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

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    to (literally) lift up, especially a person: booster cushion*, a cushion used to increase the height of a seat (esp. in a car) to steal, especially from a retail establishment (i.e., shoplift) boot storage compartment of a car (US: trunk) footwear covering lower leg to kick something hard to start up a computer

  3. BLUF (communication) - Wikipedia

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    Stating the key judgment and significance up front sets up the argument, ensures the message is clear, and highlights why the reader should care about the document. In order to create a reader-friendly prose, writers structure their paragraphs using BLUF format to better aid the reader's ability to recall the paragraph's main idea or content.

  4. Synonym - Wikipedia

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    Synonym list in cuneiform on a clay tablet, Neo-Assyrian period [1] A synonym is a word, morpheme, or phrase that means precisely or nearly the same as another word, morpheme, or phrase in a given language. [2] For example, in the English language, the words begin, start, commence, and initiate are all synonyms of one another: they are ...

  5. Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Words to watch - Wikipedia

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    Wordings such as "17 years ago" or "Jones is 65 years old" should be rewritten as "in 2008", "Jones was 65 years old at the time of the incident", or "Jones was born in 1960". If a direct quote contains relative time, ensure the date of the quote is clear, such as "Joe Bloggs in 2007 called it 'one of the best books of the last decade'".

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    To clear your Search History, click on the History drop-down arrow and then click the Clear link. Alternatively, you can view and clear your search history by following the steps listed below. To clear Search History: 1. Go to search.aol.com. 2. Click Sign In. 3. Type your AOL Username or Email and Password in the text boxes and then click Sign ...

  7. Straight Up - Wikipedia

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    Straight up is a bartending term referring to a chilled drink served in a stemmed glass without ice. Straight Up may also refer to: Straight Up (book) , by author, blogger, physicist and climate expert Joseph J. Romm

  8. ClearTalk - Wikipedia

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    ClearTalk is a controlled natural language—a kind of a formal language for expressing information that is designed to be both human-readable (being based on English) and easily processed by a computer. Anyone who can read English can immediately read ClearTalk, and the people who write ClearTalk learn to write it while using it.

  9. Straight Up (Paula Abdul song) - Wikipedia

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    "Straight Up" is performed in the key of D minor with a shuffling tempo of 96 beats per minute in common time and a chord progression of Dm–B ♭ –Gm–Am. Running a total length of four minutes and eleven seconds in its original version, the song finds Abdul's vocals span from A 3 to C 5 in the song, while the singer questioning her partner if he was genuinely loving her or "just having fun".