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AH020387 Posted 16 years ago
Vocabulary
Acute
'Acute' means both 'quick' and 'severe' or just 'severe'?
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- " Do you have any idea how frustrating it is to try to answer your questions?
- Most words in English have many different meanings and can serve as several different parts of speech.
- " We all volunteer here because we like to answer quesitons about English, and we like to be helpful.
- But when the questions could actually be more efficiently answered by looking at a dictionary, we feel rather (a little, somewhat, a lot) useless.
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"Acute" means quite a few different things, but I can't think of any way it means "quick."
Do you have any idea how frustrating it is to try to answer your questions? Most words in English have many different meanings and can serve as several different parts of speech. When you present two words with no context and ask if they mean the same, or what the difference is, the answer is alm
Do you have any idea how frustrating it is to try to answer your questions? Most words in English have many different meanings and can serve as several different parts of speech. When you present two words with no context and ask if they mean the same, or what the difference is, the answer is alm
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khoffAcute" means quite a few different things, but I can't think of any way it means "quick."
Acute tends to mean quick only in terms of medical English (as I can think). If the onset of an illness is quick it is said to be acute, if slow then chronic.
As you mentioned if you had been given the context you would have realised that.
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