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Questions tagged [terminology]
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What is the term for the "s" that makes a noun plural?
Is there any term for the letter 's' that changes the nouns from singular to plural?
Boy - Boys
I want the term for that 's'.
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What do you call a chain of still images
According to this Wikipedia entry, a video is the display of moving visual media.
If so, then what do you call a chain of still images that when you press the 'play' button, it plays automatically (like a video)? My reasoning is that those picture…
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What's a better term to describe these "stripes" in blouse (Screen shot attached)
I am looking for the correct word for the stripes in the blouse below. Can someone help with any ideas ?
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Grammatical terminology for the difference between 'hear' and 'listen'
Is there any grammatical terminology to describe the difference between 'hear' and 'listen'?
E.g.
Hear is a ____ verb and listen is its ____ counterpart.
Or,
Hear-listen is a pair of ____ words.
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Name of dot over "i" and "j"
What is the name of the dot over "i"and "j"? I know it has a name but I can't remember what that name is.
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What would you call a course provided by a company to give extra qualifications to its employees?
I was thinking something like integrative/supplementary/auxiliary/subsidiary courses/classes/lessons/training. I'm not sure which one would be best.
What I mean is a course that would give an employee extra knowledge in order to step up the career…
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What does "floog" mean?
There are two sentences in Badass: Making Users Awesome:
Always close the floog cover before replacing the Y widget.
Well, because the Y widget interferes with the floog's op connector.
What does the floog mean? what is floog's op connector?
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reference, speech and event time
(1) I tried snails three years ago.
(2) I've tried snails.
These two sentences are used in one text to make the difference between reference time, speech time and event time clear. In the text is given this explanation: "It is clear that-the key…
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Why how 'old' are you, not how 'young' are you?
English (the language) always gives an impression of being positive. For example, when little kids are making mistake, it will refer to as 'being creative' instead of 'being incorrect'. So as my title, isn't it the opposite? I assume asking how…
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Is "making a racket" some part of music?
It sound like the tutorial is saying (a video link with a time stamp)
while I'm playing
me drums in here making a racket
I am aware that playing drums looks like this
Is "making a racket" some part of it?
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Breach and Violates
I investigated the words "breach" and "violate". The definitions which I faced seem to be very close.
1) Is there a difference between these two verbs? Actually, both are used for specifying the cases in which some rules are broken. These are…
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Difference between "product" and "article"
Can someone explain to me is there a difference between "product" and "article" terms?
EDIT: For example: When the T-Shirt is "product" and when "article" ?
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What is it called when two or more nouns comes in a row?
an office worker
a jewelry maker
a potato peeler
a shopping list
a swimming lesson
a walking holiday
What is it called in English when two nouns comes in a row as in the above examples?
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"Refundable amount" vs "Amount to be refunded"
Is it possible to use "refundable" where I mean "to be refunded"? I know that "payable amount" has a meaning of "amount to be payed". Is it the same with refund? I need very short term, preferable one word, used as an API field name.
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Is it correct to say my domestic name is?
A dear friend of mine is from Vietnam. In one of our conversations, I asked her whether I can call her "ABC", but she replied that is my domestic name.
Maybe what she meant by domestic name is the name that her family calls her by. I am wondering…
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