Or, as far as I’m concerned, just call it a “parking lot”.
At the airport where I’ve had a few occasions to fly (Buchanan Field in Concord, CA), people could just drive in and park their cars alongside their airplanes.
Airports often have a washrack, a designated area where people can wash their airplanes. One day, returning from a flight somewhere, our pilot wanted me to help him wash his SUV. In the midst of that, the security guy came by and told us that we really aren’t supposed to be washing our cars there.
A TV is not a monitor and a monitor is not a TV. A TV has a built in tuner, a monitor does not. Speakers may be built in on both.
Edit: I used to have a Sony PVM-2530 that described what it was in the name Professional Video Monitor. The tuner and speakers were optional. Ha! I’ve also heard Presentation Video Monitor, but I’m sure Professional is the correct name.
Edit: Thinking about it, the names are correct, but the common usage isn’t for the below.
A NAS (Network Attached Storage) and a RAID (Redundant Array of Independent/Individual/Inexpensive Drives) are two completely different things. You can have a NAS without RAID and a RAID without a NAS. I get so tired of people saying “I have a NAS with X number of hard drives.” assuming you know they’re talking having a RAID setup in a NAS. A NAS can be any storage device accessible over a local network or over the internet.
RIP in regards to Video DVD (yes, that’s the correct term for DVDs with the very specific VIdeo DVD structure) and Video Blu-Rays means extracting the video(s) exactly bit for bit as it exists on the disc except for (usually) the copy protection. You can’t RIP to anything other than an exact bit for bit copy. You also can’t RIP LPs, videotapes, or any analog source and you can’t rip streaming video or audio, you download it. Even RIPPING a CD is questionable because you have to convert the .CDA to WAV to make it playable, so it no longer is in the original format as on the disc.
Guitar related one: the arm on some guitars that allows you to wobble the pitch is a vibrato.
“Tremolo” is the cycling of volume, not pitch. But Leo Fender did not know this and called his vibrato a “tremolo” and that’s what people have been calling it for 60+ years, leading to much befuddlement of people who actually know what the words tremolo and vibrato mean.
Seems like the newspapers call every piece of construction equipment that moves earth a ‘bulldozer’. Track Hoe, Back Hoe, Articulated Loader, doesn’t matter, it’s a Bulldozer. Drives me nuts.
But the Wikipedia page you linked to says that cardboard is a generic term that includes corrugated fiberboard - so cardboard isn’t incorrect, it’s just not specific.
Due to this morning’s news, I’m reminded of one that burns my toast: the use of “troops” as a generic description of US military servicemembers.
There are “Airmen,” “Soldiers,” “Sailors,” “Marines,” “Guardsmen,” or “Guardians.” “Troops” is a quasi-term for Army Cavalry (who are, IIRC ‘Troopers.’)
I’ll take “military members,” or “service members,” but “Troops” is just plain lazy and too ubiquitous nowadays.
