
"Extensible" vs. "extendible" - English Language & Usage Stack …
Nov 7, 2012 · Extensible was, through the mid-20th century, the most common form, but today it trails extendable by a substantial margin, while extendible continues to appear infrequently. …
"Extended" vs. "extensive" - English Language & Usage Stack …
What's the difference between these two? I found the following after some research, “Extended” has to do with time, “extensive” with space. An extended tour lasts a long time; an extensive tour
computing - English Language & Usage Stack Exchange
Feb 21, 2017 · (HTML would be categorized as a specific type of XML, an eXtensible Markup Language citation). They are considered a metalanguage, that is, a language to describe other …
Best word for "unable to change"
Aug 23, 2012 · I'm looking for a word that is the opposite of "adaptable." I would like to say "unadaptable," but that's not a real word according to my dictionary. So, what's the best word …
translation - English Language & Usage Stack Exchange
Feb 24, 2023 · However, this sounds a little disfluent, so I might prefer something like: This technique is very powerful as it can be extended to several other questions This technique is …
What verb is best used to remedy/fill/... a lack of something?
Nov 23, 2021 · For example, in scientific articles you could see "The proposed methodology may be extensible to similar tools and tries to fill the lack of scientific studies in the validation and …
What is the difference between "practical" and "practicable"?
Nov 13, 2015 · The distinction that I've drawn in my mind is that practical means easily practiced and practicable means capable of being put into practice.
What’s the term for an acronym that refers to another acronym?
Apr 8, 2022 · For example, AIM stands for AOL Instant Messenger, and AOL stands for American OnLine. This isn’t quite the same thing as a recursive acronym, which refers to itself. Maybe …
A or an XML report? - English Language & Usage Stack Exchange
+1 - Even if the reader expands the abbreviation to "Extensible Markup Language", it would still take "an". With some abbreviations, you'd need to consider what's being abbreviated and …
Can the word “art” be used as a verb to mean “create art”?
You've done it again Yoichi! In this case, it is not a case of bad writing by the writer; its' a case of the writer deliberately using the word in a playful, extensible manner.