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User:Youssefsan

Youssefsan nickname of Oualmakran Youssef used on wikis, emails and for several logins.

Etymology

Youssef + san (= Japanese particle showing respect, often translated by Sir, Madam...). The nickname was coined to show that Youssef was studying Japanese and because Youssef thought nobody would use it since nobody used "san" when referring to himself.

Edition

Youssefsan is known for his poor English (well he makes some efforts) and for his bad spelling (he do'nt like to read twice what he write and show previeuws)

You can find more information about me on http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utilisateur:Youssefsan (in French)

Hello,

I am Oualmakran Youssef, a student in Belgium. I study (well when I go to school) translation in Belgium (French, English, Spanish). I also can understand most of Dutch and I know very few of Japanese.

I am a regular contributor in the french wiki and ocasionaly on the Spanish wiki.

Youssefsan

Articles that I have created Any help welcome

Sorry, I find that the by topic page is not very user-friendly ... So I put there here for the moment.

This list is just for helping me

ALPAC - BBVA - chairman - chiapaneco - civil society - coal crude - EBITDA - energy - enterprise union - global civil society  - Japan Socialist Party - Pre-Columbian - primary energy - SCH - Trade union - umbrella - white-collar

Economics

billion - Economics - peso - tighten - think-tank

English words

World Exposition

Words of everyday

Because - feet - head - hunting - safety valve

Spanish common words

estar - ser

Japan

Rebuilding the Japanese Archipelago

Todo

I am looking for the French translations of these words. Any help very welcome.

 * All-Japan Automobile Industry Union
 * hints : 1953, Nissan

Words that I should use more often
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 * tissu industriel
 * porté au rand de priorité national
 * cercles de qualité
 * orchestrer la reconstruction de ...

Personal notes for my school work on Japan

 * traité de japonnité
 * vision nipponcentriste
 * vision opposée

 * réquisitoire virulent : book, paper,etc against something
 * la place du Japon

Problemes

 * secouée par des turbulences.

Economie

 * géant économique

Synonyms

 * formule

Links

 * http://www.ac-rouen.fr/hist-geo/doc/cfr/jap/jap.htm

Immunology
French

 * facteurs immunosuppresseurs

 * pathologie immunitaire
 * virologues

Colloquial in Mexico
chingon - ese

Projects

 * WikiProject

title: User:Youssefsan


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pound

Etymology 1
From, from , from , an early borrowing from , ablative form of , from. Cognate with 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬 and 🇨🇬. .

Noun

 * 1) A unit of weight in various measurement systems
 * 2) Various non-English units of measure
 * 3) A unit of mass in various measurement systems
 * 4) Various non-English units of measure
 * 5) A unit of mass equal to 16 avoirdupois ounces (= 453.592 g). Today this value is the most common meaning of "pound" as a unit of weight.
 * 6) A unit of mass equal to 12 troy ounces (≈ 373.242 g). Today, this is a common unit of mass when measuring precious metals, and is little used elsewhere.
 * 7) A unit of force in various measurement systems
 * 8) Various non-English units of measure
 * 9) A unit of currency in various currency systems
 * 10) Various non-English units of currency
 * 11) The unit of currency used in the United Kingdom and its dependencies. It is divided into 100 pence. Symbol £.
 * 12) Any of various units of currency used in Egypt, Lebanon, Sudan and Syria, and formerly in the Republic of Ireland, Cyprus, Israel and South Africa.
 * 13) Any of various units of currency formerly used in the United States.
 * 14)  The symbol  (octothorpe, hash, number sign)
 * 1) A unit of currency in various currency systems
 * 2) Various non-English units of currency
 * 3) The unit of currency used in the United Kingdom and its dependencies. It is divided into 100 pence. Symbol £.
 * 4) Any of various units of currency used in Egypt, Lebanon, Sudan and Syria, and formerly in the Republic of Ireland, Cyprus, Israel and South Africa.
 * 5) Any of various units of currency formerly used in the United States.
 * 6)  The symbol  (octothorpe, hash, number sign)
 * 1) Any of various units of currency used in Egypt, Lebanon, Sudan and Syria, and formerly in the Republic of Ireland, Cyprus, Israel and South Africa.
 * 2) Any of various units of currency formerly used in the United States.
 * 3)  The symbol  (octothorpe, hash, number sign)
 * 1) Any of various units of currency formerly used in the United States.
 * 2)  The symbol  (octothorpe, hash, number sign)
 * 1)  The symbol  (octothorpe, hash, number sign)
 * 1)  The symbol  (octothorpe, hash, number sign)
 * 1)  The symbol  (octothorpe, hash, number sign)

Usage notes

 * Internationally, the "pound" has most commonly referred to the UK pound, £, (pound sterling). The other currencies were usually distinguished in some way, e.g., the "Irish pound" or the "punt".
 * In the vicinity of each other country calling its currency the pound among English speakers the local currency would be the "pound", with all others distinguished, e.g., the "British pound", the "Egyptian pound" etc.
 * The general plural of "pound" has usually been "pounds" (at least since Chaucer), but the continuing use of the Old English genitive or neuter "pound" as the plural after numerals (for both currency and weight) is common in some regions. It can be considered correct, or colloquial, depending on region.

Translations

 * Arabic: بَاوْنْد, رَطْل
 * Egyptian Arabic: رَطْل, بَاوْنْد
 * Aragonese: libra
 * Armenian:
 * Assamese: পাউণ্ড
 * Asturian: llibra
 * Azerbaijani: girvənkə
 * Basque: libra
 * Belarusian: фунт
 * Bengali:
 * Biatah Bidayuh: paon
 * Bulgarian: фунт
 * Burmese:
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Cantonese: 磅
 * Mandarin:
 * Czech:
 * Danish: pund
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto: funto
 * Estonian:
 * Faroese: pund
 * Finnish: ,
 * French:
 * Galician:
 * Georgian: გირვანქა, ფუნტი
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Hausa: laba
 * Hindi:
 * Hungarian:
 * Ido:
 * Indonesian:
 * Irish: punt
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:
 * Kazakh: фунт
 * Korean:
 * Kyrgyz:
 * Lao: ປອນ
 * Latin:
 * Latvian: mārciņa
 * Lithuanian: svaras
 * Louisiana Creole French: liv
 * Lü: ᦔᦸᧃ
 * Luxembourgish: Pond
 * Macedonian: либра, фунта
 * Malay:
 * Maltese: libra
 * Manx: punt
 * Norman: livre
 * Northern Thai: ᨸᩬᨶ
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål:
 * Nynorsk: pund
 * Persian:
 * Plautdietsch: Punt
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian: ,
 * Russian:
 * Scottish Gaelic: punnd
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: фу̑нта
 * Roman:
 * Slovak: libra
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili: ratili
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog: libra
 * Tajik: фунт
 * Tatar: фунт
 * Thai: ปอนด์
 * Turkish:
 * Uzbek:
 * Vietnamese: cân Anh,, pao
 * Welsh: pwys
 * Yiddish: פֿונט

 * Finnish: troy-naula
 * Greek:
 * Ancient: λίτρα
 * Hebrew:
 * Latin:
 * Vietnamese: cân Anh,, pao

 * Afrikaans:
 * Albanian: paund
 * Arabic: جُنَيْه, لِيرَة or لَيْرَة
 * Egyptian Arabic: جنية
 * Armenian:
 * Azerbaijani: funt
 * Belarusian: фунт
 * Bengali:
 * Biatah Bidayuh: paon
 * Bulgarian: ли́ра
 * Burmese:
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Cornish: peuns
 * Czech:
 * Danish: pund
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto:
 * Estonian:
 * Faroese: pund
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Galician:
 * Georgian: გირვანქა, ფუნტი
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Hausa: fam
 * Hebrew:
 * Hindi:
 * Hungarian:
 * Ido:
 * Indonesian:
 * Irish: punt
 * Italian:, lira sterlina,
 * Japanese:
 * Kazakh: фунт
 * Khmer: ផោន
 * Korean:
 * Kyrgyz:
 * Lao: ປອນ
 * Latvian: mārciņa
 * Lithuanian: svaras
 * Luxembourgish: Pond
 * Macedonian: фунта
 * Malay:
 * Maltese: lira
 * Manx: punt
 * Mongolian:
 * Cyrillic:
 * Norman: live, livre , louis
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål:
 * Nynorsk: pund
 * Occitan:
 * Persian:
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:, libra esterlina
 * Punjabi: پونڈ
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:
 * Scottish Gaelic: not
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: фу̑нта
 * Roman:
 * Slovak: libra
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili: pauni
 * Swedish:
 * Tajik: фунт
 * Tatar: фунт
 * Thai: ปอนด์
 * Turkmen: funt
 * Ukrainian:
 * Uyghur: پوند
 * Uzbek:
 * Vietnamese:
 * Welsh: punt

Verb

 * 1)  To wager a pound on.

Etymology 2
From, , , from , related to 🇨🇬. Compare also 🇨🇬.

Noun

 * 1) A place for the detention of stray or wandering animals.
 * 2)  The people who work for the pound.
 * 3)  A place for the detention of automobiles that have been illegally parked, abandoned, etc.
 * 4) A section of a canal between two adjacent locks.
 * 5) A kind of fishing net, having a large enclosure with a narrow entrance into which fish are directed by wings spreading outward.
 * 6)  A division inside a fishing stage where cod is cured in salt brine.
 * 1)  A place for the detention of automobiles that have been illegally parked, abandoned, etc.
 * 2) A section of a canal between two adjacent locks.
 * 3) A kind of fishing net, having a large enclosure with a narrow entrance into which fish are directed by wings spreading outward.
 * 4)  A division inside a fishing stage where cod is cured in salt brine.
 * 1) A section of a canal between two adjacent locks.
 * 2) A kind of fishing net, having a large enclosure with a narrow entrance into which fish are directed by wings spreading outward.
 * 3)  A division inside a fishing stage where cod is cured in salt brine.
 * 1)  A division inside a fishing stage where cod is cured in salt brine.
 * 1)  A division inside a fishing stage where cod is cured in salt brine.

Usage notes

 * uses this word uncountably.

Translations

 * Bulgarian:
 * Czech: útulek
 * Danish: internat, dyrehjem
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish: eläinkoti
 * French:
 * German: ,
 * Greek:
 * Hindi: काँजीहौस
 * Hungarian:, gyepmesteri telep
 * Irish: póna,
 * Italian:, , gattile
 * Macedonian: кафиле́рија
 * Malay: ,
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Scottish Gaelic: punnd
 * Slovak: útulok
 * Spanish: perrera

 * Bulgarian: наказателен паркинг
 * Finnish: takavarikkoalue
 * French:
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Irish: póna
 * Italian: autoparco, deposito auto
 * Portuguese:
 * Spanish:, depósito municipal ,

 * Finnish: sulkuallas
 * Italian:

 * Esperanto:,  ,  ,

Verb

 * 1) To confine in, or as in, a pound; to impound.
 * 2) * c. 1620, anonymous, “” in Giles Earle his Booke (British Museum, Additional MSS. 24, 665):
 * When I short haue shorne my sowce face & swigg’d my horny barrell, In an oaken Inne I pound my skin as a suite of guilt apparrell

Etymology 3
From an alteration of earlier, , from , from , from. Related to 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬.

Verb

 * 1)  To strike hard, usually repeatedly.
 * 2)   To crush to pieces; to pulverize.
 * 3)  To eat or drink very quickly.
 * 4)  To pitch consistently to a certain location.
 * 5)  To beat strongly or throb.
 * 6)  To penetrate sexually, with vigour.
 * 7) To advance heavily with measured steps.
 * 8)  To make a jarring noise, as when running.
 * 1)  To eat or drink very quickly.
 * 2)  To pitch consistently to a certain location.
 * 3)  To beat strongly or throb.
 * 4)  To penetrate sexually, with vigour.
 * 5) To advance heavily with measured steps.
 * 6)  To make a jarring noise, as when running.
 * 1)  To beat strongly or throb.
 * 2)  To penetrate sexually, with vigour.
 * 3) To advance heavily with measured steps.
 * 4)  To make a jarring noise, as when running.
 * 1)  To penetrate sexually, with vigour.
 * 2) To advance heavily with measured steps.
 * 3)  To make a jarring noise, as when running.
 * 1) To advance heavily with measured steps.
 * 2)  To make a jarring noise, as when running.
 * 1) To advance heavily with measured steps.
 * 2)  To make a jarring noise, as when running.
 * 1)  To make a jarring noise, as when running.

