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Bookmark or Share- etymology - Is the alleged original meaning of the phrase 'blood is ...I recently read that the phrase "Blood is thicker than water" was originally derived from the phrase "the blood of the covenant is thicker than the water of the womb", implying that the ordinary meaning is the opposite of the original intention.
- Single word for "less mass per unit volume" (the complement of "dense")Metal is denser than wood. And precisely the same as: Wood is less dense than metal. Only using a single word (as an atomic comparative), as opposed to the two words "less dense". As analogies, we have the pairs "heavy"/"light" and "thin"/"thick", and thus needn't to resort to circumlocutions like "more massive" or "less wide".
- Should I write: "areas becoming denser" or "more dense"?You can talk about a city having a dense population, in which case the comparative form is denser, and its superlative form, densest. Whereas the comparative form, more dense, 2 is used when comparing the density of two different substances, materials or liquids. Water that is salty is more dense than water that is fresh.
- Is there a non-vulgar version of "pulled it out of their ass"?I've seen "pulled it out of a hat" many times to mean exactly what is asked by the OP. I saw a mathoverflow answer the other day that referred to this as the "Stetson Harrison method"[see (1)] As for sarcasm, either term (hat or arse) can be used sarcastically, or not.
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