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- adjectives - Smaller vs. less vs. lesser - English Language Usage . . .
Smaller Smaller is the relative adjective (or sometimes adverb or noun) of small, indicating that referenced term it has more of the characteristic of smallness I ordered the smaller of the two cup sizes offered When using small, no other size needs to be explicitly considered
- grammar - When to use smaller or less - English Language Usage . . .
The pile of junk has gotten smaller Less is used in cases where there is a lower amount of something that does not have defined quantities You cannot accurately quantize 'junk' There is less junk than before You would use fewer if you had a way of quantizing the subject of discussion For example: There are fewer bags of junk than before
- What do we call the “rd” in “3ʳᵈ” and the “th” in “9ᵗʰ”?
@WS2 In speech, very nearly always In writing, much less so I think what may be going on is that one just assumes that “June 1” is pronounced “June First”, or “4 July” as “the Fourth of July”
- word choice - Is the account balance less or smaller when we . . .
A large negative balance is certainly not smaller than a small positive balance, but it is less, by the accepted meaning of the word To say that one amount is smaller than another is, strictly speaking, to preclude the possibility of its being negative, or otherwise to assume that one is speaking of non-negative amounts
- Difference between town, city and metropolis?
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 than a city
- adjectives - Lesser number vs. smaller number - English Language . . .
I am wondering about the correct use of lesser smaller in the following phrase: This library has a smaller lesser number of books than the National Library I did find another thread on nearly the same question, where one answer states: "As a general rule, 'smaller' is used for size, whereas 'lesser' is used for quantity " In this particular
- differences - Lower number vs. smaller number - English Language . . .
Joking aside, only less than and greater than are uniformly understood as < and > relation respectively; the other words (e g smaller, lower) are often used colloquially to mean less than, whose absolute values are less than, written smaller, etc however their usage are more ambiguous and so should be avoided when writing mathematics EDIT:
- What are the words that mean to make something (look) smaller?
?-fy (minify?) - make something look smaller en-? (ensmall?) - make something smaller zoom out - move the zoom lens to make the photograph smaller?-fy (?) - make the sound weaker, decrease the volume The expression "zoom out" is the only one that is the exact antonym of "zoom in", but what about the other three words? Do there exist exact
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