Does the same thing over and over again?

Does the same thing over and over again?

The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result. These words are usually credited to the acclaimed genius Albert Einstein.

What word can replace things?

What is another word for thing?

object	item
implement	material
matter	apparatus
contrivance	device
gadget	trinket

Is many a time correct?

“Many a time” is correct as a more formal way of saying “many times”. However, “Many a timeS” is by no means correct. “Many a time” is an accepted colloquialism.

What is the difference between many times and many a times?

The only difference is that “many” is more common in use, whereas the phrase “many a” is formal, old-fashioned, or literary. Many is used with a plural noun and verb, whereas “many a” is used with a singular noun and verb.

Is many a grammatically correct?

Many a girl or the second option is correct. Many a always uses a singular noun and is more formal than the word many. It is not much common and is used usually in newspapers and famous writings. Many a is used to indicate a large number of something.

What does many a time mean?

Often; a lot. This phrase means the same as “many times.” Oh, that’s my favorite restaurant—I’ve been there many a time!

What does 2 times as much mean?

“One time more” means the same as “one hundred percent addition”, or “twice as much”, or “double the amount”. “Two times more” means the same as “two hundred percent addition”, or “three times as much”, or “triple the amount”.

What is twice as much as 1?

Likewise, what is twice as much as 1? The answer is simple: it isn’t – “two times more” wouldmake that 1-dollar item cost 3 dollars (1 + 2 *1 = 3)! “X times more” means addition on top of what youalready have!

Can you say often times?

Oftentimes or often times: Often is a shortened version of the bigger word oftentimes and they both are adverbs that act as synonym for the word frequently. They have the same mean but often is preferred due to its shortness but often times is not the same as ‘often’ and ‘oftentimes’.

Do you put a comma after Often times?

Some adverbs don’t end “-ly”, e.g. sometimes or often. When an adverb modifies an entire sentence (or independent clause that follows it), then you should use a comma after it.

Is Oftenly a real word?

First, “oftenly” is not a real word. The correct term is “often,” which is already an adverb; you cannot make an adverb more of an adverb by adding the “ly” suffix. Second, instead of the non-word “oftenly,” you could use the adverb “usually” to indicate something Hank has been known to do on many occasions.

What does the phrase more often than not mean?

: happening more than half the time He wins more often than not. More often than not, I stay home instead of going out.

Is it more often than naught or not?

“More often than not” is a sort of “elliptical” phrase, leaving out some details that the reader must add back in to understand it (“This happens more often than it doesn’t happen”). “More often than naught” (3,870 ghits) is much clearer, at least for those who have “naught” in their ordinary vocabulary.

Is more often correct?

“Often” sometimes has comparative and superlative “oftener” and “Oftenest”, but forms with “more/most” are more common. So, both are correct, though “more often” is much more common than “oftener”.

Does often mean more than half?

These phrases say exactly how often something is done….Frequency.

Adverb	Frequency it represents
often	more than half of the time.
sometimes	less than half of the time.
rarely	about 20 percent of the time.
never	at no time.

Does often mean most?

Does “often” mean “most of the time”? “Frequently” is closer. Just because she does something often, that doesn’t mean that she does it most of the time. She could do many other things much of the time yet still do something often or frequently.

What does at the most mean?

phrase. You use at most or at the most to say that a number or amount is the maximum that is possible and that the actual number or amount may be smaller.

What percentage is most?

They found that people very consistently estimated “most” to be between 80 and 95 percent, no matter what the context, or the speaker’s country of origin. “More than half,” on the other hand, was assumed to mean a smaller majority, like 55 percent, 60 percent, or 70 percent.

Does most mean 51%?

Originally Answered: How much percent does the word “Most” mean when citing statistics? “Most” is an imprecise term, which means, as you indicate, an amount more than 50% and less than 100%. If you have a group of 100 marbles, of which 51 are red and 49 are blue, most of the marbles in that group red.

What is more majority or most?

Two differences: Phrase construction: “in most hospitals” “in the majority of hospitals” Countable nouns: “majority” requires a countable noun (e.g. “majority of shoes”) “most” is always used for non-countable nouns (e.g. “most information”) In informal English, “most” is often used for both countable and non-countable …

What does most mean in math?

it can be 10 , or any number less than 10 . So, the phrase ‘x is at most 10 ‘ means ‘x≤10 x ≤ 10 ‘.

Which sign is at most?

The notation a ≤ b or a ⩽ b means that a is less than or equal to b (or, equivalently, at most b, or not greater than b). The notation a ≥ b or a ⩾ b means that a is greater than or equal to b (or, equivalently, at least b, or not less than b).

What sign is no more than?

All The Symbols

Symbol	Words	Example Use
>	greater than	5 > 2
<	less than	7 < 9
≥	greater than or equal to	marbles ≥ 1
≤	less than or equal to	dogs ≤ 3

What does at most mean probability?

• all probabilities larger than the given probability (“at least”) • all probabilities smaller than the given probability (“at most”) The probability of an event, p, occurring exactly r times: n = number of trials.