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  1. Modelling or modeling? - WordReference Forums

    Feb 28, 2007 · Someone seeing traveller and modelling for the first time would not have anything within the spelling to indicate whether the first or second syllable is stressed, while someone who knows Webster's rule would know that traveler and modeling are pronounced on the first syllable, while propeller and preferring are pronounced with the stress on ...

  2. throughout her studies vs in vs over the course of her studies

    Jun 4, 2018 · Hi, I would please ask you which of the options in bold is more appropriate in the following (I prefer the second): She perfected her mathematical modelling skills (throughout her studies)/(in the course of her studies)/(over the course of her studies) in Physics.

  3. explain to me /explain me.... | WordReference Forums

    Mar 14, 2008 · Hola a tod@s! Hola, plutosis. ¿Por qué algunos verbos como por exemplo explain, introduce, say, etc.... necesitan de un "to" ? as í por ejemplo: He explained the lesson "to" me correcto / He explained to us the lesson el orden de las palabras me duele You have to introduce him "to" me correcto Don't say it to him! perfecto He gave us the basis of hydraulic modelling …

  4. The only way < is /is by> doing .... | WordReference Forums

    Jan 26, 2014 · At one point, in 1985, Pixar,losing money fast, was nearly sold to General Motors and Philips Electronics, which wanted its computer-graphics modelling tools to help design cars and transform medical scans into three-dimensional images. Even when Steve Jobs, a co-founder of Apple, came to the rescue, Pixar was still in danger.

  5. leverage vs by leveraging - WordReference Forums

    Sep 24, 2016 · Can you replace skills with competencies in the sentence above, and write: Firstly, I can contribute to the success of the company by deploying my skills in the areas of financial mathematics and of the mathematical modelling of physical phenomena? Yes, if you also change deploy to employ/use.

  6. plástica (school subject) | WordReference Forums

    Jan 2, 2013 · The dictionary gives the translation as as "modelling" but which I am wondering whether might be better translated as "arts and crafts". "The plastic arts" sounds very stilted to use as a school subject for a six-year-old!

  7. gave good face - WordReference Forums

    Mar 29, 2015 · It's a modelling term. He/she gives good face means they perform well for the camera. It isn't gibberish. It's a verifiable term. And to understand the song "Vogue" you need to understand the culture from which it came. (See: Paris is Burning, documentary). Vogueing is a dance, created in the 80s gay underground dance scene.

  8. Traveling or travelling? Doubling a final consonant when adding a ...

    Jun 12, 2007 · Traveling Vs. Travelling ... but there are many exceptions, are there not, as already pointed out in this conversation, such as travelling, counselling, counsellor, modelling, quarrelled, cruellest. These (British) English spellings double the consonant even though the preceding syllable is not accented and according to the "rule" no double consonant is needed. The …

  9. today, 15000 years <since><after>it was first invented

    May 25, 2025 · Now, 16 years after Hull's death and 40 years since Lindisfarne's famous Fog on the Tyne was released, there are renewed calls for a memorial to him. This simple yet elegant formalism for modelling and reasoning about dynamic systems is still in common use more than forty years since it was first proposed.

  10. by significantly affecting/impacting - WordReference Forums

    Mar 24, 2017 · She is attracted by the key role that they play both in modelling systematic risks that resource constraints pose to global economy by significantly affecting/impacting (or with significant effects on) future demographic and financial outcomes, and in developing strategies to mitigate these risks.