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- How to ask about ones availability? free available not busy?
Saying free or available rather than busy may be considered a more "positive" enquiry It may also simply mean that you expect the person to be busy rather than free, rather than the other way round Saying available rather than free is considered slightly more formal, though I wouldn't worry much about usage cases
- etymology - Origin of the phrase free, white, and twenty-one . . .
The fact that it was well-established long before OP's 1930s movies is attested by this sentence in the Transactions of the Annual Meeting from the South Carolina Bar Association, 1886 And to-day, “free white and twenty-one,” that slang phrase, is no longer broad enough to include the voters in this country
- What does There is no such thing as a free lunch mean?
I had always understood 'there's no such thing as a free lunch' as a expression to demonstrate the economics concept of opportunity cost - whereby even if the lunch is fully paid for, one loses the opportunity to spend that time doing anything else
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- meaning - Release, free, or delete allocated memory? - English . . .
Well, the differences have more to do with the computer language behind them Delete is inappropriate Assuming C++ or similar, an object is being deleted, and its associated memory is automatically freed thereafter Free will be understood by any C-family programmer Release probably will be too but when you are writing for a C audience, stick with C terminology (Release is more often used
- meaning - Is it proper to use the word bandwidth as it relates to . . .
Lacking bandwidth is generally interpreted as lacking resources In your case, you mean time, but this is not a given, so it is likely to cause confusion Also, "lacking bandwidth" is a term the programmers in my group use to derisively describe folks with diminished processing capabilities I would have interpreted this statement to mean that you were too technologically (or cognitively
- word choice - When is -less used, and when is -free used? - English . . .
By contrast, its father (who might have been thought responsible by some) could be adjudged blame-free when another explanation is found On the other hand, the mobile telephone that can be used in a hands-free manner would not sell very well if advertised as being hands-less
- What is the opposite of free, as in gluten-free free of gluten?
3 There is no universal one-word replacement for -free In the context of foods the appropriate portmanteau is gluten-containing -containing can be used universally, although there are other alternatives depending on specific food components (eg, sugared for sugar-free)
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