I'm writing a scientific paper on which I'm describing a process affecting the sliding of an object (a glacier in this case). This process resist to both acceleration and deceleration. I'm currently saying that it acts as a "buffer" but I feel like that doesn't properly describe the property I'm ...

I'm looking for a word or shorter phrase to describe "bringing together for the common good" in an easier manner. I thought about "cohesive" but that doesn't seem to imply that things were brought together. There must be some synonym that focuses more on that things are being brought together...

Here’s the deal: Essentially, I’m writing a poem. However. I’m on my last line and I need a 3 syllable word that loosely rhymes with “Berlin”. I’m most likely going to use a gerund to rid of my worry of the ladder syllable. That’s why I’m asking for a verb. I’m looking online everywhere and can’...

I’m not sure that “hash” as a verb, is clear enough in software development because it can be a noun as well. And even if so, it collides with a built-in system function used for the different purpose. So I need to pick up a verb for the function name that does “calculating check-sum hash” but i...

In Arabic countries specially among muslims .The sum of money given as a gift in a marriage is given by the man to the woman and not by the woman to the man . Using the word dowry in Arabic countries when speaking to a native English speaker may be confusing. Is the word bride price common? do ...

I am writing a small biographical article about a long-deceased local doctor who served the poor people of this land meritoriously in the 1930's, and have composed this sentence: Dr.P was a medical giant and also a saint who thought himself just an unremarkable person; everyone was surprised...

What does the term for the in-law relationship become when someone is widowed? For example when someone is divorced, I have heard the relationship dubbed "ex-in-laws". Is there a similar term or phrase that I can use in a widowed relationship?

I am writing an API description and have to include the information about whether a numeric value is a gross or net value in the context of it being a price. I could make it a Boolean flag named "gross" and then have it be false for net, but then the name of the flag doesn't actually describe the...

I'm looking for the word for the sort of... bitterness and – well, I don't really know how to say it – as excellently exhibited by Eric Birling of J. B. Priestley's An Inspector Calls: When Eric works out that Sheila has informed their mother of his alcoholism behind his back: Eric: You tol...

I'm trying to describe the general action of authoring documents on someone else's behalf. I.e. decision writers may write a legal decision for a judge but because of who is responsible for the consequences of the content, the decision writers' are not credited or considered authors. "Wrote" o...