Consider this as a starting point, When the electric guy comes, he takes a reading from the meter to see how much power the house used. Here we can use "take a reading" to show that we are getting information (power consumption) via a signal that we can interpret. That part is easy enough...

Is there a singular adjective in English to subscribe someone (or a god, in the context I need), who both is benevolent and means well for those affected by his or her presence, but also enjoys seeing them suffer? I. E. In a video game like "The Sims", the player not only enjoys making the sims...

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Say you have a writing prompt, meant to inspire people and get them to write, by providing them with an interesting or thought-provoking premise. Say you have five people, who wrote five different stories based on the same prompt. What would you call those stories, besides just "stories" or "writ...

Is there a word to describe 3D space like plane describes 2D space?

Is there a single word which can be used to describes people who legally moved to your country from abroad but do not have refugee or asylum seeker status?

I am looking for a specific word which explains an action done on a pc explained by real life examples. For example a recycle bin. If you delete a file from your pc it goes to the recycle bin. Which you can empty later. Same goes for real life stuff. When you clean it up you throw it in the recy...

How can we refer to the first or the second decade the new century, a la 20s or 30s?

Note, this is similar to this question, but I already know the existence of both words, my issue is I want to know if there is a word that is a superset of both words, another xxx-"dynamic" if you will. Words like "streamlined" don't work for the context I'm trying to use this in, because stream...

Is there an adverb for the adjective analog? There's already an adverb for digital, that being digitally, but what about analog? Words that one would think exist, such as analogously, are barely recognized even by online dictionaries, so the question remains: is there an equivalent to digitally ...

What is the word that best describes the transformation one goes through after having an epiphany? My girlfriend swears there is a word for this besides epiphany, transformative, revelation, etc. Is she possibly misremembering or is there a specific word for that?