Technically, the first definition, as being what is indicated; in that capacity: An officer of the law, as such, is entitled to respect, is correct.

1. Seventy percent of the man's body had been burned after the truck caught fire. 2. The house just caught on fire. (All are from COCA) I’ve thought that ‘on’ gives the nuance of continuity...

Feb 27, 2015 · As an aside, sb (substantive) in the OED1 corresponds to n (noun) in the OED2 and later. The OED2 still categorizes re as a noun, but it adds: "Now freq. apprehended as a preposition, and used in weakened senses to mean 'about, concerning'."

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Jun 29, 2016 · The only difference is: the. a fixed value: out of ( ) question a variable: out of the question. So we only need to analyze and find out the usage and meaning of "the"

The abbreviation resp. has been used a number of times in the following paragraph:. For each of these problems (resp., tools), we start by presenting the natural concern underlying it (resp., its intuitive objective), then define the problem (resp., tool), and finally demonstrate that the problem can be solved (resp., the tool can be constructed).

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May 17, 2020 · I think you need to take Lambie's point about whether the condition caused is continuing at the time of speaking as helping to define what is recent without fully determining it. In short, recency is relative and determined by social and human considerations rather than by a clock or a calendar.

Jun 27, 2016 · I came across a few combinations of 'nailed it' or 'nailed down' in various contexts. According to the blog-posts, it seems to be widespread on the internet. However, I have never heard these

What I'm going to call an "interrogative phrase" (IP) is a sort of 'variable' which stands for an unknown 'value'. The IP is headed by a word which defines the 'type' of value for which it stands: who, what, which define the type as nominal, how, where, why define the type as adverbial, and the construction what ... do defines the type as a verbal.