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American English, the verb cancel is usually inflected canceled and canceling

In varieties of English from outside the U.S., including Canadian, British, and Australian English, cancelled and cancelling are the preferred spellings.

to inquire is to investigate as in 'the policeman made inquiries'.

Enquiry is used for a general question. Inquiry is used for a formal question. Friends enquire "where were you last night"?...the Police Inquire "where were you last night"?

“ประติมา” ซึ่งเป็นรูปสันสกฤตนั้นใช้ในวงกว้าง ส่วน “ปฏิมา” รูปบาลีนั้นใช้เฉพาะกับพระพุทธรูปเท่านั้น

คำที่เป็นรูปบาลีสันสกฤตแบบนี้ ในภาษาไทยเรามีใช้อยู่มาก บางทีก็ใช้เพียงรูปใดรูปหนึ่ง บางทีก็ใช้ทั้ง ๒ รูป เช่น “ปกติ” (ปะ-กะ-ติ) เป็นรูปบาลี “ปรกติ” (ปฺรก-กะ-ติ) เป็นรูปสันสกฤต “ปณิธาน” เป็นรูปบาลี “ประณิธาน” เป็นรูปสันสกฤต หมายความว่า “การตั้งความปรารถนา” หรือ “ปณีต” เป็นรูปบาลี “ประณีต” เป็นรูปสันสกฤต หมายความว่า “ละเอียดลออ, เรียบร้อยงดงาม

ส่วนมากนิยมใช้รูปสันสกฤต เพราะมี ร กล้ำ ทำให้ออกเสียงเพราะขึ้น ถ้าใช้รูปบาลี เสียงจะแข็งไป บางคนอาจคิดว่าผู้พูดออกเสียงไม่ชัดก็ได้

อาหารมังสวิรัติ (vegetarian cuisine) อาหารที่ไม่มีเนื้อสัตว์

veganism การบริโภคอาหารมังสวิรัติที่ประกอบด้วยผักเท่านั้น

Lacto vegetarianism การบริโภคอาหารมังสวิรัติที่ดื่มนมและรับประทานอาหารที่เป็นผลิตภัณฑ์จากนม เช่น โยเกิร์ต ชีส เนย แต่ไม่รับประทานไข่ กลุ่มที่รับประทานมังสวิรัติประเภทนี้ มักจะเป็นชาวอินเดีย

which was to be shown or demonstrated (used esp. in mathematical proofs)

Business and manufacturing practice An SOP is a written document or instruction detailing all steps and activities of a process or procedure.

used in a variety of different contexts, such as healthcare, education, industry or the military.

OEM refers to the company that originally manufactured the product.

OEM may also refer to a company that purchases--for use in its own products--a component made by a second company.

An even more confusing, contradictory definition is a company that sells the product of a second company under its own brand name.

supposedly the longest word in a dictionary, an artificial word said to mean a lung disease caused by the inhalation of silica dust

A horoscope is an astrological document that describes the personality traits of the subject and also divines or forecasts his future at a given moment as determined by the ruling planet of his zodiac sign.

Housekeeping or housecleaning is the systematic process of making a home neat and clean in approximately that order. This maybe applied more broadly that just an individual home, or as a metaphor for a similar "clean up" process applied elsewhere such as a procedural reform. It can also be called household management, which is the act of overseeing the organizational, financial, day-to-day operations of a house or estate, and the managing of other domestic concerns.

an ingenious or questionable claim, method, etc., used in advertising, promotion, or publicity to intensify the effect.

excessive or misleading publicity or advertising

an unproved or false collective belief that is used to justify a social institution.

A popular belief or story that has become associated with a person, institution, or occurrence, especially one considered to illustrate a cultural ideal

Computers . system tasks, as initialization and managing peripheral devices, that must be done to permit a computer program to execute properly but that do not directly contribute to program output.

all attributes associated with the item and that distinguish it from all other items.

SKUs are not regulated nor standardized. When one company receives items from another Vendor, they have a choice of maintaining the Vendor's SKU or creating their own.

It can be singular or plural, dependent on context.

There is also the uncountable form

Purpose defines why the person is doing something he is doing, what is his reasoning behind doing a particular thing and what he plans to achieve from it.

The term objective refers to set tasks or goals that a person wishes to accomplish.

purpose: what you want to achieve when you do something; the reason you do or plan something, and the thing you want to achieve when you do it

aim: something you hope to achieve by doing something

goal: something important that you hope to achieve in the future, even though it may take a long time

attached section to the house which is open to the outside air and is covered with a roof.

A porch is basically an attached section to the house which is open to the outside air and is covered with a roof.

A balcony is a small platform that protrudes from a wall of an upper apartment floor and is usually enclosed by a railing.

foreword (one of the most often misspelled words in the language) is most often written by someone other than the author

In a preface an author explains briefly why they wrote the book, or how they came to write it.

If a preface is about the book as a book, the introduction is about the content of the book. Sometimes it is as simple as that: It introduces what is covered in the book.