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- is it a word - Is there a common abbreviation for with or without? e . . .
The abbreviation opt meaning optional or option for is an alternative to "with or without" This is my suggestion: If a key item is acceptable with or without a sub item then I recommend the use of the abbreviation for Optional (opt ) sandwich recipe suggestion: buns, beef, onion, opt mustard or mustard (opt ),
- word choice - Is sans a drop-in replacement for without? - English . . .
As others said, sans does mean without However, in my experience it is used only to modify a noun, not a verb phrase However, in my experience it is used only to modify a noun, not a verb phrase So your "sans using" example feels very wrong to me, but "sans serif", "sans pickles", etc are fine
- Are w o, w , b c common abbreviations in the US?
I've seen w o for without; I don't recall ever seeing w or b c; I certainly wouldn't say that they are in common 'public' usage, and would suggest they are best reserved for private usage, note-taking, etc
- meaning in context - with and without vs. with or without - English . . .
We consider models with and without X "And" implies that you considered at least two types of models, those with X and those without The grammatical expansion would be: We consider models with X and models without X This is the clearer of the two choices, in my opinion We consider models with or without X "Or" could be interpreted in
- Possessive nouns, the apostrophe, and no S
By focusing on grammatical number (plurality) instead of on sound laws governing inflectional morphology, you lose sight of what actually matters for any of these: these children’s toys, those mice’s droppings, some women’s husbands, those geese’s nests, all phenomena’s explanations, these corpora’s common origin, those nuclei’s organelles, this species’ name, these species
- phrases - Without any problem or without any problems - English . . .
Normally one would just say without problem, skipping the any altogether It doesn’t really add anything to speak of, and just makes the phrase longer But I certainly wouldn’t call without any problems (or with no problems) ‘wrong’
- phrase meaning - Can without abandonment mean with abandon . . .
If "with abandon" is, approximately, "with no regard for the consequences" then, if the author is playing with words, "without abandonment" = intentionally and purposefully With context it might be a clever reference to the marine insurance use of abandonment, such that "without abandonment" would mean "not relinquishing ownership of me "
- meaning - Is the opposite of within, without? - English Language . . .
without in the sense of "outside, on the outside, beyond the borders or boundaries of" is primarily a literary usage nowadays, but it has been used with that meaning for more than a thousand years with respect to buildings as well as land boundaries and other things that have an inside and an outside, which would even include people, who might
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