Meaning of E | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Abbreviation of everyone.
   abbreviation, alt-of
2. The drug ecstasy (MDMA), particularly in pill form.
   slang
3. Abbreviation of Elohist.
   abbreviation, alt-of
4. A state in ancient China of varying location in present-day Shanxi, Henan, and Hubei.
5. The fifth letter of the English alphabet, called e and written in the Latin script.
   letter, lowercase
6. A Tai-Chinese mixed language spoken primarily in Rongshui Miao Autonomous County, Guangxi, China; Kjang E.
7. A river in Highland council area, Scotland.
8. The name of the Latin script letter E/e.
9. The second semiquaver (sixteenth note) of a beat.
   informal
10. Indicates the HAPPY vowel (final vowel of happy).
11. A dictionary transcription for the DRESS vowel
12. An orthographic ⟨e⟩ with a diacritic that marks it as being the FACE vowel, as in the word "cafe".
    dated
13. Found in words borrowed from other languages.
    letter, lowercase
14. Found chiefly in words borrowed from other languages. When it occurs as the last letter of the word, it indicates that the e is not silent.
    letter
15. The letter e with a tilde, replacing the sequence en or em.
    Early, Modern, letter, lowercase, obsolete
16. A dictionary transcription for the FLEECE vowel
17. East.
18. Abbreviation of estrogen or estradiol.
    abbreviation, alt-of
19. Abbreviation of Eni.
    abbreviation, alt-of
20. Its capital, also known as Echeng and Ezhou.
21. An element of the digraph ⟨ėr⟩, indicating the NURSE vowel.
    dated
22. Used poetically instead of e in order to indicate that it is pronounced, as opposed to mute.
    letter, lowercase
23. The grade below D in some grading systems. In most such systems, it is a failing grade.
24. A surname from Mandarin Chinese.
25. Abbreviation of episode (“installment of a series”).
    abbreviation, alt-of

Equivalents

Examples

“The sax comes in on the e of one.”

“My wingèd helmet and my wingèd heel”

“On several occasions, indeed, he did learn E, F, G, H, but by the time he knew them, it was always discovered that he had forgotten A, B, C, and D.”

“Sick Boy brings oot some E. White doves; ah think. It's mental gear. Most Ecstasy hasnae any MDMA in it, it's just likesay, ken, part speed, part acid in its effects . . .”

“And I don't quite understand just what this feeling is / But that's okay cause we're all sorted out for E's and wizz”

“You mentioned you were taking stuff. Did you mean ecstasy? / What else? It’s excellent. I’m not an addict or nothing, and I steer clear of crack and that. People say E is for losers but, hey, I’d never be without some eccy in my bag.”

“1999, Julian Stallabrass, High Art Lite: British Art in the 1990s, Verso, →ISBN, page 25, In line with this, he is marketed not only as a mental innocent, but as a class primitive, someone who only got an E in A-level art […]”

“2003, Rick, quoted in Linda MacDowell, Redundant Masculinities?: Employment Change and White Working Class Youth, Blackwell Publishing (2003), →ISBN, page 198, My results weren’t that great, to be honest. I weren’t right happy with them; I got an E in Maths and that were a surprise, but I did get a B in Technology – that were all right.”

“2005, S. J. Smith, Joe Public, Virtualbookworm Publishing, →ISBN, page 125, Not really, but perhaps I’d have got an ‘E’ in Tech Drawing no matter how much I’d asserted myself. Maybe Mr. Pinkerton would have seen to it that my exam paper was tampered with. A spot of teacher to student revenge.”

“2005, Craig Taylor, Light, Reverb, →ISBN, page 103, But she didn’t get the bit about my accidental artistic career, “But you can’t draw love. You got an E in your exam. I remember that. You drew that onion that looked like a boil.””

“The pilot episode is S01E01.”

“Magnus said that companies such as Italy’s Eni (E) and ConocoPhillips (COP) that already operate in Alaska could be interested in drilling in ANWR.”

“The discovery suggests also that the center of the state of E was located in the Suizao corridor in Hubei, not far from the location of E as suggested by ancient geographical works.”

“These three bronzes, though clearly modeled on Zhou types, are quite distinctive from the Zhou tradition. They suggest that, although the state of E served as an ally and agent of the Western Zhou state, it probably had a distinctive cultural origin of its own.”

“A six-character inscription cast inside the bowl records that this gui was made for a nobleman of the E state. Due to gaps in Chinese historical records, the exact history of the state of E is uncertain. Since the E Shu Gui was salvaged from a pile of scrap copper shipped to the Shanghai Foundry from Hubei province, some scholars have inferred that the gui was excavated from Hubei, therefore proving that the E state during the Western Zhou was located in today's Hubei province.”

“café, resumé, animé”

“For details and for less common usage, see the entry for the acute accent, ⟨◌́⟩.”

“thẽ — them”

“repẽt — repent”

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