A word that represents a group of people working to achieve a common . . . There are several words that means a group of people with a common interest purpose goal aim etc These words might depend on the context as well: union: a number of persons, states, etc , joined or associated together for some common purpose: student union; credit union coalition: an alliance or union between groups, factions, or parties, esp for some temporary and specific reason league: An
single word requests - Weekly, Daily, Hourly --- Minutely. . . ? - English . . . "Hourly," "daily," "monthly," "weekly," and "yearly" suggest a consistent approach to creating adverbial forms of time measurements, but the form breaks down both in smaller time units ("secondly," "minutely"—perhaps because of the danger of confusion with other meanings of those words) and in larger ones ("decadely," "centurily," "millenniumly"—perhaps because until recently events
What is the correct pronunciation of the word solder? This doesn't come from a dictionary, but I had a relative who spent most of his free designing clever circuits (from the 1920s onwards) He always told me that the correct British pronunciation was "sodder", but that over the years it had started to be pronounced "solder" - which he believed was to avoid the embarrassment of a word that could be misinterpreted as being related to sodomy when
verbs - try or try out (difference?) - English Language Usage . . . To try is to make an attempt to do something (or not) I try not to eat too much saturated fat I try to run five miles every day To try out can mean either to attempt to qualify for a team sport Sheila plans to try out for the cheerleading squad or, when used with an object, to see whether one wants to qualify something for possible use or purchase I'm going to try out a new set of golf