Feb 5, 2017 · The hyphenated phrase high-end is an adjective. The phrase at the higher end is different -- for one thing, no hyphen. The prepositional phrase uses the noun end as its last word, and the sentence grammar is fine. For the specific words: adjective: Sony has always been a high-end brand.

In a high toned restaurant...source People have to be taught how to behave or dress in a fancy restaurant. source The novel's claustrophobic premise is the gathering of two couples for dinner in a high end restaurant. source

Dec 1, 2014 · Someone else took my favorite, demimondaine, so I'll plump for courtesan, which literally means a woman who attends a royal court, the distaff equivalent of courtier, but has come to mean extremely high-end prostitute.

Aug 23, 2014 · However, as in the second and third examples, the rd & st simply come from the right-end of the word for the ordinal number: 3 rd: thi rd. 301 st: (three-hundred-) fir st (shouldn't that be 301 th?, I'm not going there).

Oct 5, 2011 · The background for this question is that I'm watching the latest episode of NCIS, and in this episode it is mentioned that the term "Low on the totem pole" actually is a good thing, reserved for th...

Mar 25, 2015 · Junior High School (7-9) High School (10-12) I moved half-way across the US to go to college and discovered they had: Elementary School (k-5) Middle School (6-8) High School(9-12) Then we had kids, and our school district grew and they have: Primary School (k-2) Elementary School (3-6) Middle School (6-8) High School(9-12) You may want to refer to:

Jun 8, 2022 · The Chaplain, who waited upon him as a Maid would on a lardy-dardy woman of Fashion, handed my Gentleman a very tall stick with a golden knob at the end on't, and with this, and a laced handkerchief and a long cravat, which he had likely bought at Mechlin, and a Snuff-box in the lean little Paw that held not the cane, he looked for all the ...

As you say, high is simply an adjective and performance is simply a noun which high modifies. In the second pair, high is again an adjective and performance is a noun functioning as an adjective and together they modify computing. The question to ask is whether the absence of a hyphen between high and performance creates ambiguity.

Oct 23, 2015 · This might explain why the English still call car body repairmen "panel beaters", even if Americans do not. In England, the term "panel beating" might be associated with high-quality work, which would probably surprise most Americans. (Rolls-Royce and Bentley were among the last auto makers to switch to stamped body parts.) –

Apr 13, 2017 · Two problems with this: 1) the concept of alpha/beta wolves is outdated and incorrect, so in time, using this terminology will make you look like an ignorant person, and 2) "Alpha and Omega" is one of the titles of Jesus Christ or of God in the Book of Revelations, so "omega" as the opposite of "alpha" wouldn't have the same connotation for audiences with …