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I think that a bearing's job is to allow something ... not do that and merely supports or holds something snugly. In my experience, bushes hold rotating shafts in electric motors/dynamos (AmE = generators). At least I have worked on several

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If you mean verbs that take only one thing as ... But my son claims that you can shrug your eyebrows. You can shrug 'it', as in "shrug it off". I presume 'it' refers to trouble or pain. Interesting and useful word. From

Just lately I have heard several people, including sports commentators on radio, using the term 'furtherest' when they obviously mean ... 'furtherest'. The superlative of far is always given as 'furthest'. Has anyone else

I have a little disagreement with a friend of mine. He assures me that an archive file created with a ... "zipped"? He says he came across a "zip'ed file" at universities' websites many times. What do you think about

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