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Closest English term for Spanish "merienda"
The Spanish word merienda is often included in lists of untranslatable words. It originally meant the meal you had around noon between breakfast and dinner, as that meal used to be small compared with ...
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Word for someone who studies to become a teacher
A friend of mine is currently writing her thesis in teaching methodology of mathematics. We are searching for an appropriate translation for the German word 'Lehramtsstudierender'. This is a person ...
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Translation of a German word: "Gutmensch"
The word "Gutmensch" consists of
gut = good
Mensch = human
Sounds like a compliment but actually the word is very insulting.
It describes someone who (for example)
is not able to take criticism, ...
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The state of being a vagabond
I'm looking for an English word that describes the state of being a vagabond, and can be used in a sentence like this:
"My only goal is vagabond-age" (to coin a word).
More details:
I'm trying ...
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Words that mean "obsessed with theory" and "obsessed with data"
I'm looking for one-word terms to describe someone obsessed with theory and someone obsessed with data. We use the Spanish terms 'teoricón' and 'datoso' which roughly translate to 'theorophile' and '...
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English equivalent of komorebi (木漏れ日) — "sunshine filtering through leaves"
Is there an English equivalent of komorebi (木漏れ日), which means the sunshine filtering through the leaves of a tree (or trees)?
It is made up of three kanji and the hiragana particle れ. The first ...
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What's the noun for "off-key" or "out of tune"?
The answer isn't off-keyness, although I wish it were.
I am interested in the secondary meaning of something being off-key, in the sense that it is irregular or incongruous, for example: "An off-key ...
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Tasks for tutorial class sessions, not at home
Writing worksheets for students at university, I'd like to distinguish tasks intended to be solved in tutorial classes from tasks intended as homework. What would be the appropriate term to refer to ...
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Single word for a very small amount of time [closed]
In French, if I want to quantify a very small amount of time (but not fixed: it can be 5 ms or 0.1 ms) I can use a pouième. Is there an equivalent in English?
I'm not looking for an expression but ...
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Are there any rules I can follow to make my own derived adjectives from a noun in English? E.g. xenogamy to xenogamic
I'm currently looking through dictionaries (both online and "offline") for an adjective of the word xenogamy.
Basically I want to translate the Dutch phrase "De kruibestuivende onderneming". What I ...
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Is there a better term than "technology"?
I already started quite a fruitful discussion about the term methodology over here, but today's topic is the term technology. Whenever words end in -logy, my brain links them to the field of ...
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How do you say 'cooked pig small intestine filled with pig blood' in English?
In our culture, we usually serve cooked pig small intestine filled with pig blood in times of feast. Is there a single English word for this? In our language, it's Sa-thithun.
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English equivalent of the French custom "l'apéro"
In France, when gathered with friends, it is customary to drink beers or other light alcohol around 7pm, and this time is called apéritif (or apéro). Does this custom have an English (UK and/or US) ...
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Party organized by the students of a department
At German universities, there student councils, called "Fachshaft", which is an extracurricular representative structure for students.
Each year (or semester), the student councils organize parties ...
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Correct translatation of the German word "Folgeverhalten" in the technical domain of control feedback systems
I have asked various online dictionaries about the translation of the German word Folgeverhalten.
At these dictionaries it is translated as "subsequent behaviour" or "following behavior". I am in ...
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