- What is the difference between an Emir and a Sultan?
What is the difference between an Emir and a Sultan? Are they both Sheik? For instance, OALD defines: Emir: the title given to some Muslim rulers Emirate: an area of land that is ruled over
- Which word can represent X and O in Tic Tac Toe
In tic tac toe game, there are X and O's in boxes How can i refer these O and X's? Maybe figure or value of box?
- About the meaning of the phrase At one end of the continuum
The (mostly theoretical) Turing machine could represent one end of such a continuum, with it being a simple computational device that can read, write, or move a pointer forward At its core, the Turing machine is so basic (and its notion of computing so loose) that it can encompass many types of today's programs
- grammar - Do I Capitalize someones role? - English Language Usage . . .
Some titles serve as names, and therefore have initial capitals, though they also serve as descriptions: the Archbishop of Canterbury, the Emir of Kuwait, the Shah of Iran
- capitalization - When referring to the British Empire, should the e . . .
When referring to the British Empire, or any empire with a specific title, should the 'e' of 'empire' always be capitalised? If so, does the rule also apply even if only 'empire' of full 'British
- terminology - What are pronunciation options for letter E in the word . . .
The FACE vowel ( e or ej or ɛj ), but this is almost always only in borrowed words like emir and éclair In general, but probably not so often in enum, how any vowel comes out also greatly depends on the stress and the emphasis placed on the word, because emphatic forms can take on lengthening properties never otherwise heard in normal
- syntactic analysis - About It is nice to see you - English Language . . .
@vectory No, nice to see (you) is not a constituent, and nice is not an object; that is completely wrong In the underlying structure, to see you is the subject and nice is the predicative complement In purely grammatical terms, in this more common version the subject is it, yes, but the PC is still nice; to see you is the extrapositioned subject My comment above should perhaps have made it
- the Black Camel will kneel at your door is a reference to time of . . .
Apparently the proverb became more widely known in the Western world because it was quoted by Emir Abdelkader El Djezairi, who led the struggle against the French after their 1830 colonial invasion of Algeria After his capture and exile, he met many 19th century Western figures and became a friend to Richard Burton Quite an interesting story
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