moderate and medium

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Devi · #1 Post by **Devi** » Mon Jul 11, 2005 3:57 pm

This is a newbie question I have.

In combat, "You swing your long slender dagger at the smelly blue female gremlin's left hand and hurt her moderately, without using lethal force."

Is wounding someone "moderately" more or less than just wounding?

And medium-sized pebbles, nuggets and stones are smaller than normal-sized ones, right?

anglachel · #2 Post by **anglachel** » Mon Jul 11, 2005 4:09 pm

The size of pebbels and stones:

tiny

small

medium-sized

normal-sized

big

The size of gems:

small

medium-sized

large

By wounds is the order:

slightly

(no adj)

moderately

severely

critically

#3 Post by **Abharsair** » Mon Jul 11, 2005 4:17 pm

What's the difference between a "normal" and "medium"-sized pebble? Alright, I guess the difference is in size, but it sounds like it should be the same.

And yeah, our MUD never stops to surprise me.

Devi · #4 Post by **Devi** » Mon Jul 11, 2005 4:55 pm

Can anyone think of another size between normal and small?

Maybe we should move them around and add a tinier-than-tiny or bigger-than-big term:

tiny>small>normal>big>huge
or:
very tiny(what's a word for that?)>tiny>small>normal>big

or clothes sizes?:
xs>s>m>l>xl

or we could be really creative:
pea-sized>coin-sized (or grape-sized or eyeball-sized!)>plum-sized>egg-sized>fist-sized (or apple-sized. hehe)

The last set makes me pretty hungry!

chara · #5 Post by **chara** » Mon Jul 11, 2005 5:57 pm

Devi wrote:The last set makes me pretty hungry!

It was the eyeballs that did it, wasn't it?

stilgar · #6 Post by **stilgar** » Wed Jul 13, 2005 12:17 pm

eyeballs? allways give me a thrill with the fork

Delia · #7 Post by **Delia** » Mon Aug 01, 2005 8:48 am

Moderate

: not severe in effect : not seriously or permanently disabling or incapacitating <a few days of moderate illness accompanied by chilly sensations and loss of appetite â€”Morris Fishbein> <of the 18 cases in which whooping cough developed .t.t. 13.3 percent were very mild, 4.8 percent were mild and 3.7 percent were moderate â€”Journal of the American Medical Association>

Just though to post an accurate description of the word...btw...for all of us not native english speakers out there try out www.dictionary.com, helps me quite a bit checking the uncertain words from there.

Aramil · #8 Post by **Aramil** » Wed Apr 05, 2006 2:34 am

How about the following:

miniscule
tiny
small
medium-sized
normal-sized
big
huge