Rising higher; ascending - English Language & Usage Stack Exchange
Highering would be an unusual word to hear or see in print. This might seem illogical since lowering is an everyday gerund of the verb to lower. As far as I know there is no verb to higher. The verb you …
When do you capitalize names of groups of people?
Mar 13, 2025 · The simplest, and most "official" answer: you capitalize proper nouns. I imagine you ask because you've seen emails with examples like you give. The best explanation for that is simply …
Opposite of lowering - English Language & Usage Stack Exchange
May 15, 2017 · The word "lowering", as in the context of lowering something, therefore making it lower in some measurable way, is pretty common. It is so common that I often start sentences about doing …
Origin of “give a damn about” - English Language & Usage Stack …
Mar 9, 2025 · As explained in the following post “give a damn”, though used mainly in the negative form (don’t give a damn), when used in affirmative sentences, suggests that you care about …
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grammar - 'were' or 'was' in a sentence with two subjects - plural ...
Jul 23, 2024 · I have a sentence that goes somewhat like this: No further oranges or information <were/was> given. Now, I know that usually we use 'were' in cases like this where there are two …
Origin of "That tracks" to mean "That makes sense."
Jun 15, 2024 · For the past few years, I have been hearing people say "that tracks," meaning "that makes sense." My search on Green's Dictionary of Slang yielded nothing with this …
Is there a single-word adjective for "having exceptionally strong moral ...
Mar 3, 2023 · Yesterday I was writing an English text and found myself unable to find a single-word adjective to characterize a man with very strong moral principles, so I had to reformulate the entire …
Should spaces be used between "<" or ">" and numbers or letters?
Jul 28, 2017 · The AMA Manual of Style says: Thin spaces should be used before and after the following mathematical symbols: ±, =, <, >, ≤, ≥, +, −, ÷, ×, ·, ≈, ∼, ∩, ∫, Π, Σ, and |. a ± b a = b a + b a − b a ÷ b …
What's a word that means to 'intentionally withhold information'?
Aug 9, 2014 · I was reading an online editorial a week or so ago in which its author employed an awesome word, the meaning of which was "to intentionally and deliberately withhold information …