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When you use "hammered" as an adjective, it can mean drunk, and usually doesn't mean attacked: He is hammered. He was so hammered. It made him hammered. We got him hammered. When you use "hammer" as a transitive verb, it can mean attack, and usually doesn't mean drunk: That will hammer him. She hammered him. They had hammered him.
[75% down the page] If the size of firms obeys a power law, economies will comprise some very big firms and a long tail of small ones. The fortunes of the biggest companies might then stir the whole
Don't get me wrong: I don't mean to suggest that this distinction doesn't matter, but rather just this: to get by... you can always use 's instead of s' and you will be making a mistake about 1% of the time and when you do, very few people -- possibly nobody! -- will ever notice. Take away: be confident and use 's rather than s' all the time.
But the Monday coming can be said as this Monday or next Monday. Often, if we mean the Monday coming, we say "this coming Monday" to clarify it, and if we mean the Monday after that, we say "Monday week" but Monday week can also be spoken as next Monday which makes it confusing and also incorrect.
In your second example (didn't read the link), ever-evolving is definitely a good choice since it's based on the assumption that the person's definition of success is getting more accurate to what success really, truly means for him. Whether that is making more money or spending more time with friends/family, whatever he feels makes him most ...
The Merriam-Webster definition of "riff" the verb uses "riff" the noun. The M-W definition of the noun boils down (I think) to "a short musical phrase that repeats within a longer piece." Longman's and MacMillan's definitions are easier to understand: "a repeated series of notes in popular or jazz music" & "a short series of notes in jazz or ...
I agree with the definition of social fabric above, which has to do with interaction, peaceful co- existence and development of the community. – Uwaky Commented Jan 29, 2017 at 5:16
When the spirit, or life-force, leaves the body, the body dies and returns to where it came from —the earth. Comparably, the life-force returns to where it came from —God. (Job 34:14, 15; Psalm 36:9) This does not mean that the life-force actually travels to heaven. Rather, it means that for someone who dies, any hope of future life rests ...
In itself and of itself are loan translations from Latin in se and per se.In the fields of philosophy and law these have very precise technical meanings, and the combined phrase in and of itself should be left unmodified when used by an expert speaking of matters in those fields.
it was a hacker culture term years before gamers got hold of it. i heard it back in the late 80s / early 90s. pwn is a typo because on standard english keyboards the o and the p are right next to each other, the i is on the other side of o, not between them. i pwned that system... meaning you got an exploit that gave you total access to do what you wanted with it. pronounced, it's either just ...