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rechargeable battery [2] (technical) a type of bet [3] (US: parlay) one that accumulates, as a type of computer processor register or a hydraulic accumulator [2] ace: good, excellent (informal) a one in a suit of playing cards someone who is very good at something (tennis) a winning serve in which the receiver does not touch the ball
The following is a handy reference for editors, listing various common spelling differences between national varieties of English. Please note: If you are not familiar with a spelling, please do some research before changing it – it may be your misunderstanding rather than a mistake, especially in the case of American and British English spelling differences.
The spelling -ise is more commonly used in UK mass media and newspapers, [58] including The Times (which switched conventions in 1992), [60] The Daily Telegraph, The Economist and the BBC. The Government of the United Kingdom additionally uses -ise , stating "do not use Americanisms" justifying that the spelling "is often seen as such". [ 61 ]
The following list, of about 350 words, is based on documented lists [4] [10] of the top 100, 200, or 400 [3] most commonly misspelled words in all variants of the English language, rather than listing every conceivable misspelled word.
The Oxford spelling affects about 200 verbs, [6] and is favoured on etymological grounds, in that ‑ize corresponds more closely to the Greek root of most ‑ize verbs, -ίζω (‑ízō). [7] The suffix ‑ize has been in use in the UK since the 15th century, [5] and is the spelling variation used in North American English.
In British English (BrE), collective nouns can take either singular (formal agreement) or plural (notional agreement) verb forms, according to whether the emphasis is on the body as a whole or on the individual members respectively; compare a committee was appointed with the committee were unable to agree.
In British English, spoiled is usually the past-tense verb (the milk spoiled), and spoilt is usually the past-participial adjective (the spoilt milk) [2] storey, story – a level of a building; sulphur, sulfur – but note that Wikipedia usage for chemistry-related articles is always sulfur as specified by IUPAC root
To keep two sequences playing at the same rate (in sync). A slide show or a series of video clips can be synced to the beat on an audio track. A talking-head video needs to maintain lip-sync, so that the audio matches the mouth movements of the speaker. Synchronizing Maintaining two or more scanning processes in phase.