terminology - Topmost-left or top-leftmost? - English Language …
网页The confusion is probably due to the word 'most'. Agreed to choster that you should use top left to refer the place. I just tried (and it came out very funny though!) something that might be still useful. Note: the scale is approximately. Since topmost leftmost will really sound weird, to avoid ambiguity, use top-left as here in the figure is ...
grammar - English Language Learners Stack Exchange
网页2023年9月13日 · There are many bits and pieces of language that we don't really need. English wasn't designed; it evolved. This particular oddity evolved from an Old English (pre 1200) suffix -mest, which itself is from an superlative form in Anglo-saxon "-uma" combined with the regular superlative "-est".
word request - English Language Learners Stack Exchange
网页2014年5月5日 · Let's say you have 5 people in a row: Person 1 - Person 2 - Person 3 - Person 4 - Person 5. Then I would say it this way: Person 1 is the person on the left. Person 2 is the second person from the left. Person 3 is the third person from the left (or right). Person 4 is the second person from the right. Person 5 is the person on the right.
prepositions - She is in /on the left side of the picture? - English ...
网页We normally speak of someone being in a photograph rather than "on". What may change things slightly here is that you are referring to a particular part of the photo, the left.
mathematics - Minimum of a negative value - English Language …
网页2016年3月21日 · Using "minimum" is incorrect, since for real numbers, "minimum" means "leftmost on the number line" -- so, in your case, the negative number with the largest magnitude is the minimum. Using "smallest" for negative numbers causes ambiguity about whether you mean "smallest magnitude" or "lowest value" (i.e., leftmost on the number line).
word request - English Language Learners Stack Exchange
网页2016年5月25日 · Erel Segal-Halevi. 852 6 14 26. Or you could just simply call them 'inward' and 'outward' edges. – Varun Nair. May 25, 2016 at 9:51. @VarunKN I would interpret inward and outward to be about the edge's position in space and not think of a concave or convex corner. An inward edge might be closer to the center of …
A superlative form of right - English Language Learners Stack …
网页2017年5月4日 · Rightmost would fit here. Incidentally, leftmost for left. Not quite one word, but you could use 'farthest to the right' or 'farthest to the left' as the case may be. FUN FACT: When you use 'Right' as in correct, the superlative form becomes 'Most right'. English, right?! the rightmost answer is the most right in this case.
meaning - Does "next to" mean "to the right" or "to the left ...
网页2017年6月23日 · So, will the N house be leftmost? If so, will the blue house be to its right? Question. Now the question is: Is A to the right of B? Or to the left? Definition #2 seems to suggest that A comes after B — that is, to the right (assuming things are ordered from left to right, as is generally).
What does the phrase "right into the corner" mean here?
网页But it could refer to any sort of corner, e.g. the leftmost and rightmost bucket of a plinko board or any other contextually appropriate corner you can think of. Right into the corner If you bend the ball right into the corner you’ll get triple the points.
In (the) wild: omitting the article - English Language Learners Stack ...
网页2017年6月17日 · And if any "little words" (verbs or articles) must be omitted for space, drop the leftmost ones first. Additionally, headlines uses tenses differently than you might expect. To quote from the NYT again: Headlines on fresh news almost always use the present tense: Men Walk on Moon.
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