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Messier42 Posted 13 years ago
Vocabulary

How would you describe it?

Imagine that there are two pieces of wood with different thickness. If two pieces are met, one pieces of wood will be stuck out since the other one has smaller thickness. How would you describe it? Would you describe it like this? One piece is elevated?
How would describe it in noun? There is ( ) between two pieces.
  

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Because of the difference in thickness, one piece is 2 cm higher... One piece is higher than the other...

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?? Because of the difference in thickness, one piece is 2 cm higher...
?? One piece is higher than the other...
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A woodworker would say that the higher piece is proud of the other one, believe it or not. The lower piece is shy of the higher one. "Up" is the common parlance for that, I'd say: one piece is up a sixteenth of an inch. "High" works, too: one piece is a sixteenth of an inch high. I don't think "elevated" is very good, but it would work.

There is a difference in height between the two piec
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Thank you.

Imagine there are two pipes. one pipe has a few inch larger diameter the other one. Now, they need to be welded together. If you look at and touch the spot where it is welded, you will see they are mismatched.
How would you describe it?
There is a raised spot? Would you say it like this? Thies is descrepancy?
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The pipe steps up in diameter or steps down in diameter depending on which way you look at it.
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What about this? do they sound natural? 'raised spot' ,'discrepancy','protruding spot','elevated spot'
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messier42What about this? do they sound natural? 'raised spot' ,'discrepancy','protruding spot','elevated spot'
Yes. The bare "discrepancy", not so much.
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What about 'there is a step-up'?
Can this be used for the pieces of wood that i described? The piece of wood steps up in height.
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messier42What about 'there is a step-up'? Can this be used for the pieces of wood that i described? The piece of wood steps up in height.
It's possible, I guess. What words I would use would depend on the exact situation.
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