May 10, 2014 · This attitude here is described as soft and with low expectations in the sense that it is not aggressive but has little chances of change in a positive way. soft bigotry Schools need to stop promoting the soft bigotry of low expectations , the Education Secretary has said, claiming teachers refuse to believe that children from poor homes can ...

Jul 22, 2015 · mild (= low disease presence) moderate (= between normal and severe) moderately severe (= not the worst case, nor in the middle) severe (= worst form of disease) I'm not happy with moderately severe, though, and I can't find a good alternative. Also, I'm not fond of moderate, because it somewhat has the same value as mild.

These usage stats suggest that overall, slim is somewhat preferred over small, and both are clearly preferred over low, on both sides of the pond. Further candidates range from poor to little to remote to slender to once-in-a-lifetime, but see for yourself. I will leave it as an exercise to the reader to figure out which of these does or does ...

I'm using five words to describe the difficulty levels of some training material: 'Easy', 'Normal', 'Hard', 'Challenging', 'Level 5' 'Level 5' is the most difficult level.

Feb 2, 2021 · a condition of low priority or temporary deferment (usually used in the phrase on the back burner): Put other issues on the back burner until after the election. [Dictionary.com] The noun has been verbed, and attributive usages are quite common, for example: At Trump-Kim summit, human rights is a back-burner issue. [APNews, 2018]

Apr 30, 2019 · In database queries, clients often asked to group values into ranges, "Low", "Medium","High" which make sense when read by a human. But if the computer returns strings, they sort alphabetically not

Apr 18, 2020 · For a more complex and hopefully helpful answer, let's start with a concrete example. If you have a glass with some water in it, the water is a measurable quantity (less/more), and the height of the top surface is a level (high/low). You would ask, "How much water is there?", and, "How high is the water?"

Jun 16, 2014 · low (Of a sound or voice) not loud or high: keep the volume very low his low, husky voice. It has, therefore, both the meanings. The same dictionary defines husky thus: 1 (Of a voice or utterance) sounding low-pitched and slightly hoarse: his voice became a husky, erotic whisper. A low voice can be loud! (click 'More example sentences' in the ...

The special vocabulary used by any set of persons of a low or disreputable character; language of a low and vulgar type. [notice vulgar used ambiguously] Originally, slang was language associated with low socio-economic class or character, and it is still used with that connotation, though by no means always.

Aug 10, 2017 · Attractive as the origin story implicating the lower keys of the organ (and likewise the lower, or white, keys of the piano) in the development of use of 'low key' in the later figurative sense of "not elaborate, showy, or intense; muted, restrained; modest" (OED, low key, fig., sense 2, emphasis mine) may be, the more convincing story overall ...