Shortage vs Plausible - What's the difference?
shortage | plausible |
A lack or deficiency; an insufficient amount.
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, title= Seemingly or apparently valid, likely, or acceptable; credible: a plausible excuse.
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Obtaining approbation; specifically pleasing; apparently right; specious.
Using specious arguments or discourse. (rfv-sense)
(obsolete) Worthy of being applauded; praiseworthy; commendable; ready.
As a noun shortage
is a lack or deficiency; an insufficient amount.As an adjective plausible is
seemingly or apparently valid, likely, or acceptable; credible: a plausible excuse.shortage
English
Noun
(wikipedia shortage) (en noun)Yesterday’s fuel, passage=The dawn of the oil age was fairly recent. Although the stuff was used to waterproof boats in the Middle East 6,000 years ago, extracting it in earnest began only in 1859 after an oil strike in Pennsylvania.
Antonyms
* glut * mountain (as in butter mountain)See also
* drought * famine * ration * rationingplausible
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- In short, the twin assumptions that syntactic rules are category-based, and that there are a highly restricted finite set of categories in any natural language (perhaps no more than a dozen major categories), together with the assumption that the child either knows'' (innately) or ''learns (by experience) that all rules are structure-dependent ( =category-based), provide a highly plausible model of language acquisition, in which languages become learnable in a relatively short, finite period of time (a few years).
- a plausible''' pretext; '''plausible''' manners; a '''plausible delusion
- a plausible speaker
- (Bishop Hacket)