The English Language

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Re: The English Language

Post by Barry Sandercock » Fri Mar 13, 2015 11:03 am

I've never heard of either of them.

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Re: The English Language

Post by soheil_hooshdaran » Fri Mar 13, 2015 12:34 pm

What's the meaning of traceable in :
n order to make this question tractable, we will make a few assumptions.
?

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Re: The English Language

Post by Clive Blackburn » Fri Mar 13, 2015 12:38 pm

Do you have an English dictionary Soheil?

Tractable is a fairly common word (and so is traceable but I suspect that you didn't mean that).

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Re: The English Language

Post by IM Jack Rudd » Fri Mar 13, 2015 1:04 pm

I've never heard of either phrase. What is the context in which you found them?

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Re: The English Language

Post by soheil_hooshdaran » Sat Mar 14, 2015 1:48 pm

IM Jack Rudd wrote:I've never heard of either phrase. What is the context in which you found them?
In order to make this question tractable, we will make a few assumptions.

It is just that I was looking for a wrong word

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Re: The English Language

Post by soheil_hooshdaran » Sat Mar 14, 2015 3:50 pm

What's the difference between 'settings' and 'environments'?

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Re: The English Language

Post by soheil_hooshdaran » Sat Mar 14, 2015 6:02 pm

What does it mean to tip your King over?

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Re: The English Language

Post by IM Jack Rudd » Sat Mar 14, 2015 6:20 pm

soheil_hooshdaran wrote:What does it mean to tip your King over?
To resign.

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Re: The English Language

Post by soheil_hooshdaran » Sat Mar 14, 2015 7:11 pm

I don't mean what is it the symbol of, I mean the actual move....
He said one way to resign is to tip your king over

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Re: The English Language

Post by Barry Sandercock » Sun Mar 15, 2015 11:12 am

It's not a move. By turning your king over and laying it on the board, it is a way of showing that you resign, instead of just stopping the clock or saying " I resign."

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Re: The English Language

Post by soheil_hooshdaran » Sun Mar 15, 2015 8:40 pm

I cannot translate it as one way to resign is to resign

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Re: The English Language

Post by soheil_hooshdaran » Sun Mar 15, 2015 8:41 pm

What happens if I remove "further" in:
it is useful to define them carefully here, and then to look further at some of their implications.

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Re: The English Language

Post by Roger de Coverly » Sun Mar 15, 2015 8:51 pm

soheil_hooshdaran wrote:I cannot translate it as one way to resign is to resign
Unless it doesn't work as an idiom, it's "one way to resign is to knock over your king". Like boxing, the contest is over when the opponent lies on the floor.

"lay the king on its side" could be another way of expressing it.

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Re: The English Language

Post by Barry Sandercock » Fri Mar 20, 2015 11:11 am

soheil hooshdaran wrote:

What happens if I remove "further" in: it is useful to define them carefully here, and then look further at some of their implications.

If you remove " further," you still get pretty well the same meaning.

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Re: The English Language

Post by soheil_hooshdaran » Sun Apr 05, 2015 7:51 am

What's the difference between road and street?

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