Raise and Rise
The verb raise means to lift something to a higher position. You use raise when you are or someone is lifting something so, for example, I can say: I can raise my coffee cup, means I lift it up into the air in a higher position. In a meeting I would say: Would all those in favor please raise their hands?
I also could give a piece of advice: You should never raise a hand to a child or a woman.
We also use that verb raise when we are talking about what parents do to help their children when they are growing up. Parents raise children means they take care of children as they grow older.
We can also use raise with the following ideas:
The government plan to raise taxes.
I had to raise my voice to make myself heard over the noise.
The discussion has raised many important issues.
I want to raise two questions with you.
I need to raise some cash.
I will ask my boss a raise.
The verb to rise means that you get up; you are getting up, getting higher so I say: I rise at 7 am every morning, meaning that I get up; I leave my bed at 7 am.
We can also say that the sun rises in the morning and it sets at night. The balloon rose gently into the air.
We can also use the verb rise for the water: In a river during the spring the river rises and it means that there are more water so it goes up, it rises too much and floods the land around. In Egypt the Nile floods the land around and that’s because it rises at a certain time of the year.
We can also use rise with the following ideas:
We had a sudden temperature rise.
We had a 5% rise in inflation last year.
What is the difference between "must", "have to" and "got to"?
Well, actually all of this means the same thing. If I say: I must go, it means that is necessary that I go; I have an obligation to go. If I say: I have to go I’m saying the same thing; it’s necessary, there’s an obligation.
The expression "I got to go" is informal. You can also say: "I have got to go" and here there’s a small difference because using these informal expressions we might be expressing certain urgency or much necessity.
So you can say: "I have to leave now", "I must leave now" or in informal way: "I got to leave now" meaning the same thing.
I just would say that "must" is a little bit more formal; someone who wants to sound a little more educated might use "must" instead of "have to" or "got to", but they are perfectly acceptable.
What is the difference between "Yet" and "Still"?
Well, let’s see a question: Is he here yet? Is he here still? What is the difference?
When you say: Is he here yet, you are saying maybe he is not here right now. You are expecting here to be here so: Is he here yet means he wasn’t here before and you are asking if he is here now.
When you say: Is he here still, you are saying that this person was here, he was here and you were expecting him to leave so if someone says: Are you still here, what they are really saying is: why haven’t you left yet? You are here but I don’t expect you to be here. Perhaps I was hoping that you would not be here.
So "yet" means the person was not there but you were expecting them to be there and "still" means the person is there and you were expecting them to leave.
What the expression "wash down" means?
Wash down means to drink something after eating something so if I had a sandwich and after I drank a glass of beer, I washed the sandwich down with a glass of beer. So wash down means to drink but we use it when we are talking about eating something before.
I’m going to eat a piece of fish and I’m going to wash it down with a glass of water or usually with some alcoholic drink like wine, beer or that sort of thing. First you eat and then you drink.
What is the meaning of the word "Hype"?
Hype is when something is continually advertised and discussed in newspaper, television, etc. Hype means that people are talking about and something is very popular. There has been a lot of hype around the movie 2012, meaning that everybody is talking about it.
Lately, people are talking about the I-Pod and there’s a lot of hype about it meaning that’s a lot of publicity around it, a lot of advertisements. In general hype means that it’s very popular and everyone is talking about it and that’s supposed to be very good and it could be a movie, a car, an actor, everything could have hype.
What is the meaning of the expression "No brainer"?
Well, no brainer means that you don’t have to think about what you should do because it’s obvious. You don’t need to use your brain because the answer is obvious. We use the expression "no brainer" when we are talking about an action that has to be taken, for example, let’s suppose that it’s raining so I got my umbrella so I would not get wet. It’s no brainer; I don’t have to think about it because it’s obvious.
You can use this expression just in the negative so you can’t use "it’s brainer" in opposite to "no brainer".
What is the meaning of the word "Pimp"?
Well, pimp has different meanings and as a noun a pimp is a man who has women who work for him as prostitutes; women that sell themselves for sexual purposes. A pimp is a man who controls and finds customers for the prostitutes, he is a man that organizes and takes part of the money from the women so he’s sort of like their boss and, of course, that’s not something you want your son to grow up and be. Most parents I think. Nevertheless, in US the figure of a pimp usually is someone who dresses with a lot of fancy clothing, a big hat and drives a very big car that has a lot of very expensive things added to it.
As a verb, to pimp also has many different meanings but one of them is very well known because of a television program called: "Pimp my Ride" so to pimp you ride or to pimp your car means that you make your car looks better, looks nicer by putting many expensive things on the outside of your car.
The uses of the word "Rather"
We have a couple of different uses of rather; one of them is "would rather". In the sentence: I would rather go to the park than to the beach, here would rather is expressing a preference for one thing over the other. I also could say: I would prefer to go to the park than to the beach. So would rather and would prefer have the same meaning. If I say: I would prefer not to go, or I would rather not go, those are the same.
"Rather than" is similar; I want the ice-cream rather than the piece of pie, meaning I want this one instead of the other one.
"Rather" meaning very much: I rather prefer ice-cream, meaning I very much prefer ice-cream.
