Aug 12, 2010 · There are 88 examples of inactivate in the Corpus of Contemporary American English and 102 for deactivate, showing they occur with about equal frequency. Most of the examples for …

May 19, 2020 · Inactive contacts are those contacts which have been dormant for a particular amount of time. Deactivated contacts are the ones which have been deactivated by someone for some reason. …

Mar 11, 2016 · Apparently, “inactivate” is used as frequently as “deactivate” but mostly in biology, rather than in general contexts. Is “disactivate” a legitimate word? If yes, in which contexts it's used most …

Jun 15, 2020 · Something close, but more versatile, is this pairing (links are to Merriam-Webster): active / activate inactive / inactivate Of course, if you don't mind mixing the base words, you could use …

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Jul 9, 2020 · I'm looking for something that can describe a sense of familiarity, unfamiliarity, nostalgia, and bittersweetness. I've considered deja vu, but it doesn't capture the nostalgia or bittersweetness. ...

Apr 14, 2016 · 23 moth-balled verb (used with object) to put into storage or reserve; inactivate. adjective inactive; unused; stored away:

Apr 26, 2011 · Late to the party: if your original statement is P => Q, then the converse is Q => P and the inverse is !P => !Q. It happens that the inverse and the converse are logically equivalent, but they …

Dec 30, 2018 · John Lawler calls this the eleven-year-old boy rule. When a noun modifier consists of more than one word, it goes after the noun it modifies. When a noun modifier consists of only one …

May 12, 2022 · A BBC article, dated 15 May 2002, asserts the expression nitty-gritty is banned from British politics (and also by police services) due to its supposedly disagreeable origin. The emphasis …