Translations

 * Bulgarian: ,
 * Czech:
 * Dutch:
 * Ewe: to
 * Finnish: ,
 * French:
 * Galician: mazar
 * Greek:
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic: banga
 * Irish: tuargain
 * Italian:, , , ,
 * Lao:
 * Latin: pīnsō, cūdō, tundō
 * Lithuanian: daužyti
 * Maori: pātukituki
 * Middle English: pounen
 * Old Norse: banga
 * Ottoman Turkish: چالمق
 * Polish:, , bachnąć
 * Portuguese:
 * Quechua: takay
 * Romanian: ,
 * Russian:
 * Scots: pran
 * Scottish Gaelic: buail
 * Slovak: biť, tĺcť
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Telugu:
 * Tetum: fai, tuku
 * Thai: ,
 * ǃXóõ: !qhāã

 * Aromanian: chisedz
 * Assamese: খুন্দ
 * Belarusian: таўчы́
 * Bulgarian:, счуквам
 * Cherokee: ᎠᏍᏙᎠ
 * Ewe: to
 * Finnish:
 * Galician: ,
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Higaonon: asud
 * Icelandic: banga
 * Italian:, , ,
 * Korean: (방아)찧다, 빻다
 * Middle English: pounen, brayen
 * Old Norse: banga
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:, , , ,
 * Scots: champ, pran
 * Slovak: drviť, rozdrviť
 * Spanish:
 * Telugu:
 * Thai: ,
 * Turkish: parçalara ayırmak
 * Ukrainian: товкти́

 * Bulgarian: тъпча се
 * Finnish: imaista
 * Italian:, ,
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:

 * Finnish:

 * Finnish: ,
 * German:
 * Hungarian:
 * Italian: ,
 * Polish:
 * Slovak: biť, búšiť, pulzovať
 * Swedish: ,

 * Bulgarian:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:

 * Finnish:

 * Finnish:
 * Haryanvi: खुड़का
 * Haryanvi: खुड़का

Noun

 * 1) A hard blow.

Translations

 * Bulgarian: силен удар
 * Finnish:
 * Italian:, colpo forte, ,
 * Portuguese:
 * Slovak: úder, rana

Etymology
From, in turn from , from.

Noun

 * 1) A measurement for weight, most notably the Tower pound, merchant's pound or pound avoirdupois, or a weight of said measurement.
 * 2) A  or other silver coin (including ancient coins), weighing one Tower pound of silver.
 * 3) Money or coinage in general, especially a great amount of it.

Etymology
.

Etymology
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Usage notes

 * The declension found below is theoretical, in the sense that as pound isn't a very common word compared to sterlin, and isn't considered an "official" word found in the TDK dictionary, its declension remains to be seen.

Declension
Declension of

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title: pound


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GDP

Noun

 * , a nucleotide.
 * , a nucleotide.
 * , a nucleotide.
 * , a nucleotide.
 * , a nucleotide.

Translations

 * Afrikaans: BBP
 * Albanian: BDV
 * Aragonese: PIB
 * Armenian:
 * Azerbaijani: ÜDM
 * Bambara: BSK
 * Basque: BPG
 * Bavarian: BIP
 * Belarusian: ВУП
 * Breton: PDG
 * Bulgarian: БВП
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: ,
 * Czech:
 * Danish: BNP
 * Dutch: BBP
 * Esperanto: MEP
 * Estonian: SKT
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Galician: PIB
 * Georgian: მშპ
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Hebrew: תמ״ג
 * Hungarian: BHT
 * Ido: KLP
 * Indonesian:, PDB
 * Irish: OTI
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:
 * Javanese: PDB
 * Karachay-Balkar: БИП
 * Kazakh: ЖІӨ
 * Khmer: ផ.ស.ស.
 * Kyrgyz: ИДП
 * Latin: PDG
 * Latvian: IKP
 * Lithuanian: BVP
 * Macedonian: БДП
 * Malay: KDNK
 * Manx: LTS
 * Occitan: PIB
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian: PIB
 * Russian:
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: БДП
 * Roman: BDP
 * Sicilian: PNL
 * Slovak: HDP
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish: ,
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog: PDP
 * Turkish: ,
 * Udmurt: ВВП
 * Ukrainian: ВВП
 * Venetian: PIL
 * Welsh:
 * Yakut: БИО
 * Yoruba: GIO

Etymology
From.

Etymology
of ; From.

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text:
chien

Etymology
, from, from.

Noun

 * 1) dog
 * 2) cock, hammer (of a firearm)
 * 1) cock, hammer (of a firearm)

Adjective

 * 1)  greedy, stingy

Etymology
From, from.

Noun

 * 1) dog animal

Etymology
From.

Noun

 * 1) dog animal

Noun

 * 1) before

title: chien


text:
rain cats and dogs

Etymology
, but see examples of early use in Citations.

Verb

 * 1)  To rain very heavily.

Derived terms

 * cats and dogs

Translations

 * Arabic: أَمْطَرَ بِغَزَارَة
 * Azerbaijani: tut ucundan, göyə çıx
 * Breton: Gwelet a ran da gazh er jardin
 * Bulgarian: вали́ като из ведро́
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Cantonese:
 * Hokkien:
 * Mandarin: ,
 * Czech:, padat trakaře
 * Dutch:, regenen dat het giet
 * Esperanto: pluvegi
 * Finnish: sataa kaatamalla, sataa äkäisiä ämmiä äkeet selässä, sataa kuin saavista kaataen
 * French:, , , , ,  ,
 * Galician: arroiar, diluviar, chover a chuzos,, chover a Deus dar auga
 * Georgian: კოკისპირული წვიმა
 * German:, , aus allen Kannen gießen, aus allen Kannen schütten, es schüttet wie aus Eimern
 * Greek: βρέχει με το τουλούμι, ρίχνει καρεκλοπόδαρα, ρίχνει καντάρια
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic: vera mígandi rigning, rigna eldi og brennisteini
 * Interlingua: pluver torrentialmente
 * Irish: sceana gréasaí a chur
 * Italian: piovere a catinelle,, , piovere come Dio la manda
 * Japanese: 土砂降りになる
 * Korean: 비-가 억수-같이 쏟아진다
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål:, , regne sinte kjerringer
 * Nynorsk: høljeregne, ausregne
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese: o céu vir abaixo,, chover a potes , cair um toró , chover canivetes
 * Romanian: ploua cu găleata
 * Russian: лить как из ведра́
 * Slovak: liať ako z krhly
 * Spanish: ,
 * Swedish:, ,
 * Turkish: bardaktan boşalırcasına yağmak, şakır şakır yağmur
 * Vietnamese: (trời) mưa xối xả, (trời) mưa như trút
 * Welsh:

title: rain cats and dogs


text:
pond

Etymology 1
From, , probably from , (attested in placenames), a variant of. .

Noun

 * 1) An inland body of standing water, either natural or man-made, that is smaller than a lake.
 * 2) An inland body of standing water of any size that is fed by springs rather than by a river.
 * 3)  Chiefly in across the pond: the Atlantic Ocean.
 * 1)  Chiefly in across the pond: the Atlantic Ocean.

Translations

 * Albanian:
 * Arabic: بِرْكَة,
 * Armenian:
 * Aromanian: baltã
 * Assamese: পুখুৰী
 * Azerbaijani:, nohur
 * Bashkir: быуа
 * Basque: urmael, umantzi
 * Belarusian: стаў, са́жалка, азярцо́, копанка
 * Bengali:
 * Brunei Malay: kulam, luagan
 * Bulgarian: е́зерце
 * Burmese:, ,
 * Catalan: ,
 * Cherokee: ᎥᏓᎵ
 * Chichewa: dziwe
 * Chinese:
 * Cantonese: 水池, 水塘
 * Eastern Min: 池
 * Mandarin: ,
 * Coptic: ⲃⲉⲣϭⲱⲧ, ⲇⲁⲝⲁⲙⲁⲛⲏ, ⲁⲛⲁⲃⲁⲗⲗⲟⲩⲥ
 * Cornish: lagen, poll
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto: lageto
 * Estonian:
 * Faroese: tjørn
 * Finnish: ;
 * French: ,
 * Galician:
 * Georgian: გუბე
 * German: ,
 * Greek: νερόλακος,
 * Guaraní: yno'õ
 * Hawaiian: loko
 * Hebrew: ,
 * Hindi:, , ,
 * Hungarian: ,
 * Icelandic:
 * Indonesian:
 * Interlingua: stagno
 * Irish: linn, dabhach
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:
 * Javanese:
 * Kazakh: байлама, бөгет, тоған
 * Khmer: ,
 * Korean: ,
 * Kurdish:
 * Central Kurdish:
 * Northern Kurdish:
 * Kyrgyz:
 * Lao: ບຶງ,, ສະ, ວັງ, ບຸ່ງ, ອ່າງ, ໂບກ
 * Latin: stāgnum, piscīna
 * Latvian: dīķis
 * Lithuanian: kūdra
 * Luxembourgish: Dëmpel
 * Macedonian: езерце, рибник
 * Malay:
 * Malayalam:
 * Maltese: għadira
 * Maori: hāroto
 * Mazanderani: اسل
 * Mongolian:
 * Cyrillic:
 * Mongolian: ᠴᠥᠭᠦᠷᠦᠮ
 * Norman: mathe
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål: tjern,
 * Nynorsk: tjern, tjørn, dam
 * Old Javanese: balumbang
 * Oromo: raaree
 * Pashto: ,
 * Persian:
 * Iranian Persian:, , , ,
 * Piedmontese: stagn
 * Plautdietsch: Läacht
 * Polish:, , ,
 * Portuguese:, ,
 * Punjabi:
 * Gurmukhi: ਤਲਾਅ
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:, ,
 * Sanskrit:
 * Scottish Gaelic: linne
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: језе́рце, ри̑бња̄к, пру̑д, жа̏бња̄к
 * Roman:, , ,
 * Shan:
 * Slovak:
 * Slovene:
 * Somali: war
 * Sorbian:
 * Lower Sorbian: gat
 * Spanish: charca, ,
 * Sundanese: ᮘᮜᮧᮀ
 * Swedish: ,
 * Sylheti: ꠙꠥꠞ꠆ꠈꠤ, ꠙꠥꠈꠂꠞ
 * Tagalog: salog
 * Tajik: толоб, ҳавз
 * Tamil: ,
 * Tarifit: agermam, arimam, tanda
 * Tatar:
 * Thai: บ่อน้ำ, สระน้ำ,
 * Tibetan: ཆུ་འཛིང
 * Tocharian B: kaumiye, yolme
 * Tok Pisin:, raunwara
 * Turkish:
 * Turkmen: howda, göljagaz, howuz
 * Ugaritic: 𐎁𐎗𐎋𐎚
 * Ukrainian: став, са́жалка, озе́рце, озерце́
 * Urdu: تالاب,, پوکَھر
 * Uyghur: كۆلچەك
 * Uzbek: ,
 * Vietnamese:
 * Volapük:
 * Waray-Waray: sapa
 * Welsh:
 * Yiddish: סאַזשלקע, סטאַוו
 * Zazaki: dolek
 * Zhuang: daemz
 * Zulu: ichibi, isiziba

 * Czech: Velká louže
 * Finnish:
 * German: großer Teich
 * Hungarian: a tenger
 * Macedonian: бара
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål: dammen
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish:

Verb

 * 1)  To block the flow of water so that it can escape only through evaporation or seepage; to dam.
 * 2)  To make into a pond; to collect, as water, in a pond by damming.
 * 3)  To form a pond; to pool.
 * 1)  To form a pond; to pool.

Etymology 2
.

Verb

 * 1)  To ponder.

Etymology
From, from , , from , from , borrowed from.

Noun

 * 1) pound currency
 * 2) pound unit of weight
 * 1) pound unit of weight

Etymology
From, , from , from , borrowed from.

Noun

 * 1) unit of mass, often broadly similar to 500 grams
 * 2) metric pound 500 grams
 * 3)  pound 453.6 grams
 * 4)  pound, any of several local units, with a range between 420 and 500 grammes, divided into 16 historical ounces
 * 5)  kilogram
 * 6) one of several monetary units
 * 7) British pound, pound sterling currency
 * 8) Egyptian pound
 * 9)  Flemish pound
 * 1) Egyptian pound
 * 2)  Flemish pound

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pies

Etymology
Potentially borrowed from, a borrowing from. Cognate with 🇨🇬

Noun

 * 1)  magpies

Etymology
Variant of.

Noun

 * 1)  ; pee, piss.

Etymology
.

Noun

 * 1) dog
 * 2) puppy
 * 1) puppy

Etymology
..

