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- least vs. lowest - English Language Usage Stack Exchange
What is the difference between least and lowest? Websites announce as "Lowest prices", but not "least" Least is the superlative degree low > lower > least ?
- How are least, lowest, and fewest used differently?
Then I questioned whether either "What is the least number of people?" or "What is the fewest number of people?" is a superior alternative My guess is that the "fewest number" option is the best, grammatically speaking Is it? In what ways are the words least, lowest, and fewest used differently? Thank you!
- What does “the lowest common denominator” mean in the context other . . .
Merriam-Webster traces "lowest common denominator" to 1854 and "least common denominator" to 1851 It is therefore quite interesting that the earliest matches for "lowest common denominator" in an Elephind newspaper database search use the term figuratively, despite appearing within twenty years of its mathematical origin
- mathematics - Why do we say lowest common denominator when we mean . . .
The lowest common denominator sounds like it's smaller than the greatest common divisor, when in fact it's the opposite It's not a very good expression to use outside mathematics, as it sounds better when it's used incorrectly
- Lowest vs. lowermost - English Language Usage Stack Exchange
Is there any difference between the words lowest and lowermost? When should I use either of them? Possibly lowermost should never be used?
- What does the phrase lowest common denominator mean?
1 Google gives the second sense of lowest common denominator as "the level of the least discriminating audience or consumer group " This sense refers to people
- meaning - Interpretation -The highest as the lowest form - English . . .
The phrase "The highest as the lowest form of criticism" means that the highest and lowest forms of criticism (and by implication all the other shades of form between them) share a characteristic: in this case being a mode of autobiography
- Does English have words to describe the lowest rank member of society . . .
The lowest-ranking person in society might be a serf:- a person in a condition of servitude, required to render services to a lord, commonly attached to the lord's land and transferred with it from one owner to another
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