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The silence of the countryside was almost tangible?
Hello everyone
As far as I know, tangible things are something you can see and touch. Today I read the sentence above.
How can you touch silence?
1. Silence is tangible, my understanding of tangible is wrong.
2. Silence isn’t tangible, so it’s “almost tangible”. The writer wants to emphasize there is no sound in the countryside.
Another question is “tangible evidence”. Can a witness’ testimony “I saw him stole the money” be a tangible evidence? How can you touch the testimony?
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unpleasant smelling
acrid--fetid--frowsty--funky--fusty--high--icky--malodorous--musty--nasty--noisome--overpowering--pungent--putrescent--putrid--rancid--rank--ripe--sickly--smelly--sour--stale--stinking--stinky--stuffy--pongy—pungently
On a website, I found a list of unpleasant smelling and I can’t just memorize all of them. Can someone select 5 to 6 the most common words(in the USA) from this list. And some objects you can use the words to describe them.
Thank you for helping.
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pay your last respects?
pay your last respects : to honour someone after their death, usually by going to their funeral(Cambridge dictionary)
Does it only happen on a funeral?
Do you just have only one chance to do it(on a funeral)?
Can I say "He visits his mother's grave to pay his last respects every year"?
Thank you for helping
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another word for fat
I tried to tell my friend"A T-shirt with vertical stripes is better because horizontal ones make you look fatter."
1.As far as I know the word "fat" is likely offend people, what word should I use in this case?
2.What's the difference between "because of" and "because"?
Thank you for helping.
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I have spun my clothes
Does "I have spun my clothes" make sense?
I'm talking about running spin cycle on a washing machine.
Thank you for helping.
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First and Second Conditional
1.A girl is standing in front of a skirt in a shop and say"If the skirt were black, I would buy it."
I believe it means the skirt is not black and she will not but it. Am I right?
2.A boy talk to the girl and say"I found a pretty skirt in a shop, wanna buy it?" And the girl reply"If the skirt is black, I will buy it."
We don't know the skirt color because the boy didn't mention. My question is, if the skirt is NOT black, then
A)The girl will buy it.
B)The girl will not buy it because it's not black.
C)We don't know because the girl didn't mention.
Thank you for helping
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to deploy arguments
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I looked up the word "deploy" in a dictionary and it says
deploy something (formal):to use something effectively
to deploy resources
to deploy arguments....
I can understand "to deploy resources". But isn't argument a disagreement or fight between people. How can you deploy arguments?
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People say "Ew" when they see something gross. "Ew" sounds just like "you" to me. Is there difference between them?
Thank you for helping
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Is it illegal to feed someone else's parking meter?
In this sentence, what does "feed someone else's parking meter" mean?
There is no such things like parking meters in my country. How does it work?
Why is it illegal ?
Thank you
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Today, I learn a new word "literally"
I want to make sure if my understanding of “take it literally” is correct or not. So I try to explain it like this:
There is an expression “Don’t play with fire.” If I take it literally, I understand it by its original meaning. So I am thinking of the fire, keep away from it, because it’s hot and could burn my skin. But its general meaning is don’t do dangerous things intentionally.
Another example is “They were responsible for literally millions of deaths.” In this sentence, LITERALLY MILLIONS means there really were millions of deaths, not for emphasis there is a lot of people died.
Please check my article and tell me my understanding of “take it literally” is correct or not, thank you.
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delinquent and ratio?
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My dictionary says
『delinquent is a person, usually young, who behaves in a way that is illegal or not acceptable to most people』,
but it didn't give me any examples
So I need some examples, what a delinquent would do, then we consider he or she is a delinquent?
2.
『The staff to student ratio has increased』
So which one has increase? Staff or student ?
Thanks
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