Noun

 * 1)  dog
 * 2)  dog
 * 1)  dog
 * 1)  dog

Etymology
.

Noun

 * 1) dog
 * 2) dog
 * 3)  male fox or badger
 * 4)  place where strings of a violin are connected
 * 5)  wooden peg with a blade with one end sharply cut, used to collect pulp
 * 6)  harbor seal

Noun

 * 1)  cop, policeman
 * 2)  dog
 * 3)  someone greedy
 * 1)  someone greedy

Etymology
.

Noun

 * 1) dog

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nonsense

Etymology
From, from c. 1610. Compare the semantically similar 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬.

Noun

 * 1) Letters or words, in writing or speech, that have no meaning or pattern or seem to have no meaning.
 * 2) An untrue statement.
 * 3) That which is silly, illogical and lacks any meaning, reason or value; that which does not make sense.
 * 4) Something foolish.
 * 5)  A type of poetry that contains strange or surreal ideas, as, for example, that written by.
 * 6)  A damaged DNA sequence whose products are not biologically active, that is, that does nothing.
 * 1)  A type of poetry that contains strange or surreal ideas, as, for example, that written by.
 * 2)  A damaged DNA sequence whose products are not biologically active, that is, that does nothing.
 * 1)  A damaged DNA sequence whose products are not biologically active, that is, that does nothing.

Synonyms

 * See Thesaurus:nonsense

Collocations

 * utter nonsense
 * sheer nonsense
 * complete nonsense
 * absolute nonsense
 * pure nonsense
 * downright nonsense
 * perfect nonsense
 * silly nonsense
 * superstitious nonsense
 * romantic nonsense
 * childish nonsense

Translations

 * Albanian: ádra, dokrra, gjepura, palidhje,
 * Arabic: هُرَاء, لَغْو
 * Armenian: ,
 * Azerbaijani: çərən-pərən, tartan-partan,
 * Belarusian: но́нсэнс, бяссэ́нсіца, абсу́рд, бязглу́здзіца
 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan:, ,
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:, , ,
 * Cornish: flows
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:, ,
 * Esperanto: sensencaĵo, absurdaĵo
 * Estonian: jamps
 * Faroese: tvætl, møsn
 * Finnish: ,
 * French: ,
 * Galician: lastrada, arnada, falcatrúa, patochada, doudice, norrada
 * Georgian: უაზრო, უაზრობა, სისულელე, ნონსენსი
 * German:, , , , Tüddelkram
 * Greek: ,
 * Ancient: φλυαρία
 * Hebrew: שטויות,
 * Hindi:
 * Hungarian: ,
 * Icelandic: ,
 * Indonesian: ,
 * Irish: amaidí, áiféis, seafóid, brilléis
 * Italian:, senza senso, priva di significato, , , , , , , , , , ,
 * Japanese:, , 馬鹿げた事
 * Khmer: អំពើភ្លីភ្លើ, សំដីរហាច
 * Korean:, 어리석은 소리, 개소리, ,
 * Kurdish:
 * Central Kurdish: قسەی ھیچوپوچ
 * Latin: nūgae, gerrae, muscerdae
 * Macedonian: бесми́слица, глу́пост
 * Malay:
 * Malayalam:
 * Manchu: ᡶᡳᠶᠣᡴᠣᠨ
 * Maori: kutukutuahi, ngutungutuahi, kohe, kūrapa
 * Mongolian:
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål:, , tullprat, , vås
 * Persian: بی‌معنی,, , ,
 * Polish:, , , , , ,
 * Portuguese:, , ,
 * Romanian:, , nonsensuri
 * Russian:, , , , , , ,
 * Scottish Gaelic: sgudal, amaideas
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Roman: ,
 * Slovak: nezmysel
 * Spanish:, , , , , , , , sinsentido, , , ,
 * Swahili: upuuzi
 * Swedish: ,
 * Tagalog: sagimuymoy
 * Tajik: ҳарза
 * Tatar:
 * Thai:, การเพ้อเจ้อ
 * Turkish:
 * Ukrainian: дурни́ця,, , ,
 * Urdu: بکواس
 * Welsh: lol

 * Catalan: despropòsit
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:, , ,
 * Cornish: flows
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Esperanto: sensencaĵo
 * Faroese: tvætl
 * Finnish:, , ,  , pajunköysi ,  , , ,  ,  ,  ,
 * French: (s), ,
 * Galician: lerdez, secatura, babosada, gofeiza,
 * German: ,
 * Hungarian:, , , ,
 * Italian:, , , ,
 * Japanese:
 * Kabuverdianu: asnera
 * Macedonian: глу́пост
 * Malayalam:
 * Maori: rūpahu
 * Portuguese:, ,
 * Romanian:, nerozii,
 * Russian:, , , ,
 * Scottish Gaelic: sgudal, amaideas
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Roman:, ,
 * Spanish:, trola, , ,
 * Swedish:
 * Tatar:
 * Turkish: ,
 * Welsh: lol

 * German:

 * Czech:
 * Finnish:, nonsense-runous
 * Hungarian:
 * Korean:
 * Portuguese:

 * Finnish: nonsense-jakso
 * French:
 * Portuguese: sem sentido

Verb

 * 1) To make nonsense of;
 * 2) To attempt to dismiss as nonsense; to ignore or belittle the significance of something; to render unimportant or puny.
 * 3)  To joke around, to waste time
 * 1)  To joke around, to waste time
 * 1)  To joke around, to waste time
 * 1)  To joke around, to waste time
 * 1)  To joke around, to waste time
 * 1)  To joke around, to waste time

Adjective

 * 1) Nonsensical.
 * 2)  Resulting from the substitution of a nucleotide in a sense codon, causing it to become a stop codon (not coding for an amino-acid).

Translations

 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * French:
 * Italian: senza senso
 * Portuguese: sem sentido
 * Spanish: sin sentido

Translations

 * Bulgarian:
 * Dutch: ,
 * French:
 * German:
 * Hungarian:, , , , , hiszi a piszi!
 * Latin: nugae!, gerrae!

Etymology
From.

Noun

 * 1) nonsense type of poetry

Etymology
From.

Alternative forms

 * nonsens

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pie

Etymology 1
From, , , perhaps from (compare 🇨🇬, ), attested in early. Relation to 🇨🇬, is unclear, as there are no similar terms found in any Romance languages; therefore, like 🇨🇬, the Latin term may have been simply borrowed from the English.

Some sources state the word comes from (from the idea of the many ingredients put into pies likened to the tendency of magpies to bring a variety of objects back to their nests), ultimately from, though this has its controversies. However, if so, then it is a.

Noun

 * 1) A type of pastry that consists of an outer crust and a filling.
 * 2) Any of various other, non-pastry dishes that maintain the general concept of a shell with a filling.
 * 3)  A pizza.
 * 4) A paper plate covered in cream, shaving foam or custard that is thrown or rubbed in someone’s face for comical purposes, to raise money for charity, or as a form of political protest; a custard pie; a cream pie.
 * 5)  The whole of a wealth or resource, to be divided in parts.
 * 6)  An especially badly bowled ball.
 * 7) A pie chart.
 * 8)  Something very easy; a piece of cake.
 * 9)  The vulva.
 * 10)  A kilogram of drugs, especially cocaine.
 * 1) A pie chart.
 * 2)  Something very easy; a piece of cake.
 * 3)  The vulva.
 * 4)  A kilogram of drugs, especially cocaine.
 * 1)  The vulva.
 * 2)  A kilogram of drugs, especially cocaine.
 * 1)  A kilogram of drugs, especially cocaine.
 * 1)  A kilogram of drugs, especially cocaine.

Translations

 * Afrikaans: pastei
 * Albanian:
 * Apache:
 * Western Apache: báń łikane
 * Arabic: فَطِيرَة
 * Armenian:
 * Aromanian: plãtsintã
 * Azerbaijani: piroq
 * Bashkir: бәлеш
 * Belarusian: піро́г
 * Bengali:
 * Bulgarian: ,
 * Catalan:
 * Cherokee: ᎨᎵᏥᎩ
 * Cheyenne: tó'hovȧhonoo'o
 * Chinese:
 * Cantonese: 批
 * Mandarin:, ,
 * Cornish: hogen, hoggan
 * Czech:
 * Danish: tærte
 * Dutch: ,
 * Esperanto: torto
 * Estonian:
 * Finnish:, ,
 * French:
 * Galician:
 * German: ,  ,
 * Greek:
 * Ancient: ἐρείκιον, φυστή
 * Hebrew:, ,
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic:
 * Ido:
 * Indonesian:
 * Ingrian: piirakka, piiras
 * Irish: pióg
 * Italian: ,
 * Japanese:
 * Kalmyk: бөрг
 * Kazakh: бәліш, пирог
 * Korean:
 * Kyrgyz:
 * Lao:
 * Latin: crustum
 * Latvian:
 * Lithuanian: pyragas
 * Macedonian: пи́та, ко́мад
 * Malay:
 * Maltese: torta
 * Mòcheno: turt
 * Mongolian:
 * Navajo: biiʼ sitłéʼé, masdéél
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål:
 * Nynorsk:
 * Persian:
 * Polish: ,
 * Portuguese: tarte
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:, ,
 * Scottish Gaelic: pàidh
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: пита
 * Roman:
 * Slovak:, piroh
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish:, ,
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog: kakanin
 * Tajik: пирог, санбӯса
 * Taos: pòstaléna
 * Tatar:
 * Thai:
 * Turkish:
 * Ukrainian:
 * Uzbek:
 * Welsh: pastai, pei
 * West Frisian: taart
 * Yiddish: פּיראָג, פּײַ

 * Bulgarian:
 * Dutch: ,
 * Esperanto: torto
 * Finnish:, ,
 * French:
 * Greek:
 * Irish: pióg
 * Italian:
 * Latin: placenta
 * Swedish:
 * Welsh: pei

 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Greek:

 * Bulgarian: лакомник
 * Finnish:

 * Esperanto:, buĥto
 * Finnish: ,

 * Afrikaans:
 * Esperanto:
 * Romanian:

Verb

 * 1)  To hit in the face with a pie, either for comic effect or as a means of protest (see also pieing).
 * 2)  To go around (a corner) in a guarded manner.
 * 3)   To ignore (someone).
 * 1)   To ignore (someone).

Translations

 * Bulgarian: замерям с торти
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German: torten
 * Swedish:

Etymology 2
From, from , from , feminine of , from. Cognate with. .

Noun

 * 1)   Magpie.

Etymology 3
From, from.

Noun

 * 1)  The smallest unit of currency in South Asia, equivalent to $1/192$ of a rupee or $1/12$ of an anna.

Translations

 * Burmese:
 * Hindi:

Etymology 4
From, from.

Noun

 * : an Indian breed, a stray dog in Indian contexts.

Etymology 5
From, from , from. .

Noun

 * 1)  A traditional Spanish unit of length, equivalent to about 27.9 cm.

Coordinate terms

 * ,,  ,  ,  ,  ,  ,  ,  , , , or  ,  ,  ,  ,

Etymology
From.

Noun

 * 1) foot

Adverb

 * 1) piously

Etymology
, from, feminine of.

Noun

 * 1) magpie

Adverb

 * 1) piously, devoutly
 * 2) dutifully, loyally

Preposition

 * 1) at
 * 2) on
 * 3) to
 * 1) to
 * 1) to

Etymology 1
From.

Etymology 2
From.

Etymology
From, from , feminine of.

Noun

 * 1)  female magpie

Etymology
From.

Noun

 * 1) magpie

Etymology
From, singular accusative of , from.

Noun

 * 1)  foot
 * 2) foot; the base of a mountain
 * 1) foot; the base of a mountain

Etymology
From

Noun

 * 1) pie particularly savoury

Etymology 1
, from.

Cognate with 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬 and 🇨🇬, and 🇨🇬. As an English unit, a calque of.

Noun

 * 1) foot
 * 2) English or American foot
 * , a Spanish foot
 * 1)  foot
 * 2)  footer
 * 1)  foot
 * 2)  footer

Coordinate terms

 * ,,  ,  ,  ,  ,  ,  ,  , , , or  ,  ,  ,  ,
 * ,,  ,  ,  ,  ,  ,  ,  , , , or  ,  ,  ,  ,

Etymology 3
.

Noun

 * 1)  pie

Usage notes

 * Spanish-speaking Central and South Americans use the English loanword pie to refer to certain kinds of pies but not all kinds of pies. Some types of pies are referred to as . It very much depends on the region for which term to use. Tarta is much more frequent, however.

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Appendix:English proverbs

List of English proverbs. See also English proverbs for a more in-depth view.

