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- single word requests - English Language Usage Stack Exchange
Cisterna, or cistern, : an artificial reservoir (such as an underground tank) for storing liquids and especially water (such as rainwater) -Merriam Webster> is a deposit of water in the ground, or at a higher level than the house to provide water by gravity in lieu of a pump, but usually covered It is used for most household purposes
- Is there a specific name for this kind of water dispenser?
0 Cistern is the traditional name for a spigoted vessel Proper names like this are being lost in the dumbing of society Retailers call it beverage dispenser since people are less educated and poorly read Sad
- Meaning in context and grammar - English Language Usage Stack Exchange
No, a cistern is not a boiler (or water-heater): it is a tank, for hot or cold water Modern hot-water tanks (usually called "cylinders") may have (electric) immersion heaters inserted in them, but are not usually called "cisterns"
- Replacement for brethren to refer to mostly female group
Despite seeming gender-specific, both brethren AND brothers is preferable to an archaic word that sounds like "cistern"! Returning to the religious theme, there is a word that refers to a closely-knit female group: sisterhood
- American word for commode - English Language Usage Stack Exchange
And if you’re talking about broken ones, the most common thing to break is probably not the bowl itself, but the cistern that holds the water and most of the mechanics of the toilet
- expressions - Looking for a particular phrase for a subtly important . . .
Alternately, one could say it doesn't hold water, figuratively, like a sieve or broken cistern would not Or perhaps it's inherently flawed [Collins] if, more or less, the thing that makes it breaks it
- Whats the difference between incalcitrant and recalcitrant
The word that leaps to mind for me is quot;incalcitrant quot;, but when I try to look it up online I get odd definitions like this: As adjectives the difference between recalcitrant and incalcitr
- Broth of a boy etymology - English Language Usage Stack Exchange
Could anybody explain the etymology of the phrase broth of a boy? I know the meaning but cannot understand how it happens that it means what it means
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