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Meanings
determiner
  • used when referring to someone or something for the first time in a text or conversation.
    E.g. a man came out of the room
  • used to indicate membership of a class of people or things.
    E.g. he is a lawyer
  • in, to, or for each; per (used when expressing rates or ratios).
    E.g. typing 60 words a minute
abbreviation
  • (in travel timetables) arrives.
    E.g. Penzance a 0915
  • (in units of measurement) atto- (10−18).
  • (with reference to sporting fixtures) away.
    E.g. March 15 Sheffield United (a)
  • (used before a date) before.
    E.g. a1200
symbol
  • acceleration.
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prefix
  • not; without.
    E.g. atheistic
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suffix
  • forming ancient or Latinized modern names of animals and plants.
    E.g. primula
  • forming names of oxides.
    E.g. baryta
  • forming geographical names.
    E.g. Africa
  • forming ancient or Latinized modern feminine forenames.
    E.g. Lydia
  • forming nouns from Italian, Portuguese, and Spanish.
    E.g. duenna
a-
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prefix
  • to; towards.
    E.g. aside
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suffix
  • forming plural nouns from Greek or Latin neuter plurals corresponding to a singular in -um or -on (such as addenda, phenomena ).
  • forming plural nouns in names (often from modern Latin) of zoological groups.
    E.g. Insectivora
a-
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prefix
  • variant spelling of ad- assimilated before sc, sp, and st (as in ascend, aspire, and astringent ).
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suffix
  • of.
    E.g. coupla
  • have.
    E.g. mighta
  • to.
    E.g. oughta
a-
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Meanings
prefix
  • of.
    E.g. anew
  • utterly.
    E.g. abash
A
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Meanings
noun
  • the first letter of the alphabet.
  • a shape like that of a capital A.
    E.g. an A-shape
  • the sixth note of the diatonic scale of C major. The A above middle C is usually used as the basis for tuning and in modern music has a standard frequency of 440 Hz.
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Meanings
abbreviation
  • (in card games) ace.
    E.g. you cash ♥AK
  • against (heading the column in a table of sports results which shows the goals or points scored against each club).
  • A level.
  • ampere(s).
  • ångstrom(s).
  • attack (in designations of US aircraft types).
    E.g. an A-10
  • answer.
    E.g. Q: What is a hung parliament? A: One in which no single party has an overall majority
  • (in names of sports clubs) Athletic.
    E.g. Dunfermline A
  • Austria (international vehicle registration).
ampere
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Meanings
noun
  • the SI base unit of electrical current.
angstrom
ˈaŋstrəm Listen
Meanings
noun
  • a unit of length equal to one hundred-millionth of a centimetre, 10−10 metre, used mainly to express wavelengths and interatomic distances.

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