A

 * a bad workman always blames his tools.
 * a bird in the hand is worth two in the bush.
 * absence makes the heart grow fonder.
 * a cat may look at the king.
 * a chain is no stronger than its weakest link.
 * a creaking gate hangs long.
 * actions speak louder than words.
 * a day late and a dollar short.
 * a fool and his money are soon parted.
 * a fox smells its own lair first.
 * a friend in need is a friend indeed.
 * after dinner sit a while, after supper walk a mile.
 * age before beauty.
 * a good beginning makes a good ending.
 * a good surgeon has an eagle's eye, a lion's heart, and a lady's hand.
 * a jack of all trades is master of none.
 * a lie has no legs.
 * a lie can be halfway around the world before the truth gets its boots on.
 * a little learning is a dangerous thing.
 * all flowers are not in one garland.
 * all good things must come to an end.
 * all good things come in pairs.
 * all roads lead to Rome.
 * all's fair in love and war.
 * all's well that ends well.
 * all that glisters is not gold / all that glitters is not gold
 * all things come to him who waits.
 * all work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.
 * a merry heart makes a long life.
 * a miss is as good as a mile.
 * an apple a day keeps the doctor away.
 * an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth.
 * an idle man's mind is devil's workshop.
 * an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.
 * a penny saved is a penny earned.
 * a person is known by the company he keeps.
 * April showers bring May flowers.
 * a rolling stone gathers no moss.
 * ask and you shall receive.
 * ask me no questions; I'll tell you no lies.
 * ask no questions and hear no lies.
 * a sound mind in a sound body.
 * a stitch in time saves nine.
 * as right as ninepence.
 * as you make your bed, so you must lie in it.
 * as you sow, so shall you reap.
 * a watched pot will not boil.
 * a woman's work is never done.
 * a word to the wise is enough.
 * a word to the wise is sufficient.
 * a word spoken is past recalling.

B

 * barking dogs seldom bite.
 * beauty lies in the eyes of the beholder.
 * beauty is only skin deep.
 * beggars can't be choosers.
 * better late than never.
 * better safe than sorry.
 * better the devil you know than the devil that you don't know.
 * birds of a feather flock together.
 * bitter pills may have blessed effects.
 * blood is thicker than water.
 * blood will out.
 * boys will be boys.
 * brain is better than brawn.
 * bread is the staff of life.
 * butter is gold in the morning, silver at noon, lead at night.
 * behind evey wealthy man is a woman, with nothing to wear.

C

 * cider on beer, never fear; beer upon cider, makes a bad rider.
 * clothes don't make the man.
 * cowards die many times, but a brave man only dies once.
 * cross the stream where it is the shallowest.
 * curiosity killed the cat.
 * cut one's coat according to one's cloth.

D

 * desperate diseases must have desperate cures.
 * desperate diseases must have desperate remedies.
 * desperate times call for desperate measures.
 * different sores must have different salves.
 * diseases come on horseback, but steal away on foot.
 * do as you would be done by.
 * do unto others as you would have done to you.
 * doctors make the worst patients.
 * don't burn your bridges before they're crossed.
 * don't burn your bridges behind you.
 * don't change horses in midstream.
 * don't count your chickens before they're hatched.
 * don't cross a bridge until you come to it.
 * don't cry over spilt milk.
 * don't cut off your nose to spite your face.
 * don't have too many irons in the fire.
 * don't make a mountain out of a molehill.
 * don't put all your eggs in one basket.
 * don't put the cart before the horse.
 * don't put off until tomorrow what you can do today.
 * don't shut the barn door after the horse is gone.
 * don't shut the gate after the horse has bolted.
 * don't spit into the wind.
 * don't throw out the baby with the bathwater.
 * doubt is the beginning, not the end, of wisdom.

E

 * early bird gets the worm.
 * early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise.
 * eat to live, don't live to eat.
 * eat when you're hungry, and drink when you're dry.
 * east or West, home is best.
 * empty barrels make the most sound.
 * even a worm will turn.
 * every cloud has a silver lining.
 * every disease will have its course.
 * every dog has its day.
 * every man has a price.
 * every rule has an exception.
 * everything comes to him who waits.
 * every why has a wherefore.

F

 * faith will move mountains.
 * familiarity breeds contempt.
 * fine feathers make fine birds.
 * fine words butter no parsnips.
 * first come, first served.
 * fools rush in where angels fear to tread.
 * forbidden fruit is the sweetest.
 * forewarned is forearmed.
 * fresh pork and new wine kill a man before his time.
 * fretting cares make grey hairs.
 * friend to all is a friend to none.

G

 * give a dog a bad name and hang him.
 * give a man a fish and you feed him for a day; teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.
 * give the devil his due.
 * god cures and the physician takes the fee.
 * good eating deserves good drinking.
 * good fences make good neighbors.
 * great minds think alike, but fools seldom differ.

H

 * half a loaf is better than none.
 * haste makes waste.
 * health is better than wealth.
 * help a lame dog over a stile.
 * he that lives too fast, goes to his grave too soon.
 * he that will steal an egg will steal an ox.
 * he who hesitates is lost.
 * he who laughs last laughs best.
 * he who laughs last laughs longest.
 * he who lives by the sword shall die by the sword.
 * he who sleeps forgets his hunger.
 * hindsight is 20/20.
 * history repeats itself.
 * home is where the heart is.
 * home is where you hang your hat.
 * honesty is the best policy.
 * hunger is the best spice.

I

 * if at first you don't succeed, try, try, try again.
 * if a thing is worth doing, it's worth doing well.
 * if mama ain't happy, ain't nobody happy.
 * if the cap fits, wear it.
 * if the shoe fits, wear it.
 * if wishes were horses, beggars would ride.
 * If you are going to eat with the Devil, bring a long spoon.
 * if you buy cheaply, you pay dearly.
 * if you can't beat them, join them.
 * if you can't be good, be careful.
 * if you can't take the heat, get out of the kitchen.
 * if you keep your mouth shut, you won't put your foot in it.
 * if you want a thing done well, do it yourself.
 * in the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king.
 * it's a good horse that never stumbles.
 * it never rains, but it pours.
 * it's a long lane that has no turning.
 * it's an ill wind that blows no good.
 * it's an ill wind that blows no one good.
 * it's better to give than to receive.
 * it's better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.
 * It's better to have loved and lost than to have shot and missed.
 * it's darkest before dawn.
 * it's easy to be wise after the event.
 * it's never too late to mend.
 * it's not over till it's over.
 * it's no use crying over spilt milk.
 * it's the early bird that gets the worm.
 * it's the empty can that makes the most noise.
 * it's the squeaky wheel that gets the grease.
 * it takes all sorts to make a world.
 * it takes two to make a quarrel.
 * it takes two to tango.

L

 * laughter is the best medicine.
 * learn to walk before you run.
 * let food be your medicine, and medicine be your food.
 * let sleeping dogs lie.
 * let the cobbler make the shoes.
 * lie down with dogs, wake up with fleas.
 * like cures like.
 * little enemies and little wounds must not be despised.
 * long absent, soon forgotten.
 * long ways, long lies.
 * look after the pennies and the pounds will look after themselves.
 * look before you leap.
 * love is blind.

M

 * make hay while the sun shines.
 * manners maketh man or so I'm told
 * many hands make light work.
 * money talks.
 * money talks, bullshit walks.
 * money talks, wealth whispers.
 * more haste, less speed.
 * mutton dressed as lamb.

N

 * nature abhors a vacuum.
 * nature, time, and patience are three great physicians.
 * necessity is the mother of invention.
 * never put off till (until) tomorrow what you can do today.
 * new brooms sweep clear.
 * new broom sweeps clean.
 * no cows, no cares.
 * no gain without pain.
 * no man can serve two masters.
 * no news is good news.
 * no pain, no gain.
 * no time to waste like the present.
 * nothing ventured, nothing gained.
 * nothing succeeds like success.

O

 * once bitten, twice shy.
 * one doctor makes work for another.
 * one good turn deserves another.
 * one hour's sleep before midnight is worth two hours after.
 * one man's meat is another man's poison.
 * one swallow doesn't make a summer.
 * opposites attract.

P

 * paddle your own canoe.
 * penny wise, pound foolish.
 * people who live in glass houses shouldn't throw stones.
 * power corrupts; absolute power corrupts absolutely.
 * practice makes perfect.
 * prevention is better than cure.
 * pride goeth before a fall.
 * pride comes before a fall.
 * procrastination is the thief of time.
 * proof of the pudding is in the eating.
 * proverbs hunt in pairs.

R

 * Rome wasn't built in a day.
 * rules are made to be broken.

S

 * seek and ye shall find.
 * six of one, half a dozen of the other.
 * spare the rod and spoil the child.
 * still waters are the deepest.
 * still waters run deep.
 * strike while the iron is hot.

T

 * talk is cheap.
 * talk of the devil - and the devil appears.
 * the best things in life are free.
 * the coat makes the man.
 * the cure is worse than the disease.
 * the early bird gets the worm.
 * the end justifies the means.
 * the first step to health is to know that we are sick.
 * the grass is always greener on the other side of the fence
 * the head and feet keep warm, the rest will take no harm.
 * the more things change, the more they stay the same.
 * the pen is mightier than the sword.
 * the pot calling the kettle black.
 * the proof of the pudding is in the eating.
 * there are too many chiefs and not enough Indians.
 * there's always a calm before a storm.
 * there's light at the end of the tunnel.
 * there's many a slip 'twixt the cup and the lip.
 * there's no accounting for taste.
 * there's no time like the present.
 * there's plenty more fish in the sea.
 * the road to hell is paved with good intentions.
 * the spirit is willing but the flesh is weak.
 * the squeaky wheel gets the grease.
 * the wish is father to the thought.
 * think before you speak.
 * those who live in glass houses shouldn't throw stones.
 * time flies (tempus fugit).
 * time is money.
 * to err is human; to forgive, divine.
 * tomorrow is another day.
 * too many cooks spoil the broth.
 * truth is stranger than fiction.
 * two heads are better than one.
 * two's company, three's a crowd.
 * two things prolong your life: A quiet heart and a loving wife.

U

 * up the creek without a paddle.

V

 * variety is the spice of life.

W

 * waste not, want not.
 * we all make mistakes.
 * we must take the bad with the good.
 * what goes around, comes around.
 * what's sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander.
 * when in Rome do as the Romans do
 * when the cat's away the mice will play.
 * when the going gets tough, the tough get going.
 * when you're up to your neck in alligators, it can be difficult to remember that the original goal was to drain the swamp.
 * where one door shuts, another opens.
 * where there's a will there's a way.
 * while there's life, there's hope.
 * who keeps company with the wolves, will learn to howl.
 * wide ears and short tongue are the best.
 * wilful waste makes woeful want.
 * without sleep, no health.

Y

 * you can lead (take) a horse to water but you can't make it drink.
 * you can't have it both ways.
 * you can't have your cake and eat it too.
 * you can't make an omelette without breaking eggs.
 * you can't make a silk purse out of a sow's ear.
 * you can't make chicken soup out of chicken poop.
 * you can't run with the hare and hunt with the hounds.
 * you can't teach an old dog new tricks.
 * you can't tell a book by its cover.
 * you have to be cruel to be kind.
 * you have to crawl before you can walk.
 * you have to walk before you can run.
 * you never know what you've got till it's gone.
 * you scratch my back and I'll scratch yours.

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A

Etymology 1
From the letter, from the  letter , derived from the  letter , from the  hieroglyph.

Symbol

 * 1) A hypothetical item or person designated the first, usually when there are more than one.
 * 2) Ten, especially used in bases above ten, such as duodecimal, hexadecimal, vigesimal and so on.
 * The variable was a byte with value A0, or 160 in decimal.
 * 1) A standard size of dry cell battery, slightly larger than AA.
 * 2)  A system of paper sizes with similar proportions, as A0, A1, A2, etc.
 * 3)  An academic grade lower than A+ but greater than A-.
 * 4)  A wildcard for an open vowel
 * 1) A standard size of dry cell battery, slightly larger than AA.
 * 2)  A system of paper sizes with similar proportions, as A0, A1, A2, etc.
 * 3)  An academic grade lower than A+ but greater than A-.
 * 4)  A wildcard for an open vowel

Related terms

 * Arabic
 * Coptic
 * Cyrillic
 * Devanāgari
 * Greek
 * Hebrew
 * Phoenician
 * Syriac

Etymology 2
The abbreviation of a variety of terms.

Symbol

 * 1)  Symbol for the element Argon,  Ar.
 * 2)  Symbol for ..
 * 3)  Area.

