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Bookmark or Share- etymology - Where did the phrase "chock-full" come from? - English ...Alternately, chokkeful may derive from a more violent word: forced full. (Wiktionary offers a false etymology based on the kind of chocks used in carpentry and shipbuilding: full up to the chocks, perhaps. However that sense of chock only dates to the 1670s, far too late to influence the Middle English word.)
- Alternatives to "and/or"? - English Language & Usage Stack ExchangeAug 24, 2010 at 2:58. 1. @moioci: that is completely beside the point. The point is that and/or can be replaced with "and" or "or". – delete. Aug 24, 2010 at 13:23. 6. @Shinto Sherlock: and/or cannot be replaced by and. It can only be replaced by "or" and then you are counting on the reader to infer the inclusive sense.
- grammaticality - "Alternately" or "alternatively" - English Language ...47. Alternately means switching between two alternatives, alternatively means doing something different. I love pizza and Mexican food, I eat them alternately. Means Monday I ate pizza, Tuesday tacos, Wednesday pizza again, Thursday burrito, Friday went to the Hospital to get my arteries roto-rooted. I love pizza but alternatively I eat Mexican ...
- Phrase for a situation where a problem disappears when you are about to ...stopping or ceasing for a time; alternately ceasing and beginning again. TFD. starting, stopping, and starting again : not constant or steady. MW. e.g. "My new car has been having an intermittent battery problem." "The forecast is for intermittent rain." "The patient was having intermittent pains."
- phrase requests - Alternative to "the blind leading the blind ...Alternately, if you want to try to repurpose a real proverb, you could go with: My friend has an iPad. I have never used an iPad, but am trying to help her set things up better -- so it's clearly a case of too few cooks in the kitchen.
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