I am looking for the verb that describes a roller coaster going into action
While waiting in line, I saw how the roller coaster _____.
While Bob was masking Linda's mistakes, Linda was informing everyone that Bob was not qualified for his position.
What is a single word or idiom that describes going back and forth on a decision? As in being indecisive and unsure of being able to commit to certain obligations and showing lack of interest and reliability by changing one's mind over and over?
Is there a word that describes when a number increases in it's quantity of digits?
Example:
9 to 10 (one, then two digits)
99 to 100 (two, then three digits)
999 to 1000 (three, then four digits)
Use Case:
I would like to succinctly and/or mathematically describe what's happening in a probl...
Reappropriation is the cultural process by which a group reclaims terms or artifacts that were previously used in a way disparaging of that group.
The phrase social justice warrior appears to have gone the opposite way; see this English SE question and this RationalWiki article, for example. Or...
For example, the word that means to assign a price is "price," so I can say that I priced something. I can't find the word that means to assign a probability, so for example, what is the correct way to say "I probability-ized something?"
Two types of language change can be characterized as linguistic drift: a unidirectional short-term and cyclic long-term drift.
== Short-term unidirectional drift ==
According to Sapir, drift is the unconscious change in natural language. He gives the example Whom did you see? which is grammatically correct but is generally replaced by Who did you see? Structural symmetry seems to have brought about the change: all other wh- words are monomorphic (consisting of only one morpheme). The drift of speech changes dialects and, in long terms, it generates new languages. Although it may appear th...
What do you call it when, an event occurs in time before another but they are not related by cause and effect?
I'm looking for a single word to describe a person who is a good wordsmith or orator, but who doesn't believe in the ideas behind their words. Any ideas?
Hurricane Mitch was the second deadliest Atlantic hurricane on record. The storm was the thirteenth tropical storm, ninth hurricane, and third major hurricane of the 1998 hurricane season. Along with Hurricane Georges, Mitch was the most notable hurricane in the season. At the time, Hurricane Mitch was the strongest Atlantic hurricane observed in the month of October, though it has since been surpassed by Hurricane Wilma of the 2005 season. The hurricane matched the fourth most intense Atlantic hurricane on record (it has since dropped to seventh).
Mitch formed in the western Caribbean Sea on October...
Transference is a phenomenon characterized by unconscious redirection of feelings from one person to another. One definition of transference is "the inappropriate repetition in the present of a relationship that was important in a person's childhood". Another definition is "the redirection of feelings and desires and especially of those unconsciously retained from childhood toward a new object". Still another definition is "a reproduction of emotions relating to repressed experiences, especially of childhood, and the substitution of another person ... for the original object of the repressed impulses...
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Ambrose Bierce defined Yankee as
YANKEE, n. In Europe, an American. In the Northern States of our
Union, a New Englander. In the Southern States the word is unknown.
(See DAMNYANK.)
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