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Software is called a "non-countable" ("non-count") noun, similar to, say, furniture. As such, it is treated as a singular: Your furniture is in transit. The software is available on our website. If your sentence requires you to indicate, without a doubt, you are talking plural, use the non-count noun as an adjective and attach it to a countable ...
"Shipping" in the software sense means to deliver it to the customer. It derives from the old practice of literally shipping boxes containing disks/CDs in the mail. @Shog9 had a good description of the origin of "Ship it!", but I think in modern practice it no longer has any particular implication of confidence or recklessness.
There are many different uses of each of those words (including the heavy use of version for software), but in their main meaning, the difference is mainly given by the (New Oxford American Dictionary) definition of edition: edition (noun): a particular form or version of a published text. The emphasis is mine, and it outlines the core of the ...
I always thought that software was the singluar AND the plural(as weird as that may seems) For example: The company sells software (Could mean one program, could mean 50) The company sells many different types of software. (Definitely plural, although the word software is used.)
Ex. download the files, download music, download the software etc. But in fact "download" is a verb that can either be transitive or intransitive. This means that you can use it even without an object. So: The files are ready to download. is shorter and perfectly natural. Ex.
Onerous means "burdensome", related to onus "burden".Arduous means "difficult" and derives from the Latin arduus "high, steep".
It had a specific nautical meaning in the 19th century. From the OED: I. 35. †f. Naut. In the imperative phrase make it so, by which the commander of a vessel instructs that the time reported to him (e.g. the end of a watch and spec. noon, when sights are taken to determine what was formerly the start of a ship's day) is relayed to the crew (see quots. 1826 and 1867).
When used alongside the word 'described', the preposition 'in' would be the equivalent of either 'via' or 'inside'.
Possible Duplicate: Negation prefixes: un-, dis-, a-, in-, … The prefix un is commonly used to negate a word, but is is quite rare with words that start with the letter p; the prefix im...
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