Asked | Open questions | Answered Points Date Pair Term / Answer given Level Status Gloss 4 Jun 21 '19 eng>eng Plurals of 'difficult' proper nouns such as "90s" Facilitate readability and reflect pronunciation pro closed no 4 May 31 '19 eng>eng senior "older brother" (older friend, colleague or associate who is hierarchically superior to me) pro closed ok 4 Dec 8 '18 eng>eng E ecstasy pro closed ok 4 Aug 18 '18 eng>eng surmised inferred pro closed ok 4 Aug 13 '18 eng>eng we own it it is our responsibility / we take it seriously easy closed ok 4 Jul 13 '18 eng>eng feedback loops used to bully people self-reinforcing processes which are used to attack / insult / humiliate people pro closed ok - Jul 8 '18 eng>eng Rings go on people commit themselves to a marriage and then break away from it, but not always permanently easy closed ok 4 Jun 28 '18 eng>eng serious fluff very thick and absorbent padding pro closed ok 4 Dec 10 '17 eng>eng supporting individuals, families and employees while change "supporting" to "support" and cut "while" easy closed ok 4 Oct 31 '17 eng>eng Abbreviation for "Note" n. pro closed ok - Sep 4 '17 eng>eng IPA on tap India Pale Ale (craft beer) on draft / draught easy closed ok 4 Aug 31 '17 eng>eng clunk I suddenly understood pro closed ok NP Aug 20 '17 eng>eng Note the intricate carvings of flowers and climbing plants... ambiguous, but probably refers to carvings of both easy closed no 4 May 11 '17 eng>eng that is not quite enough heresy not content with having put forward these heretical ideas, he has even more to propose pro closed ok 4 May 11 '17 eng>eng in a figure to collect in a collectable figure / in a figure that you can keep afterwards for your collection easy closed ok - May 9 '17 eng>eng impotence impotentia generandi: sterility (inability to procreate) pro just_closed no 4 May 8 '17 eng>eng plays them up leads them / accompanies them to their death, playing music to which they dance easy closed ok 4 May 7 '17 eng>eng Where the observations appeal In cases where he finds the reported observations appealing pro closed ok 4 Feb 4 '17 eng>eng I hates simply non-standard dialect version of "I hate" easy closed no 4 Jan 21 '17 eng>eng let the big head choose her sex not the little head’s presence Let sex be determined by choice, not by the presence (or absence) of a penis easy closed ok 4 Jan 10 '17 eng>eng structure of a sentence The language, imagery and organisation of one provide a model for the other pro closed no 4 Jan 8 '17 eng>eng inked up tattooed pro closed ok 4 Jan 7 '17 eng>eng Just as... so in a similar or analogous way pro closed ok - Oct 31 '16 eng>eng put it up to me confront me, challenge me pro closed ok 4 May 7 '16 eng>eng Affected actions affected is a verb easy closed ok 4 Mar 10 '16 eng>eng being from Irvine UC Irvine was his training base at that time pro closed ok 4 Feb 18 '16 eng>eng What is his previous point? missing sentence? pro closed no 4 Feb 12 '16 eng>eng It made stadium it made its debut pro closed no 4 Feb 3 '16 eng>eng marshals track officials responsible for the safety of competitors easy closed ok 4 Feb 3 '16 eng>eng Is it a contradiction? no: they're talking about different races pro closed ok 4 Jan 29 '16 eng>eng You lift way before it you lift your foot off the accelerator way before the bend pro closed ok 4 Jan 15 '16 eng>eng challenge (rough or violent) tackle pro closed ok 4 Jan 13 '16 eng>eng saying or I said? [I] say pro closed no 4 Dec 25 '15 eng>eng coming down from the rafters coming down from their places high up in the stadium to occupy empty seats lower down near the court pro closed ok 4 Dec 12 '15 eng>eng broke in the Tour burst upon the scene / made a forceful and dramatic arrival in the Tour pro closed ok 4 Dec 12 '15 eng>eng point of a sentence if his instincts tell him to kill, he will follow them without thinking about it pro closed ok 4 Nov 22 '15 eng>eng hot dogs (unmashed) hot dog-type sausages that have not been mashed (broken up into small pieces) easy closed ok 4 Nov 8 '15 eng>eng added some half and half mixture of half cream and half whole milk pro closed ok 4 Nov 7 '15 eng>eng first words in a video We thought we'd do a little... pro closed ok 4 Oct 17 '15 eng>eng escalate pass the matter up to a higher level for resolution easy closed ok 4 Oct 17 '15 eng>eng Did she suddenly change her mind? No, she didn't easy closed ok 4 Oct 2 '15 eng>eng drumbeat regular rhythm easy closed ok - Sep 30 '15 eng>eng ball bearing team the team that took the initiative / made the running and made things run smoothly pro just_closed no 4 Sep 5 '15 eng>eng unclear word in a video who didn't have a neck hardly pro closed no 4 Aug 11 '15 eng>eng Why does it sound silly? the analogy of taking "baby steps" with dental floss sounds silly pro closed ok 4 Jul 27 '15 eng>eng in perversity in being perverse: to even more perverse than Baudelaire easy closed ok 4 Jul 24 '15 eng>eng Talking in Tongues Biblical reference (Acts 2:1-4): ability to minister to people in their own language pro closed ok 4 Jul 17 '15 eng>eng both as a sword and shield both as a weapon and as a means of defence pro closed ok 4 Jun 12 '15 eng>eng Them in this case: it's not like joining a club; if you are a feminist you are already a member easy closed ok 4 May 27 '15 eng>eng leering looking at me in a sexually suggestive or lascivious way easy closed ok Asked | Open questions | Answered