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Definition: At

At

Noun

1. A highly unstable radioactive element (the heaviest of the halogen series); a decay product of uranium and thorium.

2. 100 at equal 1 kip.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "At" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references)

Etymology: At \At\, preposition [Anglo-Saxon [ae]t; akin to Old High German az, Goth., OS., & Icelandic at, Swedish [*a]t, Danish & Latin ad.]. (references)

 

Specialty Definition: At

DomainDefinition

Computing

AT IBM PC AT at 1. commercial at. 2. The country code for Austria. (1999-01-27). Source: The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing.

Electrical Engineering

A modem control language for asynchronous dial-up modems. Source: European Union. (references)

Literature

At Strain at a gnat (Matt. xxiii. 24) Greek, di-aulizo, to strain off. Here "at" is an error, probably in the first instance typographical, for "out." "Out" is given in the Bible of 1603, and has been restored by the Revisers. Source: Brewer's Dictionary.

Tips from 1870

Usage: At, To. Never use the vulgar expression, "He is to home." Say at home. Source: Slips of Speech.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Specialty Definition: Astatine

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

General
Name, Symbol, NumberAstatine, At, 85
Series Halogens
Group, Period, Block17 (VIIA), 6 , p
Density, Hardness no data, no data
Appearance metallic
Atomic Properties
Atomic weight [210] amu
Atomic radius no data
Covalent radius 127 pm
van der Waals radius no data
Electron configuration [Xe]44f14 5d10 6s2 6p5
e- 's per energy level2, 8, 18, 32, 18, 7
Oxidation states (Oxide) ±1,3,5,7 (unknown)
Crystal structure no data
Physical Properties
State of matter solid
Melting point 575 K (576 °F)
Boiling point no data
Molar volume no data
Heat of vaporization no data
Heat of fusion 114 kJ/mol
Vapor pressure no data
Speed of sound no data
Miscellaneous
Electronegativity 2.2 (Pauling scale)
Specific heat capacity no data
Electrical conductivity no data
Thermal conductivity 1.7 W/(m*K)
1st ionization potential 20 kJ/mol
Most Stable Isotopes
isoNAhalf-life DMDE MeVDP
210At100%8.1 hEpsilon
Alpha
3.981
5.631
210Po
206Bi
SI units & STP are used except where noted.
Astatine is a chemical element in the periodic table that has the symbol At and atomic number 85. This radioactive element occurs naturally from uranium and thorium decay and is the heaviest of the halogens.

Notable Characteristics

This highly radioactive element has been confirmed by mass spectrometers to behave chemically much like other halogens, especially iodine (it probably accumulates in the thyroid gland like iodine). Astatine is thought to be more metallic than iodine. Researchers at the Brookhaven National Laboratory have performed experiments that have identified and measured elementary reactions that involve astatine.

The total amount of astatine in the earth's crust is estimated to be less than 1 oz (28 g) at any one time.

History

Astatine (Greek astatos meaning "unstable") was first synthesized in 1940 by Dale Corson, K.R. MacKenzie, and Emilio Segre of the University of California by barraging bismuth with alpha particles.

Occurrence

Astatine is produced by bombarding bismuth with energetic alpha particles to obtain relatively long-lived At-209 - At-211, which can then be distilled from the target by heating in the presence of air.

Isotopes

Astatine has about 20 known isotopes, all of which are radioactive; the longest-lived isotope is 210At which has a half-life of only 8.3 hours. Astatine is a halogen and possibly accumulates in the thyroid like iodine.

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AT

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

AT or at may stand for:

See also: wiktionary:at

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At (Unix command)

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The at command is used to schedule commands to be executed once at a particular time in the future. More precisely, it reads a series of commands from standard input and collects them into one "at-job" which is carried out at a later date. It is found in the Unix family of operating systems and other flavors as well.

at can be made to mail a user when done carrying out a scheduled job of theirs, can use more than one job queue, and can read a list of jobs to carry out from a file instead of standard input.

It uses a daemon, atd, which waits in the background periodically checking the list of jobs to do and executing those at their allotted time on behalf of at. It can be made to only run scheduled jobs if the system's load average is below a certain value.

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Austria

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

The Republic of Austria is a landlocked country in Central Europe, a federation of 9 states.
Austria is bordered by Liechtenstein and Switzerland in the west, Italy and Slovenia in the south, Hungary and Slovakia in the east, and Germany and the Czech Republic in the north.

