I am building a paid online tool where you can subscribe for one month without auto-renewal. If you want to use a tool again, you pay one more time. Is such payment still called subscription, or is there a more precise word to call the payment and the according section in the menu? Answer Subscription … Read more
I read a definition of the word “squint” in Merriam Webster Dictionaries which was: of the eyes : not having the visual axes parallel : CROSSED “Crossed” (or cross-eyed) is in fact a type of a pathological condition relating to eye known as Strabismus or squint-eyed. So I don’t think it should really be there … Read more
Rasheed shot her a sidelong glance. He made a sound between a sigh and a groan, dropped his legs from the table, and turned off the radio. He took it upstairs to his room. He closed the door. Answer In this instance, I believe it should be interpreted as “Looked at, quickly” AttributionSource : Link … Read more
Gusto is a foreign term which the English language appears to have borrowed twice: 1620s, “very common from the beginning of the 19th c.” [OED], from Italian gusto “taste,” from Latin gustus “a tasting,” related to gustare “to taste, take a little of.” …. English first borrowed the French form, guste “organ of taste; sense … Read more
I saw this in a post: …it is okay or at least not immediately wrong. What does immediately mean in this context? Although I have looked up this word in several dictionaries, its use in this context still remains vague to me. I really do need clarification on this. Answer Context matters. Generally, it means … Read more
Often in sports I hear of the “professionals” and the “weekend warriors” (people who otherwise have non-sports related jobs and work hard on the weekends to train themselves to participate). I can’t tell if this phrase is meant to be derogatory. Is it meant to mean “these people are warriors who, on top of everything, … Read more
In the case where data has been temporarily lost, but it’s just been synchronized again and therefore it’s there (again), should I use ‘it’s all back up’ or ‘it’s all backed up’ ?’ Thanks Answer I believe that you may be confused by two different uses of the phrase “back up”. The two are: 1) … Read more
My phrase is: “The main (indexes / indicators) of regional development”. Which noun should I use? I have searched for any difference in their meanings on the Internet, but didn’t find anything certain. From my point of view (and I suppose it may be totally wrong), an indicator is something what tells us about the … Read more
I’ve come across this sentence recently: All about you are generous, kind, thoughtful people, who are not like you. Is this a correct sentence? “All around you” would seem more standard to me. Of note this sentence is part of an example on the importance of punctuation, so maybe it’s not the most natural wording, … Read more
As I understood so far with the help of Urban Dictionary, it means to act in an overly embarrassing way. Am I right? The whole sentence is: Every week, we think Succession has hit peak cringe. Answer peak cringe has yet to reach a registered idiomatic phrase in major AmE abd BrE dictionaries. So it … Read more
