Questions tagged [single-word-requests]
This tag is for questions seeking a single word that fits a meaning. To ensure that your question is not closed as off-topic, please be specific about the intended use of the word. INCLUDE A SAMPLE SENTENCE demonstrating how the word would be used. Click on "Info", or "View Tag" and "Learn more..." for more information. Please use the [phrase-requests] tag if you seek a phrase and the [terminology] tag if you seek a term in a specialized subject also.
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Classification of culinary related item called?
Related to this question, what is the classification of culinary items like (ingredients, spices, cooking materials called?)
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What word means what many people think 'ironic' means?
'Ironic' is often used to mean an unusual coincidence rather than its true meaning which is closer to sarcastic. That being said, is there a word that would be a good replacement for what many people ...
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What do you call a person who collects recipes, ingredients or other cooking related materials?
What do you call a person who collects recipes, ingredients or other cooking related materials? Is there a name for classifications like this (like taxonomy etc.)?
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Can I name one client of my application "tenant" if I have multitenancy?
I'm a software developer and want to add the feature "multitenancy" (German: Mandantenfähigkeit, see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multitenancy) to my application. Each entity in my ...
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Is there a single term for "nieces and nephews"?
I find it handy when talking about my sons and daughters I can just say my children. It's nice to say nieces instead of sibling's daughters. I wonder if there is a similar term for nieces and nephews ...
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Disenrolled and Disenrollment
I'm having trouble finding "disenrolled", "disenrollment", and even "unenrolled" in a dictionary. Are any of these valid words? I'm looking for the noun and verb forms of reversing an enrollment.
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alternatives for "guy"
I'm working in an English big company in Germany. Everybody speak English but most of us as second, or third language.
One thing I noticed is that we are all "guys" in the office:
"Ask the guy up ...
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Need a word that has the opposite meaning of "nominal"?
I'm looking for a word that has the opposite meaning of the word nominal in the sense of in name only.
Here's an example (fill in the blank).
Brian was in charge of scheduling in his [ &...
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Is there a word or phrase for the feeling you get after looking at a word for too long?
Sometimes after looking at a word for a while, I become convinced that it can't possibly be spelled correctly. Even after looking it up, sounding it out, and realizing that there's simply no other ...
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Is there a word for a class of circular shapes?
I'm not sure if this belongs here, but I'm wondering if there is a word for a class of circular shapes?
Thinking about this hierarchically:
* Shape
* Polygon
* Square
* Rectangle
* ??????...
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What do you call the words obtained by inversing the order of the sounds?
I'm trying to find out the name for a word that was obtained by inversing the sound in another word. Is there a word for it?
Although cheat and teach would seem an easy example of such a pair, it is ...
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"Wanting something to happen"
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At some point, we all ponder the workings of consciousness; but I pinpoint two catalysts which propelled such musings to a pursuit of brain understanding. The ...
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Repeating the consonant in many words in a sentence or phrase
In the movie 'V for Vendetta' you have for example (bold part):
Evey: Who are you?
V. : Who? Who is but the form following the function of what and what I am is a man in a mask.
Evey: ...
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What is the counterpart of an appendix? [closed]
The appendix is what is appended to something. What do we call something that is prepended to something else?
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Preposition to follow "copy and paste"
The rows should be copied and pasted
to the spreadsheet.
Does that sound right? If not, how could we reword the sentence? I ask because "to" applies to "paste" but not to "copy". The logical ...
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