Is there a diffrence here ?

Re: Is there a diffrence here ?
Navigator, will you ever stop asking questions



Oaf and ninny are pretty old-fashioned. If you hear people using them, you can assume that they are purposefully using them to sound old fashioned!

Heavy-handed and rendezvous are still in use.



Bristly means that the hairs are very stiff, like bristles on a wire brush.

Bushy means that the hair is very dense. In other words, that there is a lot of hair in a small area. Same as thick.

Stubby means that the hairs are short, and probably bristly too.



Stain is the proper word for this context. The carpet has been literally
stained with some food or drink. Stain can also be used abstractly, to mean that something pure/clean has been made impure. For instance, you could stain my driving record with a car crash. Taint means pretty
much the same thing as this abstract definition of stain. Taint can also be used to refer to physical things but usually only liquids. It doesn't sound proper to me to say that the carpet has been tainted. Smear refers to the way that the stain was applied...it means that it was pressed against and then dragged so as to create a smear. Smirch...well, I don't know what that means.



What are you asking?



Specifying means that you signify a set of targets, in any way.

Pointing is specifying, but it implies that you are using the gesture to make this specification...

Defining is a more mathematical way of specifying the targets.

Assigning is different...you "assign the players to teams" means that you choose what teams they go on



Didn't you have a topic on this one already?

Thanks


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Re: Is there a diffrence here ?
I will never stop untill you mine..

I can make forever till the end of time..

Cause my heart is in you hand..

don't you understand..I'll never stop..



And oops I asked that before, the confused stuff!

I meant, what does a blunder used for ? How can we use it ?

He is a blundering idiot.

Here, blundering means that he stumbles around though life, with little grace or sense of direction.

Re: Is there a diffrence here ?


Agree with Stuh, except that most are still in current usage, though you might choose these words to sound old fashioned.

Thanks roger.

Coming late to this thread...

I would agree with stuh that ninny is very old-fashioned, but oaf and oafish are still in current use in the UK.

Taint means more than stain; it means to corrupt or pollute. You would speak of tainted meat, for example.

Smirch is a cognate of smear and used to mean the same but is now only used figuratively. You can smirch somebody's reputation, for example.

Thanks syntinen