Republik Österreich
(In Detail) (Full size)
''National motto: None''
Official language German
Capital Vienna
President Thomas Klestil
Chancellor Wolfgang Schüssel
Area
 - Total
 - % water
Ranked 112nd
83,858 km²
1.3%
Population
 - Total (2000)
 - Density
Ranked 86th
8,150,835
97/km²
Independence
 - Date
July 27, 1955
Currency Euro¹, Austrian euro coins
Time zone UTC +1
National anthem Land der Berge, Land am Strome
Internet TLD .AT
Calling Code 43
(1) Prior to 1999: Austrian schilling

History

Main article: History of Austria

After being conquered by the Romans, Huns, Lombards, Ostrogoths, Bavarians and Franks, Austria came under the rule of the Babenbergs from the 10th to the 13th century, which were succeeded by the Habsburgs. The line of this family continued to govern Austria until the 20th century.

After the abolition of the Holy Roman Empire, Austria became part of the double-monarchy Austria-Hungary in 1867. This nation was split up after being on the losing side of World War I, forming Austria as it is today. Austria was annexed by Nazi Germany in 1938 (the "Anschluss").

The Allies occupied Austria at the end of World War II until 1955, when the country again became fully independent under the condition that it remained neutral. However, after the collapse of communism in Eastern Europe, Austria became increasingly involved in European affairs, and in 1995, Austria joined the European Union, and the euro monetary system in 1999.

Politics

Main article: Politics of Austria

Head of state is the president, who is elected every 6 years by popular vote. The president chooses the chancellor, traditionally the leader of the largest party in the elections for parliament. The Austrian parliament consists of two chambers, the Bundesrat (federal council), which consists of 64 representatives of the states, based on population, and the Nationalrat (national council), which has 183 directly elected members.

After three decades of social-democratic majority (SPÖ) a right-wing coalition was formed in 2000, consisting of the conservative People's Party (ÖVP) and the right-wing Freedom Party (FPÖ). However, after some turmoil within the FPÖ concerning party policy and leadership, Federal Chancellor Wolfgang Schüssel (ÖVP) announced on September 9, 2002 that general elections would be held prematurely at the end of November. In the elections of November 24, 2002, the ÖVP won a landslide victory (42.3% of the vote), whereas the FPÖ was reduced to a mere 10.1%.

The new Austrian parliament (Nationalrat, 183 seats) will be made up as follows:

On February 28, 2003, the coalition between the ÖVP and the FPÖ has been continued, again with Wolfgang Schüssel (ÖVP) as Federal Chancellor. His Vice Chancellor was Herbert Haupt (FPÖ) until replaced by Hubert Gorbach (FPÖ) on October 20, 2003. Prior to that, long-lasting "probing talks" ("Sondierungsgespräche") took place between the ÖVP and the other major parties FPÖ, SPÖ and the Green Party.

States

Main article: States of Austria

Map

A federal republic, Austria is divided into nine states, or Bundesländer. These are:

Geography

Main article: Geography of Austria

Being situated in the Alps, Austria's west and south are mountainous making Austria a well-known winter sports destination. The highest mountain is the Grossglockner, at 3,798 m. The north and east of the country are mostly rolling terrain. The climate is temperate, with cold winters and cool summers.

The main cities are capital Vienna, situated on the Danube, Salzburg, Innsbruck, Graz and Linz.

Economy

Main article: Economy of Austria

Austria, with its well-developed market economy and high standard of living, is closely tied to other European Union economies, especially Germany's. Membership in the EU has drawn an influx of foreign investors attracted by Austria's access to the single European market and proximity to EU aspirant economies. Slowing growth in Germany and elsewhere in the world slowed the economy to only 1.2% growth in 2001. To meet increased competition from both EU and Central European countries, Austria will need to emphasize knowledge-based sectors of the economy, continue to deregulate the service sector, and lower its tax burden.


An Austrian town (Kaprun, 786 metres, 2580 feet) in the state of Salzburg
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Demographics

Main article: Demographics of Austria

About ten percent of the Austrians are of non-Austrian descent, many from surrounding countries, especially from the former East Bloc nations. Over 50,000 indigenous Slovenians live in the Austrian provinces of Carinthia and Styria. A large group of labour immigrants is also present. The official language, German, is spoken by everybody; the dialect is similar to that spoken in southern Germany.

