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I'm looking for a word that describes "to enable or to disable". This related question found the hypernyms mode and state , but I am looking for a verb. I.e. a word for "(potentially) change mode/state". I guess to switch is a good match, but unfortunately in JavaScript (my target language), switch is a reserved keyword. What alternatives are there? Answer May I suggest "to set availability"? I think it fits well for function names: SetButtonAvailability(), SetOptionAvailability(), etc. It's long, but descriptive...

Pluralization rule for “five-year-old children”, “20 pound note”, “10 mile run” Should we use plural or singular for a fraction of a mile? When talking about "one and a half" of any object, do we use the subsequent noun in plural or just singular? I'm aware that "A minute and a half" is also correct but I'm looking for the specific "One and a half"-construction here. So for example, which of the below phrases is correct? You're one and a half minutes late! or You're one and a half minute late! Is there any difference when using the phrase as an adjective like so: "One-and-a-half-minute recipe"? Answer When you say "one and a half" you are referencing more than one minute, so you must use the plural form "minutes".

"Dear team"/ "Dear all"/ "Dear colleagues" Since I don't use a name after dear, I don't need to use Capital letter. is it correct?

My spouse took a picture of a bird with a yellow head and a black body. The bird is called Yellow-headed Blackbird. He wants to say that the bird is aptly named. I am looking for a single word that means perfectly (aptly) named. If misnomer is connected to a meaning that is wrong, is there a word for a meaning that is "spot on"? I've done a Google search to try to find the antonym (in this sense) of "misnomer" with no success.

There was the following line in December 2nd AP News, “Chief White House trouble shooter for healthcare gov.web site says the web site is night and day from where it was October 1st. Jeff Zients say they carried out hundreds of software and hardware fixes. I first took “night and day” for “continually,” but later realized it meant the status of web site is compretely different (mproved) from October 1st stage after searching for the definition of “night and day” other than “all the time,” and found it in Online slang dictionary and urbandictionary: While all major dictionaries only provide ‘all the time” implication, both Slang Dictionary and Urbandictionary provide “completely different” implication as shown below: Cambridge Dictionaries Online: night and day (also day and night) all the time: [ex.] They've worked night and day to publicize their campaign. Oxford Dictionary : all the time; constantly: [ex.]She studied night and day Merriam-Webster Dictionary all the time: continu...

When speaking of a point in time, what would be the proper usage: "Timepoint" vs. "Time point"? This funny confusion comes from my life as a programmer: While one of our style checkers enforces "timepoint" instead of "time point", another style checker contradicts that and prefers "time point" over "timepoint"... Answer Very nice! Methinks you have unearthed a compound word in the making. I did a narrowly-focused (1995-2005) Google lit search for both time point and timepoint , and learned both terms seem to be found most often in technical writing − often describing scientific, statistically-driven experiments. The two-word time point is running far ahead of the one-word timepoint (by a ratio of about 10-to-1 , at this point in time, at least). However, who am I to argue with the likes of Campbell and Heyer, genome researchers who wrote: Three microarray hybridizations were carried out for each timepoint . I don't k...

Do I need "the" before the name of my university in the header? Header: Politechnika Wroclawska - name of university in my language (the Wroclaw University of Technology) - translated name of university in the brackets This header is contained in the official document. Answer Generally, where a member of a class (the class of all universities ) is particularised (say by the addition of "Wroclaw") then you don't need the definite article. Wroclaw Polytechnic or Wroclaw University of Technology will be sufficient for a letterhead. Some insititutions do require the The , but that's a matter of style/affectation which they have adopted. Where the name of the institution has the determiner/particulariser at the end (as in "University of Sussex") it's normal to use the definite article at the front because there is only one of that particular institution. The University of Sussex This applies to including the name in other sentences, too: I attend ...