Can a pairing exist with more than two items?
His favorite meal is a pairing of tofu, bok choy, and straw mushrooms.
If not, what word should be used to represent a 'pairing' of three items?
Is there a term or expression for when something was implied to be free, only to then be charged for once accepted.
I have seen street vendors do this a lot. I watched as a gyro vendor complimented a young tourist. The teenager acknowledge the vendor's compliment. The vendor then offered him an...
Modern-day plus size maxi dress man includes a different view over the kind of in a number of plus size maxi dress offered; they may be getting since challenging since the fairer sexual intercourse upon what appears great with them also inside since it can be on the outside.
Consequently , fash...
What would be an appropriate phrase to refer to:
means by which group-based grievances are manufactured?
I have called it "the politics of fear" in a journal article that has been accepted for publication in 2018.
I am looking for a word that describes the following idea:
"This binder is a spiral binder that has the ability to be opened and allows one to change, add or remove sheets from the notebook."
Thus far, my best idea is "expandable spiral-binder", but it feels inaccurate and incomplete.
Suggesti...
What would be a single word or an accepted usage to be used in a figurative manner that implies the following ideas:
They were the stakeholders or partakers with the most to lose. or
They were the stakeholders who had the highest stake in the game
They were the participants who were most affe...
How to refer to a specific anatomical structure with variation in the scientific context, say in an academic paper? I can think of: "In Figure 1, you can see the variant muscle running from..." or ""In Figure 1, you can see the variational muscle running from..." or variated or variating. Thanks ...
Like when you have to pay in installment for 12 months, you came upon a fortune, you decided to pay the remaining months, in one single big payment, to end the debt.
Such a person may be a narcissist, vain, fake, or shallow, and likely takes credit for the work of others, but I'm looking for a term that captures the essence of doing something only for the sake of appearing to do it. Social media tends to amplify and encourage this type of behaviour.
For exa...
From Byron's Don Juan:
Happy the nations of the moral North!
Where all is virtue, and the winter season
Sends sin, without a rag on, shivering forth
('T was snow that brought St. Anthony to reason);
Where juries cast up what a wife is worth,
By laying whate'er sum in ...
You could try hoary, canescent, or incanous.
Just to round things out - lanate
: covered with fine hair or hairlike filaments : woolly
"Lanate." Merriam-Webster.com. Merriam-Webster, n.d. Web. 27 Dec. 2017.
Lamb's-ear plants are perennial herbs usually densely covered with gray or silver-white, silky-lanate hairs. They are na...
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