The exact description would be for a female character who is described as the one who brings peace to whomever lays their eyes on her.
Also open to Greek/Latin words although English in preferred.
There's a sort of catharsis in listening to sad music, or reading sad poetry, and I'm looking for a word that describes how engaging in sad activities can actually be pleasurable.
I don't mean someone that revels in their own unhappiness or refuses to engage in activities that provide happiness,...
I am involved in an engineering project. We concern ourselves with a manufacturing process in which mechanical parts are processes. Every time a part is processes we get a set of data (multiple time series like temperature or torque). I am looking for a word to name one of those sets per part.
T...
I am looking for words or expressions that I can use to describe the most successful team/individual in a tournament/competition (having won it the most times, like Brazil at the FIFA World Cup.) One word I can think of is "most-decorated", but that seems to only apply if the winning team receive...
Ask a Russian what a diphtong is, and they won't know.
Explain to a Russian what a diphtong is, and they won't understand.
I first heard about diphtongs at the age of 12, in a German class. Never in a Russian class. And I never understood them. And nobody around me did. I came to suddenly understand diphtongs at the age of 17, after reading a German poem. Not my first German poem, mind. After reading dozens upon dozens of German poems, this one finally clicked.
It's two vowels, but only one syllable. Nobody had ever explained it to me that way. And Russian definitely does not have anything like that, anywhere, ever.
I've tried the search here and a regular google-search, but it's possible my various queries have been either too broad or restrictive.
I'm looking for a one-word equivalent to "a fair amount".
A small (or even tiny, miniscule, barely notable) amount = "Modicum"
A large (or lavish, excessive, o...
that is, the later in the list the more poetic it'll feel. maybe you're looking for poetry (you used the word 'passion') butyou don't want to go overboard
@KFL online thesauruses are great (if you have a vague idea beforehand and a feel for what the alternatives are). For a non-native speaker, a thesaurus doesn't really tell you what the nuances are and you have to go back and forth with a dictionary.
That's the first one I looked at. It's UI is a little confusing. It has good suggestions, but they were hard to find, not on the first page. I had to click around different tabs (and it took me a while to figure out that it had tabs to begin with)
A marquee is most commonly a structure placed over the entrance to a hotel or theatre. It has signage stating either the name of the establishment or, in the case of theatres, the play or movie and the artist(s) appearing at that venue. The marquee is often identifiable by a surrounding cache of light bulbs, usually yellow or white, that flash intermittently or as chasing lights.
== Etymology ==
The current usage of the modern English word marquee, that refers specifically to a canopy projecting over the main entrance of a theater, which displays details of the entertainment or performers, was...
@Færd 1) yes, it is a very specific type of sign for a very particular type of establishment (but those are highly correlated) but 2) marquee is a common enough word (and fascia is very uncommon unless you're a surgeon/butcher or a sign maker/architect), and 3) it was the first word I thought of that matched what the person was saying (after 'sign' which seems too boring to ask about)
That is, it didn't feel too 'out on a limb' because it felt like that's where the OP was going.
How should I choose between writing "percent" and "per cent"?
For example:
He sold 42 percent of his stock in the company.
or
He sold 42 per cent of his stock in the company.
Are there different styles which I can choose from as long as I'm consistent, or is one of these correct/inco...
I was thinking of a term that would replace "so-called" as it has a negative connotation like that of "alleged" and "supposed". My sentence is: Based on the so-called great circle distance, Beijing and Shanghai are closest to the city of ...
The reason so-called was added was because the term "g...