2014年9月11日 · Questions on choosing an ideal word or phrase must include information on how it will be used in order to be answered. For help writing a good word or phrase request, see: About single word requests; Questions that can be answered using commonly-available references are off-topic. A list of these references can be found here: List of general ...

2021年3月3日 · I was looking for a metaphorical phrase that sort of fits along the lines of honing a hidden/unapparent talent. I can't quite place my finger on it, but I remember one that goes something like trying to purify (not sure what's the word) a mineral/rock/stone into a form that is beautiful (i.e. diamonds).

2017年4月13日 · Another possibility is instilled, but it refers to a period of months rather than days. Instil(UK)/instill(US) definition: to introduce, implant or infuse a feeling, idea, or principle gradually into someone's mind, so that it has a strong influence on …

2016年10月14日 · Why not honed? hone: refine or perfect (something) over a period of time. Also valid is iterated or iterated upon, as that implies many small changes over a longer time period. This does not directly imply being advanced, however. A sentence using both: After being iterated upon for twenty years, the Internet has become a honed informational tool.

2015年1月12日 · Logic and word meanings aren't guaranteed. 'Hone in' seems to come from the mid 20th century; once enough people make the same mistake, then, to 'all intensive purposes', that is a meaning of the word. When it's a mistake that is repeated then the etymology is irrelevant. Check out malapropism and mondegreen. –

2015年8月12日 · The Wikipedia is overly focused on the most modern usage of the word as it relates to the effects of the internet on worker productivity. The origin of goldbrick is tied to fraud where a con artist would paint a brick with gold paint and try to sell it as a real bar of gold. As it later became adapted into a work-related verb it came to mean ...

2016年9月15日 · Thank you, I intend this to be for a PowerPoint presentation. And one bullet point was this: "Worked out technical specification document". I wanted to emphasize that the technical document we created took a few attempts/iterations. The "extra effort" of iterations was my main point for the word "worked out" –

2015年3月13日 · Your description does not well match with the word you venture, so a list of its synonyms is all too unlikely to include such words mandate and order (links to M-W), which I think are what you seek. Both of these can be used as either verbs or nouns.

ODO provides the following definition for the word ripped: 3. informal having well-defined or well-developed muscles; muscular: through his slightly-too-tight shirt you could see he was ripped

2017年9月17日 · Traditional English grammar teaches us that a well-defined function is a function that is well defined. With the hyphen in the adjective role before the noun and without the hyphen in the role of an