what could possibly mean a "drawn mouth".
She looked back at us from the door, and I had a last impression of
that beautiful haunted face, the startled eyes, and the drawn
mouth. Then she was gone.
I've always wondered wy English insists on pairing not with do, when negating an action. For example, you say:
I do not like that coat.
Instead of:
I not like that coat.
When you're not negating, however, there is no need for do (except that it can optionally be used as an intensifie...12
I'm having trouble understanding the rationale behind the meaning of an American-English phrase of I which I just became aware. That phrase is:
You catch more flies with honey than you do with vinegar
From what (I think) I understand, now, this phrase would indicate that "You make more fri...
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Circular motion can occur in two possible directions. A clockwise (typically abbreviated as CW) motion is one that proceeds in the same direction as a clock's hands: from the top to the right, then down and then to the left, and back to the top. In a mathematical sense, a circle defined parametrically in a positive Cartesian plane by the equations x = sin t and y = cos t is traced clockwise as t increases in value. Described another way, continually turning right is clockwise motion, as viewed from above. The opposite sense of rotation or revolution is (in American English) countercl...
(I was writing this for a question that got closed as a duplicate of this (Why must “not” frequently be paired with “do”?), so sorry if it's not quite right.)
If you say "I not like him" what do you mean? You need a helper verb there to correctly express the meaning:
I am not like him
You ...
A writing system is a symbolic system used to represent elements or statements expressible in language.
General properties
Writing systems are distinguished from other possible symbolic communication systems in that the reader must usually understand something of the associated spoken language to comprehend the text. In contrast, other possible symbolic systems such as information signs, painting, maps and mathematics often do not require prior knowledge of a spoken language.
Every human community possesses language, which many regard as an innate and defining condition of mankind. ...
Ploidy is the number of sets of chromosomes in a biological cell.
Human sex cells (sperm and egg) have one complete set of chromosomes from the male or female parent. Sex cells, also called gametes, combine to produce somatic cells. Somatic cells, therefore, have twice as many chromosomes. The haploid number (n) is the number of chromosomes in a gamete. A somatic cell has twice that many chromosomes (2n).
Humans are diploid. A human somatic cell contains 46 chromosomes: 2 complete haploid sets, which make up 23 homologous chromosome pairs. However, many organisms have more than two ...
A sign language (also signed language) is a language which, instead of acoustically conveyed sound patterns, uses visually transmitted sign patterns (manual communication, body language) to convey meaning—simultaneously combining hand shapes, orientation and movement of the hands, arms or body, and facial expressions to fluidly express a speaker's thoughts.
Wherever communities of deaf people exist, sign languages develop. Their complex spatial grammars are markedly different from the grammars of spoken languages. Hundreds of sign languages are in use around the world and are at th...
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