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Difference between online and on line - English Language Learners Stack ...
When do we use online as one word and when as two words? For example, do we say :"I want to go online or on line?"
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What is a very general term or phrase for a course that is not online?
4 I'm trying to find the most general term or phrase for the opposite of "online course". When a course is not online, but in a classroom, or anywhere else people interact in the same place, not through a computer, how would I call it? I'm translating some words used in messages and labels in a e-learning web application used by companies.
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How to inform the link of a scheduled online meeting in formal emails ...
I am writing a formal email to someone to send him the link of a scheduled online meeting. I have already acknowledged him before about the meeting. I can not figure out the most appropriate and fo...
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word choice - "available in the store" Or "available in-store ...
"In-store" is increasingly being used alongside "online": "This computer is available in-store and online". You might ring, email or text the store and ask "Is this available in-store, because I'd really like to look at it and use the one on display". If you actually in the store, you have choices including: "Is this (computer) available in this store?" (I think better than "in the store") or ...
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To emphasize the contrast between the operations through online stores and ones with physical stores, buildings, or facilities, you can use the term brick-and-mortar (also written: brick and mortar, bricks and mortar, B&M). brick-and-martar adjective a brick-and-mortar business is a traditional business that does not operate on the Internet According to Wikipedia, More specifically, in the ...
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There is an application, named "Discord", for online conversation. Does discord have another meaning which is probably more suited for the application, or is the application intended for disagreement?
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According to a number of online dictionaries, it has quite a usual meaning: (of evidence or a report) suggesting very strongly that someone is guilty of a crime or has made a serious mistake However, my search in the context brought me to some newspaper articles that, I imagine, could use strong colloquial expressions, and self-development books.
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I bought a new cell phone I have bought a new cell phone What is the difference?
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"Tick" vs. "check" the box - English Language Learners Stack Exchange
ticking the box -> there is a box, and click it to mark the same with a check mark (if you want to select it). (common in online forms/surveys etc.) Moreover, "checking the box" is more flexible, since those who live in the era where forms are answered in hard copies can automatically interpret it as to selecting the option available.
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Why can't I find references to the idiom "silky drawers" online?
'Keep your filthy paws off my silky drawers' and the punning 'Keep your filthy laws off my silky drawers' are T-shirt slogans, popularised by the film 'Grease', apparently not considered well enough established as a fixed phrase / idiom (with an obvious feminist slant) to merit inclusion in sources listing idioms.