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When did the word 'want' stop meaning "in need of" or 'lacking' and begin to refer to desire? (Evidence old phrases with the original meaning like: "want for nothing" or "waste not, want not".) | 1 |
How much of a difference would it make if every roof, road and vehicle were painted white? This would certainly reduce the urban heat island effect but how much of a difference would it make to total scattered insolation? Apologies in advance for this the bizarre question. | 1 |
I'd like to ask if these following sentences have the same meaning ? Hong Kong had been ruled at the whim of its colonial overlords. Hong Kong had been ruled by arbitrary colonial overlords. And what should we infer from the sentences, ruler changes often and randomly or the way of their rule changes often and randomly? | 1 |
How would I prove that a span of certain vectors is equal to the span of their scalar multiples. The proof would include proving both sets are subsets of one another? Span{x,y,z} = Span{ax,by,cx} where x,y,z are vectors and a,b,c are non-zero scalars. | 1 |
I use colour diagrams (saved as pdf files) which I include in my LaTeX file. Is there any options in pdflatex to create a gray scale document or a pdf viewer where you can view the document in gray scale? Enabling you to view the document and fix any problems before it gets printed on a non-colour printer. | 1 |
What are the ways electrostatic charged objects leak charge in humid conditions? Can airborne particles pick up charge by contact, then be repelled hence removing charge? If so would it be a significant factor? | 1 |
I always get the doubt about this. I know that a bike measures its speed based on the motion of its front wheel. So what is the case with train? Is it same principle? Then what about an airplane? Is it by radars? | 1 |
In the novel A Day Among The Liars by Edward Page Mitchell, there is this sentence: "My rod creaked and bent double," a stout, red-faced gentleman was saying, "and the birch spun like a testotum." Please can anyone explain the meaning of "birch spun like a testotum"? | 1 |
Have we as of yet been able to calculate the space-time curvature around a galactic (or idealized) disk? I have not heard of or been able to find this. Is it even possible to calculate anything meaningful, either analytically or numerically? What I'm curious about is the shape near the disk itself, either ignoring dark matter or including some halo configuration | 1 |
What is good dictionary software? I am asking about the ones that can be downloaded and used on Windows machines, and not online websites. I thought Word Web is a good one, but are there any advanced and good dictionaries? | 1 |
When somebody talks in a way where they swallow parts of a word, talk very fast or talk in a way that is difficult for most listeners to comprehend, what do you call the way this person speaks? I'm looking for an adverb that conveys the meaning "unclearly", "mangled" or just "ununderstandbly" (yeah I know it's not a word). | 1 |
Which degree of 'less' is correct in the following sentence - "Seats in this room are much less/lesser in comparison to the adjacent one." Also please state any general rule of English if it is being applied here. Thanks. | 1 |
Is the phrase ... because of my current educational and residential situation a correct way to refer to where and why I study what I do and why I live where I do? Or should it be "education and residence situation"? | 1 |
Recently, I was pondering over the thought that is most of the elementary particles have intrinsic magnetism, then can gravity be just a weaker form of electromagnetic attraction? But decided the idea was silly. But I then googled it and found this article. Is this idea really compatible with other theories as the article mentions? Is there any chance of this proposition being true? | 1 |
Does anyone have suggestions for books, or lecture notes, (or videos) for studying pullback rings? I know definition; and a few facts about it (for example when it is Noetherian). Now I want to start for learning it. I'm not good at category theory, so please consider this in your answer. I've read Bruns-Herzog's book an I'm familiar with homological algebra. Thanks a lot! | 1 |
Is the comma used correctly in these two sentences? In order to sign and return the documents to us with EchoSign, the two initial boxes marked in red will require your initials. In any case, there are two initial boxes marked in red which will require initials, in order to sign and return the documents to us with EchoSign. | 1 |
Write the best verb-form for the blank. A: Who have you worked with? B: I ________ with people from all over the world. The intended answer is 'have worked'. One of my students answered, 'have been working'. Of course it makes sense. But do you think 'have been working' can be called the best form for that blank above? | 1 |
I almost hesitate to ask this, because it is hard to believe no one else asked it; but it isn't showing up in the "similar titles" list. What is special about 'C' that switches the 'IE' immediately following it? | 1 |
When two systems are in thermal equilibrium, this means that there is no heat flow between them. What is the analogous definition for mechanical equilibrium? (I know that in mechanical equilibrium the pressure of the two systems must be the same, like temperature in thermal equilibrium, and this is not the definition I am after) | 1 |
Let's imagine, I'm speaking about someone's three specific cars, which are over there, there, and there. Now I'm saying that I have installed a new sound system in all of them. Which is right: [...] I have installed a new sound system in all the three cars. [...] I have installed a new sound system in all three cars. | 1 |
