single word requests - What is the name of the area of skin …
Apr 29, 2014 · @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.
Origin of the idiom "go south" - English Language & Usage Stack …
Sep 19, 2011 · go south (also head south, take a turn south) 1 v phr by 1940s To disappear; fail by or as if by vanishing [examples omitted] 2 v phr by 1925 To abscond with money loot, etc. [examples omitted] 3 v phr underworld by 1950 To cheat, esp to cheat at cards [examples omitted] 4 v phr by 1980s To lessen; diminish [examples omitted] Probably from the ...
meaning - When is "between" inclusive and when exclusive?
There is no rule as to when between can be considered inclusive or exclusive, and the grammatical structure of the relevant sentence would not affect this.
'the USA' vs. 'the US' - English Language & Usage Stack Exchange
Mar 21, 2014 · Here is an interesting discussion of US versus U.S. versus USA versus U.S.A. from Wikipedia: Manual of Style:. In American and Canadian English, U.S. (with periods) is the dominant abbreviation for United States.
What do you call the interconnecting bits of a puzzle piece in …
Speaking as a fully-qualified jigsaw puzzle solver, I can say that the standard word is an outie.Terminology shared with belly-buttons, except normally only jigsaw outies interlock with innies.
adjectives - East Coast, East coast, or east coast? - English …
Apr 29, 2015 · Yet the West Midlands is to all intents a proper noun and always capitalised, as is East Anglia. The 'Home Counties' is the collective name given to the six counties which border London, but I am always at a loss as to whether to apply capitals.I think I will compose a …
What is the difference between "simulate" and "emulate"?
Apr 19, 2013 · The words clearly have a similar meaning. But I think there must be a subtle difference. e.g. You get a "flight simulator", but an "ipad emulator". Both are pieces of software for replicating the
grammar - Should have went vs Should have gone - English …
Mar 15, 2017 · Yes, that's the way the paradigms seem to be falling out: either the participle is the same as the past regularly, or an irregular past participle becomes equivalent to past, like shrink, shrunk, shrunk, or an irregular past form becomes the participle, as here.
etymology - English Language & Usage Stack Exchange
Aug 20, 2011 · having the same border or covering the same area. being the same in extent; coextensive in range or scope. Its definitions of "conterminous": having a common boundary; bordering; contiguous. meeting at the ends; without an intervening gap: In our calendar system, the close of one year is conterminous with the beginning of the next. coterminous.
meaning - English Language & Usage Stack Exchange
Aug 13, 2018 · Latin margo means "edge, border". The margins of a page are the white spaces at the edges of a page around the text. Because pages are rectangular, there are the side margins (left and right), the top or upper margin, and the bottom or lower margin (also called the foot(er) ).