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- Ideas on vs. ideas for - English Language Usage Stack Exchange
When you have some "ideas on how to improve my team," you have ideas relating to ideas on improving the team When you have "ideas for improving my team," you have ideas which specifically supports the team For example, when you say I am for peace-making you are obviously supporting peace-making
- What is the word when people come up with the same idea independently
In history of science, this is known as "Railroad time" I e, when the economy has reached a certain state of infrastructure (coal, steel, and land available, plus steam engines and demand for transportation), it's "Railroad time", and the idea of building railroads occurs to many people naturally at the same time
- Why is idea sometimes pronounced as idear?
Adding r's to the end of words is something odd I first noticed as a child with my grandmother Idea became "idear," "Ella" became "Eller," etc
- a better way to express an idea thought suddenly came to me
What are some grandiloquent, or simply better, ways of expressing "an idea thought suddenly came to me", or "an idea thought struck me", or "I was struck by an idea thought"?
- A word that represents a group of people working to achieve a common . . .
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- etymology - How did spitballing originate - English Language Usage . . .
As mentioned under the previous heading, The Derivative Verbs, 'spitballing' in the sense used in advertising jargon, 'to improvise; to conceive, propose and discuss ideas or topics', seems to have developed without the precursor use of 'spitball' as a noun in the sense of 'idea, topic' While my not having found use in that sense may simply
- What is the word for a person who never listens to other peoples . . .
Narrow-minded (“having restricted or rigid views, and being unreceptive to new ideas”), small-minded (“Selfish, petty; constrained in thought, limited in scope of consideration, not mindful of the big picture”), and previously-mentioned close-minded (“unreceptive to new ideas or information; not open to any agreement”) are all relevant, as are some of their synonyms like hidebound
- What would you call a person who doesnt want to learn anything new?
@Kit, I think actually that this one is an exception since -minded (according to macmillan) is "used with some adjectives and adverbs to make adjectives describing the way someone thinks or their attitude to life" and from all other -minded entries: absent-, bloody-, broad-, close-, fair-, feeble-, high-, like-, narrow-, open-, right-, simple-, single-, small-, strong-, tough-, weak-, literal
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