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Is there a word for a second word which is contained in the first word, as in, for example, the word end in the word friend?

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asked Feb 22, 2014 at 18:36

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The best I could come up with is «subword«:

A subword of a word is a sequence of at least 2 letters obtainable by removing (possibly zero) letters from the beginning and end; it is proper if at least one letter is removed.

Though this concept is simply mentioned regarding to word games mainly, it even branches out to mathematical and computational linguistics. It is considered as substring and subsequence in some of the cases as well.

This concept is mentioned in compound structures and agglutination also.

answered Feb 22, 2014 at 20:21

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It’s difficult to guess what kinds of problems you are having, so I offer this a merely one possibility for you to consider.

In this example I filled a type box with many repetitions of «we are the best», copied, clicked the outlined W with the Area Type Tool, and pasted. I decided on a type size that pleased me, then began to select each «we are the best», one at a time, and to adjust the tracking in the Character panel to make the phrase fit the space. Click in the Tracking number field to use

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Словосочетания

in a word — одним словом; короче говоря
get in a word — вмешаться в разговор; вставить слово
put in a word — вмешаться в разговор; вставить слово; вмешаться
catch in a word — поймать на слове; уловить в слове
thrust in a word — вставить слово
to catch in a word — а) поймать на слове; б) библ. уловить в слове
to thrust in a word — вставить слово
to get /to put/ in a word — вставить слово, вмешаться в разговор
put in a word for somebody — замолвить за кого-либо словечко
interchange of letters in a word — перестановка букв в слове

to put in a word, to put a word in — вставить слово, вмешаться
the interchange of letters in a word — перестановка букв в слове
in words — прописью
in one word — одним словом; короче говоря
not in word — к тому же
in few words — в нескольких словах; в немногих словах; вкратце
in two words — коротко говоря
sum in words — сумма прописью
in many words — очень подробно
suck in words — впитывать в себя слова
in other words — другими словами, иначе говоря
in a few words — в нескольких словах, вкратце
written-in word — записанное слово
artist in words — мастер слова
in a /one/ word — одним словом, короче говоря
amount in words — сумма, выраженная словами; сумма словами
in so many words — а) определённо, ясно, недвусмысленно; б) прямо, откровенно
in word and deed — на словах и на деле
bold in word only — смелый только на словах
the in word to use — модное словечко

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Автоматический перевод

словом, в слове, в общем, в двух словах, короче говоря

Перевод по словам

word  — слово, известие, речь, обещание, текст, вести, сформулировать, выражать словами

Примеры

We are, in a word, busy. Ridiculously busy.

Одним словом, мы заняты — как это ни смешно.

Dyslexics often transpose letters in a word

Дизлексики часто переставляют буквы в словах.

‘Proto’ is a combining form in a word like ‘protolanguage’ that refers to the hypothetical ancestor of another language or group of languages.

Частица «пра-» — это компонент сложного слова типа «праязык», который ссылается на гипотетического предка другого языка или группы языков.

Can I bung in a word yet? *

А мне можно слово сказать?

Passion found vent in words.

Страсть нашла выражение в словах.

They drank in every word of the lecture.

Они впитывали каждое слово лекции.

There are two b’s in the word “abbey.”

В слове “abbey” две буквы «b».

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Примеры, отмеченные *, могут содержать сленг и разговорные фразы.

Примеры, ожидающие перевода

«In other words, it has haunted you.»  

You have to put everything in words of one syllable for her.  

In a word, the confusion and untidiness of the room were indescribable.  

The song has rhyming couplets (=pairs of lines that end in words that rhyme).  

The sounds represented by “c” and “b” are different phonemes, as in the words “cat” and “bat.”  

Для того чтобы добавить вариант перевода, кликните по иконке , напротив примера.

My husband wanted to select a long column of text and find any text that was inside square brackets and reformat it so that the text — and the square brackets — was 4 pt and blue (no, I don’t know why either…).

This is an ideal job for using wildcards in Word’s find and replace. However, square brackets are special characters in wildcard searches, so they have to be treated differently. With some help from http://word.mvps.org/faqs/general/usingwildcards.htm and a bit of trial and error, I figured it out. I explain what all the settings mean after these steps, if you’re interested. Meantime, here’s my solution, which works in all versions of Word:

  1. Select the text you want to change (e.g. entire document, selected paragraphs, selected columns or rows of a table).
  2. Press Ctrl+H to open the Find and Replace dialog box.
  3. Click the More button.
  4. Select the Use wildcards check box.
  5. Put your cursor into the Find what field.
  6. Type the following exactly (or copy it from here): ([)(*)(])
  7. Go to the Replace with field and type: 123
  8. Click the Format button, and select Font.
  9. On the Font dialog box change the settings to what you want — in my husband’s case, this was 4 pt and blue — then click OK. Your Find and Replace dialog box should now look like this:

    Find and reformat text inside square brackets

    Find and reformat text inside square brackets

  10. Click Replace All.
  11. Once all replacements have been made, check that you got what you expected before making further changes to the document. If it’s all OK, save your document with the new changes.

What it all means

The three elements of the Find are:

  1. ([) — You need to find a specific character (the opening square bracket), so you need to enclose it in parentheses. However, because the square brackets are special wildcard characters in their own right, you need to tell Word to treat them as normal text characters and not as special characters, so you put in a backslash ‘‘ (also known as an ‘escape’ character) before the [.
  2. (*) — This tells Word to look for any characters after the opening square bracket. There’s no limit on what sort of characters (alpha, numeric, or symbols) Word is to find, or on how many there are.
  3. (]) — This tells Word to stop the find at the first closing square bracket it finds after an opening square bracket followed by any other characters. As with the opening square bracket (1. above), the closing square bracket is a special wildcard character, so needs a backslash in front of it for Word to treat it as ordinary text, and it needs to be enclosed in parentheses as it’s an exact match you want.

There are no spaces between any of these elements — the aim is to find a string such as [green frog] and replace it with exactly the same text but formatted in a different color and with a difference font size.

The three elements of the Replace are:

  1. 1 — Tells Word to replace the first element of the Find with what was in the Find (the opening square bracket).
  2. 2 — Tells Word to replace the second element of the Find with the same text as what was found. In other words, keep the exact text as was found, but change it’s font size and color.
  3. 3 — Tells Word to replace the third element of the Find with what was in the Find (the closing square bracket).

As with the Find elements, there are no spaces between these elements. You still want [green frog], not [ green frog ].

See also:

  • Replace text in quotes with bold: https://cybertext.wordpress.com/2008/05/14/word-2003-replac-text-in-quotes-with-bold-text/
  • Replace excess spaces: https://cybertext.wordpress.com/2009/01/11/word-replace-excess-spaces/
  • Find and replace any number of spaces: https://cybertext.wordpress.com/2010/09/13/word-find-and-replace-any-number-of-spaces/
  • Change the number of spaces after a period: https://cybertext.wordpress.com/2009/01/23/word-change-the-spaces-after-a-period/

[Links last checked June 2011]

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