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- Insecure or unsecure when dealing with security?
Unsecured feels correct but the past tense changes the meaning ever so slightly Even so, I think it's less incorrect to use "unsecured" than to misuse (insecure) or make up (unsecure) a word Non-secure doesn't feel any better I suspect there is no word and the only reasonable choice is to add a modifier like "insufficiently" or "not" to
- Looking for a word that means not requiring permission
I was thinking maybe, free to use but I'm not sure Is there any one-word alternative? Preferably an adjective For example, some user information is confidential and you need permission to acces
- Is glass cannon a generally recognized phrase?
A similar phrase that first springs to mind is loose cannon, which etymologically has little to do with a cannon's firepower, but more to do with the dangers of a unsecured cannon rolling around on the deck of a ship Idioms using the word glass can refer to fragility (as in glass cannon), but the word often connotes transparency as well
- What would be the proper adjective to describe an open padlock?
An open lock is what you want That is what the next character will need if they are to fasten the lock shut later 'Free' is not in common usage much in American English Though 'unlocked' is a good description as many locks can be shut without being locked These appear locked or latched but are unsecured Your goal seems to be a lock that on sight is clearly open and unlocked
- Im home or Im at home - English Language Usage Stack Exchange
I think the implication in the expression "I'm home" is that you're home from somewhere It may, as Mitch says, be that you've just come gone in, but it doesn't need to be — you can be home from the front or home from university and have been back for a week or so But a homecoming in the not-too-distant past is certainly connoted The nature of the word home in "come go home" is often
- But or But Not? - English Language Usage Stack Exchange
But is a conjunction that introduces something contrastingly different from what has gone before cambridge dictionary Your last sentence does not do this so does not make sense Your second sentence makes the contrasting difference clear and is equivalent to the original sentence Note a related sentence “ I brought nothing but my passport ” This is correct because it contrasts *nothing
- grammatical number - What is the plural of staff? - English Language . . .
Staffs, when you're talking about the staff of Office A and the staff of Office B If you are talking about the kind of staff that Gandalf carries, the plural is staves, which is a word I've always liked
- phrases - Meaning of herding the cats - English Language Usage . . .
What is the meaning of the phrase herding the cats? I've found one description on Wikipedia but it is not clear enough
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