Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- interj. Used before the name of or a pronoun referring to a person or thing being formally addressed: "How can I put it to you, O you who prepare to travel with important matters on your mind?” ( Jo Durden-Smith).
- interj. Used to express surprise or strong emotion: "O how I laugh when I think of my vague indefinite riches” ( Henry David Thoreau).
- The symbol for the element oxygen.
- abbr. Baseball out
- abbr. outstanding.
Wiktionary
- n. The fifteenth letter of the basic modern Latin alphabet.
- n. chemistry Symbol for oxygen.
- n. mathematics The upper bound function also known as big O.
- prep. grammar The English vocative particle (always in upper case), used for direct address in translations from languages which have the vocative case.
- interj. Expression of earnestness or reverence, used before the name of a deity or revered person in impassioned speech.
- n. The fifteenth letter of the English alphabet, called o and written in the Latin script.
- abbr. cricket The number of overs bowled
- n. A blood type that lacks A or B antigens and may only receive transfusions of similar type O blood, but may donate to all (neglecting Rh factor). Synonym: universal donor.
- n. printing American Library Association Abbreviation of octavo, a book size (20-25 cm).
- n. soccer Someone associated with Leyton Orient Football Club, as a player, coach, supporter etc.
- n. The ordinal number fifteenth, derived from this letter of the English alphabet, called o and written in the Latin script.
Etymologies
- Old Saxon gloss o (950s) in Lambeth ms. (957) of Gallican Psalter and ó, o (>1000) in Durham Hymns, regularly as redundant "o eala þu" and "ó eala þu" at uppercase proper names in paraphrase and some verbs in periphrase; Anglo-Norman O (~1200) in mss. of Sts. Juliana and Katherine, and other religiose writs; and English O, o (~1525) in The New Testament Translation by William Tyndale for Ancient Greek ὦ, Latin o (vocative, intensive: Old English èalà, æàlà, ǽlà, hèlà; also Middle English O (Actus 13:10; Romayns 9:20; Galaþies 3:1), ò (Romayns 2:1,3), Irish a (Maþeu 15:28;17:17; Luk 9:41;24:25; Actus 13:10) or A (Actus 27:21; Romayns 11:33)—sometimes mistranscribed as O in online bibles—, þou (1Tymoþe 6:20), ȝe (Actus 18:14), or ∅ (Actus 1:1; Ebrews 10:7) in Newe Testament by Iohn Wiclif (1382). intensive, interrogative: Old English là; English lo, oh (1534)) (Wiktionary)
Examples
“O and O² can compare their accounts of the state of the world.”
“When the system S+O is considered from the point of view of O², the measurement can be seen as an interaction whose dynamics is fully unitary, whereas by the point of view of O the measurement breaks the unitarity of the evolution of S.”
“Suppose that when O is built, another ship O², exactly like O, is also built.”
“So, either it is not in my power to do O or it is not in my power to do O².”
“The people in O had to have some understanding as Lee states, of the concepts formulated by the degrees lead too, by seeing such Physics correlations of R in O? Now such historical correlations and derivatives of string/M theory needed the valuation of R to develope views in O.”
“O king, on being driven out by the king's attendants, and repeatedly addressed by them -- "_O slayer of a Brahmana_" -- Arvavasu more than once cried, "It is not I that have killed a Brahmana.”
The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa Translated into English Prose Vana Parva, Part 1
“O Kesava, hear what thy father's friend sayeth: _O son of the Vrishni race, O thou irrepressible one, in thy absence today Salwa, coming to Dwaraka, hath by main force killed”
The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa Translated into English Prose Vana Parva, Part 1
“O son of Pritha, as for thy assertion, _O Lord, the time is complete_, I cannot dare tell an untruth, for untruth is not in me.”
The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa Translated into English Prose Vana Parva, Part 1
“= 2 (CaO, SO_3) + CaO, 2H_ {2} O, P_ {2} O_ {5} (Gypsum), (Monocalcic phosphate).”
“O in the same fashion as the Italic _O_ is accented, an altered treatment of serifs, and other changes in detail.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘O’.
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Do-it-yourself Christmas Carol List
Tired of singing the same carols year after year? Wanna mix it up a little? Now you can, with the Do-it-yourself Christmas Carol List (from the creator of the Doo-it-yourself Doowop List). Just mix...
let it, reindeer, silent, child, Christmas, got run over by a, mercy mild, winter, joyful, holly, newborn, king and 59 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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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...
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US - national anthem vocabulary
All words and phrases (except the most common articles and prepositions)
For a word frequency analysis see:
air, band, banner, battle, battle's~confusion, beam, blest, blood, blow, bomb, brave, breeze and 174 more... -
Under the Big Top
Under the big top of Cirque du Soleil! (If only I were!)
A list of the names of the productions/ shows just coz I like them.
:)Varekai, Quidam, Alegría, Dralion, Criss Angel Believe, Zumanity, O, Saltimbanco, Nouvelle Expérience, Mystère, Kà, Koozå and 17 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for O.
Jubjub Boy Jan 2, 2010