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Bookmark or Share- How are least, lowest, and fewest used differently?Far from "fewest number" being the most correct construction, indeed I believe it to be incorrect. I say this because "fewest" refers to the members of the smallest group under discussion not the size of the number used to count them.
- synonyms - English Language & Usage Stack ExchangeI have been using the following sentence for all my official communication, but I have become bored by its monotony. With reference to the subject above I am looking for a total change over of my
- Is being "low on the totem pole" good or bad?I study and carve Northwest Coast design or what you call totemic designs. My family comes from the region as well. The phrase "low man on the totem pole" is indeed taken the wrong way all the time. The most revered or "main" character of the story being told is the lowest or closest to earth. You want to show respect by it being closest to you.
- What does the phrase "lowest common denominator" mean?I was always under the impression that it referred to something base that is shared by the largest amount of people, like sexual urges, envy, greed etc. So if somebody said: "the show is targeted at the lowest common denominator" I took it to mean that it caters to these primitive universal tendencies.
- idioms - What does “the lowest common denominator” mean in the context ...The term lowest (or least) common denominator (LCD) of a set of whole numbers (i.e., non-zero integers) is the smallest whole number that each member of the set divides evenly. Mathematically, this means that the LCD includes all the factors of each member of the set, but in the vernacular, it means the smallest thing that a group of people ...
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