There is well known gravitational redshift of real photons. What about gravitational redshift of virtual photons of charged neutron star? Is electrostatic force become weaker while mass of charged neutron star is growing? How can electrostatic field of a charged particle swallowed by a black hole escape from the event horizon? How can charged black holes exist at all? | 1 |
Here I have some basic questions about max-plus algebra. How this is useful? Why we need to define a different algebra? What aspects are highlighted in this which were untouched in conventional algebra? | 1 |
The computational algebra system MAGMA has a function called Order. What it does is find the multiplicative order of its argument, which must be a nonzero element of a field. This question is asking about how this order is calculated. Can anyone point me to a reference explaining that or explain that to me in an answer? | 1 |
When light passes from a more dense to a less dense substance, (for example passing from water into air), the light is refracted (or bent) away from the normal. My question, is there any theory that i can say precisely why light go away from normal or get closed to the normal. | 1 |
I want to draw Hermite-Gaussian modes using tikz, all that is really needed is a blurred circle and blurred lines that overlay splitting it into different sections as shown in this picture: I am not even able to find a proper way of doing the first one, since all blurring options i have found so far are not smooth enough. | 1 |
I am having trouble coming up with an example of spaces where there exists a weak homotopy equivalence in one direction but not the other. Any hints or references are greatly appreciated! Note: This is an instance of stagnating autodidactic studying, hence no home-work tag. | 1 |
I'm writing a story for my English class. Does the following sentence effectively mean that she had a good figure behind her dress? She hid quite a figure behind the Wardrobe. Does it apply to both male and female? | 1 |
I wanted to convey that a university degree is true and valid, but I am not sure if the word "established" can be used for the degree itself. Any suggestions on which words I can use to convey that same meaning for a "degree"? Can I check if it is the word "established" can be used for an educational program? | 1 |
I am trying to write a class based on the book class (a thesis class for my department). My question is: is it bad for some reason (or, is it considered bad) to use packages in the class files instead of more primitive TeX / LaTeX commands? For example, should I use the geometry package or the relevant primitive commands? | 1 |
I understand that playing a square wave from speakers cannot produce a PERFECTLY sharp division between compression and rarefaction. But it's sharp enough to sound distinctly different from a sine wave. As it travels, does the wave "smoosh out" even further as it travels, changing from a square wave into something closer to a sine wave? | 1 |
Is rate of change of velocity wrt distance and rate of change of velocity wrt time the same thing?If both are same can we define acceleration in the former way? Please explain using calculus. | 1 |
I want to know the difference between already and yet in this example: I was surprised that they had __ to decide what to do. My answer on this question was already and my teacher marked it as a wrong answer in the test. What's the difference between already and yet in that sentence? | 1 |
Can you help me explain the meaning of the phrase "ascend to rule the heavens on" in the sentence below? Myth was born in Thebes of Geb and Nut who ascended to rule the heavens on their death. | 1 |
Usually from books, Rayleigh scattering only refers to the light scattering by neutral atoms or molecules. For example if I want to measure temperature or number density in combustion using Rayleigh scattering, and a lot of combustion intermediate species are not really neutral, do I have to take care of the scattering signal from ions? Same question to plasma measurement because of ionization. Thanks. | 1 |
I thought during this transition only the potential energy increases as energy is used to weaken the van Der Waal forces between the molecules. And that the internal energy is only dependent on the change in kinetic energy . So why does internal energy increase? Thankyou for the help. | 1 |
Ex. He threw the grenade, but it blew off part of his leg. He wasn't expecting any case of _______ damage, but that's what you get when you're reckless. Is it "collateral" damage? | 1 |
The diagonal entries of a triangular matrix are the Eigen values of the matrix as per the theorm. My question is why not convert the given ordinary matrix into a triangular one by row reducing it and now the diagonal entries will be the Eigen values of the matrix | 1 |
These words are all more or less interchangeable, but I'm wondering which is most distinguished. If I have a group of representatives, but some are the leaders of their groups and others are just regular members of their groups, or some are from influential groups and some are from uninfluential groups, which terms would I use to hint at who is most important? | 1 |
Are there any significant differences in meaning or usage between "everyone" and "everybody", or "anybody" and "anyone"? As far as I know, there are some grammatical points involving "everyone" and "everybody", or "anybody" and "anyone", but books/internet/professors cannot identify any differences of meaning or usage between these two pronouns. | 1 |
