Column heads and stubs [entries in the leftmost column of the table] must match one another in style across a series of tables. Spelling, capitalization, punctuation, abbreviations, and symbols must likewise be regularized.
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Most is defined by the attributes you apply to it. "Most of your time" would imply more than half, "the most time" implies more than the rest in your stated set. Your time implies your total time, where the most time implies more than the rest. I think "most" leads to a great deal of ambiguity.
What does the word "most" mean? - English Language & Usage Stack Exchange
Which one of the following sentences is the most canonical? I know most vs. the most has been explained a lot, but my doubts pertain specifically to which one to use at the end of a sentence. Do...
"most" vs "the most", specifically as an adverb at the end of sentence
The adverbial use of the definite noun the most synonymous with the bare-adverbial most to modify an entire clause or predicate has been in use since at least the 1500s and is an integral part of English.
grammar - When to use "most" or "the most" - English Language & Usage ...
I've recently come across a novel called A most wanted man, after which being curious I found a TV episode called A most unusual camera. Could someone shed some light on how to use "a most" and wh...
superlative degree - How/when does one use "a most"? - English Language ...
Here "most" means "a plurality". Most dentists recommend Colgate toothpaste. Here it is ambiguous about whether there is a bare majority or a comfortable majority. From the 2nd Language Log link: I searched on Google for the pattern "most * percent", and picked out of the first 150 hits all the examples like these:
meaning - Is "most" equivalent to "a majority of"? - English Language ...
Welcome to the most wildest show on earth. Someone pointed out the most wildest and I was wondering if it was OK to use most with a word that ends in -est together.
grammar - Is it correct to use "most" + "-est" together? - English ...
1 If your question is about frequency, in both the Corpus of Contemporary English and the British National Corpus there are three times as many records for most as for the most.
adverbs - Which is more common - 'the most' or 'most'? - English ...
I was always under impression that "most important" is correct usage when going through the list of things. We need to pack socks, toothbrushes for the trip, but most important is to pack underwe...
During most of history, humans were too busy to think about thought. Why is "most of history" correct in the above sentence? I could understand the difference between "Most of the people" and "Most
These are questions that most people could answer. Another way to look at it: "What TV show do you spend most of the time watching?" is a loaded question. It already implies that I spend most of my time watching TV. Compare it to "What spills do you spend most of the time cleaning up?" which will annoy me because I don't spill anything.
grammar - Is it "most" or "the most" or "most of time"? - English ...
Well, it's very easy to rule out the first option (since “entrys” is not a word). Let's forget the prepositional phrase (“of N word-to-be-decided”) for now. How would you phrase the sentence with varying numbers? “0 entry selected” or “0 entries selected”? (Ignoring that many style guides will tell you spell out the numeral), the latter is correct. “1 entry selected" or “1 ...
Because the dictionaries have entries for the same thing you can decide whether or not you make entry's plurality agree with the total number of entries (2 entries - one for each dictionary) or the number of distinct entries (1 entry - one for the subject, cum grano salis).
"Had entries" or "had an entry"? - English Language & Usage Stack Exchange
Using a simple trick, the online OED provides counts of new word entries from its earliest recorded years (1400 CE) to the present. New Word Entries are defined to be the year a word first appeared in written form in English language books and publications, not the year its vernacular usage originated.
Why does the online OED show precipitous declines in new word entries ...
I always get a little flustered by the question of how to punctuate the end of each of my table entries, where the table is part of a longer document primarily composed of traditional sentences but...
None of the other definitions in the MW entry for index —and none of the six entries for index as a noun in AHDEL —indicate a "usu" plural form of index as between indexes and indices.
Side Note: Err is an old-fashioned word meaning ‘make a mistake’. I have been stuck in a mental slump, attempting to figure out which definition (in the listed dictionary entries) is the one and true underlying definition of said phrase.
Duplicate Data: Entries that have been added by a system user multiple times, for example, re-registering because you have forgotten your details. Duplicated Data: Someone has deliberately taken a precise duplicate of the data - or a proportion of it - maybe for backup or reporting purposes. It may have been accidentally added to the original.
According to the entries for till and until in the Online Etymology Dictionary, until would have derived from till: until = und + till, where und was an Old English word meaning "as far as, up to".
The mainstream dictionary entries seem to be either for "opp" meaning "opportunity" (as in "business opp", "job opp"), or as an abbreviation for terms such as "opposite" or "opus". So I think the hip-hop slang is probably a separate coinage.