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Dictionary.com mentions (876)

• Sam Harris #1 quote about Free Will

  I don't know what to say. The act of making a choice is just to "select from two or more possibilities," as dictionary.com puts it. We do that. Cats and dogs and birds do that. Single cell amoebas do that. Trees can even be said to do that. And certainly computers do that. Even the problem Sam Harris is stating above is in the form of an if-then statement, the fundamental conditional statement upon which... Source: 4 months ago

• Was beast mode weaker then robot mode?

  Yeah, here's what dictionary.com says about the phrase's origins:. Source: 4 months ago

• Hanging vines

  My wife set up a bunch of her mature vines hanging down from our entrance staircase (both sides). On the left is about a five year old String of Hearts, then Monstera (only a couple of years old), then Pothos (about five years old). The String of Hearts is about 10 feet long, but seems to still get nutrients and moisture to the end. The pothoses (strangely, that is what dictionary.com says is the plural of... Source: 5 months ago

• what's the meaning of imminent

  This word is very interesting. I came across it in a comic. Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary's definition seems like a synonym of immediate, but dictionary.com's definition seems more suitable for the comic. Source: 7 months ago

• Tang + Dys's mom [an…Essay?]

  (dictionary.com definition of "arabesque"). Source: 9 months ago

Polyglot mentions (0)