Impossible to automatically generate BibTex keys using Ctrl-G as I did it with the previous version of JabRef. It seems that there is a bug in this issue of Jabref. Please help me... | 1 |
I am reading some lecture notes (completed with exercises and competition-like problems) provided by my college professor, but I would like to study probability from a proper book. Can you suggest one with good problems and clear rigorous style? | 1 |
Is there a non-gendered term for manning a station, as in manning the desk? The only ideas I can come up with are "stationed at" the desk or other clunky things. Finding the right gerund would make my day. | 1 |
I have a vague idea of the three words kill, murder and slay, but I am not sure exactly what makes the verbs different (as well as the nouns killer, murderer and slayer). When do we use each of them? | 1 |
Possible Duplicate: Typesetting algorithms in LaTeX like Knuth Does anyone know if there is a style that mimics Knuth's The Art of Computer Programming? Baring that, would anyone know how to customize the memoir class to get an analogous result? | 1 |
Using natbib, how can I obtain a full reference inline in the body of a document? I need to include the full reference, not just the citation, at the beginning of a chapter. | 1 |
I know that there is a noun for cancer as an area of medicine: oncology. But is there a word for things under the umbrella of the art and science of cancer treatment? I was thinking of something other than "cancer therapy." Something like "oncologics", although that's not actually a word. | 1 |
Are there contra variant and covariant vectors or are there only contra variant and covariant basis for vectors and these basis transform into further contra variant and covariant basis respectively according to certain co-ordinate transformation laws, keeping the vector as it is, which can be viewed as an arrow ? | 1 |
I have a beamer template provided by my university. I want to edit it such that there is a table of content in all slides at the left side. For simplicity, we can consider a plain template and if anyone helps me on this template, I can build it according to my template. Thanks in advance. | 1 |
While reading one of the technical books I encountered "the remainder of the text will explore how the .NET framework...". From the context I understood it means "the remaining text of the book will explore ...". Is there any difference between them or why is one used over the other? | 1 |
I recently heard an American presenter using the phrase "discover what it is that is important to you." What is the linguistic difference between saying "what it is that is," rather than "what is"? | 1 |
Given that the atmosphere of Titan is mostly methane, and from a comment on this TED talk... Would it blow up from a lighted match-stick? Seems like it's at least plausible. But, wouldn't the lack of oxygen hinder this event? Or perhaps I'm confusing the blow up with combustion? | 1 |
Shall I use do or make together with statistical inference? Refering to this site, do is used "when someone performs an action, activity or task" and make for "constructing, building or creating". In my understanding of "statistical inference" it can be both: the action of drawing conclusions and the results of this process. So which one shall I use? | 1 |
I want to refer to a report available on a particular site. Although some human being must have compiled the report, but there isn't any reference to any specific name. Which BibTeX attribute should I choose for such citing. | 1 |
In the song Tonight Again, there's a line going They may be right but only maybe I understand that "maybe" is an adverb, while "may be" is a combination of the verbs "may" and "be", as mentioned in this question. However, is there any difference in the degree of certainty between the two, as might be suggested by the "but only"? | 1 |
I'm looking for a way of creating glossaries, with the help of glossaries package, per chapter or section. In a particular glossary for section should be only the terms used in this section. If term is used in multiple section - appear in correspondent glossaries. Example (done with the help of description environment, just for an example): How can I achieve this? | 1 |
I'm looking for the word that means certain words when placed together sound bad. Example: Mary is sad because she had bad luck. Better wording: Sadness engulfed Mary after she experienced misfortune. What is the word that means example numer one SOUNDS awkward? | 1 |
As you probably know, electrical current and magnetic fields are close friends. In an iPhone there is a compass, however there are also lots of cables and in all of them, or at least in most of them passes a current. How come the current doesn't drive the compass away (and far) from the real north? | 1 |
For people who go an extra mile to make others comfortable, be it friends, family, etc. I need an adjective or a noun, most probably one word, that can describe people who always keep others above or ahead of themselves. | 1 |
Given these two versions of a sentence: For many people, dogs are the best friends. To many people, dogs are the best friends. I have following questions: What is the difference between using for and using to for this sentence? Are both versions grammatical? If not, which one should be used and why? | 1 |
I want to create epub document, but I only have a tex file (unfortunately, mathematical formulas, and drawing diagrams). I tried pandoc: tex to html, tex to xhtml, to xml, but nothing works properly. I use tikz. You can do the epub file with png or svg? Some ideas? | 1 |
