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  2. Mamihlapinatapai - Wikipedia

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    A romantic interpretation of the meaning has also been given, as "that look across the table when two people are sharing an unspoken but private moment. When each knows the other understands and is in agreement with what is being expressed. An expressive and meaningful silence." [2] A literal translation could be "to make each other feel ...

  3. Duplex (building) - Wikipedia

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    An over-and-under two storey apartment duplex in Southeastern Pennsylvania A large, modern side-by-side duplex in downtown Sausalito, California. A duplex house plan has two living units attached to each other, either next to each other as townhouses, condominiums or one above the other like apartments.

  4. List of gestures - Wikipedia

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    This is commonly used when travelling to show thanks to other people, such as thanking a bus driver from the other side of the bus, or thanking another traveller for voluntarily yielding to let another traveller pass. Serbian three-finger salute is a salute used by ethnic Serbs, made by extending the thumb, index, and middle fingers.

  5. Juxtaposition - Wikipedia

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    Thus, where English uses the conjunction and (e.g. mother and father), many languages use simple juxtaposition ("mother father"). In logic , juxtaposition is a logical fallacy on the part of the observer, where two items placed next to each other imply a correlation, when none is actually claimed.

  6. Complementary colors - Wikipedia

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    Complementary colors are pairs of colors which, when combined or mixed, cancel each other out (lose chroma) by producing a grayscale color like white or black. [1] [better source needed] When placed next to each other, they create the strongest contrast for those two colors. Complementary colors may also be called "opposite colors".

  7. Pedestrian crossing - Wikipedia

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    A cycle path is represented by two points next to each other, a vehicle lane by a rectangle and tram rails by two lines lying one above the other. Islands are represented as a rectangle, which has semicircles on the right and left side. If there is a pushbutton for pedestrians on the island, there is a dot in the middle of the rectangle.

  8. List of words having different meanings in American and ...

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    a person from East/South East Asia. Contrast 'Asian', meaning a person from South Asia. a thing from Asia e.g. "Oriental carpet". a person from anywhere in Asia, other than Western Asia or Russia. Considered pejorative when used to describe persons. Polite US speakers use Asian instead, even for people from China and Korea. ouster: a person who ...

  9. English collocations - Wikipedia

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    Compounds are units of meaning formed with two or more words. The words are usually written separately, but some may be hyphenated or be written as one word. Often the meaning of the compound can be guessed by knowing the meaning of the individual words. It is not always simple to detach collocations and compounds. car park; post office; narrow ...