There is, however, a separate standard for Austrian German with differences to the German spoken in Germany.

More than three-quarters of Austrians are Roman Catholic. Other important religions are Islam and Protestantism.

Culture

Main article: Culture of Austria

Austria has been the birthplace for several famous composers such as Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Johann Strauss, Sr & Johann Strauss, Jr and Arnold Schoenberg, Anton Webern, Alban Berg (last 3 were in the famous Second Viennese School). Other famous Austrians include physicists Ludwig Boltzmann and Erwin Schrödinger as well as philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein and Kurt Goedel, psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud, poet Peter Rosegger (see Music of Austria), and painter Gustav Klimt.

Being situated in the Alps, Austria has been the homeland of many great alpine skiers, such as Toni Sailer, Hermann Maier, Annemarie Moser-Pröll and Anita Wachter.

Holidays
DateEnglish Name Local NameRemarks
January 1New Year's DayNeujahr 
January 6EpiphanyEpiphanieHeilige Drei Könige
MoveableEaster SundayOstersonntagGood Friday work-free for Protestants
MoveableEaster MondayOstermontag 
May 1 Staatsfeiertagalso, Labour day
MoveableAscensionChristi HimmelfahrtThursday 40 days after Easter
MoveablePentecostPfingstsonntag 
MoveableWhit MondayPfingstmontag 
MoveableCorpus ChristiFronleichnamThursday 11 days after Pentecost
August 15Assumption of MaryMariae Himmelfahrt 
October 26National dayNationalfeiertagLaw on neutrality passed in 1955
November 1All SaintsAllerheiligen 
December 8Immaculate ConceptionMariae Empfängnis 
December 25ChristmasChristtag, Weihnachten 
December 26Boxing DayStephanitag 

Miscellaneous topics

Much of the material in these articles comes from the CIA World Factbook 2000 and the 2003 U.S. Department of State website.

External links


European Union:
Austria  |  Belgium  |  Denmark  |  Finland  |  France  |  Germany  |  Greece  |  Ireland
Italy  |  Luxembourg  |  Netherlands  |  Portugal  |  Spain  |  Sweden  |  United Kingdom

Countries acceding to membership on May 1, 2004:
Cyprus  |  Czech Republic  |  Estonia  |  Hungary  |  Latvia  |  Lithuania  |  Malta  |  Poland  |  Slovakia  |  Slovenia


Countries of the world  |  Europe  |  Council of Europe

Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Austria."

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IBM PC

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The IBM PC (Personal Computer) is a trade mark of IBM.

Due to the success of the IBM PC, the generic term Personal Computer became common for all microcomputers compatible with IBM's specification (see IBM PC compatible). The term is sometimes extended to mean all microcomputers.

The IBM PC Concept

The original PC was an IBM attempt to get into the home computer market then dominated by the Apple II.

Rather than going through the usual IBM design process, which had already failed to design an affordable microcomputer (for example the failed IBM 5100), a special team were assembled to bypass normal company restrictions and get soemthing to market rapidly. The project was given the code name Project Chess.

The team consisted of just 12 people headed by William Lowe. They succeeded - development of the PC took about a year. To achieve this they first decided to build the machine with "off-the-shelf" parts from a variety of different Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEM)s and countries. Previously IBM had developed their own components. Second they decided on an open architecture so that other manufacturers could produce and sell compatible machines - the IBM PC compatibles, so the specification of the ROM BIOS was published. IBM hoped to maintain their position in the market by royalties from licencing the BIOS, and by keeping ahead of the competition.

Unfortunately for IBM, other manufacturers rapidly reverse engineered the BIOS to produce their own royalty-free versions. (Compaq Computer Corporation manufactured the first cloned IBM PC compatible in 1984). And once the IBM PC became a commercial success the PC came back under 'normal' IBM mangement control, with the result that competitors had little trouble taking the lead from them.

Commercial Success

The first IBM PC was released on August 12 1981. Although not cheap, at a base price of $1,565 it was affordable for businesses - and it was business that purchased the PC. However it was not the corporate "computer department" that was responsible for this, for the PC was not seen as a 'proper' computer. It was generally well educated middle mangers that saw the potential - once the revolutionary VisiCalc spreadsheet, the "killer app", had been ported to the PC. Reassured by the IBM name, they began buying the machines on their own budgets to help do the calculations they had learned at business school. The personal computer revolution was born.

