single word requests - What is the name of the area of skin …
Apr 29, 2014 · @Doorknob - Elliot has named it correctly. The upper lip is skin-covered, skin-colored, and hairy. The pink parts are called the upper and lower vermilion, the border between the skin and the vermilion is called the vermilion border, the wet, shiny inner portion of what people call the "lips" is called the wet vermilion or the mucosa.
Origin of the idiom "go south" - English Language & Usage Stack …
Sep 19, 2011 · go south (also head south, take a turn south) 1 v phr by 1940s To disappear; fail by or as if by vanishing [examples omitted] 2 v phr by 1925 To abscond with money loot, etc. [examples omitted] 3 v phr underworld by 1950 To cheat, esp to cheat at cards [examples omitted] 4 v phr by 1980s To lessen; diminish [examples omitted] Probably from the ...
adjectives - East Coast, East coast, or east coast? - English …
Apr 29, 2015 · Yet the West Midlands is to all intents a proper noun and always capitalised, as is East Anglia. The 'Home Counties' is the collective name given to the six counties which border London, but I am always at a loss as to whether to apply capitals.I think I will compose a …
etymology - English Language & Usage Stack Exchange
Aug 20, 2011 · having the same border or covering the same area. being the same in extent; coextensive in range or scope. Its definitions of "conterminous": having a common boundary; bordering; contiguous. meeting at the ends; without an intervening gap: In our calendar system, the close of one year is conterminous with the beginning of the next. coterminous.
meaning - English Language & Usage Stack Exchange
Aug 13, 2018 · Latin margo means "edge, border". The margins of a page are the white spaces at the edges of a page around the text. Because pages are rectangular, there are the side margins (left and right), the top or upper margin, and the bottom or lower margin (also called the foot(er) ).
'Edge of time' meaning of phrase - English Language & Usage …
a line or border at which a surface terminates. Here edge of time is used in a figurative way to refer to the far end of time suggesting that they were so immersed in their chatting in office that the house appeared to be as something very far away from their reality. The author is probably suggesting that they were so absorbed by their chat ...
What is the rule for adjective order?
Dec 15, 2014 · Michael Swan (Practical English Usage, Oxford University Press, 1997) writes: "Unfortunately, the rules for adjective order are very complicated, and different grammars disagree about the details" p. 8
differences - English Language & Usage Stack Exchange
Dec 10, 2018 · They interdicted the drugs the cartel was shipping across the border. They intercepted the drugs the cartel was shipping across the border. But for seizing things that are legal, you should only use intercept. The enemy intercepted our …
Is there one word for both horizontal or vertical, but not diagonal ...
Apr 19, 2014 · Regions that border have part of a boundary in common, but I think "coterminous" means that the entire border is the same; that is, the two entities comprise the same region. Queens (the borough of New York City) is coterminous with Queens County (a county in New York); they're arguably not the same thing, but they have the same borders and ...
word choice - English Language & Usage Stack Exchange
Sep 19, 2014 · Also exactly like a border, when the value goes from 99 to 101 it crosses the threshold, but when it goes from 101 to 99 it crosses the threshold as well. – Samuel Edwin Ward Commented Sep 19, 2014 at 15:26