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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.
What do we call the “rd” in “3ʳᵈ” and the “th” in “9ᵗʰ”?
Our numbers have a specific two-letter combination that tells us how the number sounds. For example 9th 3rd 301st What do we call these special sounds?
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 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"
Better than premium - English Language & Usage Stack Exchange
Premium does not mean the best. It simply means better. Definition 10: of exceptional quality or greater value than others of its kind; superior: a wine made of premium grapes. Deluxe, in this context, means "High or highest in quality", according to the dictionary, though it is held in more esteem than premium. If you want to say the best, in most cases you can just say the best. However ...
pronunciation - Difference between word-final iː, i and ɪ - English ...
As we know, English usually contrasts the two high front vowels /i:/ and /ɪ/, and many different minimal pairs exist for this (e.g. /sli:p/ vs /slɪp/). However, at the end of a word, we usually have
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.
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...
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