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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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Word for lack of understanding at scale?
I think 'unenlightened' could work here:
having or showing a lack of necessary knowledge or understanding
// ... an audience of unenlightened laymen.
(source: Merriam-Webster)
Laymen (or the gender- …
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Confusion Regarding Naming of Operator Types
For the distinction between unary and binary, the term arity is used:
the arity of a function or operation is the number of arguments or operands that the function takes.
(source: Wikipedia)
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Word request for an academic paper/article that is 'hidden', 'difficult to find'
obscure might work; it combines feelings of "concealment", "hard to get to" and "relatively unknown".
Here is an example of its use on one of our sister sites, MathOverflow:
How to locate an obsc …
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What do we call a person who never spells words right?
Well, always ... of course they will spell words right. The most well-known condition is dyslexia (which, ironically, itself is a hard word to spell correctly) and the word dyslexic can be used as an …
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A short word that is used when one finds something unexpectedly
Did you mean stumble?
4 a : to come unexpectedly or by chance
(source: Merriam-Webster)
I was looking through that old chest of draws upstairs when I stumbled upon a rather suspicious look …
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What is a good word to describe a poem that always seems new and relevant?
This fits the definition of (an) evergreen, a word which can be used both as an adjective and a noun:
2a : retaining freshness or interest
b : universally and continually relevant
: not …
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Is there a single word for "person being questioned"?
It's not derived from 'question' or 'interrogate', but subject might be appropriate:
3 c: an individual whose reactions or responses are studied
(source: Merriam-Webster)
It's used multiple tim …
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How to describe persons who care about cost-effectiveness?
You can describe such a person as being economical:
1 : marked by careful, efficient, and prudent use of resources : thrifty
// an economical shopper
(source: Merriam-Webster)
'resources' her …
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A single adjective for 'too big to fit'
I haven't seen it used before in this particular context, but outsized might fit:
: an unusual size
especially : a size larger than the standard
(source: Merriam-Webster)
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Something that can be activated/enabled
It might sound a bit weird, but activable
: capable of being activated
(source: Merriam-Webster)
fits the bill.
Wiktionary lists activatable which is a more regular way to decline 'to activate …
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Single word that parallels "Recent" when discussing the near future
Consider imminent:
ready to take place : happening soon
// … systems engineers have become rather blasé about the imminent liftoff.
(source: Merriam-Webster)
To my surprise, the first ten exa …
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Common name for words like duplicate, triplicate, quadruplicate etc
If you need a single word, "sort by frequency" sounds the most natural to me:
the number, proportion, or percentage of items in a particular category in a set of data
(source: Merriam Webster)
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What is a natural term for the "partial word" in a game of hangman?
Several word finder websites allow you to find a word based on partial information; they would list HANGMAN, SANDMAN etc. as the options for the input _AN_MAN.
Some of them, e.g. this one call the in …
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Is there a word used to describe a weekend plus a one-day holiday?
In English, this is commonly called a 'long weekend'. Depending on the length, 'three-day weekend' or 'four-day weekend' works as well.
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Word for presage/portend but with a positive context?
Doing well in school promises future success.
'To promise' can be used even if the outcome is not certain:
4: to suggest beforehand : give promise of
dark clouds promise rain
(source: Mer …
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