Noun

 * 1)  Ampere, a unit of electrical current.
 * 2)  IUPAC 1-letter abbreviation for adenine in genetic code.
 * 3)   in proteins.
 * 4)  Alto.
 * 1)  Alto.

Proper noun

 * 1)  Austria.

Etymology 1
From and  upper case letter  and split of  and  upper case letter.
 * The letters  and  replaced the Anglo-Saxon Futhorc letters  and, derived from the Runic letter , in the 7th century.

Pronunciation

 * The current pronunciation is a comparatively modern sound, and has taken the place of what, till about the early part of the 15th century, was similar to that in other languages.
 * The current pronunciation is a comparatively modern sound, and has taken the place of what, till about the early part of the 15th century, was similar to that in other languages.
 * The current pronunciation is a comparatively modern sound, and has taken the place of what, till about the early part of the 15th century, was similar to that in other languages.
 * The current pronunciation is a comparatively modern sound, and has taken the place of what, till about the early part of the 15th century, was similar to that in other languages.
 * The current pronunciation is a comparatively modern sound, and has taken the place of what, till about the early part of the 15th century, was similar to that in other languages.
 * The current pronunciation is a comparatively modern sound, and has taken the place of what, till about the early part of the 15th century, was similar to that in other languages.

Etymology 2

 * From the initial position of the letter in the English alphabet.
 * From

Symbol

 * 1)  A rank, normally the highest rank, on any of various scales that assign letters.
 * 2)   The highest letter grade assigned (disregarding plusses and minuses).
 * 3)  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.
 * 4)  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.
 * 5)  Mass number.
 * 6)  A universal affirmative suggestion.
 * 7)   used as a human brand.
 * 8) Allele dominant.
 * 9)   or
 * 1)  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.
 * 2)  Mass number.
 * 3)  A universal affirmative suggestion.
 * 4)   used as a human brand.
 * 5) Allele dominant.
 * 6)   or
 * 1) Allele dominant.
 * 2)   or

Derived terms

Noun

 * 1) Ace.
 * 2) Acre.
 * 3) Adult; as used in film rating.
 * 4) Ammeter.
 * 5)  Angstrom.
 * 6) Answer.
 * 7)  An assist.
 * 8)  Asexual.
 * 9)  Arsehole.
 * 10)  Atom.

Adjective

 * 1)  Atom; atomic.

Noun

 * 1) A

Etymology

 * is from Middle High German in most closed syllables.
 * is from before certain clusters, in most dialects also in open syllables; in southern Moselle Franconian from ou.

Usage notes

 * In the German-based spelling, long a is doubled to aa when the German cognate word has aa as well. Long a may or may not be doubled in the following cases:
 * when it is followed by two or more consonants:, ;
 * when the German cognate has two vowel letters:, (German );
 * when the German cognate has a consonant lost or not present in Central Franconian:, (German );
 * when the German cognate has a short vowel:, (German ).
 * In the Dutch-based spelling, long a is always doubled in closed syllables, always written simple in open syllables.

Etymology 1
From the hotkey in many video games associated with the command "attack".

Verb

 * 1)  to attack; to assault
 * 2)  to pursue romantically

Etymology 2
Initialism of.

Adjective

 * 1)  single, open to a relationship

Etymology 3
From the letter A of the English pattern playing cards. Various names exist for this symbol in the spoken language.
 * Mandarin jiān
 * From, because the letter A has an upward tip.

 * Cantonese jin1
 * , from.

Noun

 * 1)  ace

Usage notes

 * The pronunciation above are only used while referring to letters in Pinyin. They are not used in other context (such as English).

Letter

 * 1)  the 1st letter in the Czech alphabet

Usage notes
Used in linguistic descriptions in Finnish. For example, a Finnish grammar could use to refer to the suffix  (in e.g. ) or  (in e.g. ).

Derived terms

 * , prouver par A + B
 * , prouver par A + B

Noun

 * 1) A

Noun

 * 1)  symbol for
 * 1)  symbol for
 * 1)  symbol for
 * 1)  symbol for

Letter

 * 1)  followed by B.

Etymology
Borrowed from, likely through Etruscan.

Usage notes

 * In compound words, long ā remains unchanged:, ; , . In an internal syllable, short ă is changed by into short ĭ in open syllables and before /ng/, or short ĕ in closed ones and before /r/ and /l/: , , ; , ; , . It remains unchanged in cases in which the word was coined later on or levelled through analogy: , ; , ; , , later.

Etymology
Proposed in 1908 as part of the new Latvian spelling by the scientific commission headed by K. Mīlenbahs, which was accepted and began to be taught in schools in 1909. Prior to that, Latvian had been written in German Fraktur, and sporadically in Cyrillic.

Letter

Etymology 2
From, from , ultimately from. The phonetic development in Luxembourgish is regular: Old High German -ou- becomes -ā-; intervocalic -g- is lost; word-final short vowels are apocopated.

Noun

 * 1) eye

Etymology 3
From, from , from. Cognate with 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬.

Noun

 * 1)  floodplain, meadow

Etymology
From, from , likely through the language, from , from Proto-Canaanite , from Proto-Sinaitic , from  representing the head of an ox.

Noun

 * 1) the letter
 * 2)  symbol for
 * 3)  symbol for
 * 4)  symbol for

Noun

 * 1) letter A

Usage notes
Plautdietsch has no standard orthography but this is by far the most widely used alphabet.

Etymology 2
From, an unstressed form of , itself a reduced form of , , from , from , from , from.

Pronoun

 * 1) I first-person singular pronoun

Letter

 * 1)  It is followed by . Its traditional name is .

Etymology
From Gay's Latin alphabet, from alphabet , from the  letter , from the  letter , derived from the  letter , from the  hieroglyph.

Inflection

 * Overall more common

 * More common when with a definite adjective

Usage notes

 * The twenty-third letter of the Somali alphabet, which follows Arabic abjad order. It is preceded by Y and followed by E.

Noun

 * 1)  bishop

Symbol

 * 1)  books and libraries
 * 2)  ; all operations with a public body as principal
 * 1)  ; all operations with a public body as principal

Adjective

 * 1) indication of being of a higher rank, successful

Noun

 * 1)  the highest grade in the current grade system
 * °N, °W
 * 1)  the highest grade in the older grade system
 * °N, °W
 * 1)  the highest grade in the oldest grade system
 * °N, °W
 * °N, °W
 * °N, °W

Etymology
. Each pronunciation has a different source:
 * Filipino alphabet pronunciation is influenced by.
 * Abakada alphabet pronunciation is influenced by Baybayin character.
 * Abecedario pronunciation is from.

Interjection

 * 1) hah!

Letter

 * 1)  It is followed by .

Mutation

 * A cannot be mutated but, being a vowel, does take, for example with the word :

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Hi! Just thought I'd create a User page here. Nothing more to say than what I already said over on Wikipedia. Yet. -- Zoe 22:34 Dec 12, 2002 (UTC)

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Talk:dog

From the 1913 dictionary
Dog \Dog\ (d[o^]g), n. [AS. docga; akin to D. dog mastiff, Dan. dogge, Sw. dogg.] 1. (Zo["o]l.) A quadruped of the genus Canis, esp. the     domestic dog (C. familiaris).

Note: The dog is distinguished above all others of the inferior animals for intelligence, docility, and attachment to man. There are numerous carefully bred varieties, as the beagle, bloodhound, bulldog, coachdog, collie, Danish dog, foxhound, greyhound, mastiff, pointer, poodle, St. Bernard, setter, spaniel, spitz dog, terrier, etc. There are also many mixed breeds, and partially domesticated varieties, as well as wild dogs, like the dingo and dhole. (See these        names in the Vocabulary.)

2. A mean, worthless fellow; a wretch.

What is thy servant, which is but a dog, that he           should do this great thing? -- 2 Kings viii. 13 (Rev.                                                 Ver. )

3. A fellow; -- used humorously or contemptuously; as, a sly dog; a lazy dog. [Colloq.]

4. (Astron.) One of the two constellations, Canis Major and Canis Minor, or the Greater Dog and the Lesser Dog. Canis Major contains the Dog Star (Sirius).

5. An iron for holding wood in a fireplace; a firedog; an     andiron.

6. (Mech.) (a) A grappling iron, with a claw or claws, for fastening into wood or other heavy articles, for the purpose of         raising or moving them. (b) An iron with fangs fastening a log in a saw pit, or on         the carriage of a sawmill. (c) A piece in machinery acting as a catch or clutch; especially, the carrier of a lathe, also, an         adjustable stop to change motion, as in a machine tool.

Note: Dog is used adjectively or in composition, commonly in        the sense of relating to, or characteristic of, a dog. It is also used to denote a male; as, dog fox or g-fox, a male fox; dog otter or dog-otter, dog wolf, etc.; -- also to denote a thing of cheap or mean quality; as, dog Latin.

Dog \Dog\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Dogged; p. pr. & vb. n.  Dogging.] To hunt or track like a hound; to follow insidiously or  indefatigably; to chase with a dog or dogs; to worry, as if   by dogs; to hound with importunity.

I have been pursued, dogged, and waylaid. -- Pope.

Your sins will dog you, pursue you. --Burroughs.

Eager ill-bred petitioners, who do not so properly supplicate as hunt the person whom they address to, dogging him from place to place, till they even extort an answer to their rude requests. -- South.

'dog' and pronunciation mergers
(Hippietrail commented: should this be kAt/kOt merger or the usual kQt/kOt merger?)

 * About that:
 * commonwealth English has three vowels /Q/ /O:/ and /A:/, and in this word /dQg/.
 * There are two major kinds of American dialects as far as this is concerned; one is more regionally marked (and apparently on the way out), merging /Q/ into /O/, thus having /O/ and /A/ (length not being distinctive in rhotic America) — in which case this would be /dOg/.
 * The most unmarked kind of American merges that /O/ into /A/ except sometimes before /r/ (forage /"fOr@dZ/ but borrow /"bAroU/), and thus would have /dAg/.
 * The cot-caught merger, apparently, refers to these two American dialects, and does not appear to involve [Q] at all, so yeah, ɑ-ɔ merger is correct. —Muke Tever 04:52, 16 Jun 2004 (UTC)
 * Please use IPA! No one can understand your transcription and you don't mention which system you are using. --2.245.96.130 10:35, 6 October 2016 (UTC)

"adopted by many Continental languages"
Which languages would that be? --Jcmo 09:25, 31 March 2008 (UTC)

 * For example, Russian дог, French dogue, German Dogge, Spanish dogo, Frisian dogge. —Stephen 13:21, 1 April 2008 (UTC)

 * I see the point. When I first read it, I took it to mean that it was adopted as a general word for dog, not for a specific type of dog. Thanks. --Jcmo 14:26, 1 April 2008 (UTC)

Where/how to add examples of definition 6?
The mechanical part that moves fabric under a sewing-machine needle is the feed-dog. A steel rod, sharpened on both ends and bent at angles, that holds logs during log-house construction is a log dog. Where and how do I enter these interesting uses of dog as a holding device? User:Jane Elderfield

 * Do it the same way you see for definition 5, "You dirty dog." —Stephen 21:42, 24 August 2008 (UTC)

 * Definition 7 seems to be just a justification for def. 6 John1deer 20:59, 21 February 2009 (UTC)

Foot or feet?
People call their feet dogs - should that be in the article? -kslays 19:35, 19 February 2010 (UTC)
 * I've never heard of it, but yes, if it's real. Perhaps it should be marked as slang. Equinox ◑ 19:37, 19 February 2010 (UTC)
 * Oops, it's already listed under dogs. Should there be a link in this page, even though the feet meaning is only used when plural? Probably not I guess. -kslays 21:07, 25 February 2010 (UTC)
 * I've heard people say that. I've never heard someone call one foot a dog. Hmmm.... it could be hands=hounds and feet=dogs.  Well maybe not. Redddogg 13:25, 5 June 2010 (UTC)

 * Yes, it’s only used in the plural. My dogs are barking = my feet hurt. Nobody would say, "he stepped on my right dog", meaning "my right foot". —Stephen 06:08, 7 June 2010 (UTC)

 * Should we take it off this entry then, if it's already on dogs? Redddogg 13:02, 7 June 2010 (UTC)
 * It is not used only in the plural. It would be possible to attest to the rare singular use. DCDuring TALK 14:21, 7 June 2010 (UTC)

 * I think it has to be addressed in some way also at dog, because most people who want to look up the noun in "my dogs are barking" would probably first reduce it to the singular. —Stephen 14:21, 7 June 2010 (UTC)

