
"Napkin" vs. "tissue" - English Language & Usage Stack Exchange
2012年8月10日 · Bathroom tissue is used for wiping other parts of the anatomy. For cenatory use, a linen or cotton cloth is preferred and is known as a napkin, but when made of paper it is a paper napkin. Because of its other uses, tissue would risk being misunderstood if used in this context.
Blanket term for things we often buy at grocery store that are not ...
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phrase requests - English Language & Usage Stack Exchange
2016年8月28日 · Is there one word (or phrase) to describe all forms of disposable cutlery etc, such as paper cups, paper napkins, paper/plastic spoons and forks, plates, etc. ? I thought of disposable cutlery its...
single word requests - What is the name of the area of skin …
2014年4月29日 · @Doorknob - Elliot has named it correctly. The upper lip is skin-covered, skin-colored, and hairy. The pink parts are called the upper and lower vermilion, the border between the skin and the vermilion is called the vermilion border, the wet, shiny inner portion of what people call the "lips" is called the wet vermilion or the mucosa.
"More clear" vs "Clearer": when to use "more" instead of "-er"?
The question really ought to be whether to say "clearer" or "more clearly." That's the confusing one. I believe it is correct to say that "I see more clearly now that I've wiped my windshield", and incorrect to say "I see clearer now that I've wiped my windshield."
etymology - English Language & Usage Stack Exchange
2020年12月16日 · The word meat used in God's word to Adam (Genesis 1-2) means meal and specifically not flesh of animals because he did not design his creature at the beginning, before the fall, to kill and eat each other (refer to genesis) but Herbs.
grammaticality - Is it "a user" or "an user"? - English Language ...
2013年2月24日 · It's a because the first sound of user is not a vowel, but the consonant /j/. ‘Vowel’ and ‘consonant’ describe letters that represent vowel and consonant sounds, but they also describe the sounds themselves.
Word to describe object that can be physically passed through
2016年11月16日 · While true that most intangible things are mediums (as air is a medium for sound and even the void is a medium for light), not every medium is intangible (a copper wire is very much tangible, and as your own definition states, a wall is a medium for the force of a wrecking ball) and accidentally being a medium for some sensory impression is not what …
pronunciation - Could you clarify /e/ and /ɛ/? - English Language ...
2016年2月4日 · This is quite confusing! In the Standard IPA vowel chart, there are /e/ and /ɛ/. See the below picture: (Source: Wikipedia) However, many American English vowel charts don't have /e/.
What is the logical difference between "to seek" and "to look for"?
I regard them as synonyms. However, there is a lexical difference. 'Seek' is a pure verb and 'look for' is a phrasal verb - a pure verb plus, in this case, a preposition.