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Specific term for a "Synonym Phrase"?
Is there a specific term for a pair of phrases where each word technically has the same or similar meaning, but when taken together, has a completely different meaning or implication?
I used Synonym ...
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What is the technique that produces phrases like "Miss Anne Thrope" called and is there a master list of names?
Misanthrope, as a word, can be converted into the pseudonym "Miss Anne Thrope" (bonus points if the meaning reflects the writer's style).
But what is this technique called and is there a ...
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Is there a term like "antonym" but for words of opposite sentiment?
I like to play a game where I take a descriptive word with an emotional bias (i.e. describing something "good" or "bad") and I try to think of a word with roughly the same meaning ...
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Is there a better word for the sound of a mechanical "whirr"?
I am struggling to find an adequate word that represents the buzz or whirr of mechanical movement, I want something that feels more technical.
If anyone is familiar with engineering jargon that might ...
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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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Which is the more idiomatic: equivalence/equivalencies or equivalency/equivalences?
Most articles show the plural form of equivalence as equivalences. The wikipedia on logical equivalence uses this form.
However, I feel like I have seen equivalencies used in contexts like mathematics ...
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A name for the head of the school examination control room
In most schools and universities, there is a room or a center for examination tasks. In my country, it is called examination control room. This room has a number of responsibilities, such as ...
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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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How to make it clear that there is no pun when using "irrational fear" in the subject of mathematics [closed]
Suppose I am writing to an audience of mathematics teachers, and I want very much to tell them that "I initially had an irrational fear of" a certain subject in mathematics.
But in that ...
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Delusional? delusions of grandeur? paranoid? Help!
How can I describe someone who thinks I have special connections with people such as the government, state, etc?
I am hoping for a special descriptive word for someone who keeps telling me to send ...
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What's the etymology for the term "resilvering" as used in computer file systems like hardware RAID, btrfs, ZFS, etc?
Hardware systems like traditional RAID, or modern software systems like ZFS, btrfs, etc. are used for redundancy (and performance) of the storage of data. Whenever a drive dies in one of these ...
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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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Is there a term for "adverb verb"s and/or "redundant adverb verb"s?
This is a meta question of this one: How can I omit adverbs to impart a strong feeling? Like the original question, I'm trying to find some tool/list/book that helps one convert "adverb verb"...
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Single noun/phrase to denote transfer across levels of formality of language
Question: What is the name of the quality denoting the formality/colloquialism of and/or amount of jargon in language?
Context: I am writing a review for a paper in which authors developed a model ...
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What are some words that can mean either pushing or dragging?
I'm making a game in which the player can either push or drag certain objects, like crates.
In my code I usually refer to both of these actions as "moving" whenever I don't want to specify ...
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