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What is a Word for the Repetition of a Theme Song throughout a Show [duplicate]
What is a word to describe the theme song of a show, such as a movie or cartoon, in which it recurs often, but in a toned-down mode such as played softly by a single horn or string instrument. The ...
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These stereocilia become progressively longer on the side of the hair cell away from the modiolus [closed]
Can someone paraphrase this for me? Does it mean the largest cilia is the nearest to the modiolus or it means the largest cilia is the farthest from the modiolus?
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interlock vs intersect, which one is precise?
I would like to use word interlock for FIG.A
and not sure I could use it for FIG.B, is insert or slide better for FIG.B,
anyone could help with this?
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Drinking vs drinkable
Knowing that drinkable refers to safe to drink, why do we often say drinking water in stead of drinkable water?
I find potable water (i.e.water fit/ safe to drink) synonymous with drinking water. So, ...
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Is the "convert to decimal form" usage of "decimate" still used?
Recently, I came across a page in an olden-day arithmetic book (early 20th century)
It seems that the word decimate was used in the sense "convert [a vulgar fraction] into a decimal fraction&...
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“Core” as the name of a class in school
When I was in middle school (roughly ages 10–13 years old) in the US in the early 1970s, they combined English—or what might now be called language arts—with social studies into a single class that ...
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Does a suffix need to be an affix?
I understand that according to Collins Dictionary, a suffix is an affix that follows the stem to which it is attached, as for example -s and -ness in dogs and softness. It has, however, a second ...
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What are the long metal things in stores that hold products that hang from them?
What are the long metal things in stores like Walgreens that hold things like gummy bears or nuts or hair clips? The metal things are straight and then at the end they curve up, and they are connected ...
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Can Tumbleweed be used to describe a tall, gangly, and clumsy person? [closed]
My friends and family call me Tumbleweed because I'm tall and clumsy, but sometimes I wander if there's more to it when my "friends" call me Tumbleweed. I was wandering if Tumbleweed can be ...
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What does "endorse" mean in banking?
According to Oxford Languages,
sign (a check or bill of exchange) on the back to make it payable to someone other than the stated payee or to accept responsibility for paying it.
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WW and OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
From the article "Elon Musk's Appetite for Destruction" (archived version for posterity), published January 17, 2023 on the web and slated for publication in the January 22 issue of the New ...
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"Ink" as a term for coffee?
I've stumbled upon a thesaurus entry for the word "ink" that connects it to various words to describe coffee or caffeine, none of which I have -ever- heard in my life! I'm a coffee-drinker, ...
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What is the meaning of the equestrian term “Undermounted”?
In a literary research effort to study the written testimonial of British Cavalry officer Louis Edward Nolan (1818-1854), we have difficulties in translating into Swedish a single word, as he in 1852 ...
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What is a "stone core"?
In a book I'm reading, I found this:
Of course, even the most primitive tools of Home erectus (flaked stone cores called 'hand-axes') are far more sophisticaed than anything used by chimpanzees, […]
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What is the meaning of the word "fermison"?
What could "fermison" mean in this sentence?:
In 1370 Ralph Basset, who held lands in wardship of the heir of John Mowbray of Axholme, was ordered to allow the proctor in England of the ...
