Re: Is there a diffrence here ?
Navigator, will you
ever stop asking questions
navigator wrote:Hi,
Does anyone out there use or still use these words?,
1)oaf, ninny, heavy-handed, rendezvous.
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.
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2)He has a bristly, bushy, thick, stubby moustache.
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.
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3)The carpet has a stain, taint, smear, smirch.
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.
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4)It is a blunder or it?s an ambiguous error.
What are you asking?
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5)You have to specify, point, define, assign the details.
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
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Hope I?m not confusing, oh yes, is there any difference between, confused,
confound, discomfited, disconcerted, and puzzled?
Didn't you have a topic on this one already?
Thanks
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