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Translingual

Abbreviation

ab


Synonyms

  • abk (ISO 639-3)


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English

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /æb/
  • :


Etymology 1

Abbreviation of .

Noun

  1. abdominal muscle


Usage notes

More commonly used in the plural form .

Translations
  • Finnish:
  • French:

Etymology 2

Abbreviation of .

Noun

  1. An abscess caused by injecting an illegal drug, usually heroin.


Translations

Etymology 3

Abbreviations, see definitions.

ab

  1. abort or abortion
  2. about


References

  • "1" in Merriam-Webster's Medical Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, 2002.


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Catalan

Preposition

  1. amb (with).


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German

Etymology

From , from {{proto|Germanic|abha|lang=de}}.

Preposition

  1. Beginning at that time or location; from.
  2. : ab heute verfügbar (available from today on)


Derived terms


Category:2000 German basic words

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Latin

Pronunciation

  • An audio transcript can be found at La-ecc-ab.ogg


Preposition

{{infl|la|preposition|also|a}}

  1. of, from (takes object in ablative case).


References

  • Latin Dictionary, Lewis and Short, 1879.


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Old High German

Etymology

From {{proto|Germanic|abha|lang=goh}}.

Preposition

  1. of


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Romani

Noun

{{infl|rom|noun|g=m}}

  1. river


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Turkish

Etymology

From {{term|sc=fa-Arab|آب|lang=fa}}.

Noun

  1. water


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Volapük

Conjunction

  1. but


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GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English Ab- \Ab-\ ([a^]b). [Latin prep., etymologically the same as E.
of, off. See Of.]
A prefix in many words of Latin origin. It signifies from,
away, separating, or departure, as in abduct, abstract,
abscond. See A-(6).
[1913 Webster]
GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English Ab \Ab\ ([a^]b), n. [Of Syriac origin.]
The fifth month of the Jewish year according to the
ecclesiastical reckoning, the eleventh by the civil
computation, coinciding nearly with August. --W. Smith.
[1913 Webster]
WordNet ab
n 1: the blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B
antigens [syn: type AB, group AB]
2: a bachelor's degree in arts and sciences [syn: {Bachelor of
Arts}, BA, Artium Baccalaurens]
3: the eleventh month of the civil year; the fifth month of the
ecclesiastical year in the Jewish calendar (in July and
August) [syn: Av]
4: the muscles of the abdomen [syn: abdominal, {abdominal
muscle}]
FOLDOC A&B

A bit signaling procedure used in most T1
transmission facilities where one bit from every sixth frame
of each of 24 T1 subchannels is used for carrying
supervisory signaling.

[What does it stand for? Is this the same as "{bit
robbing}"?]

(1997-05-05)


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