Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- abbr. Games jack
- abbr. joule.
Wiktionary
- n. The tenth letter of the basic modern Latin alphabet.
- n. metrology The symbol for joule, the unit of work or energy in the International System of Units
- n. jack (playing card)
- n. The tenth letter of the English alphabet, called jay and written in the Latin script.
- n. slang A term for a marijuana cigarette ('joint').
- abbr. Abbreviation of Journal.
- abbr. law Abbreviation of Judge or justice. (It is used after a name (plural JJ).)
- abbr. As a prefix, Japanese (J-pop, J-rock, J-drama, etc.).
Examples
“K--- will ask her while she is in the playpen, "J--- give me the plastic egg," or "J-- give me the keys," and niece #2 will know what object she is referring to and give it to her.”
“Among the rumoured consolidations is a merger of Code F and Code J -- and possibly, a Code F, J ,and H merger.”
“But I am so old that when I was a little boy, six years old, the first time I ever crawled under a car, my stepfather owned a little Buick dealership in a little town in Arkansas where he came from, but we also owned a Henry J-- an old Henry J Kaiser -- (applause) -- and we owned a late 1940s model Jeep.”
“Both J and E underwent modifications by a revisor, J² and E² respectively, and after being welded together by a redactor, RJE, were edited by a writer of the”
“When Mrs. Wardman gives the class a spelling test that asks, "Lions live in the J--," he calls her over to his desk and asks her if it was a trick question, since lions live in the Savannah and "there's no J word for Savannah.”
“Both J$ and J; are Kenn 781, which are required by the single-procedure unknown because of the possible side effects at call site constant propagation methods.”
“The S series fuel injectors, The J P series fuel injectors, J& P series fuel nozzle, diesel engine, N. oil Transfer Pump, diesel fuel, cylinder injection pumps,”
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“Were an attempt to be made of this kind with you, every Englilhman who has the leaft fenfe of his right of liberty would rife iii oppofuion J and you may depend upon it, that unlefs thefe three pari ticulars are altered, the colonifts will grow more and more nneafy J*”
“That is, it is assumed that the arching effect is taken up virtually within the limits of the area, _A N_ {1} V E J N A_, thus relieving the structure below of the stresses due to the weight or thrust of any of the material above; and that the portion of the material below _V E J_ is probably dead weight on any structure underneath, and when sustained from below forms a natural "centering" for the natural arch above.”
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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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Letters
See also The Phonetic alphabet by oroboros.
aye, bee, cee, dee, e, ef, eff, gee, aitch, eye, jay, kay and 452 more...
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