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What does "to be dead to {something}" mean?
Awarded Dec 21, 2016 at 17:13
Commas around non-parenthetical name like "The famous playwright, William Shakespeare, was born…"?
Awarded Dec 18, 2016 at 3:15
Verb to describe "to enable or to disable"
Awarded Dec 13, 2016 at 21:17
What is a correct word for a teacher who gives additional lessons to young students?
Awarded Dec 10, 2016 at 4:58
Adjective or noun for a person who takes offence deliberately or insincerely
Awarded Nov 27, 2016 at 9:18
What differences are there between "at the end" and "in the end"?
Awarded Nov 25, 2016 at 6:05
Antonym for Nourish
Awarded Nov 8, 2016 at 8:51
Is the phrase "it's just a matter of semantics" meaningless?
Awarded Nov 2, 2016 at 11:26
What do you call someone without a nationality?
Awarded Nov 1, 2016 at 23:27
Word for people or group(s) that will receive message
Awarded Oct 19, 2016 at 8:14
Adjective meaning "bird-like"
Awarded Sep 28, 2016 at 23:48
Is there a synonym for nickname including '-onym'?
Awarded Sep 3, 2016 at 18:46
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Awarded Aug 3, 2016 at 13:31
Phrase for being indecisive/hesitant
Awarded Jul 26, 2016 at 13:09
What would you call size that fits between small and medium?
Awarded Jul 20, 2016 at 9:24
Word which encompasses both "logs" and "notes"
Awarded Jul 15, 2016 at 14:01
What is the origin and extent of the Indian English usage of "only" to emphasize something?
Awarded Jul 2, 2016 at 11:24
Is "augmented with" or "augmented by" preferable?
Awarded Jul 1, 2016 at 10:10
Is there a word for "unrealistically expecting immediate results"?
Awarded Jun 28, 2016 at 21:09
What's the source of "shipped" in a romantic sense?
Awarded Jun 16, 2016 at 20:58
Word to describe the way cattle and buffalo consume fodder?
Awarded Jun 8, 2016 at 7:40
'dynamical' vs. 'dynamic'
Awarded Jun 6, 2016 at 10:10
What is a term to refer to two ideas in exact opposition (e.g. good & bad, positive & negative)?
Awarded Jun 2, 2016 at 17:48
What does "zingo" mean?
Awarded May 31, 2016 at 16:14
The "F-word" in N-gram Viewer
Awarded May 22, 2016 at 13:19
What is the term for a language that is a second language for most people?
Awarded May 15, 2016 at 11:39
"It was the kind of story that / where you had to be there." -- Are the relative words 'where' and 'that' interchangeable? What does 'where' mean?
Awarded Apr 29, 2016 at 13:02
What do you call a sentence that reverses parts of the first clause in a second clause that makes sense, too?
Awarded Apr 27, 2016 at 22:14
Linguistics term for word choice
Awarded Apr 25, 2016 at 4:17
A word or short phrase to reduce the influence of something
Awarded Apr 12, 2016 at 23:45
Looking for a word to describe ineffectual people who would like to be effective
Awarded Apr 7, 2016 at 11:05
Which words have a long vowel before the suffix -ic?
Awarded Apr 5, 2016 at 22:41
Correct use of hyphen to prefix multiple words with one
Awarded Apr 2, 2016 at 8:43
Use of will in condition clauses
Awarded Mar 18, 2016 at 0:12
A universal term for "educación básica y media"
Awarded Mar 16, 2016 at 1:33
Word or phrase for the poor idea of replacing old with nearly as old
Awarded Mar 15, 2016 at 17:07
What is the difference between a part of speech and a syntactic function / grammatical relation?
Awarded Mar 12, 2016 at 13:52
Is there a phrase for the night before a weekday?
Awarded Mar 10, 2016 at 10:33
What's the origin behind the phrase "assume room temperature" which means "to die"?
Awarded Feb 27, 2016 at 12:13
"high-end clientele" is to "low-end clientele" as "carriage trade" is to what?
Awarded Feb 9, 2016 at 17:24
What does "Tuppence a bag" mean?
Awarded Dec 10, 2015 at 2:53
What's the name of the color printed section in a book?
Awarded Dec 3, 2015 at 22:51
"Hard disk" vs. "Hard drive" vs. "Hard disk drive"
Awarded Nov 28, 2015 at 20:37
the idiomatic use of "no more than" and "no less than"
Awarded Nov 27, 2015 at 17:49
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Awarded Nov 23, 2015 at 1:48
What's ponceathon?
Awarded Nov 11, 2015 at 20:56
If the prefix milli- means 1E-3, why does "million" mean 1E6?
Awarded Oct 2, 2015 at 3:08
Alternative to "the blind leading the blind"
Awarded Sep 29, 2015 at 10:08
Is there a link between margarita cocktail and margherita pizza?
Awarded Sep 15, 2015 at 14:33
Term for an argument which cannot be distinguished from sarcasm/jest
Awarded Aug 27, 2015 at 22:29
Adjective to describe a task that will take a long time because it's a lot of work and/or a lot of waiting
Awarded Aug 26, 2015 at 2:25
Is there a good alternative to "low man on the totem pole"?
Awarded Aug 1, 2015 at 10:12
In Gary Bernhardt's talk about Ruby and JavaScript surprises, what does "wat" mean?
Awarded Jul 30, 2015 at 17:30
"I live on beans and rice" vs. "I live off beans and rice"
Awarded Jul 15, 2015 at 20:00
Word for Thing Being Described?
Awarded Jul 5, 2015 at 21:25
It hurts my "feeling" vs "feelings"
Awarded May 31, 2015 at 19:48
Why did Mother Teresa use the phrase "it is a poverty"?
Awarded May 20, 2015 at 23:44
Is there a word for someone/group of people that intentionally ignore an issue caused by them?
Awarded May 18, 2015 at 16:25
Why is "Grab" so common in advertisments (and other places where it might not make much sense)?
Awarded May 16, 2015 at 10:26
Is there a word that doesn't consist of any letters?
Awarded May 16, 2015 at 6:11
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