Questions tagged [differences]
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General practice / general medical practice / practice in general medicine
I need to understand the slight or not so slight differences between the three terms practice in general medicine, and general medical practice, and general practice so that I can choose the one that ...
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Confusion in a statement [closed]
In my book there is a sentence:
I hadn't yet heard people speak openly of untouchability, but I had already seen felt experienced and been humiliated by what it is.
What is the difference between ...
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Difference between "hunger" and "appetite"?
This question popped up in my mind when I read following text from a Textbook of Medical Physiology, Guyton and Hall:
The amount of food that a person ingests is determined principally by an ...
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Why do “inconsolable” and “uncomfortable” have such different meanings?
The words comfort and console can in some circumstances be used synonymously:
She comforted him after the loss of his job.
She consoled him after the loss of his job.
However, while the words ...
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Be supposed to and its meanings
I am studying the construction to be supposed to. It is mentioned that this has different meanings:
To be expected to do or be something
Used to say what someone should do
But I don’t understand the ...
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Unladen VS Unloaded
As a non-native English speaker, I was thinking about the word "unladen" and its differences with "unloaded".
What's the terminal 1 velocity of an unladen swallow 2?
I find it a ...
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Blond hair and Fair hair
Is there any difference between blond and fair with regards to hair?
Online forums say that there is no particular difference between them and we can use them interchangeably. Chat GPT says that all ...
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Difference in meaning between "believe" and "believe in" [closed]
Look at sentences (1a,b) and (2a,b) below.
(1a) John believes some scientific theory every month.
(1b) John believes in some scientific theory every month.
(2a) John believes some linguistic ...
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Is “must needs” grammatically correct in modern English, and how does it differ from “must” alone? [duplicate]
I've come across the phrase “must needs” several times while reading older texts, e.g.
“He must needs go…”
At first, I thought it was either a typo or an archaic version of just “must go.” But after ...
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Should vs must: respectively meaning expectation vs strong certainty
What is the difference between these two sentences:
He should be at home now. (expectation)
He must be at home now. (strong certainty)
I don't really understand the difference between expectation ...
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The difference between “face the past” and “face up to the past”
Collins Dictionary appears to suggest that face up to something has different meanings in British English and American.
face up to
in British English
verb
(intr, adverb; + preposition)
to accept (an ...
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Has the distinction between counselling and giving advice become blurred in common speech, or did it never exist?
The Cambridge English Dictionary defines counsel as:
to give advice, especially on social or personal problems: Example: "The
police have provided experts to counsel local people affected by the
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What's the difference between 'help with the cooking' and 'help out with the cooking'?
To my understanding, which I don't have enough confidence to support, if you need to 'help out with the cooking', it's highly likely that it can't be done without you. Whereas if we're talking about ...
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'Each time' vs. 'Every time'
Sentence:
He never looked quite the same every/each time she looked at him.
every time
idiom
: each time : whenever
Every time I go there I learn something new.
Merriam-Webster
I want to say that ...
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Is "Nothing special" a natural response to "What did you do this weekend?"
Does the answer "Nothing special" to the question "What did you do this weekend?" sound natural? For example, a more detailed version:
"Nothing special, just stayed at home.&...
