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What is a night equivalent for words referring to day parts?
I'm looking for exact equivalents for words like Morning, Afternoon, and Evening. I'm on a graveyard shift and I dislike specifying the actual hour, plus it makes greetings weird. Currently I just use ...
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Is there a good term for a 'paper trail' that actually consists of e-mail communication?
I've seen "digital paper trail" and "electronic paper trail", but I'm wondering if there is a better (more elegant, widely used?) term for a record of electronic communication that ...
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Word for the final instance of awarding a perpetual trophy
We have a perpetual trophy that has been awarded for almost four decades. The Award is being retired, and presented to a worthy recipient one last time. How do I refer to this instance of the awarding?...
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A term (or phrase) for when a person tries to represent the rarest scenario as the most common
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This term or phrase is what it's called when a person (very often used in political debates) will try to take the rarest occurrence of any particular topic and present it as if it's the ...
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Is "volume bar", "volume slider” and “volume rocker" the same thing on mobile phones?
I just came across the words from the site "https://www.androidpolice.com/gmail-mark-all-messages-read/", which indicate, as for me the same thing but by using different words in the article ...
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Etymology of 'Priscilla' to refer to a type of curtain
Squashed between Priscian and Priscillian in Merriam-Webster Online, there's a peculiar entry, priscilla. It's not just a Biblical name, it appears, but also some sort of curtain.
priscilla:
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At some point it's pointless to buy very expensive jeans because the quality can only be so high: term for this? [duplicate]
There is a term for something being very expensive in a pointless or vain way since the quality can only reach a certain point so you're just paying for a reason besides that.
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Can you wind the wind? Can you tear a tear? Can you lead to lead? What are these examples called? [duplicate]
These words are spelled the same. These words sound different. These words have different meanings.
This question can be answered and is about learning English. We really speak American in the United ...
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Is there a term for when people group 2 unrelated things they dislike into one entity?
I have seen this fallacy a lot of times when I'm having conversations with people.
For example - when someone assumes a person who leans towards the right on the political scale will definitely be ...
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Atrium and ventricle
I was trying to find the original meanings of "atrium" and "ventricle" before they were adopted by heart anatomy. So far I learned that atrium is a word in architecture. But it ...
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When should I use "SARS-COV2" or "COVID-19"? [closed]
I am writing a formal paper that deals with the broad national implications of the COVID-19 pandemic in my country, and I am stumped as to how to refer to the virus (the pathogen) and the disease (the ...
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What do you call a person who's more focused on appearing busy than doing meaningful work?
One might think of boondoggle/boondoggling but I'm looking for something a bit different: rather than trying to appear busy without actually being so, I'm trying to find a word or expression to ...
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What does POC mean?
I'm mailing with someone to purchase a product. At the end of one of the emails that I received there's a word, "POC". I'm struggling to find the meaning of this word and the meaning of it ...
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Is there any single word to name the people who are in an exodus?
We know about the situation called - exodus. But is there any single word to name the people who are in that exodus? I mean, is there any single word to describe people who are leaving a place in mass ...
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Smart working, does this word even exist?
Lately I've been hearing and reading the term "smart working" a lot, every day, especially in the news, and now it seems everybody is using this word, including professionals and politicians. It's ...
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