- Smaller vs. less vs. lesser - English Language Usage Stack Exchange
Smaller in amount, value, or importance, especially in a comparison between two things: chose the lesser evil Of a smaller size than other, similar forms: the lesser anteater Lesser refers to something discrete and is a specific comparison between two things Less is also comparative, but does not refer to an explicit amount I want less sugar
- Word for smaller version of - English Language Usage Stack Exchange
I'm looking for a descriptive words to indicate "smaller than the standard version" Example: I have a html form with some inputs The inputs come in sizes (eg small, normal, large) Those sizes
- Difference between town, city and metropolis?
Here's the order as described by the New Oxford American Dictionary: hamlet: a small settlement, generally one smaller than a village village: a group of houses and associated buildings, larger than a hamlet and smaller than a town, situated in a rural area town: an urban area that has a name, defined boundaries, and local government, and that is larger than a village and generally smaller
- word choice - English Language Usage Stack Exchange
In "x times smaller," the word "smaller" inverts the ratio There are of course other ways of expressing this, but that's a matter of style Using "by a factor of" doesn't necessarily fix things: (1) A millimeter is ten times smaller than a centimeter (2) A millimeter is smaller than a centimeter by a factor of 10
- “20th century” vs. “20ᵗʰ century” - English Language Usage . . .
When writing twentieth century using an ordinal numeral, should the th part be in superscript? 20th century 20th century
- What do we call the “rd” in “3ʳᵈ” and the “th” in “9ᵗʰ”?
Our numbers have a specific two-letter combination that tells us how the number sounds For example 9th 3rd 301st What do we call these special sounds?
- What is the difference between a ravine, gorge and canyon?
The definition of canyon from Cambridge seems to fit the best, considering the large size of the Grand Canyon, or Fish River Canyon Merriam-Webster seems to agree that a ravine is smaller than a canyon, and also seems to define gorge as a smaller canyon Overall, given these definitions, I would use canyon for the largest land-forms, and gully for the smallest ones Gorge and ravine seem like
- Has N times less become commonplace? [duplicate]
To attempt to answer the question about frequency, rather than the meaning, I checked on Google ngrams for times fewer than,times less than And, because "times few than" was down in the noise, I checked that by itself It looks like the usage of both has been pretty variable in the past "Times fewer than" is rare but has had a bit of a renaissance in the last few decades But it was more
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