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Bookmark or Share- What is the proper term for when an animal is "pregnant" with eggs ...Specifically things like chicken or most fish. @AlainPannetierΦ that's the word for the animals themselves that give birth by eggs (and viviparous describing animals with live births), not the state of the animal right before the proto-animals are expelled.
- What do you call the practice of using (overly) complex words specific ...hi @co_biostat - I wish you would deselect the other incorrect answer, and select this one :) "Jargon" means "a specific type of language".
- meaning in context - English Language & Usage Stack Exchange@The Raven and Jamie. You were right. According to the latest (May 4th) article of NYT's‘Politics,’titled "Account tells one-sided battle in Bin Laden raid" President Obama said in an interview with the CBS News program “60 Minutes,” to be broadcast Sunday (according to a transcript released by the network): “That’s not who we are,” Mr. Obama added.
- So which should it be - 'lock and load' or 'load and lock'?The reason for the order of 'to lock and load' has been almost entirely forgotten in contemporary use. The phrase is a relic from the period when guns used loose gunpowder, popularized in its imperative form since sometime before 1940.
- What does 'gotcha' mean? - English Language & Usage Stack ExchangeGotcha actually has several meanings. All of them can be derived from the phrase of which this is a phonetic spelling, namely "[I have] got you".
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