 * Then no problem by me. I don't think it does any harm to mention it here. Redddogg 21:14, 7 June 2010 (UTC)
 * Is there a citation for this? I've also never heard of it. Could be be regional? We certainly don't say it in California. --RobertGary1 (talk) 17:56, 22 May 2015 (UTC)
 * It's probably dated rather than regional. My father said it, not me. I'm retired. DCDuring TALK 19:19, 22 May 2015 (UTC)
 * This Google News search suggests that it is dated, but it can be found in contemporary fictional dialog at Google Books. DCDuring TALK 19:29, 22 May 2015 (UTC)

Coward?
Is meaning 5, coward, really a distinct meaning? The example given could be for meaning 4, any man, or meaning 6, a contemptible person. I've never heard of "dog" especially meaning coward. Dogs can be quite couragous, if they have a reason to be. Redddogg 05:30, 5 June 2010 (UTC)
 * Your last sentence is so ridiculous. There are both cowardly dogs and courageous dogs, but you can't just object to this because you don't like it. Why are female dogs prostitutes? The next thing you'd write would be "female dogs are not prostitutes, so they cannot be called 'bitches'". This is semantics. It all goes down to how people use it. --2.245.190.230 19:25, 10 October 2016 (UTC)

Dog family
The domestic dog is actually a subspecies of the gray wolf, or common wolf as the article says. There is also the "dog family" which includes foxes, jackels, etc. Also some members are called dogs, for instance the African hunting dog and the racoon dog. Redddogg 13:23, 5 June 2010 (UTC)
 * That doesn't make any sense. If the domestic dog was already a subspecies, how do you technically call the different breeds? There is no such thing as "dog family", it's "Canidae". --2.245.190.230 19:06, 10 October 2016 (UTC)

RFV
There's plenty of jokes using the fact that dog and god are reverses of each other, but not that particularly amount to a new meaning. The example sentence works against the sense, since a quick Google books search reveals that "Dog is my co-pilot" is the title of at least two books, one published by The Bark magazine, subtitled "Great Writers on the World's Oldest Friendship", and one (sans hyphen) subtitled "Stories From the War on Mailmen". Another book refers to T-shirts that say "Love me, love my dog" and "of course" "Dog is my co-pilot". One section titled "Dog is my co-pilot" says "My friend Jane and I are always looking for places to substitute Dog for God. We don't mean to offend anyone, so sorry if it hits a nerve. It just makes us both smile to picture our dogs in the passenger seat of the..." The closest thing I find is the old joke about the dyslexic agnostic wondering if there's a dog, even that's not this sense.--Prosfilaes 17:22, 17 January 2011 (UTC)
 * Which sense are you challenging? Or is this for WT:TR. DCDuring TALK 18:36, 17 January 2011 (UTC)
 * "(humorous) Not god".--Prosfilaes 19:01, 17 January 2011 (UTC)
 * Sorry. I missed Ety 2. As a cynolater myself, I find this definition offensive. Furthermore, saying that means "god" doesn't agree with my definition notion of "meaning". DCDuring TALK  19:45, 17 January 2011 (UTC)
 * Failed RFV. Equinox ◑ 01:12, 9 July 2011 (UTC)

"and was adopted by many continental European languages." (2)
I looked into the translation table and found nearly no language adopted this word. This phrase should be written out more detailly.
 * "many" => "several". Also see the 2008 discussion above. SemperBlotto (talk) 10:56, 5 October 2013 (UTC)

RFV discussion: July 2015–February 2016
I question the validity of the last verb sense, "(intransitive, with up) To position oneself on all fours, after the manner of a dog." -- I have never heard of it, can't verify it or find any uses. Urbandictionary doesn't list it (has a different meaning for dogged up). "dogged up on the ground" and "dogged up on the floor" don't get anything. If it does exist, it seems like it should be moved to dog up anyway. WurdSnatcher (talk) 23:09, 8 July 2015 (UTC)

I can't find that meaning for "dog up", -- although I find a number of others. Primarily to dress in one's best clothes, but also to move doggedly. Kiwima (talk) 01:12, 20 July 2015 (UTC)
 * Yeah, I made dogged up, all dogged up when I was looking it up, didn't find any real good citations of the general verb dog up though. WurdSnatcher (talk) 17:36, 14 September 2015 (UTC)
 * The example sentence seems to use 'be dogged up' rather than an intransitive verb 'dog up', which would be more like "why are you dogging up in the middle of the room" (as opposed to being dogged up). Renard Migrant (talk) 20:54, 14 September 2015 (UTC)
 * RFV-failed. - -sche (discuss) 02:56, 2 February 2016 (UTC)

dog-ape
This occurs in Shakespeare (only?), apparently meaning a male ape. However, our male animal sense only mentions wolves and foxes. Chambers 1908 gives dog as a general-purpose adjective (!) for male animals. Equinox ◑ 01:39, 9 April 2019 (UTC)
 * That - about "a general-purpose adjective (!) for male animals." is very much unexpected. It may be Chambers 1908 was misunderstood, or has been lenient with his definition, but I cant't check at the source now.
 * It may had been meant to advise "dog" use for indicating male animal of mamalian predator species, or of smaller types of mamalian species. I have never encountered it used as dog-spider, dog bee (for a drone), dog ant; and also not a dog crocodile or dog aligator. I also had not encountered it used yet for males from bovine species, elephants and several other big plantivores (there bull, or ox when aproprite, seem to be in use).
 * Conclusion: dog for a male of animal species, at best as possible use, and detected with some speces of animals, not for general use (for most, or all animals). --Marjan Tomki SI (talk) 20:37, 29 June 2021 (UTC)

Etymology
The best etymology (and considerably better than mine which would have been morphologically incorrect as to a relation with Ancient Greek 'DAKNO' (to bite)); is the earlier one that ought to be included: +	Dog is from "docga", perhaps from + diminutive suffix, probably meaning "little dynamo" in the original sense. If so, cognate with Old English ; compare. --> Andrew H. Gray 11:43, 11 April 2020 (UTC)Andrew (talk)

a useless item
my boss once referred to a severely outdated computer peripheral that we were expected to sell at full price as a dog. Maybe she made it up on the spot, since the context was clear, but maybe this word has yet another sense that just isn t used that much. — Soap — 22:28, 28 May 2020 (UTC)

 * Green's Newspeak (1984) defines dog as a racehorse that is slow or difficult to handle. I think I've also heard it used for bad or slow cars, e.g. "that Skoda is such a dog". So yes, we may be missing a sense. Equinox ◑ 17:30, 14 April 2021 (UTC)
 * I've added a sense "Something that performs poorly" and made the "slang" film sense a subsense of it. DCDuring (talk) 21:58, 16 April 2021 (UTC)

Also a dogfish?
Chambers 1908 says dog can mean dogfish. I couldn't easily find it in GBooks (searching with genus name etc.). Equinox ◑ 14:40, 17 November 2023 (UTC)

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Miscellaneous comments
Regarding translations for this word, several of the languages in the list to not use articles at all. It would be better to indicate this instead of presuming that one will be found. Eclecticology 15:44 Apr 11, 2003 (UTC)

This page is in desperate need of a clean-up. I have added it to the cleanup page.

Does Vietnamese have its own alphabet? If this is just the Latin alphabet, then there is no point in having a Vietnamese entry saying that A is the first letter.

— Paul G 15:48, 5 Jul 2004 (UTC)

 * Vietnamese does have its own alphabet which, like English, is derived from but not "just" the Latin alphabet. It has 5 extra letters which are not used in English including one or two which are used in some European languages. It also 4 or 5 diacritics which are drawn above or below the vowel letters to designate tones. — Hippietrail 11:02, 7 Jul 2004 (UTC)

I've removed the bolloks about articles being adjectives. But the format or choice of headings is still not good. For instance it's difficult to find the right place to put the synonyms/alternative spelling "an", and the "see also" to "the" and "one". — Hippietrail 01:50, 7 Sep 2004 (UTC)

It could still use a good bollocking. It's on my hit list. -dmh 04:19, 15 Sep 2004 (UTC)

I've added a generic sense of ranking on a scale denoted by letters, but the specific sense of letter grade should stay. It's idiomatic enough (at least throughout the US) that when someone says "I got a D." it's immediately clear that they are referring to a course or exam, and that D is the lowest of the four passing grades. If this definition were missing, someone familiar with English but not with this particular system could miss these connotations. -dmh 02:46, 20 Sep 2004 (UTC)

Was the last change by 212.179.235.102 in the Latin entry; ablative case -> procrastinative case valid? I think not. — Hippietrail 11:09, 4 Nov 2004 (UTC)

An anonymous user decided to treat the indefinite article sense as its own entity and provide an incomplete description of the alternation with an. The entry for an has a much more complete account, and there is no point in duplication. If there's any doubt that an is primary, consider the etymology (originally from Anglo-Saxon, cognate with one, unum, een etc.) and that there are plenty of examples of consonants being dropped in commonly-used form (o'clock for example) and few if any of a consonant being randomly added. -dmh 15:58, 12 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Part of speech
Should this be listed as ===Article=== and further qualified on the definition lines? --Connel MacKenzie T C 19:29, 28 November 2005 (UTC)

Gregg Shorthand Spelling
There are different wiki-definitions for capital A and lowercase a. It looks like the lowercase a is defined as an indefinite article, the capital as a noun or symbol, e.g. - Exam grade of A, or blood type A.  Wouldn't a capital A used as a noun usually be spelled in Gregg as a, rather than [dot]? --Frank N Stein 14:38, 6 February 2006 (UTC)

The [dot] is merely an outline for the indefinite articles 'a' and 'an.' The large ellipse stands in for three different vowels that are written differently in traditional English longhand. They can be distinguished, if need be, by writing a dot or check beneath the vowel; however, this is typically unnecessary. -- Anon, 3:00 GMT, 6 March 2006

"A" and project Gutenberg
The word "A" is NOT the 5th most common word used in the English language, according to the Project Gutenberg list from 4/16/2006. It is closer to 80.

The list that the editor was referring to was the one from TV and movie scripts.

Kyle65.94.125.201 07:31, 16 November 2006 (UTC)

 * I've received a fair amount of criticism for my analysis (ongoing) or the Project Gutenberg texts. Particularly, the  was at one time, deemed to be of such insignificant lexical value that it was proposed for removal/deletion.

 * I never did automate the refreshing of the rankings, from the updated lists. If I neglect it much longer (another year), the rank template may get obliterated, I fear.  As expected, the rankings are gradually diverging from the "latest" runs where I re-rank them (including newer texts as they appear on Project Gutenberg.)  I'm really unsure how to proceed.  I haven't exactly boxed myself in by adding the 'rank' template to the top 1,000...but I do appreciate the complaints better now.  That is, that the three more and less common terms, have no lexical relation, therefore should be downplayed, instead of glorified prominently.

 * I do think the differences between the P.G. and the TV scripts are quite fascinating.

 * --Connel MacKenzie 07:44, 16 November 2006 (UTC)

My Humble Opinion
These discussion pages are like superarticles filled with links and linebreaks! O_O

very complex
...it's just "a" or "an", and the letter, why so much (useless?) information?--Esteban.barahona 03:12, 27 August 2008 (UTC)

 * Because it's really more than that in English. In English, a can function as an article, a preposition, or a verb.  It's also a word in many, many other languages, so that information is also included.  In Galician (galego), for example, a is an article, preposition, and a pronoun. --EncycloPetey 03:18, 27 August 2008 (UTC)

Just busy
I had added the rfc tag saying the entry was hideous. I think we have made good progress. It just looks too busy now. Further improvement would require some innovation (like Visviva's gallery experiment), making better use of the thumb image at the top right, or moving material off the page, perhaps to an appendix.

Are all of the elements in Translingual strictly translingual? It is beginning to look like a translation table, not properly labeled as such. DCDuring TALK 19:46, 22 October 2009 (UTC)

"a (indefinite)"
"2.One certain or particular [entity]. We've received an interesting letter from a Mrs. Miggins of London"

It seems contradictory to have this definition ("certain or particular") under the heading of "indefinite".

Given the assumption that there may be more than one Mrs. Miggins in London and that we don't know which "Mrs. Miggins of London" wrote the letter, how is that any more "certain or particular" than saying that the letter is from "a woman", which is clearly not certain or particular.

This example works better in Merriam-Webster's 11th Collegiate Dictionary: "['a' is] used as a function word before a proper noun to indicate limited knowledge about the referent: *a Mr. Smith called to inquire about the job*". 75.21.22.106 15:34, 6 December 2009 (UTC)

Modern/Slang Usages
I'm not a native speaker but it seems to me that "a" has also more modern usages, such as: 1. A way to say "Correct!" (that's an A!) 2. An euphemism for "ass" 3. Something I cannot perfectly identify, but only seems to have a emphatic function, like when Brad Pitt says in /Inglorious Basterds/: "Cousin, business is a-boomin!"

