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The number of distinct senses that are listed in Wiktionary is shown in the polysemy column. For example, "out" can refer to an escape, a removal from play in baseball, or any of 36 other concepts. On average, each word in the list has 15.38 senses. The sense count does not include the use of terms in phrasal verbs such as "put out" (as in ...
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This is a list of English language words borrowed from Indigenous languages of the Americas, either directly or through intermediate European languages such as Spanish or French. It does not cover names of ethnic groups or place names derived from Indigenous languages. Most words of Native American/First Nations language origin are the common ...
Another active word-formation process in English is the creation of acronyms, [243] words formed by pronouncing abbreviations of longer phrases as single words, e.g. NATO, laser, scuba. Word origins Main articles: Foreign-language influences in English and Lists of English words by country or language of origin
1 Control-C has typically been used as a "break" or "interrupt" key. 2 Control-D has been used to signal "end of file" for text typed in at the terminal on Unix / Linux systems. Windows, DOS, and older minicomputers used Control-Z for this purpose. 3 Control-G is an artifact of the days when teletypes were in use.
In contrast, intrepid English traders operated in Mediterranean seaports of the Levant from the 1570s, and some vocabulary describing features of Ottoman culture found their way into the English language. Thus many words in the list below, though originally from Persian, arrived in English through the intermediary of Ottoman Turkish language.
QWERTY, one of the few native English words with Q not followed by U, is derived from the first six letters of a standard keyboard layout. A souq in Marrakech, Morocco. Like many of the other English words that use a q not followed by a u, souq is of Arabic origin.
Word British English meanings Meanings common to British and American English American English meanings AA The Automobile Association (US: AAA) Alcoholics Anonymous: American Airlines: A&E the accident and emergency (casualty) department of a hospital (US: emergency room, ER) [1] Arts & Entertainment (name of a television network) [1] accumulator