Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- abbreviation accounts payable
- abbreviation advanced placement
- abbreviation American plan
- abbreviation antipersonnel
- abbreviation Associated Press
- abbreviation author's proof
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Son: a word occurring in Welsh pedigrees and as a prefix in surnames, equivalent to and cognate with Mac (which see), as in Welsh Gruffudd ap Owain, Griffith, son of Owen, Aprhys, Apthomas, etc.: in the Anglicized forms of Welsh names often reduced to P- or B-, as in Preece, Price (Ap-Rhys, Ap-Rice), Powell (Ap-Howell), Bevan (Ap-Evan), Bowen (Ap-Owen), etc.
- noun Assimilated form, in Latin, etc., of adbefore p, as in approbation, appellate, etc.; in older English words a “restored” form of Middle English and Old French a-, the regular reduced form of Latin
ap- , as in appeal, appear, approve, etc. - noun The form of
apo- before a vowel, as in apagoge, apanthropy, etc. - An abbreviation of
American Protective Association . - noun An abbreviation of
Army Pay Department .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- initialism Associated Press
- initialism Advanced Placement
- initialism military
armor-piercing - initialism accounting
accounts payable - initialism military
anti-personnel - initialism banking
automatic payment - initialism computing
access point - initialism Armed Forces in the Pacific (
USPS abbreviation code) - initialism
American plan (hotel rate type) - initialism US, Navy Auxiliary Provisions - a naval transport
- initialism aviation Atlantic Pacific - (Global Indicator used for air fare calculations)
- abbreviation
Amapá , a state ofBrazil . - abbreviation grammar
adjective phrase ;adverbial phrase (Note: to disambiguate, one can use the abbreviationsAdjP andAdvP instead.)
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Examples
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Ap CM YSR Missing along with Helicopter since 8 hours - AP in tension
WN.com - Articles related to Floods continue to wreck havoc in Romania 2010
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Ap CM YSR Missing along with Helicopter since 8 hours - AP in tension
WN.com - Articles related to Floods continue to wreck havoc in Romania 2010
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Propaganda: CO2 Cuts May Not Change Daily Life Much hosted. ap.org WASHINGTON (AP) -- Americans 'day-to-day lives won't change noticeably if President Barack Obama achieves his newly announced goal of slashing carbon dioxide pollution by one-sixth in the next decade, experts say.
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The coverage also will be available on wintergames. ap.org, which will bear the brands of the AP and a participating local newspaper or broadcaster.
Gaea Times (by Simple Thoughts) Breaking News and incisive views 24/7 Eddie Pells 2010
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Maine to Consider Cell Phone Cancer Warning hosted. ap.org AUGUSTA, Maine (AP) -- A Maine legislator wants to make the state the first to require cell phones to carry warnings that they can cause brain cancer, although there is no consensus among scientists that they do and industry leaders dispute the claim.
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Propaganda: CO2 Cuts May Not Change Daily Life Much hosted. ap.org WASHINGTON (AP) -- Americans 'day-to-day lives won't change noticeably if President Barack Obama achieves his newly announced goal of slashing carbon dioxide pollution by one-sixth in the next decade, experts say.
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Propaganda: US China to Reduce CO2, but Not Enough hosted. ap.org AMSTERDAM (AP) -- Even after the US and
WN.com - Articles related to India, China triumph: No legally binding deal for now 2010
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Pakistan Taliban Claims it Carried Out CIA Attack hosted. ap.org MIR ALI, Pakistan (AP) -- The Pakistani Taliban claimed Friday that they used a turncoat CIA operative to carry out a suicide bombing that killed seven American CIA employees in Afghanistan as revenge for a top militant leader's death in a US missile strike.
WN.com - Articles related to Qaeda's Zawahri condemns France, Yemen clerics - Web 2010
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Propaganda: US China to Reduce CO2, but Not Enough hosted. ap.org AMSTERDAM (AP) -- Even after the US and China set targets this week for reducing greenhouse gas emissions, the world's combined pledges ahead of next month's climate summit fall far short of what experts say is needed to avert dangerous global warming.
WN.com - Articles related to India, China triumph: No legally binding deal for now 2010
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Maine to Consider Cell Phone Cancer Warning hosted. ap.org AUGUSTA, Maine (AP) -- A Maine legislator wants to make the state the first to require cell phones to carry warnings that they can cause brain cancer, although there is no consensus among scientists that they do and industry leaders dispute the claim.
TankHughes commented on the word AP
In boardgaming, AP can mean "analysis paralysis" which means that turns take a long time because there are SO many things to take into consideration that the game will drag every. single. turn. And burn your brain.
May 1, 2016