term for a particular makeshift lock (image included)
How would one call a (sort of makeshift) lock on a door (not a shutter) that consists of a hook and eye like the one in the image below?
This is needed for a work of fiction, so a paraphrase would be ...
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What do you call the wooden bridge-like structures that make up a harbor?
I’m referring to this:
image: Harbor Island Marina in Port of Seattle (probable source: portseatlle.org)
I added a red arrow.
Example sentence:
Boats lined both sides of the [. . .], bobbing ...
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What do you call a water tap placed on the outside of a house?
What do you call a water tap placed on the outside of a house?
I'm looking for the correct technical term in English. Here in Sweden there seems to be only one vendor and model, which I'm not so fond ...
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