I recently came upon this challenge: I was thinking of a pedagogical term for what some teachers do or did in their classrooms when they "preach" something to their students as being "the truth" (you know, as when the several sides of a story aren't really taken into account) and so the learners ...

Is there a term for this? It easy to express mathematically: the change of the 'as the crow flies' distance/ Euclidean distance between your start and your current position or state would always be positive. In sport (well, rugby) always advancing the gain line, maybe.

What do you call the cute dresses that look like children's clothes? Short dresses with collars, laces or ruffles. This style was popularized by grunge girls in the 90s. They call the fashion kinderwhore because they wear childlike clothes, smeared makeup and messy hair. Just like Courtney Love....

I have the following sentence to translate from Russian: Флаконы, имеющие сколы, наплывы отбраковывают от кондиционных перед загрузкой в машину мойки. Prior to loading vials into the washing machine, chipped vials and vials with knobs (?) are discarded. Multitran has a gazillion opti...

I attended a meeting and now I'd like to refer to the points discussed in it. I initially thought the term to be used in this context is "agenda". However, according to the Cambridge dictionary, "agenda" refers only to the list of matter that will be discussed. A list of matters to be discuss...

I have an App that shows a timeline. events in this timeline can be relative to each other or absolute from certain starting point. I want to give this categorizing a name. If i were to have an option where you could choose between relative and absolute timing, what should be the name of this o...

I'm scrabbling to find a adjective or phrase that means "small in value" or "small in magnitude". It is supposed to describe a matrix whose elements are small in absolute values. Granted, I could use "a matrix of small magnitude" or "a matrix with small elements", but what if I want the express...

When you are talking about the fall of a place and you want to say ...helped with the xxx of said place is it falling or felling?

I am trying to explain that the character is weak and needy I guess. He is not a very strong person in character and his personality is flimsy. I need an essay appropriate word for this. This is my current sentence: Although being written well, his overall personality is very feeble and meager.

Sometimes there are some thoughts that make you feel so empty it's like when you deeply think about it it's like you are a plastic bag that all it's air goes out. It's a combination of fear. Sadness. uselessness(I mean philosophically not emotionally or psychologically like how people have less s...