What’s the difference between particulate and particle? Should it be diesel particulates or diesel particles, and why? Could you provide three or more examples where it should use particulate …

Feb 9, 2018 · An alternative wording of the sentence could be We are dealing with a case of a negative externality of consumption, which results in oversupply and greater consumption of …

To headquarter: ( intr.) to establish one's headquarters. Looking at Ngram the expression the company is headquartered has been more and more common since the 60's. It refers to the …

Sep 8, 2019 · For example, we have: diesel, in diesel fuel and diesel engines, for inventor Rudolf Diesel (Wikipedia) leotard, for performer Jules Léotard (Wikipedia) voltaic pile, for physicist …

I was interested in the following sentences which appeared, respectively, in a news article titled “ Can’t Park? Blame a Condo " and in a news article titled "Senator Simmons on the Negro", …

"The root gas... doesn't necessarily mean gaseous." -- Yes, it does mean something gaseous (gaseous being derived from gas). The definition quoted, from the OED, is a subdefinition of …

Why are gym rats so called? Because, it is simply a metaphor. It comes from the fact that rats like to live where people live and they frequent places where humans inhabit. Rats are perhaps the …

In UK the word 'taxi' is used for the diesel-engine ones with a high roof to the passenger compartment (also known as 'black cabs/black taxis'), and the term 'minicab' is used for …

Dec 9, 2016 · For example, Herculean when referring to Hercules himself, but often herculean when referring to the figurative, generalized extension sense; and quixotic and diesel engine …

Aug 16, 2013 · To give an analogue, I can refer to "gasoline, diesel, electricity, rocket, etc." as "fuels" In my specific case, I can't use "environment" because it's being used to describe other …