I'm trying to, in a word, express satisfaction with an answer. Specifically, I asked a volunteer if he had been reimbursed for a purchase he made on behalf of the ministry. He replied, "yeah." (Over text message) How do I express my satisfaction with his answer without just saying, "good" or e...

I'm looking for a verb used on someone who doesn't have much in the pocket but strains to keep up his/her appearance through constant notions of luxuries he/she doens't really have. In Chinese we have sayings like "穷嘚瑟(flaunt with no money)" or "装大款(fake being rich)", which are often used in a ...

A sabot, in the context of weapon design, is a smooth covering that allows an irregularly shaped projectile to fit snugly in a tubular bore. A similar design can be used to securely mount a small-diameter cylinder within a tube that would otherwise be too large for it. Sabot seems to reside exclu...

There's a word that I've heard before, but I don't recall it right now, which means the edges of a robe (they're the parts that could be a different color than the rest). Example sentence: "The robe was blue with gold ____."

I need a single word which means "not bound by time or space" Words such as "timeless," "eternal," "atemporal," ",forever," or "incorporal" either means "not bound by time" or "not bound by space" but I need a word means both. Here is what I am writing: Either way, regardless of how powerful...

An example of this could be: You need to install some software on a few PCs. It'll take you a few minutes per PC Or you could create an automated system, which is more efficient in the long run, but takes hours to set up, making it relatively pointless The sentence would be "you could create a...

I have recently moved deep into the county of Somerset, UK. Owing to some atmospheric disturbance caused by a hurricane, the weather was particularly dark and forbidding. One person said that the weather was dimpsy, a word I have not heard before. Later I checked in with another person who said ...

Is there a gender (and age) neutral alternative to "Sir" and "Ma'am"? The word should be appropriate for a sentence such as, "Thank you, Sir."

I am looking for an alternative to the term productionalize. I believe the generally accepted definition of the word says that it means "to make a software prototype ready for production". In a sentence: "In our work we will productionalize the ideas of XYZ to great effect." Is there such a ter...

He remained on the throne for a _________ of 63 years What is the best word to fill in the gap. I've thought of time and length but they sound weird to me.

What is the term for someone who can easily forget or ignore negative behavior or comments towards them or a situation?

After several comments on a paper, in this comment I want to refer to the comment I will made at the end of all comments. So I say: Please see my last comment. But "last comment" also means the previous comment. Words such as "final", "ultimate", and "latest" have connotations that make m...

I am writing a program where I need to enumerate the various metric prefixes. Programming-wise it'd make most sense for me to include a prefix that represents a factor of "1" (but won't actually get written out in output). Example: hecto-: 100 deca-: 10 WHAT TO CALL THIS: 1 deci-: 0.1 centi-:...

The definition of cannibalized that I'm referring to is this. cannibalized - use (a machine) as a source of spare parts for another, similar machine For example: Cannibalizing two broken-down cars might provide spare parts to make one working car.

Is there a word or phrase used for describing something that is not wanted to be done that much as the other person thinks? Like a formal usage for giving the meaning "I'm not dying to ... as you think!"