Showing posts with label language. Show all posts
Showing posts with label language. Show all posts

Monday, 14 November 2016

Know Your English -- 2016-11-14

What does the expression ‘You’re toast’ mean?

How is the word ‘minion’ pronounced?

What is the meaning and origin of ‘on cloud nine’?

Which is correct: ‘different from’ or ‘different than’?

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Monday, 13 July 2015

differencebetween.com

Life is full of choices to make, so are the differences. Differences are the identity of a person or any item.

Throughout our life we have to make number of choices. To make the right choice we need to know what makes one different from the other.

We know that making the right choice is the hardest task we face in our life and we will never be satisfied with what we chose, we tend to think the other one would have been better. We spend a lot of time on making decision between A and B.

And the information that guide us to make the right choice should be unbiased, easily accessible, freely available, no hidden agendas and have to be simple and self explanatory, while adequately informative. Information is everything in decision making. That’s where differencebetween.com  comes in. We make your life easy by guiding you to distinguish the differences between anything and everything, so that you can make the right choices.

Whatever the differences you want to know, be it about two people, two places, two items, two concepts, two technologies or whatever it is, we have the answer. We have not confined ourselves in to limits. We have a very wide collection of information, that are diverse, unbiased and freely available. In our analysis we try to cover all the areas such as what is the difference, why the difference and how the difference affect.

What we do at DifferenceBetween.com, We team up with selected academics, subject matter experts and script writers across the world to give you the best possible information in differentiating any two items.

Easy Search: We have added search engine for viewers to go direct to the topic they are searching for, without browsing page by page.

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Saturday, 13 April 2013

Know Your English -- dt. 09-04-2013

What is the difference between ‘bogie’ and ‘coach’?

What is the difference between ‘I have seen the film’ and ‘I saw the film’?

How is the word ‘beleaguered’ pronounced?

What is the meaning and origin of ‘at his heels’?

“Anybody who doesn’t know what soap tastes like never washed a dog.” — Franklin P. Jones

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Know Your English -- dt. 02-04-2013

What is the meaning of ‘clean chit’?

How is the word ‘limousine’ pronounced?

What is the meaning and origin of the expression ‘put one’s neck on the line’?

What is the difference between ‘takeaway’ and ‘takeout’?

“Generation gap: The one war in which everyone changes sides.” — Cyril Connolly

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Know Your English -- dt. 26-03-2013

What is the meaning and origin of ‘What’s your poison’?

Is it okay for a man to ask, ‘What do you think of my dress?’

What is the difference between ‘knife’ and ‘dagger’?

What is the meaning of ‘religiose’?

Is it okay to say ‘I regret for not seeing your movie’?

“Belgium is a country invented by the British to annoy the French.” — Charles de Gaulle

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Know Your English -- dt. 19-03-2013

What is the meaning and origin of the expression ‘draw a line in the sand’?

Is it all right to say ‘commentate’?

How is ‘cul-de-sac’ pronounced?

Is it okay to say ‘crowdy’?

“Conscience is a mother in law whose visit never ends.” — Henry Louis Mencken

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Know Your English -- dt. 12-03-2013

What is the meaning of the word 'lynch'?

What is the difference between 'wordsmith' and 'wordrobe'?

What is the origin of the term 'red tape'?

Is it all right to say 'commentate'?

“It's easy being a humourist when you've got the whole government working for you.” - Will Rogers

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Know Your English -- dt. 05-03-2013

What is the meaning and origin of ‘cherry-picking’?

What do you call someone who studies insects?

Is it okay to say ‘He received his wife at the station’?

What is the meaning and origin of ‘follow suit’?

“A conference is just an admission that you want somebody to join you in your troubles.” — Will Rogers

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Wednesday, 27 February 2013

Know Your English -- dt. 26-02-2013

What is the meaning of ‘packed to the rafters’?

What is the difference between ‘crook’ and ‘history sheeter’?

How is the word ‘staccato’ pronounced?

Why don’t I find the term ‘white money’ in dictionaries?

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Know Your English -- dt. 19-02-2013

How is the word ‘insouciance’ pronounced?

What is the origin of ‘high tea’?

In the case of some people, there is no gap between the two eyebrows — they are joined together. Is there a term for this?

Is it okay to say ‘enjoin from’?

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Know Your English -- dt. 12-02-2013

What is the difference between ‘celibate’ and ‘bachelor’?

What is the meaning of ‘nomophobia’?

What is the meaning and origin of ‘to pit against’?

Is there a term to describe a wedding where two gay people get married?

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Know Your English -- dt. 05-02-2013

What is the difference between ‘felon’ and ‘criminal’

What is the meaning and origin of ‘seamy side of life’?

How is the word ‘rigmarole’ pronounced?

What is the meaning of ‘townterview’?

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Know Your English -- dt. 29-01-2013

What is the origin of ‘blackmail’?

What is the meaning of ‘nomophobia’?

Why is a worker sometimes referred to as a ‘blackleg’?

Why do commentators say ‘clean bowled’?

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Wednesday, 9 January 2013

Know Your English -- dt. 08-01-2013

What is the difference between ‘peppy’ and ‘happy’?

What is the meaning of ‘He is a basket case’?

Is it okay to say, ‘Don’t take tension’?

How is the word ‘sepulchre’ pronounced?

What is the meaning of ‘have one’s hand in the till’?

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Tuesday, 1 January 2013

Know Your English -- dt. 01-01-2013

What is the difference between ‘woozy’ and ‘dizzy’?

What is the meaning of ‘hue and cry’?

How is the word ‘carte blanche’ pronounced?

December 31 is called ‘New Year’s Eve.’ Is there a term for December 30?

What is the opposite of ‘out of the box thinking’?

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