"Rather" as a small amount: It’s rather cold today, isn’t it? Rather here means that the weather is not so cold today.
Differences between "In" and "Into"
Well, you can say that you are in the house walking into the kitchen or into the living room.
Let’s say that I’m going in the house and being inside it, I’m going into the kitchen. Where am I? I am in the house walking into the kitchen and later I’m going into the room to watch TV.
You can also say into meaning that you are interested in something, for example, if I say that I am into classical music, I am saying that I am interested in classical music.
The meanings of the word "Indeed"
There are a couple of uses for the word indeed. One is the idea that something is really, truly, or actually. For example, I can say: He is indeed here, or he is really here, or he is truly here. He is actually here. They are all the same thing.
Another use of indeed is when you agree with someone. Someone says: It’s cold out today, and you answer: indeed it is.
You can also use the word indeed instead of using the word in fact: someone says: It’s very cold today and you may answer: indeed, it’s freezing instead of saying in fact it is freezing.
What is "Mail-in Rebate"?
When you buy something that has a rebate that means that you will have some money back after doing your purchase so rebate is when a company gives you money back after you buy something.
After your purchase, the company gives you some money back if you mail-in the receipt of your purchase; of course, the company has to be offering a rebate for you to do so.
Most of the things that you buy don’t have a rebate but it is one way that companies discovered to sell more things, so if they want to sell, for example, more TV sets, they may offer a rebate for you to buy one and after you buy it you must send to the company an email with a copy of the receipt attached in order to have some money back.
What’s the difference between "On time" and "In time"?
On time means that you are on schedule; you are arriving at a place at the time you said you are going to be there.
The train is supposed to arrive at the station at 7 o’clock. If it arrives on time, it arrives at 7 o’clock and if it arrives after 7 it’s not on time; it’s late.
In time is when you have a deadline, you have a certain limit of time and you need something done before that limit, for example, you need to give your boss a report by 6 o’clock this afternoon and if you give it to him at 5:30, you give to him in time, before the deadline.
The uses of "Going to" and “will"
Well, when do we use going to and when do we use will? What’s the difference between them?
Well, both forms are about the future; something that will happen; something that will happen or something that is going to happen in the future; could be a day, an hour, and a year from now. The differences are not really in meaning. I could say: I’m going to go or I will go. I would say that going to is a little more informal and a little more common.
I’m going to talk about. I will talk about. "Will" here a little more formal perhaps. Will you go? Yes, I will go. That’s something you might read in a novel but you also hear people use will in talking about something that will happen in the future. There will be rain tomorrow. There’s going to be rain tomorrow. Either one is possible.
There are some cases that "will" is more common, but they are very similar in terms of the amount the people use them.
Wage and Salary
Wage is when you work for a company and you are paid by the hour.
Salary is when the company pays you not by the hour but usually by the year and so they say: Well, we are going give you $30 thousand dollars a year but you may have to work a lot of hours for that and if you work more hours you don’t get paid more money for that. Maybe you do overtime but you will not get paid for the extra hours.
A typical American worker works for the hour in a week but if you are on a salary you sometimes will work more than that.
We usually talk about the distinction between types of work; a couple of expressions is "white collar" and "blue collar". A blue collar worker is someone who works in a manual type of job and it’s paid by the hour and they have a wage. A manual job is where you have to use your hands so if you are a painter of walls, or you do the cleaning, you are a blue collar worker.
A white collar worker or a white collar job is when you work in an office like a lawyer or maybe as a doctor or a university professor and you have a salary.
What’s the difference between "Afraid" and "Frightened"?
Well, in most cases afraid is a little less serious, dramatic so you can say: I’m afraid of flying or I’m afraid of going into the water, the ocean water because there may be a shark there so it means that you have some fear. We also use "I’m afraid" for: I’m afraid I can’t go, meaning that you are sorry but you can’t go; it won’t be possible.
Frightened is usually when you are very afraid, very scared, you have a lot of fear often with something that happened suddenly. I heard a noise outside my window and it frightened me. I got scared and it’s much more dramatic, it’s a more intense feeling.
What is the meaning of the words "Even" and "Odd"?
Well, even is used for numbers and numbers that you can divide by two so 2, 4, 6, 8, 156, and so forth, they are all called even numbers. Odd numbers are numbers like 1, 3, 5, 7, 269, and so forth, they are all odd numbers.
The words odd and even have other meanings; even is used sometimes to mean that things are the same, are equal so, for example, if you do something wrong to someone they may be mad or angry at you and they might want to do something wrong to you so they will try to get even, to have revenge. Thus, if I try to hurt someone who has hurt me and I do that I may say: now we are even; I have hurt you like you have hurt me.
We also use even as an adverb and it’s used to provide emphasis or to point out something that is very strange, unusual or surprising: even the girls want to watch the baseball game; even my father wants to go to the opera and normally he wouldn’t go to the opera, it’s surprising he wants to go.
Odd also means that something is strange. I can say this is very odd, he is very odd, meaning he’s weird, strange.
Odd sometimes can also mean something difficult like in the expression: against all odds. Let’s suppose that it’s raining a lot and you decide to go out. No one would go out in such rainy day, but you, against all odds, decide to go out even you know that it will be very difficult and unpleasant.
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