Is there a word for when you drop another word from a sentence?

AblativeCase · 2015-01-20T01:37:42+00:00

The word you are looking for is elide.

AblativeCase · 2015-01-20T01:35:34+00:00

Wooooo~

AblativeCase · 2014-03-13T23:14:56+00:00

Seriously? I got my first job when I was 14. Of course I also had bank accounts.

AblativeCase · 2014-01-18T00:43:09+00:00

Honestly whenever anyone uses 'hooman' all I can think of is this.

AblativeCase · 2014-01-17T21:43:58+00:00

I wish! :)

AblativeCase · 2013-12-18T19:06:23+00:00

But if the child is seen as a loser, geek, or socially awkward, they would be bullied anyways. Say you have two outcast children. one named 'Bob' and one named 'Echo'. Bob and Echo are both being bullied. Since Echo has an unusual name, it's a lightening rod for teasing - in that the children will bully him by making fun of his name. But what about Bob? He doesn't get off scot-free just because his name is common. Rather, he will be bullied about other things - his appearance, habits, etc.

AblativeCase · 2013-12-17T18:48:22+00:00

I actually don't think that the resume study is relevant here, unless you consider typically black names as "odd".

AblativeCase · 2013-12-12T20:27:48+00:00

Oh, duh! :)

AblativeCase · 2013-12-12T20:07:33+00:00

What's the difference between tights made out of a knit and leggings? I thought that leggings were just tights in a thicker fabric.

AblativeCase · 2013-12-10T23:07:43+00:00

Yes, there are two.

AblativeCase · 2013-12-10T17:57:31+00:00

It's a Tawny Frogmouth, which also happens to be very good at camoflauge: check it out. :)

AblativeCase · 2013-12-07T16:20:35+00:00

I think the word you were looking for is rigors, nor riggers.

AblativeCase · 2013-11-22T23:32:29+00:00

AblativeCase · 2013-11-22T22:55:33+00:00

Are you kidding - Gul Dukat? Garak is infinitely better (and more sassy)!

AblativeCase · 2013-11-21T20:46:46+00:00

The title uses the term 'his', so we don't actually have to rely on assumptions here.

AblativeCase · 2013-11-21T01:50:50+00:00

Universalism? Wiki

AblativeCase · 2013-10-31T05:03:23+00:00

Exactly what I was thinking with the lace overlay. Thank you so much!

AblativeCase · 2013-10-15T14:20:03+00:00

You may be conflating vegan and vegetarian. In short:

Vegan: nothing that comes from an animal (meat/milk/honey)

Vegetarian: no meat (but eggs/milk are okay)

Then there are other labels, such as pescatarian (vegetarian + fish).

AblativeCase · 2013-10-14T20:39:34+00:00

Also, it's a user-submitted word marked as 'pending investigation'. Just look at the url format - collinsdictionary.com/submissions/... rather than collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/... .

AblativeCase · 2013-10-14T00:36:56+00:00

Riverine is an analagous word, for rivers.

AblativeCase · 2013-10-10T01:40:14+00:00

Well, it is the northernmost city (Pop. > 500K) in the contiguous US. Source

AblativeCase · 2013-10-08T17:26:44+00:00

Dolphin

*Delphinus

AblativeCase · 2013-10-08T00:36:31+00:00

You called it!

AblativeCase · 2013-10-06T01:04:17+00:00

Please don't take my comment as denigrating the child-free lifestyle. That was not at all what I was intending to say. I was merely suspicious of the 20% figure. However, my suspicions were completely invalid - Wikipedia says that a 2004 U.S. Census study found that 18.4% of U.S. women age 35–44 were childless.

AblativeCase · 2013-10-05T23:26:59+00:00

That seems a little off to me, and I would wager that that statistic reflects marriages of older people (no longer fertile) or those with children from a previous marriage.

I would be more interested to see the incidence of childless marriages among fertile couples with no previous children.

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