Meaning of A | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A rank, normally the highest rank, on any of various scales that assign letters.
2. The letter a with a tilde, replacing the sequence an or am.
   Early, Modern, letter, lowercase, obsolete
3. Ace. (including in card games)
4. A dictionary transcription for the BATH vowel
5. An orthographic ⟨a⟩ with a diacritic that marks it as being the THOUGHT vowel, as in the word "call".
   dated
6. A dictionary transcription for the TRAP vowel
7. Used to express a future action; going to.
   contraction
8. Distance from leading edge to aerodynamic center.
9. A dictionary transcription for the PALM vowel
10. The name of the Cyrillic script letter А/а.
11. The fourth semiquaver (sixteenth note) of a beat.
    informal
12. The first letter of the English alphabet, written in the Latin script.
    letter, lowercase
13. An element of the digraph âr, a dictionary transcription for the SQUARE vowel
14. A dictionary transcription for the FACE vowel.
15. The name of the Latin script letter A/a.
16. The first letter of the English alphabet, called a and written in the Latin script.
    letter, uppercase
17. ten
18. The highest letter grade assigned (disregarding plusses and minuses).
19. Acre.
20. specific absorption coefficient
21. Completely; thoroughly.
22. A (highest grade in testing)
23. A tone three fifths above C in the cycle of fifths; the sixth tone of the C major scale; the first note of the minor scale of A minor; the reference tone that occurs at exactly 440 Hz; the printed or written note A; the scale with A as its keynote.
24. Adult; as used in film rating.
25. specific rotation
26. In every; to each; per: once a month; one dollar a pound.
27. A blood type that has a specific antigen that aggravates the immune response in people with type B antigen in their blood. People with this blood type may receive blood from type A or type O but cannot receive blood from AB or B.
28. Ammeter.
29. allele (recessive)
30. Have: He'd a come if he could.
31. Mass number.
32. from A to Z, from beginning to end; completely; thoroughly: He knows the Bible from A to Z.
33. A universal affirmative suggestion.
34. Answer.
35. for or in each; for or in every; per: ten cents a ride; three times a day.
36. Abbreviation of adulterer or adulteress, used as a human brand.
    abbreviation, alt-of, historical
37. An assist.
38. Pron. Spelling. of (often written as part of a single word, without a hyphen): the time a day; kinda; sorta.
39. Allele dominant.
40. Asexual.
41. Pron. Spelling. have (often written as part of a single, unhyphenated word): We shoulda gone.
42. Alternative spelling of A.M. and AM (“ante meridiem”).
    US, alt-of, alternative
43. Arsehole.
    London, UK
44. angstrom.
45. Atom.
46. are (unit of measurement).
47. atomic (used in combination): A-bomb; A-plant.

Equivalents

Examples

“Apple starts with A.”

“Boxer could not get beyond the letter D. He would trace out A, B, C, D, in the dust with his great hoof […]”

“We assign each item inspected a rating from A through G, depending on various factors.”

“In the UK, the highest social grade is A – upper middle class.”

“The only standard brassiere cup size smaller than the A cup is the AA cup.”

“I was so happy to get an A on that test.”

“Darcy's pretty sharp. She pulls A's.”

“Orchestras traditionally tune to a concert A.”

“My blood type is A negative.”

“Hester Prynne, the historical character in The Scarlet Letter, was exposed and convicted by neighborhood gossip. [...] Gossip continues to brand some young ladies in small towns with this symbolic letter, but in our larger cities one rarely sees young ladies branded with an "A".”

“A-bomb”

“This expression is zero, for we have replaced the column of a''''s by the column of bs and hence the determinant has two columns identical.”

“Passmore. Capital P-a-double s-m-o-r-e.”

“Note that with 18-point type, fifteen capital A's, twenty-five lowercase a's, and twelve 1's are obtained with one font. With this information, it is possible to refer to Table 10-1 which gives the number of characters for each letter, punctuation mark, or figure.”

“Across every sheet of paper were lines and lines of letters of the alphabet. A row of a's followed by a row of b's and so on, pages of them, like pages from a copy book, crudely formed as if from the hand of a young child.”

“In the seventh grade I admired a charismatic, witty girl who had a particular way of writing her lowercase a's. After some practice, I took to writing my lowercase a's in the same fashion.”

“This piece somewhat resembles an a. On the left is a man seated on the ground, with a dog between his legs, and a large bird of prey in his hands, which appears to be biting his head.”

“But with some prelude of disparagement, / Read, mouthing out his hollow oes and aes, / Deep-chested music, and to this result.”

“Letters should be spelled as follows; aes, bees, cees, dees, ees, efs, gees, aitches, ies, jays, kays, els, ems, ens, oes, pees, ques, ars, esses, tees, ues, vees, ws or dubleyuz, exes, wyes, zees.”

“St Lynas was chatting with a group of rebellious young college students one day, who decried the moral standards of the past. ¶ So St Lynas drew an 'a' on some paper, and asked them what it was. ¶ 'A' they said.”

“Compare Lydia's signature on some of the work orders with the warning notes. The loop through the lowercase a is similar. See what I mean?”

“I'm a go see what's going on out there.”

“"Sure, Billy, I'm a run downstairs to the machine and get me a pack of bigarettes," he said, taking off with his Melody.”

“Ain't nothin' in the house to eat and now that we has Mr. Alex staying with us a few days I'm a need to buy some groceries so yous two can have the house to yo'self 'til I get back.”

“I'm a head out there now and take a look.”

“"The Glock 26 and the motherfucking, uh, the Hi-Point. I'm a try to get the both of them," another said.”

“The pianist played a C on the a of four.”

“commãd — command”

“hãmer — hammer”

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