Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. Lava having a rough surface.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- In recipes, an abbreviation equivalent, when used after the names of several ingredients, to ‘of each one take.’
- n. A form of cooled lava-stream of which the surface consists of jagged and irregular blocks. The blocks represent the chilled and solidified crust of a molten mass, and were formed during a pause. When the onward movement was resumed the frozen cakes were piled one upon another. Contrasted with pahoehoe, which refers to smooth or fluted surfaces. Both words are of Hawaiian origin, but are occasionally used in English writings on volcanoes.
C. E. Dutton, Ann. Rep. Director U. S. Geol. Survey 1884, p. 95. - n. An abbreviation of Assistant Adjutant-General.
Wiktionary
- always afloat
- ana
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. acronym for associate in arts, a college degree granted for successful completion of a two-year course of study in arts or general topics.
- n. Acronym. Alcoholics Anonymous.
WordNet 3.0
- n. an international organization that provides a support group for persons trying to overcome alcoholism
- n. an associate degree in arts
- n. a dry form of lava resembling clinkers
Etymologies
- From Hawaiian ʻaʻā. (Wiktionary)
- Hawaiian 'a'ā, to burn, aa. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“Well, in Norwegian aa - å, and is sorted last, while in English aa are just double a and comes before ab.”
“The three companies of the 16th Battalion camped in aa triangular formation with battalion headquarters located in the center and approximately 10 minutes 'walk from each company.”
“Worse, with more than two copies of some genes, each as likely as the next to have SNPs, some of those no doubt resulting in aa substitutions, a few of which may present alternative binding functionality in configurative operation, any or all modifiable post-translation, each coordinated with potentially operative expression suites with a number of other genes with other forms and functions, it doesn't look much like we'll ever be able to pin all THAT down either.”
“We'll post the attributes of an invalid user with screen name aa/noyes and email address anoyes@example, com.”
“Then shall we be worthy of bearing the same name aa those heroes who planted their victorious standards on the banks of the river Jordan, with the same hands with which they guided tiie plough aod, the shuttle.”
“nenu ralchina chemata chukkala avirera/ aa akasaniko neelibottuni diddindee….”
“To get a sense of language patterns of the era, Dr. Smithline studied the 80,000 letter-characters contained in Jefferson's State of the Union addresses, and counted the frequency of occurrences of "aa," "ab," "ac," through "zz.”
“Nobody showcases a word with an "aa" like Schlemihl Lefty.”
“The "aa" means that you hold the vowel sound for two beats as opposed to one.”
“In English transcription, the long fatHa form is written as "aa," such as in kitaab (kee-taab; book) or baab (bahb; door).”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘aa’.
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Ponderable Plant Names
List of plant names (common or scientific) that go trippingly off the tongue, are fun to contemplate, expose the wit of the namer, or just plain befuddle.
tongueshape mudmi..., glandular maiden ..., jeweled maiden fern, stately maiden fern, hairy maiden fern, downy maiden fern, widespread maiden..., turkey tangle fog..., yankeeweed, clitoria fragrans, clitoria mariana, tall tumblemustard and 261 more...
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Noteworthy Words
Here I have in mind a list of words that could be spelled with only the letters A, B, C, D, E, F, and G--and thus could also be played as a tune on the piano.
face, ace, bag, cage, bad, fad, fade, fee, gee, beg, fed, deaf and 98 more...
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Reduples
Go for it, brothers and sisters! I personally have been suffering long for lack of an open reduplicatives list
happy clappy, bribble-brabble, diddle-daddle, hugger-mugger, kikiriki, Bora-Bora, mahi-mahi, jingle-jangle, knick-knack paddy..., chit-chat, bon-bon, clapperclaw and 292 more...
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Pet Rocks and Carbon Footprints
Soil samples for stone soup.
palynology, stratigraphy, tse'bit'ai, tse bitai, tse bit ai, bitai, minette, maar, lithosphere, peridotite, gneiss, gabbro and 115 more...
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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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respelt
'He spent the greater part of his life campaigning to have respelt those words that LOOK as though they are spelt wrongly but aren't.'
Re Otto Tibbit's father, fourteen times Scrabble champio...skiing, vacuum, freest, eczema, gnu, diarrhoea, taxiing, piing, safariing, qamchiing, dooziing, hongiing and 49 more...
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Volcanic Action
volcancellation, mofette, pozzuolana, puy, rapillo, solfatara, canagua, delabrated, efflagration, maccaluba, Plinian, salinelle and 46 more...
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Annoying words that are surprisingly ...
Those foreign, abbreviated, hyphenated, or capitalized words that make you want to scream "aa" and throw the board at your opponent.
aa, za, qat, amu, tranq, memsahib, ka, jefe, biz, fem, qi, zaire and 3 more...
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I didn't expect to see THAT letter do...
aa, savvy, divvy, powwow, matchhead, skiing, hajj, trekking, continuum, vacuum, bathhouse, fishhook and 37 more...
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Vowels only. And I mean: ONLY
Words containing no consonants and found in at least one major dictionary.
Foreign words permitted.aa, eau, oui, aiee, I, oo, euouae, eye, you, ye, yo, yay and 17 more...
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Potpourri
eponymous, aa, pulchritude, gizmo, macabre, sui generis, solecism, solipsism, eldritch, samizdat, queue, obsequious and 469 more...
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polymorph's Words
pornerastic, yeaux, enantiadromia, synchronicity, transubstantiation, sensimilla, slough, scaphism, symbiosis, prolix, orgiastic, cryptogamic and 245 more...
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curligirli0's Words
crapulous, swish, shiatsu, zen, xenoglossy, nincompoop, loquacious, pianissimo, onomatopoeia, imperturbable, silky, hosanas and 379 more...
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Alaric's Words
chelation, bradykinetic, twelfth, dank, kulak, oneiric, cathexis, yonder, quern, lissome, naiad, krakatoan and 124 more...
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Acceptable two-letter Scrabble words
aa, ab, ad, ae, ag, ah, ai, al, am, an, ar, as and 89 more...
Tweets
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hernesheir This single-vowel word should be tagged "monovolcanic" as well as monovocalic. Jan 1, 2011
raven_in_the_woods I believe it was The Professor and the Madman that first tossed this word at me, but having the meaning "a small, limpid stream." I think. Leastways, I'm good with it. Jul 30, 2010
hernesheir Genus name of an orchid described in 1854. This name, presumably, would be among the first in a telephone directory. Sep 18, 2009
madmouth ought to be a'a', b/c of the glottal stops. May 21, 2009
mollusque lavalava Mar 29, 2008
fbharjo baasic lava???!!! Mar 29, 2008
thomas.purves Sharp pointy hardened lava rock. It's Onomatopoeia! - Hawaiian from the involuntary sound you make when trying to walk across it in bare feet, pronounced : "Ah!Ah!" Dec 9, 2006
thomas.purves A type of lava surface in which the surface was too stiff to flow well, and so broke up into fragments. It is characterised by broken material which can vary from simple lumps to very sharp prickly fragments. It grades to pahoehoe Dec 9, 2006
oroboros great word for scrabble players to know Dec 1, 2006