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 stoner : Cic . lăpid - ĕus , a , um , adj . [ lapis , lapid- is ] ( Of , or belonging to , stone ; hence ) 1. Of a shower of stones : Consisting of stones ...
James Howell. V la- A Vaher - woman ; Lavandiere , buan- diere ; Lavandaia ; Lavandera . A VVathing ; Lavement , laveure , vage ; Lavamento ; Lavamiento ...
... a finite population. A typical example is that of choosing a random fraction. Small measurement errors sometimes are approximately uniformly distributed. In ...
... a curious and amusing instance of our English pertinacity in clinging to old forms and precedents . " " FRANCIS J. LEACHMAN , M.A. OUR CORRESPONDENT . - A ...
... a practice merely because it is unusual . " " III . With regard to the surplice , it does not seem a matter of much consequence to the people ...
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 ...