2015年7月5日 · Subject and object are hypernyms of "thing that is described", and getting a more exact term requires getting more obscure. Every sentence is a description; from a certain point of view, every word is a description, a conceptualization in the human brain of a real or imagined thing, event or state of being.

2015年5月30日 · I believe if something is described by something else, the thing in question is all there is for the description to have been made. On the other hand, if something is described with something else, the thing in question is a part of the solution, which helps the overall description. To make the explanation easier, let's try some examples:

Since the table here is a row by column arrangement which contains information, described in will be used. This is because the information is in the table. If the table was a flat surface with legs (physical table), the correct form would be described on. In general, the preposition on and at is used when we address a table. Eg. Food is on the ...

2017年6月21日 · I am consistently confused by by the usage of "as follows", in particular, I don't know if I should end "as follows" with a period, or with a colon. Should I always use a colon,...

2011年8月18日 · According to this thread, the OED speculates on its origins inconclusively.. Perhaps so named because English players introduced the technique to the U.S. (but see quot. 1959).

As a preposition, "below" would be written after "information" as a stranded preposition.While typically prepositions would precede the noun, stranded prepositions can occur "in interrogative or relative clauses, where the interrogative or relative pronoun that is the preposition's complement is moved to the start".

2023年2月18日 · Wonderful thoughts, Cody. I love your knowledge of the etymologies. Thank you for sharing. To describe why I think the first example is violent would involve more words, but it's not my point.

2017年1月11日 · I'm trying to find a word (or idiom or phrase) that describes something which is perceived as belonging to one person or group of people only. To contextualise this question I'll provide the paragr...

2022年5月1日 · In fact, when you hear someone described as a "big muckety-muck" (big shot) it is a mid-western U.S. interpretation of the Yiddish "macha" or "big macha" - which is what we say in NY. Yiddish not only has a lot of great descriptive terms, but it's very onomatopoeic(?), so it easily becomes part of the lexicon.

2012年11月15日 · thus adv [ME fr. OE; akin to to OS thus thus] (bef. 12c) 1 : in this or that manner or way {described it thus} 2 : to this degree or extent : SO {thus far} 3 : because of this or that : HENCE, CONSEQUENTLY 4 : as an example. thusly adv (1865) : in this manner : THUS. These definitions raise several points. First, thus is clearly a much older ...