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Is there a term for words that are stronger than a similar counterpart? (e.g. Dislike vs. Hate)
Title says it all, but some more examples could be:
like vs love
pleasure vs euphoria
carelessness vs apathy
etc.
...essentially words that carry more weight than their counterpart despite having ...
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A term that captures translate and rotate
From this question, transform (or linear transform) was the consensus.
Say I have a broad phrase like:
Travel of the fluid urges a _____ of a partially-submerged bob.
Forgiving the lack of context, ...
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Thieves who rob dead bodies on the battlefield
There are plenty of synonyms in English for thieves. I'm looking for a word or expression that describes people who rob dead bodies on the battlefield.
In the novel Les Misérables, by Hugo, Mr. ...
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Does the word "chevronman" make sense?
I am looking for a good English equivalent of an obscure military term. It was in use by the Royal Hungarian Army between 1920 and 1945. No other army ever had a similar concept, and it's obsolete now....
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What is another way to express something that is idempotent?
I understand the word "idempotent" to describe an action where the second time that action is applied, it has no additional effect. In other words, redundant operations have no effect.
The first ...
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What is the word for a person who twists your words around into something negative...?
Here is some more info...
This individual has a drug problem... people close to him have concluded that he is suffering from some form of personality disorder, thus, he is self medicating with ...
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Non-jargon alternative to the term "content" when describing articles, videos, photos, etc
Web publishers often refer to articles, videos, photos, etc. as "content" or "online content", but I feel as if this term is hackneyed jargon and also fairly vague. What alternatives are there?
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What do we call the combination of a number and a unit
As a Software Engineer I give my best to find descriptive names for specific concepts. That is a very important task to reduce software complexity. Naming concepts can be really hard and today I’d ...
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Catching word/term for people who support technology as a solution for everything and techno-progressivism? [closed]
We are devising slogan for political movement that focuses on 3 groups. The first two groups already have their names as "greens" and "social-democrats" but we are seeking the name for the third group....
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What do you call critical analysis of all sides of some issue instead of from just one side?
What’s a word or term for visualizing a phenomenon—some
bit of news or an event from history or daily life—from
multiple perspectives?
For example, suppose some event happened in your
country's ...
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is "predatory capitalism" a correct word? [closed]
Jean Ziegler invented the German word Raubtierkapitalismus for huge companies without ethics and morality. For example Amazon, Google and Facebook.
What are similar words in English? Best would be a ...
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What are synonyms for 'disputed regions'?
I would like to know what else I can use instead of 'disputed regions', I've used conflicted territories, but that doesn't sound right. Are there any other combinations of two words that have the same ...
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A single word to encompass both "generation" and "annihilation" concepts
In the context of metallurgy and material science, there is a well-known process called differently but commonly "vacancy generation/annihilation" where a vacancy or void (or simply a tiny hole) is ...
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What term describes an agency that serves to damage reputations rather than enhance or maintain them?
Is there a term to describe a company that specializes in damaging the reputation of individual(s) or organization(s) on behalf of a client?
Some things that such companies may do include smear ...
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Generic term for different types of industrial machines
For our product we are dealing with companies that predominantly have industrial-scale printers and other machines used for post-processing. Those other machines are simply referred to as 'machines' ...
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