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usage of "high end" - English Language & Usage Stack Exchange
The hyphenated phrase high-end is an adjective. The phrase at the higher end is different -- for one thing, no hyphen. The prepositional phrase uses the noun end as its last word, and the sentence grammar is fine. For the specific words: adjective: Sony has always been a high-end brand.
Difference between "Upscale", "high-toned/tony", "fancy", "high-end ...
The first four examples and upscale have a roughly identical meaning, which is expensive and of high quality, being typically patronized by the wealthy and notable. (Admittedly I had to look up tony, because it's not common in AmE.) The remaining, exclusive means something slightly different. Exclusive implies that it is difficult to get a reservation due to a degree of discrimination on the ...
word choice - English Language & Usage Stack Exchange
16 Someone else took my favorite, demimondaine, so I'll plump for courtesan, which literally means a woman who attends a royal court, the distaff equivalent of courtier, but has come to mean extremely high-end prostitute.
Would you hyphenate “high touch” at the end of a sentence?
Since "high" is an adjective and not an adverb, I would hyphenate it, but merely to avoid ambiguity, which the phrase "high-touch" already has. Do you mean "haptic"? There are some general rules but also disagreement about the use of the hyphen for these cases.
What do you call a person that goes to extreme ends to accomplish a goal?
I've been trying to find a single word that describes a person that will go to extreme ends to achieve a goal. For example, a person that would harm friends or leave behind a path of destruction t...
Etymology of "snob" - English Language & Usage Stack Exchange
In high-end colleges, pupils which were not of a noble family had "s. nob." written close to their names. And they gained the reputation of trying to mimic, in an outrageous way, the habits of "true nobles"
The line between inappropriate and acceptable use of the n-word in ...
I have spent hours researching this topic online, but most sources end up saying, "it depends on where you live." While there are many discussions on particular situations, I’m more interested in hearing broader knowledge based on the experiences and observations of your neighbors or community.
Alternative for "dead-end job" that is not disrespectful
A position with a company may be high paying with lots of perks, but otherwise offer no opportunity for growth. Some might consider this a "dead-end job" but that has a negative connotation. Is the...
etymology - Why is a meal's main course referred to as "entree" in the ...
A ‘tasty’ entree, however, with a good soup at the beginning and a nice dessert as the end, may appear in the middle of a family dinner and fill out a most satisfactory bill of fare. Thus it's still a dish introduced between two courses, but rather than a light dish it's the main course.
Why is the letter 'E' the most commonly-used letter?
Therefore, although it is the fact that the high frequency of the article ‘the’ and the suffixes ‘-es’ and ‘-ed’ make letter E more common, without the words frequency factor, the letter E is also very common.
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