2022-02-27
ศัพท์ น่าสับสน - Set – E - endless & innumerable
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Dictionary.com:
ออกเสียง endless = “END-lis”
ออกเสียง innumerable = “ih-NOO-mer-uh-buhl” or “ih-NYOO- . .”
Dictionary of Problem Words and Expressions:
endless & innumerable
These words are often used interchangeably,
but they have distinct meanings.
Endless means “without an end,”
“boundless,”
“interminable,”
“continuous”:
“The endless prairie stretched before his eyes.”
“During his recent illness, he felt that his pain was endless.”
“The workmen are replacing an endless conveyor belt.”
Innumerablemeans
“too many to count,”
“countless,”
“numberless”:
“The daisies in that huge field were innumerable.”
“The tasks of a housewife may seem endless, but they are hardly innumerable.
The leaves on a tree may beinnumerable but they are notendless;
neither are theinnumerable snowflakes falling in a winter storm.
