a
/ə,ā/
determiner
- used when referring to someone or something for the first time in a text or conversation."a man came out of the room"
- used to indicate membership of a class of people or things."he is a lawyer"
- used when expressing rates or ratios; in, to, or for each; per."typing 60 words a minute"
The letter Å represents various sounds in several languages. It is a separate letter in Danish, Swedish, Norwegian, Finnish, North Frisian, Low Saxon, Transylvanian Saxon, Walloon, Chamorro, Lule Sami, Pite Sami, Skolt Sami, Southern Sami, Ume... Wikipedia
A, or a, is the first letter and the first vowel letter of the Latin alphabet, used in the modern English alphabet, and others worldwide.
... A little water ; a small stream of water : seclusa aliqua aquula , Cic . ar , v . ad . sometimes otherwise called Sauconna ( now the Saône ) . ără - tio ...
... A Round , or catch fong ; Strambot , Epi- mona ; Epimone . To Round one in the ear ; S'accouter à l'oreille , s'acouter ; Parlare , mullitar ' a Porecchio ; ...
... A before the ftroke be to its motion after , as 2 to 1 ; then will a , b , m , be 3 , 2 , 2 ; and which is as A B ' ma + a - -2mb maa by Cafe 4 , will be ; fo ...
(A.D. 1450-1880) George Grove. organ ; a Requiem for nine voices , strings and organ ; a Mass di Cappella for 4 voices ; some Psalms for Complins arranged ...
... a safe Sailing Boat . - Christ . Wilson . 1807 . Model of a Machine to bore Augur - holes on Board a Ship.- William Bayley . 1760 . Model of a Mooring Block ...
... a place on the west side of Hardwick Hill , in the parish of Scot- ton , near here , called Pin Hill . At this spot was a mound , about the size of a heap ...
А (А а; italics: А а) is a letter of the Cyrillic script. It commonly represents an open central unrounded vowel /ä/, halfway between the pronunciation of ...
a feminine singular ending of nouns borrowed from Latin and Greek, also used in New Latin coinages to Latinize bases of any origin, and as a Latin substitute ...