
adjectives - Smaller vs. less vs. lesser - English Language & Usage ...
Smaller. Smaller is the relative adjective (or sometimes adverb or noun) of small, indicating that referenced term it has more of the characteristic of smallness. I ordered the smaller of the two cup sizes offered. When using small, no other size needs to be explicitly considered.
differences - "Lower number" vs. "smaller number" - English …
2011年5月22日 · Joking aside, only less than and greater than are uniformly understood as < and > relation respectively; the other words (e.g. smaller, lower) are often used colloquially to mean less than, whose absolute values are less than, written smaller, etc however their usage are more ambiguous and so should be avoided when writing mathematics. EDIT:
adjectives - Lesser number vs. smaller number - English Language ...
I am wondering about the correct use of lesser/smaller in the following phrase: This library has a smaller/lesser number of books than the National Library. I did find another thread on nearly the same question, where one answer states: "As a general rule, 'smaller' is used for size, whereas 'lesser' is used for quantity." In this particular ...
What do we call the “rd” in “3ʳᵈ” and the “th” in “9ᵗʰ”?
2014年8月23日 · @WS2 In speech, very nearly always. In writing, much less so. I think what may be going on is that one just assumes that “June 1” is pronounced “June First”, or “4 July” as “the Fourth of July”.
word choice - What is the name of the symbols - and ">"?
2015年6月27日 · +1, I like that this is the first answer to address the multiple Unicode code points involved. However, I think you might mention that regardless of the characters' names or official prescriptions for use, the less-than and greater-than signs are commonly used as a type of brackets, probably because they can easily be typed and their display is more widely …
“20th century” vs. “20ᵗʰ century” - English Language & Usage ...
To some extent, it depends on the font you are using and how accessible its special features are. If you can do full typesetting, then you probably want to make the th part look different from the 20 part, just like they do here:
What would you call size that fits between small and medium?
2014年4月15日 · smaller might be OK as long as you take medium to mean 'normal'. Not quite the same as CSS font-size 'smaller' but I think the meaning is clear, it's not medium and it's not small. smallish if you prefer. Learn the lesson not to call 'styles' by a common enumeration, small=size32, medium=size64, large=size96.
Word for more than several, but less than many
2015年4月18日 · Those are fairly synonymous, with several only working with smaller integers and 'many' applying to pretty much any scale (it is more relative). 'some' is relative and definitely less than 'many' but . I have some marbles. How many do people have? I don't know maybe a hundred at most, so 'some' might mean here 10, 20, maybe 30? I have several ...
word choice - English Language & Usage Stack Exchange
(1) A millimeter is ten times smaller than a centimeter. (2) A millimeter is smaller than a centimeter by a factor of 10. (3) A millimeter is smaller than a centimeter by a factor of 0.1. (4) My car is lighter than your car by a factor of x. Of 1-3, I think 1 is the best style and is fine mathematically. 2 and 3 show that there's a potential ...
word usage - The number is smaller, fewer or less than? - English ...
2020年12月4日 · The number of students this year is smaller than the number of students last year; I know that fewer is used for countables (e.g. "I have fewer children than my friend", or "I have fewer cars than a billionaire would have"), while less for uncountable (e.g. "I have less money than my friend"). Am I correct on this?