Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- abbr. accusative.
- abbr. Games ace
- abbr. across.
- abbr. adenine.
- abbr. alto.
- abbr. ampere.
- abbr. angstrom.
- abbr. area.
Wiktionary
- n. The first letter of the basic modern Latin alphabet.
- n. Marks the first item in a list
- n. A hypothetical item or person designated first when there are more than one.
- n. computing The hexadecimal digit for 10
- n. stock symbol Symbol for the company Agilent Technologies, Inc. on the NYSE.
- n. chemistry, obsolete Symbol for the element Argon (Since 1956 has been changed to Ar).
- n. geometry area
- abbr. physics ampere, a unit of electrical current.
- abbr. genetics IUPAC 1-letter abbreviation for adenine in genetic code.
- abbr. biochemistry IUPAC 1-letter abbreviation for alanine in proteins.
- abbr. vehicle-distinguishing signs Austria
- n. The first letter of the English alphabet, called a and written in the Latin script.
- n. The ordinal number first, derived from this letter of the English alphabet, called a and written in the Latin script.
- n. The highest rank on any of various scales that assign letters.
- n. education The highest letter grade assigned (disregarding plusses and minuses).
- n. medicine A blood type that has a specific antigen that aggravates the immune response in people with type B antigen in their blood. They may receive blood from type A or type O, but cannot receive blood from AB or B.
- n. chemistry Mass number.
- n. acoustic source
- n. actual weight of an aircraft
- n. historical adulterer, adulteress
- n. Alaska Steamship Company
- n. Alcoa Steamship Company
- n. allele dominant
- n. alveolar gas
- n. American Stock Exchange
- n. ammunition examiner
- n. Anchor Line
- n. aspect ratio
- n. Assembly Bill
- n. Smallest of the brassiere cup sizes.
- n. Chemical activity.
- n. first van der Waals constant
- n. Fraunhofer line for oxygen
- n. aviation hail
- n. includes extras
- n. linear acceleration
- n. mean sound absorption coefficient
- n. Shoe size narrower than B
- n. baseball Single A league, one of the lowest professional leagues.
- n. Total acidity.
- abbr. Ace
- abbr. Acre
- abbr. Adult; as used in film rating
- abbr. Ammeter
- abbr. physics angstrom
- abbr. Answer
- abbr. sports An assist
- abbr. weaponry atom; atomic
Examples
“The standard ratings are looking a little dated now, with just about everything on the market qualifying for an A, so at Marks & Spencer you'll find things rated AA and AAA; elsewhere it'll come up as A+ and A+++, but it all means the same thing, the plus or extra A means it goes 10% more efficiently than an A by itself.”
“Promoted to Headline (H3) on 5/17/09: Bush-Obama: 'A rose by any other name 'yahooBuzzArticleHeadline =' Bush-Obama: \'A rose by any other name\ ''; yahooBuzzArticleSummary = 'Article: Who said, "A war criminal is a war ciminal is a war criminal?"”
“The four highest ratings at insurance specialist A.M. Best Co. are A++, A+, A and A -.”
“A Quiet Excellence: an A+ yahooBuzzArticleHeadline = 'A Quiet Excellence: an A+ '; yahooBuzzArticleSummary =' Article: But there is an empty chair at the party.”
“P lowered Portuguese long - and short-term ratings by two notches to 'A -/A-2' from 'A+/A - 1' - outlook is negative.”
“(A-A″) 71B-Gal4/UAS-NkdGFP third-instar Drosophila salivary gland stained with α-Dsh and imaged for GFP (A) and Dsh (A′) distributions (merged image in A″).”
“After initially rejecting a confusing appliance energy rating scheme that involved grades of A+++, A++, A+ and A, Europe's Trialogue parties of the European Council, European Commission and European Parliament accepted the scheme which would see consumers confused and A grades going to relatively energy inefficient products.”
“The firm led the sale itself, and the bonds were rated A1 by Moody's Investors Service, A by Standard & Poor's and A+ by Fitch Ratings.”
“One achieved 10 A and A* grades at GCSE at a private school.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘A’.
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A to abominator (Chambers)
aa gets over 40 hits
aardvark 49 hits
abbatoir 103 hits
abjure 138 hitsA, A-line, A-list, A-lister, A 1, A-road, A-side, from A to B, from A to Z, A-bomb, A-effect, A level and 254 more...
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All Things Scrabble
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Boy or Girl Letters?
I recently had a discussion with my family on the sex of language. So I was just wondering about y'all's opinions on the gender/sex of American English letters.
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Answers
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true, false, All of the above., None of the above., D, C, B, A, 42, Not to my recolle..., children's laughter, a dentist's drill and 26 more...
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Single Letters with Meaning
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Letters
See also The Phonetic alphabet by oroboros.
aye, bee, cee, dee, e, ef, eff, gee, aitch, eye, jay, kay and 452 more...
Tweets
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