I know that "to make a bed" means "to prepare, arrange the bed sheets for sleeping in the bed". But what about "constructing" and "assembling" a bed, say, by a carpenter? Is it alright to say "I work as a carpenter. I make beds and tables" or should I use another phrase/verb?
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Fully Qualified means that whatever it is has all the qualifications which are applicable. This could mean a qualification such as an FQDN has:
qualified adjective
2 not complete or absolute; limited
That is, a fully-qualified domain name is limited to a specific domain, and that limitation in scope is sufficiently stringent to make it unambiguous.
But they could be academic or vocational qualifications:
qualified adjective
1 officially recognized as being trained to perform a particular job; certified
In these cases one would not talk of an "unambiguous carpenter".
"You're as bad as the old Irish woman who took the two pills to be sure, to be sure..." ?
Reduplication is an alleged trait of [Hiberno-English](to be sure, to be sure...) (Irish-English) strongly associated with stage-Irish and Hollywood films.
The first pill, she took to be sure, and the second, she also took to be sure, so together, she took two pills to be sure, to be sure...
There appears to be no idiom here. It must be from a book or other single source, wherein the meaning of this particular use may be found.
I can make a guess that it means one is as mistrustful as the old Irish woman who didn't trust that one pill would do the job, so she took two, but this is only a guess.
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Make a bed is indeed ambiguous. But arranging the linen is a so much more common activity, within nearly everybody's daily concerns even if they don't do it themselves, that unless there is some specific context pushing it, the other meaning hardly occurs to us.