As I have no precise idea of how colloquial those usages are, I won't add them to the article, but maybe they should be considered (and I'd appreciate any further information). Irakos5 15:28, 5 August 2010 (UTC)

 * As a partial reply...
 * 1 You'll find that sense under A, since the capitalized form has different meanings.
 * 3 That's a-, under Etymology 3.
 * --EncycloPetey 00:01, 6 August 2010 (UTC)

RFV discussion
Rfv-sense: In Quebec French, "her". I don't read a lot of Quebec French, but I know some Quebeckers and I've never heard of this. Surely she has would become "a a" which is just silly. Mglovesfun (talk) 15:42, 9 December 2010 (UTC)

 * Keep. This sense was added by a native and trustworthy speaker of Quebec French, namely, in this edit. Normally I'd say sure, ask for cites, but in this case it's basically impossible to search for, so . . . ?
 * By the way, just because "a" is a form of "elle" doesn't mean that it appears in all contexts (perhaps "pour a" is legal but "a a" is not); but even if it does, I don't see that "a a" is any sillier than "a à" ("has to").
 * —Ruakh TALK 16:23, 9 December 2010 (UTC)
 * Agreed, request speedy keep. Mglovesfun (talk) 17:38, 9 December 2010 (UTC)

Kept as a withdrawn request. added. —msh210℠ (talk) 18:12, 9 December 2010 (UTC)

Etymology 4: "Shoulda"
Etymology 4 says:

 * Unstressed variant of have or of.
 * Verb

 * a (third-person singular simple present -, present participle -, simple past and past participle -)

 * (archaic or slang) Have. (Now often attached to preceding auxiliary verb.)

 * I shoulda stayed at home last night.

I don't think this belongs here. "a" in "shoulda", "coulda", etc. is a reduced pronunciation of "have", a different word from "a"; and even if one accepts that "shoulda" etc. are now verbs, "-a" is a bound morpheme, not a word. I've never seen it written as "should a", with "a" being a separate word. Duoduoduo 16:56, 10 October 2011 (UTC)

RFV
RFV-senses: "she", "they, them", "it", "I". Like several other senses in other entries, these claim to be senses of a modern English word, yet then restrict themselves via to a period several centuries before modern English existed. Please either move the senses to ==Middle English== or, preferably, just fix the s to indicate how long into the modern English period these senses continued and remove the RFV tags. (I hope that at some point our adders of obsolete words will figure out to stop adding words to English sections with defdate ranges that are exclusively pre-1500. It's confusing!) - -sche (discuss) 17:08, 13 November 2012 (UTC)
 * RFV-failed for now. - -sche (discuss) 10:29, 29 December 2012 (UTC)

Deletion discussion
Rfd-sense: (algebra) The first know quantity, or an unknown quantity in an equation.

If kept, this should be moved to Translingual. However, I would prefer that it be deleted. In algebra, any letter can be used as a variable, and they don't have any special meanings beyond being a variable. The only ones that we need are x and y, I don't see how the others are any helpful. -- Liliana • 12:18, 13 October 2012 (UTC)
 * Delete. --WikiTiki89 (talk) 14:00, 13 October 2012 (UTC)
 * Delete — Ungoliant (Falai) 16:38, 13 October 2012 (UTC)

 * Delete. (Why did my RFD on n-dimensional fail, I wonder?) Equinox ◑ 16:44, 13 October 2012 (UTC)
 * Because you posted it at WT:RFV instead of at WT:RFD. —Ruakh TALK 17:08, 13 October 2012 (UTC)
 * ...and because it is frequently found in running text. Spinning Spark  17:41, 13 October 2012 (UTC)
 * So is "green hat". That doesn't make it non-SoP. Equinox ◑ 14:59, 14 October 2012 (UTC)
 * @Equinox: feel free to RFD it now... I agree with you that it's SOP. - -sche (discuss) 19:53, 13 October 2012 (UTC)

 * Keep. Why are x and y ‘the only ones that we need’? This does have considerable representation in other dictionaries. Ƿidsiþ 04:40, 20 October 2012 (UTC)
 * x and y are the only letters with special meaning in algebra (being the first and second variables, respectively). The others are just letters that happen to be used as variables. Unicode has a thousand of them at Appendix:Unicode/Mathematical Alphanumeric Symbols - are you suggesting we should have an entry for all of them? -- Liliana • 07:37, 20 October 2012 (UTC)
 * Really? What are the "special" meanings of x and y that don't apply to other variables? --WikiTiki89 09:46, 20 October 2012 (UTC)
 * x and y are always the first and second variables. You will not find an algebraic formula where x is the fifth variable, or y the third variable, or similar. -- Liliana • 09:51, 20 October 2012 (UTC)
 * Not true. This is a modern convention, and does not obtain in older mathematical books. Ƿidsiþ 10:36, 20 October 2012 (UTC)
 * Challenge accepted! --WikiTiki89 10:32, 20 October 2012 (UTC)
 * This search result contains some counterexamples. Don't know if that will satisfy you though. --WikiTiki89 11:04, 20 October 2012 (UTC)
 * FWIW, Variable (mathematics) names also the third, w, as a usual unknown, and at Y I found no mention of y's special usage in mathematics. Anyway, unknown meaning in algebra mentions z as that of the third one. --biblbroksдискашн 09:53, 20 October 2012 (UTC)
 * x and y don't have "special meanings", it's just counter intuitive that they should be used as first and second despite their position in the alphabet. But from prime it's usually p and q, (then r, and so on) so x and y are not unique in this way. The fact that algebra doesn't use alphabetical order doesn't justify special definitions of x and y. That would be misrepresentative (possibly untruthful). Mglovesfun (talk) 11:08, 20 October 2012 (UTC)
 * Then go ahead and open up a new RFD if you so wish. -- Liliana • 11:15, 20 October 2012 (UTC)

 * Keep. Mathematicians can and do use any letter to mean anything, from various alphabets. I've even seen Σ used as a variable. Talk about confusing! Still, that's not how everyone else uses variables, even those who know math well.
 * A clear mathematical description would always define or instantiate a variable, and at least name any extraordinary functions like ζ that are introduced. But a lot of times variables are not explained, even in hard sciences like physics and chemistry. If you see ρ you immediately think density, but not if you see d, which means distance. Generally v means velocity, ν means wavelength, and you would be laughed at, even scolded, for switching them.
 * Even mathematicians will have a preference toward using θ as an angle instead of a, for instance, although capital A as an angle is not uncommon. A lot of the time it also depends on the area of study. In statistics, μ is the mean, σ is the deviation, but both are defined as specific functions in number theory having nothing to do with collections of data.
 * Of course, if there are two distances, or two means, or two zeroes (!) then other symbols can be used, assuming subscripts are not employed, and explanation for these variables is provided. However, this is an exception.
 * In this light, lowercase a, b, and c are commonly used in mathematics to define relations between several quantities, not necessarily saying which is unknown. Identities are mainly the examples that come to mind, like the distributive law, square of a sum, and many others. The letters are commonly used for side lengths as in the Pythagorean theorem, which also defines a relation without a specific unknown.
 * It would be just as correct to say that o2+γ2=Я2, but who's going to label a triangle that way? Even "x squared plus y squared equals z squared" is 20 times less prevalent on Google, and the first few hits indicate a different use, such as the mathematical puzzle of Fermat's last theorem in contrast to a geometric problem, or a trick question for students who think the sides should always be labeled a, b, and c!
 * In the quadratic equation all three are known, and x instead is the unknown, having a stronger tendency for meaning an unknown. They are likewise constants in other factorizations and in conic sections, defining for instance the x and y intercepts. Of course c is also a constant in physics, and b could represent a quark, though I would guess the latter is fairly uncommon. This gets into the question of verifiability, which is a whole other can of worms. DAVilla 11:17, 20 October 2012 (UTC)
 * The only thing I fail to grasp is how that's an argument for keeping it. --WikiTiki89 11:23, 20 October 2012 (UTC)
 * I agree with Wikitiki89, "Mathematicians can and do use any letter to mean anything, from various alphabets" which you DAVilla write above does seem to be rather a good reason to delete this! The fact that any of a wide range of symbols can be used for any conceivable purposes shows that these aren't definitions. Mglovesfun (talk) 11:29, 20 October 2012 (UTC)
 * Maybe we can have an appendix page documenting various standard uses of variables in physics? --WikiTiki89 11:33, 20 October 2012 (UTC)
 * Actually, I think this fails WT:CFI line one as it's not a word in a language. Though it is attested, I doubt it's idiomatic, as it's not lexical at all. Why would this be more includable than say, a picture of a kitten? Mglovesfun (talk) 17:14, 20 October 2012 (UTC)
 * Mathematical statements are often interwoven into text because they can be read as text. How the symbols are read depends on the context, e.g. = can be "equal", "equal to", or "equals"/"is equal to". Examples are easy to find:, , . Here's a (not particularly good) guide for Chinese using English.
 * My argument above says that the variables can have meaning on their own, without introduction, especially in informal contexts. Consider this example where problem 1.35 starts "The barometer shown in Fig. P1.35 contains mercury (ρ=13.59 g/cm3)." The word "density" does not appear in the problem or anywhere on the page. A mathematician would balk at this use in such a formal context. Although ρ is introduced when the concepts are explained earlier in the chapter, it is essentially defined there as synonymous with density. DAVilla 04:59, 25 October 2012 (UTC)
 * Yeah but that's clearly under the context of physics and in physics itself variables can have many definitions. Like I said before, it might be a good idea to have an appendix page (such as Appendix:Variables in physics) listing standard uses of variables in physics, but I don't think they belong in the main namespace. --WikiTiki89 09:16, 25 October 2012 (UTC)

 * Delete "a" has several meanings in science/maths which it might be worth including in a Translingual section (acceleration and activity are the best known). However, the meaning presented here is useless. Anything can be a variable. "a" on its own in a mathematical equation has no meaning at all. It's just a token which allows the mathematician to keep track of the relationships between variables while manipulating equations. You can use any letter, any symbol, whole words, drawings or even totally invented squiggles for this purpose. Here's one example. x is a little different, in that people actually use it outside equations to mean a missing quantity (see sure as eggs is eggs). I've never heard of anyone using "a" in that metaphorical sense. Smurrayinchester (talk) 13:12, 30 October 2012 (UTC)

Sense deleted. bd2412 T 13:09, 12 August 2013 (UTC)

Deletion discussion 2
Rfd-sense, there are two issues here:

 * A spoken sound represented by the letter a or A, as in map, mall, or male.

I can honestly find no usage example for this sense. It would have to be a sentence that actually uses a to refer to a sound and not just to the letter a (as in "You spell it like the a in father"). So I believe this is a misguided sense and adequately covered by the letter sense.

Then we have these three:

 * A written representation of the letter A or a.
 * A printer's type or stamp used to reproduce the letter a.
 * An item having the shape of the letter a or A.

They are really no different from each other, and should be merged into one sense, or just canned altogether and have them be represented by the letter sense. Think of what senses this would allow for fish: An artistic representation of a fish, A printer's type or stamp used to reproduce a fish (think Christianity), An item having the shape of a fish, etc. -- Liliana • 14:26, 17 October 2012 (UTC)
 * Couldn't we find instances of "the sound as an a"? That should eliminate many spurious hits. (Yes we can: bgc. DCDuring TALK 17:06, 17 October 2012 (UTC))
 * But does a in this instance really refer to "a spoken sound"? If we apply the insertion test (i. e. insert the definition in place of the word) we get something like "the sound of a spoken sound represented by the letter a". Does that make sense to you? -- Liliana • 17:21, 17 October 2012 (UTC)
 * That's easy to read as "the sound (heard) of a spoken sound (produced) etc". Many distinct definitions seem to be be just the results of teasing apart aspects of a phenomenon. DCDuring TALK 20:20, 17 October 2012 (UTC)
 * Of the group of three, it would take a little bit of effort to get all three into a single sense as "representation" implies intent, the second is for a device for producing the letter, and the third is for something that might have the shape by accident. "An item, mark, shape, or image representing or resembling a form of the letter A" includes both 1 and 3 certainly and the letter on Hester Prynne's forehead. Perhaps we would want to include within the third sense a key marked "A" on a keyboard or touchscreen or the part of a typewriter ball or arm used to produce the letter.
 * As "a"-ness is abstract, it might be useful to have at least one definition that explicitly defines a as concrete embodiments of the abstract notion.
 * It would be a service to provide the senses of the letter that are supposed to cover this. I couldn't get [[a]] to download just now. DCDuring TALK 16:27, 17 October 2012 (UTC)
 * If your computer system is even slightly slow, a takes forever to download or will crash your browser. Definitely do NOT try to download the history page. I purchased a brand new $2000 system just to download that page :(

 * Delete per nom. - -sche (discuss) 03:21, 20 September 2013 (UTC)

Senses deleted. bd2412 T 18:20, 22 October 2013 (UTC)

Deletion discussion 3
Rfd-sense: Designating a second residence with the same street number.

