A-a Definition

letter

The first letter of the English alphabet, called a and written in the Latin script.

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noun
The name of the Latin script letter A/a.
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(military) Initialism of antiaircraft.

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Alternative form of aa.

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article
One; any indefinite example of; used to denote a singular item of a group. [First attested prior to 1150]
There was a man here looking for you yesterday.
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Used in conjunction with the adjectives score, dozen, hundred, thousand, and million, as a function word.
I've seen it happen a hundred times.
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One certain or particular; any single. [First attested between around 1150 to 1350]
We've received an interesting letter from a Mrs. Miggins of London.
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The same; one. [16th Century]
We are of a mind on matters of morals.
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Any, every; used before a noun which has become modified to limit its scope; also used with a negative to indicate not a single one.

A man who dies intestate leaves his children troubles and difficulties.
He fell all that way, and hasn't a bump on his head?
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preposition
(archaic) To do with position or direction; In, on, at, by, towards, onto. [First attested before 1150]
Stand a tiptoe.
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To do with separation; In, into. [First attested before 1150]
Torn a pieces.
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To do with time; Each, per, in, on, by. [First attested before 1150]
I brush my teeth twice a day.
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To do with status; In. [First attested before 1150]
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(archaic) To do with process, with a passive verb; In the course of, experiencing. [First attested before 1150]
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verb

​ (archaic or slang) Have. [between 1150 and 1350, continued in some use until 1650; used again after 1950]

I'd a come, if you'd a asked.
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pronoun
1874 Thomas Hardy, Far from the Madding Crowd (Barnes & Noble Classics reprint [reset], 2005, chapter 5, page 117; from "Hardy's 1912 Wessex edition").
"And how Farmer James would cuss, and call thee a fool, wouldn't he, Joseph, when 'a seed his name looking so inside-out-like?" continued Matthew Moon, with feeling. / "Ay — 'a would," said Joseph meekly.
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interjection

A meaningless syllable; ah.

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adverb
(chiefly Scotland) All. [First attested from 1350 to 1470.]
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symbol
Distance from leading edge to aerodynamic center.
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Specific absorption coefficient.
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Specific rotation.
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Allele (recessive)

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abbreviation
Air-to-air.
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Achievement age.
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Alcoholics anonymous.
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Amino acid.
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Arteriae.

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adjective

(military) Initialism of antiaircraft.

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Other Word Forms of A-a

Noun

Singular:
a-a
Plural:
a-as

Origin of A-a

  • Middle English, from Old English ān (“one, a, lone, sole”). The "n" was gradually lost before consonants in almost all dialects by the 15th century.

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  • From Middle English and Old English lower case letter a and split of Middle English and Old English lower case letter æ.

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  • From Middle English a, o, from Old English a-, an, on.

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  • From Middle English a, ha contraction of have, or haven

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  • From Middle English (Northern dialect) aw, alteration of all.

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  • From Middle English, contraction of of.

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  • Unstressed form of on.

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  • Variant spelling of ah.

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A-a Sentence Examples

  • For the quartic (ab) 4 = (aib2-a2b,) alb2 -4a7a2blb2+64a2 bib2 - 4a 1 a 2 b 7 b 2 + a a b i = a,a 4 - 4ca,a 3 +6a2 - 4a3a3+ aoa4 = 2(a 0 a 4 - 4a1a3 +e3a2), one of the well-known invariants of the quartic.

  • If you are in the market for renters insurance and do not mind obtaining a AAA membership, this is good place to start with your search.

  • After a desperate defence, Hussein Aga fled to Esseg in Croatia-Slavonia; his appeal for pardon was rejected, and in 1832 he was banished for life to Tribizond.

  • He took Aidos, Nicomedia, Hereke, and, after a siege, Nicaea; Tarakli and Gemlik fell to his arms, and soon the whole of the shore of the Marmora up to Kartal was conquered, and the Byzantines retained on the continent of Asia Minor only Ala Shehr and Biga.

  • If we restrict ourselves to this set of symbols we can uniquely pass from a product of real coefficients to the symbolic representations of such product, but we cannot, uniquely, from the symbols recover the real form, This is clear because we can write n-1 n-2 2 2n-3 3 a1a2 =a l a 2, a 1 a 2 = a 1 a2 while the same product of umbrae arises from n n-3 3 2n-3 3 aoa 3 = a l .a a 2 = a a 2 .

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