We have an idea to post short ads like "our company is hiring" in company blog posts. The company develops software and one of duties of people we want to hire will be finding, locating and fixing bugs in programs. Can we refer to such people as "bug assassins"? Won't "assassin" word have some negative meaning? | 1 |
I have a general question about the applications of mathematics. What are some applications of mathematics that are not scientific, perhaps maybe literary or philosophical, or political. I am basically asking for the scope of mathematics, and looking for concrete examples. | 1 |
How are the external magnetic field intensity H, magnetisation M and the entropy related to each other? i.e. if I change the magnetic field intensity by dH what will be the change in entropy dS in terms of M. | 1 |
If repeatedly picking a random element from a set, what is the expected number of times I'd have to pick before seeing all the elements of the set? Edit: when picking an element, it is simply counted and not removed from the set, so it can be picked again. | 1 |
After the spontaneous breakdown of local symmetry in presence of gauge fields (Higgs Mechanism), we can always choose a gauge where the Goldstone bosons are eaten up by the gauge field (also called unitary gauge). Which Lagrangian should be used for physical calculations-(i) the one in which goldstone excitations are present or (ii) the one in which they disappear? | 1 |
I'm working on an optics project that I'm using Fresnel Equation for Intensity. but I've got a question, is copper a non-magnetic ? You know because in Fresnel Equation, for non-magnetic materials which their refractive index is a real number, the formula is more simple. Thanks in advance | 1 |
What is the perfect word for the clicking sound which happens when you stretch your bones? When chiropractors try to do adjustments, we can hear a clicking sound on the bones. What is that sound called? | 1 |
I'm writing a CV and in one section I'd like to enumerate the activities I did. Should I write I proved ... I participated ... I mentored ... ... or Proved ... Participated ... Mentored ... ... or Prove ... Participate ... Mentor ... ... or any other better form for the verbs? | 1 |
I've solved a bi-objective optimization problem by means of NOMAD solver from OPTI Toolbox and as a result I've obtained a Pareto frontier: How to interpret the visible "gap" in the Pareto frontier? | 1 |
I am looking for a proof of the next theorem: "If the higher order time derivative Lagrangian is non-degenerate, there is at least one linear instability in the Hamiltonian of this system." Where Non-degeneracy means that the highest time derivative term can be expressed in terms of canonical variables. | 1 |
Every source I look at online says something vague about Church's notion being equivalent to Turing's, but what exactly is the Church-Turing thesis? As I understand, it attempts to precisely define the term "algorithm," but my understanding is not very strong of this concept. | 1 |
What do you call nature words ending in -land? For example, moorland, wetland, marshland, woodland...You get the picture. Is there a name for such things? And is there one for a place that is surrounded by water/made up of shores of lakes/rivers/streams besides wetland? | 1 |
What is the difference between prevention and avoidance? Can you give generic examples? The reason for my question is, that I want to know the difference between preventing and avoiding a threat against a (technical) system. | 1 |
I often say What is an idiom? When I read Longman Pocket Idioms Dictionary Cased, I saw the sentence What are idioms? Are there any differences between the two forms? Which one is preferred? | 1 |
I'm aware of this question, where most answers point out how to externalise the TikZ parts in some way. I want to know which journals actually accept TikZ in submissions, and possibly which versions. | 1 |
If a body A needs to be charged by a charged body B by process of induction, then why it's necessary that A must be a conducting body or must have a free electron. Also what is major difference between Induction & Polarization of a body. Experts please explain me it in detail. | 1 |
Where in the analytic hierarchy is the theory of all true sentences in ZFC? In higher-order ZFC? In ZFC plus large cardinal axioms? Edit: It seems that this is ill-defined. Why is this ill-defined for ZFC, but true for weaker theories like Peano arithmetic and higher-order arithmetic? | 1 |
I had read that light does slow down in glass because photons interact with atoms in glass. They are absorbed and re-emitted and during this phenomenon it's speed decreases. See also this and this Phys.SE post and links therein. But then why does it bend? It has confused me a lot! Furthermore i have very little knowledge of Optics or Physics as a whole. | 1 |
I need a word to say to the person that apologizes for something that they didn't do but feel responsible for. The word word mean: "I accept your apology, but it is not needed. (you, are entirely fine!)" | 1 |
My significant other tells me that I'm not "going to go" to the shops, I'm "going to" the shops, and beats me mercilessly when I say that. Is this not correct? I might not be going to the shops until later, is my point! | 1 |
Derive the MLE for Bernoulli distribution? Just need help studying for a test tomorrow and this is a question on the practice exam. I think I will get a question on this just with a different distribution so can someone help me? | 1 |