I think this sense is misguided. a does not "designate a second residence with the same street number", as in, it doesn't distinguish two buildings which both have the house number 12. Rather, it is itself part of the house number. Letters do appear in house numbers, but they don't carry any inherent meaning and thus aren't dictionary material. -- Liliana • 19:35, 29 June 2013 (UTC)
 * Delete per nom. Fairly clear cut. This is no different than having senses for numbers indicating that they are themselves street addresses. bd2412 T 19:38, 29 June 2013 (UTC)
 * Delete per bd. - -sche (discuss) 04:35, 30 June 2013 (UTC)

 * Well, it is used in deriving a new number from an old one, e.g. a new house is built between 10 and 11 and may be numbered 10a. The French equivalent is bis, written as a separate word beside the original number. Equinox ◑ 05:26, 30 June 2013 (UTC)
 * And if there's more than one, wouldn't the second one be 10b? I've also seen fractions: 10 1/2 and 10 3/4. Chuck Entz (talk) 05:55, 30 June 2013 (UTC)

 * I vote keep, if not obvious from the above. But then I added it :) Equinox ◑ 16:32, 26 August 2013 (UTC)
 * Keep. It is not clear for me that a new address between 10 and 11 is named 10a rather than 10b. — T AKASUGI Shinji (talk) 02:48, 3 September 2013 (UTC)
 * So you would support a sense of 2 as "designating a second residence on the same street", because it's not obvious that a new address between 1 and 3 is called 2? Appending a isn't even a hard and fast rule, there are exceptions. -- Liliana • 09:17, 30 November 2013 (UTC)
 * It’s obvious that a new address between 1 and 3 is called 2. — T AKASUGI Shinji (talk) 01:33, 27 December 2013 (UTC)

 * Delete. This is just a numbering convention, like "Exit 3A" on a highway or "Vitamin B6" (which is the opposite). --WikiTiki89 20:37, 27 December 2013 (UTC)
 * Delete. I'm sure you can also find addresses where b is used instead of a on the principle that the original number is implicitly a. It has about as much lexical significance as the fact that a is used in outlines, along with b, c, d, etc. The fact that letters are used to supplement numbers in numbering schemes is a useful thing to know, as is that fact that such numbers tend to follow numeric and alphabetic order (there's no explicit requirement that houses not be arranged in the order 3,9,2,7, etc.), but it's not for a dictionary to explain it: I have trouble imagining anyone looking up a in the dictionary because they saw an address with "3 a" in it. Chuck Entz (talk) 22:33, 27 December 2013 (UTC)

Deleted. — T AKASUGI Shinji (talk) 13:02, 13 February 2014 (UTC)

Tea Room discussion of Nauruan
For some Tea Room discussion which touched on this entry, see Tea room/2014/June. - -sche (discuss) 15:27, 15 June 2014 (UTC)

RFC discussion: July 2006–November 2009

 * See Talk:A.

Why is Gothic 𐌳 on see also?
Not that I'm against Gothic being on Wiktionary, but it seems a little weird to have Gothic script be on there and not Cyrillic or Greek. Gothic isn't very common. Last edited by: (talk) 16:56, 8 January 2017 (UTC)
 * I moved it to the variations page. — ObſequiousNewt — Geſpꝛaͤch — Beÿtraͤge 22:57, 8 January 2017 (UTC)

Lua memory error
Suggestions: WDYT?--So9q (talk) 12:48, 16 October 2019 (UTC)
 * adapt the templates showing the whole alphabet to use less memory.
 * move the translations to subpage
 * Moved the translations which moved the lua errors down from Portuguese to Spanish.--So9q (talk) 13:21, 16 October 2019 (UTC)
 * Reformatted synonyms in the Portuguese section moving it down another bit (from partway through Swahili to partway through Swedish on my computer). İʟᴀᴡᴀ–Kᴀᴛᴀᴋᴀ (talk) (edits) 22:16, 16 October 2019 (UTC)

Why is the English section out of the alphabetical order?
Why is English right below the first one? Shouldn’t it follow the alphabetical order and be in its correct spot?
 * No, Translingual and English go first. See Entry layout. — Eru·tuon 00:06, 1 May 2020 (UTC)

an one
An was an acceptable alternative before words beginning with a consonant sound but spelled with a vowel (an one, an united appeal) --Backinstadiums (talk) 11:30, 28 June 2020 (UTC)
 * Might get round to adding this later; it's not because they were spelt with a vowel; it's because they formerly begun with a vowel sound (which is why they're spelt like that). Hazarasp (parlement · werkis) 16:00, 28 June 2020 (UTC)
 * ✅; see . Hazarasp (parlement · werkis) 17:33, 28 June 2020 (UTC)

In former times an was used before strongly pronounced h in a stressed first syllable: an hundred. https://www.wordreference.com/definition/a --Backinstadiums (talk) 17:52, 4 August 2020 (UTC)

Etymology of aes, plural of the letter a
According to Wikipedia, "Plurals of vowel names add -es (i.e., aes, ees, ies, oes, ues)". What's the etymology of this -es ? --Backinstadiums (talk) 23:06, 1 August 2020 (UTC)

 * I am sceptical of Wikipedia's claim. However there may be a perceived need to avoid confusion with the actual words as, is and us. I think people usually pluralise letters with an apostrophe: two a's. Equinox ◑ 18:31, 4 August 2020 (UTC)
 * Side note: this is the method I would use as a native speaker of American English: a's", e's, i's, o's, and u's. However, I don't know what the "official" or "proper" form is supposed to be. I would probably write "y's" too. --Geographyinitiative (talk) 00:41, 5 August 2020 (UTC)
 * https://www.oed.com/oed2/00000001 --Backinstadiums (talk) 20:45, 4 August 2020 (UTC)

 * That says "the plural of a has been written aes" (perhaps not very often!): it does not say "there is some kind of general particle or suffix -es that you can add to any vowel". I think you might be overextending. Equinox ◑ 21:59, 4 August 2020 (UTC)

 * y can be a vowel (rhythm): do you think yes is a vowel plural? Equinox ◑ 22:01, 4 August 2020 (UTC)

 * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_alphabet#Modern_letters Why would I lie about it? --Backinstadiums (talk) 23:02, 4 August 2020 (UTC)

 * As a native English speaker I am convinced you are wrong, and your link doesn't show any proof of yes as plural of y. Please ask at WT:TR where other natives can comment. Equinox ◑ 00:15, 5 August 2020 (UTC)

many a
What meaning is used in many a(nother)? --Backinstadiums (talk) 18:25, 25 September 2020 (UTC)

indefinite article. indefinitely or nonspecifically (used with adjectives expressing number)
indefinite article. indefinitely or nonspecifically (used with adjectives expressing number): A great many years; a few stars. https://www.wordreference.com/definition/a%20few --Backinstadiums (talk) 08:34, 27 September 2020 (UTC)

a /an/
Before drpping an /h/ the unstressed indefinite article is /an/, or /aʔ/, isn't it? --Backinstadiums (talk) 00:00, 9 November 2020 (UTC)
 * It's an, as the word becomes vowel-initial. Hazarasp (parlement · werkis) 11:34, 14 November 2020 (UTC)

Now often attached to preceding auxiliary verb -a.
Also to a following word, a-, as in Lawd hammercy, Lawd a'mercy, Lawd a-mercy --Backinstadiums (talk) 10:54, 14 November 2020 (UTC)

before uncountable nouns
Used before uncountable nouns when these have an adjective in front of them, or phrase following them: a good knowledge of French; a sadness that won’t go away --Backinstadiums (talk) 10:53, 21 November 2020 (UTC)

in front of two nouns that are seen as a single unit
used in front of two nouns that are seen as a single unit: a knife and fork --Backinstadiums (talk) 10:56, 21 November 2020 (UTC)

 * Why is that a sense of "a"? You can just as well say "the knife and fork" or "my knife and fork". Equinox ◑ 13:26, 21 November 2020 (UTC)
 * because of plurality of reference, two elements, so it's not a case of elision a knife (and a) fork, unlike the --Backinstadiums (talk) 16:31, 21 November 2020 (UTC)

 * I don't see how it's different. "A knife and fork are required; the knife and fork are required". Equinox ◑ 17:17, 21 November 2020 (UTC)

When and is used in common phrases connecting two things or people that are closely linked, the determiner is not usually repeated before the second: a knife and fork, my father and mother, but a knife and a spoon, my father and my uncle. https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/english/and?q=and+ --Backinstadiums (talk) 12:03, 23 November 2020 (UTC)

Lua error
It seems there is too many or complex template invocations: much of the page is full of "Lua error: not enough memory". Something ought to be done. –LPfi (talk) 08:51, 8 February 2021 (UTC)
 * See Lua memory errors. J3133 (talk) 08:57, 8 February 2021 (UTC)

Update July 2021: Too many lua error. :( P.T.Đ (talk) 17:45, 19 July 2021 (UTC)

 * problem solved for the time being, as according to Grease pit/2023/October, the memory limit for lua has been effectively doubled to 100MB. QuakDucc (talk) 05:38, 20 March 2024 (UTC)

broad a
The long vowel in English words such as father, half, as represented in the received pronunciation of Southern British English. --Backinstadiums (talk) 16:06, 18 February 2021 (UTC)

title: Talk:a


text:
crow

Etymology 1
From, from , from , from (compare 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬), from. See below.

Noun

 * 1) A bird, usually black, of the genus, having a strong conical beak, with projecting bristles; it has a harsh, croaking call.
 * 2) Any of various dark-coloured nymphalid butterflies of the genus.
 * 3) A bar of iron with a beak, crook or claw; a bar of iron used as a lever; a crowbar.
 * 4)  Someone who keeps watch while their associates commit a crime; a lookout.
 * 5)  A gangplank () used by the Ancient Roman navy to board enemy ships.
 * 6)  The mesentery of an animal.
 * 7)  An ill-tempered and obstinate woman, or one who otherwise has features resembling the bird; a harpy.
 * 8)  A black person.
 * 9)  The emblem of an eagle, a sign of military rank.
 * 1)  A gangplank () used by the Ancient Roman navy to board enemy ships.
 * 2)  The mesentery of an animal.
 * 3)  An ill-tempered and obstinate woman, or one who otherwise has features resembling the bird; a harpy.
 * 4)  A black person.
 * 5)  The emblem of an eagle, a sign of military rank.
 * 1)  A black person.
 * 2)  The emblem of an eagle, a sign of military rank.
 * 1)  The emblem of an eagle, a sign of military rank.

Adjective

 * 1)  Dark black, the color of a crow; crow-black.

Etymology 2
The verb is from, from (past tense , past participle ), from , from , from.

The noun is from, from the verb.

Compare 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬). Related to.

Verb

 * 1)  To make the shrill sound characteristic of a rooster; to make a sound in this manner, either in gaiety, joy, pleasure, or defiance.
 * 2)  To shout in exultation or defiance; to brag.
 * 3)  To test the reed of a double reed instrument by placing the reed alone in the mouth and blowing it.
 * 1)  To shout in exultation or defiance; to brag.
 * 2)  To test the reed of a double reed instrument by placing the reed alone in the mouth and blowing it.
 * 1)  To shout in exultation or defiance; to brag.
 * 2)  To test the reed of a double reed instrument by placing the reed alone in the mouth and blowing it.
 * 1)  To shout in exultation or defiance; to brag.
 * 2)  To test the reed of a double reed instrument by placing the reed alone in the mouth and blowing it.
 * 1)  To test the reed of a double reed instrument by placing the reed alone in the mouth and blowing it.
 * 1)  To test the reed of a double reed instrument by placing the reed alone in the mouth and blowing it.
 * 1)  To test the reed of a double reed instrument by placing the reed alone in the mouth and blowing it.

Usage notes
The past tense in modern usage is confined to literary and metaphorical uses, usually with reference to the story of Peter in Luke 22.60. The past participle is similarly poetical.

Translations

 * Tashelhit: ,

Noun

 * 1) The cry or call of a rooster or a cockerel, especially as heard at sunrise.

title: crow