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What does the verb "source" mean in this context? It's about writing a customer story. The verb is in imperative mood. Context: Week 1 SOURCE Survey your sales teams and shortlist the ...

Is this sticker: "On the back of the package" or "At the back of package" I am confused. I do not know the use of on or at. Waiting for somebody's reply.

I've heard more and more people saying "A is N times less than B" in many contexts. I even saw in a news journal (forgot whether it was Time or Newsweek), "The object was 3 times closer than the ...

"Save up to 50% of installation time" vs. "Save up to 50% on installation time" Using of seems incorrect to me. If you wanted to use of, it should be followed by 'your' or indeed leave out of ...

The number of attacks on the capital had gone down over the past week... Wages have fallen by more than twenty percent during the past two months... what I'm confused about is the usage ...

I wrote the following in an article. It remains only to eliminate the intersections which can be proven to be empty. My proofreader corrected to the following by changing the word order. It ...

Some people think that parents should teach children how to be good members of society. Others, however, believe that school is the best place to learn it. Discuss both views and give your own opinion....

I'm looking for a noun (it has to be an object) that expresses the concept of fake appearances. In Spanish, we can express that with the word "facade" understood as the front of a wall (but part of ...

What do you call people who answer to the point? (irritatingly, annoyingly) Example Mr. Hermez is the boss and has an office and his secretary sits in same location with his workstation just outside ...

A tributary is river or stream that flows into a larger river. A distributary a stream branching off a river. Is there a word that combines both structures, the idea of a river that splits in two ...

I am developing an application where people will submit a filled forms. I would like to give a success message after submit. So I compiled three sentences which is more appropriate, need your guidance ...

I wanted to use a one-word expression for a written communication (short or long) which is a response to a question. It is deliberately worded to evade answering the question, using very distinctively ...

(1) He is more clever than rude. (2) *He is as clever as rude. I think that (1) is grammatical but (2) isn't. (1) means "He is clever rather than rude". Then, why can't (2) mean (2')? (2') ...

"Most likely, there are fewer emotions for which there is agreement among several listeners than there are emotions that a single listener may perceive in a piece. Even fewer emotions may be relevant ...

Currently I'm working on a presentation that has a video in it. The video is at almost the end of presentation and 'till that there's only texts and speechs of mine. So what I'm trying to say is ...

I am writing the following: Every single aspect of drones - the mechanical whir of their propellers, the way they gracefully zoom hundreds of feet into the air, the complex sensors that ...

When you use the sentences such as "Kate introduced Joe to Ellen", "My former colleague introduced me to his boss", "My brother introduced them to me", is there one side of the introduction that has a ...

What is it called when you know a word when you see it. But can not spell it on your own

Example sentences: I don't drink bleach very often. Why does one plus one equal three? The first sentence seems to suggest that I do drink bleach occasionally, even though from a strictly logically ...

Let's say that I have a goal to achieve and I take many steps. Step A (done), and B(currently working on). Can I say this: I did the step A. Then, I continued upon that step by taking the step B. I'...

What is the meaning of the phrasal verb "set up" here: Make sure to set up the issue the business had and needed to solve.

After reading the definitions of both, I can't see how these words differ, however, given their prefixes, I assume they must. Could someone explain to me the difference between 'consume' and 'subsume'...

I just read that a person who envies is called an 'envier'. What is a person who is being envied called?

Consider this sentence: When we refer to the parts of speech, we are speaking of different ways words are used in sentences. Looking at the outer structure, it is clear that we have a complex ...

I am grateful if you could clarify the meaning of the following message I got from my supervisor in college. "Please come by this coming Tuesday for an chat." Which do you think is correct? (1) come ...

Is there a word that describes something you wish could happen or want but even if you obtained it, it wouldn't be of any. Ex: He wished he could have a girlfriend, but it would be _______anyway ...

I am looking for an alternative word or phrase for the expression "much different". As in "Much different from the ones he knew were the constant white lights on the tall surrounding buildings". Also,...

India just completed 71 years of independence. India became a free country on 15th August 1947. When celebrating my birthday, for example, I turn 21 years old, I will celebrate my 21st birthday ...

Which word would you suggest that sits right in between 'highlights' and 'lowlights' when talking about certain events or happenings e.g. business, travel, etc.

If I am displaying a list of courses that a person is enrolled on, the header for that list would be 'Enrolled Courses'. However, what would I put as the header for the list which contains those ...

How are sophomoric and sophisticated related? I suspect they come from the Greek Sophia for wisdom.

Does it mean I should or shouldn't call 911? Is it an implicit form of speaking? It's ambiguous.

I am trying to say that sometimes while reading a criticism one has to consider the opinions from that person's perspective to gain an insight of the time they were living in and validation of their ...

Is there a word to describe the feeling of being over- and underwhelmed at the same time? This oftentimes comes up work when I am faced with a task that seems simultaneously monumental and mundane. ...

Dialect in the linguistic sense of a variation of a language. English, the language of the Angles foreigners who came to Britain, has left its mark on this Island. Ænglisc or English a Germanic ...

Earlier, I was reading Winnie the Pooh by A. A. Milne and lit upon this passage: Piglet is so small that he slips into a pocket, where it is very comforting to feel him when you are not quite ...

I was watching an episode of Last Week Tonight With John Oliver. It's an American show hosted by an Englishman. He displayed a paragraph of text during the show which read, "The Bad Boys Club' T-...

I've just read this and thought it sounds a bit weird: "There was no significant difference in the rates of sepsis, shock, surgical wound infection...in dementia patients compared with non-dementia ...

Which of the following sentences sound natural? I think the second sentence sounds a lot more natural and I suppose the first sentence would be a bit odd. Am I correct? Which country does pasta ...

Which of these two sentences is grammatically correct? "Engine in the heart, fuel in veins." "Engine in the heart, fuel in the veins." This is a sentence for a tattoo, which basically says, that the ...

I was reading a sentence i.e. It is safer to belong to a group rather than to wander about alone. So what is 'about' used here for?

I understand that the for (when not used for quantity) may be optional: Peter hasn't been learning German for long It is understood as has only studied German for a short time. The sentence ...

For different types of receptacles, such as glasses, cups, jars, pots etc., what is a natural way to describe pouring until its volume is full of the liquid? A construct pour up comes to my mind, but ...

In my sentence, I wrote: There are some categories of users who use smartphones in the wrong way. But I think, the phrase "users who use smartphone in the wrong way" can be simplified into a ...

I am trying to quote the following sentence (MLA style, if that's important) from page 19 of Jon Krakauer's Into the Wild. A Renaissance man of the plains, he is a farmer, welder, businessman, ...

I'm writing an assignment description. Users have to push one of two buttons on a robot. They are referred to as "left" and "right". Once the user pushes one of the buttons, the robot will take an ...

What is a concise and grammatical way to cancel a helper verb? For example, if I wish to say that someone isn't obligated to do something, I could say, for example, "He doesn't should go, he could go,"...

Recently, at my work, there was an email which talked about the "LGBT sympathizers" community. What the author wanted to say is the "friends of the LGBT community". Technically speaking it seems ...

Lets take a fantasy approach to this. Just say a shapeshifter stuck me in a hole and took over my life and career. What would you call them? Looking for something similar to usurper but not quite.

Word meaning of the phrase of Oh ! Little countess. I came across on a website! Meaning of English phrase.