The defining property of the A series paper is that when a sheet of paper (represented by a rectangle) is cut in half, both of the resulting rectangles are similar to the original one. Are there any other shapes or solids that have this property? Google is silent. | 1 |
This famously known fractal has infinitely many circles, however I find it hard to find a rigid proof that confirms how or why this fractal is composed of infinitely many circles (and only circles). What if, at one point inside the circle, there comes a point where no proper circle that is tangential to the other circles in the fractal can be constructed? | 1 |
Is it "superior of" or "superior to"? In a sentence: We conclude that our proposed model is superior to the base case. or We conclude that our proposed model is superior of the base case. | 1 |
Yes, we can easily explain to all intelligent adults why the Earth looks flat, when it is actually round. But my question is, how can we explain this fact, that the Earth is round, to those people who will not accept new data, which contradicts their knowledge, by providing them with some proper facts? | 1 |
Is there an adjective meaning attainable through aural practice? As in "This language skill is more easily attainable through aural practice." That is, the more you listen, the more that skill develops. Is there a single word you could put in the blank in "This is a/an ...... skill" | 1 |
If time moves more slowly on Earth (due to our proximity to a gravitational body) than for someone orbiting Earth in a spaceship, yet the opposite occurs in the frequently cited "twin paradox" of the earth-bound twin vs. the twin in the fast-moving spacecraft, then my question would be this--is the slowing of "time" the same as the slowing of molecular/atomic motion? | 1 |
If gravity is this "unexplainable force" that pulls everything to the center of a planet or stellar remnant you stand upon, why doesn't gravity pull itself? If gravity affects anything with energy, why doesn't gravity affect itself? Gravity is energy, right? | 1 |
Wikipedia give this answer "Universal algebra (sometimes called general algebra) is the field of mathematics that studies algebraic structures themselves, not examples ("models") of algebraic structures. For instance, rather than take particular groups as the object of study, in universal algebra one takes "the theory of groups" as an object of study." Can someone please explain the difference in more specific terms. | 1 |
What does a rotating hoop, with each point moving at a velocity close to the speed of light, appear like with respect from a stationary observers perspective. For example how does the shape of the hoop change? (Note, I'm not intending to ask about optical effects, but rather what physically happens, analogous to length contraction of a moving train.) | 1 |
I am doing homework and I got confused about this phrase when I was writing. I am not a native English speaker. (...) and the only way to do this was taking control of everything and being authoritarian towards the people who/that could not do anything about it. I would be grateful if you help me clarify which word should I use. | 1 |
I would like to know if there is any global command that would prevent any page-breaks inside sections. All my sections are short enough. I read some solutions, such as Absolutely, definitely, preventing page break, but I would like an automatic solution. | 1 |
I was at an Model UN conference and often notes like the following get passed. As I'm not a native speaker, I assume that this has to do with some pronunciational issue. Can you please explain what's so funny about this sentence? (Djibouti seemed to be often used in such context.) If Bangkok invaded Djibouti would Greece help? | 1 |
This is an exercise following a discussion of fibrations. preceding that there was a discussion of cofibrations and the long exact sequence of homotopy groups of a pair. Any hints would be greatly appreciated. Thanks for your time. | 1 |
Is there a simple term for the question this one was closed as a dupe of other than "the question this one was closed as a dupe of", because "the question this one was closed as a dupe of" is pretty long and unwieldy and much in need of a simpler term than "the question this one was closed as a dupe of". | 1 |
For an event, I would like to add next to the name of some participants, that they "will be there". For example, Mr. AAA Mr. BBB (will be there) Ms. CCC Can any one suggest a better, professional replacement for "will be there". Thanks in advance. | 1 |
I need to copy (with small editions) the shown definition in my own document. I don't have the source code of this pdf, so I don't have any idea which environment/package/etc. should be used to create the definition in same style. | 1 |
Can we write down a generic expression for propagator for any arbitrary spin? At the least, about the ultraviolet behavior of these propagator. Especially, I would like to know whether there is a specific dependence on spin of the field. | 1 |
What is the idiom for a guy/situation who/where has his own lacking but still mocks others? Like you are poor but you laugh at a rich man who has just become bankrupt. For example, suppose like this "A drainer mocks at a needle". Explanation: A drainer has hundreds of pores, but he is mocking at needle's only one hole. | 1 |
At the temperature range of ordinary fire or maybe even ordinary boiling water, is the Coulomb potential between light atomic nuclei occasionally overcome to give way to fusion? Basically, how are the nuclear fusion cross sections calculated and are they a function of temperature? | 1 |
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