IBM PC Models

The models of IBM's first-generation Personal Computer (PC) series have names:

The models of its second generation, the Personal System/2 (PS/2), are known by model number: Model 25, Model 30. Within each series, the models are also commonly referenced by their CPU clock rate.

All IBM personal computers are software compatible with each other in general, but not every program will work in every machine. Some programs are time sensitive to a particular speed class. Older programs will not take advantage of newer higher-resolution display standards.

Technology

Electronics

The main circuit board in an IBM PC is called the motherboard. This carries the CPU and memory, and has a bus with slots for expansion cards.

The bus used in the original PC became very popular, and was subsequently named ISA. It is in use to this day in computers for industrial use. Later, requirements for higher speed and more capacity forced the development of new versions. The EISA was developed as a backward compatible standard, but due to high complexity and medium performance it dod not really catch on. Instead, the more specialized PCI or AGP busses are now used for expansion cards.

The motherboard is connected by cables to internal storage devices such as hard disks, floppy disks and CD-ROM drives. These tend to be made in standard sizes, such as 3.5" (88.9 mm) and 5.25" (133.4 mm) widths, with standard fixing holes. The case also contains a standard power supply unit (PSU) which is either an AT or ATX standard size.

Intel 8086 and 8088-based PCs require EMS (expanded memory) boards to work with more than one megabyte of memory. The original IBM PC AT used an Intel 80286 processor which can access up to 16 megabytes of memory (though standard MS-DOS applications cannot use more than one megabyte without EMS). Intel 80286-based computers running under OS/2 can work with the maximum memory.

Keyboard

The original 1981 IBM PC's keyboard was severely criticised by typists for its non-standard placement of the return and left shift keys. In 1984, IBM corrected this on its AT keyboard, but shortened the backspace key, making it harder to reach. In 1987, it introduced its enhanced keyboard, which relocated all the function keys and placed the control key in an awkward location for touch typists. The escape key was relocated to the opposite side of the keyboard. By relocating the function keys, IBM made it impossible for software vendors to use them intelligently. What's easy to reach on one keyboard is difficult on the other, and vice versa. To the touch typist, these deficiencies are maddening.

An "IBM PC compatible" may have a keyboard which does not recognize every key combination a true IBM PC does, e.g. shifted cursor keys. In addition, the "compatible" vendors sometimes use proprietary keyboard interfaces, preventing you from replacing the keyboard.

See also: Keyboard layout

Character set

The original IBM PC used the 7 bit ASCII alphabet as the basis, but in addition this was extended to am 8 bit somewhat haphazardly collected set of characters unique for the IBM PC. This set was not really suitable for international use, and soon a veritable cottage industry emerged providing variants of the original character set in various national variants. In IBM tradition, these variants were called code pages. These codings are now obsolete, being replaced by more well thought out schemes for character coding, like the ISO 8859-1 and Unicode.

Storage media

Technically, the standard storage medium for the original IBM PC model 5150 was a cassette port. Being pretty much obsolete even by 1981 standards, very few, if any, IBM PC probably left the factory without a floppy disk drive installed. The 1981 PC had one or two 360 kilobyte 5 1/4 inch single sided double density floppy disk drives.

In 1984, IBM introduced the 1.2 megabyte dual sided floppy disk along with its AT model. Although often used as backup storage, the high density floppy was not often used for interchangeability. In 1986, IBM introduced the 720 kilobyte 3.5" microfloppy disk on its Convertible laptop computer. It introduced the 1.44 megabyte double density version with the PS/2 line. These disk drives could be added to existing older model PCs.

The first IBM PC that included a fixed, non-removable, hard disks was the XT. Hard disks for IBM compatibles are now available with very large storage capacities. If a hard disk is added that is not compatible with the existing disk controller, a new controller board must be plugged in. However, one disk's internal standard does not conflict with another, since all programs and data must be copied onto it to begin with.

Software

All IBM PCs includes a relatively small piece of software stored in ROM and used mainly for bootstraping, called a BIOS. In addition, the original IBM PC came with BASIC in ROM. Later, Basic and BasicA were distributed on floppy but ran and referenced routines in ROM.

IBM PC and PS/2 models

PC range
Model nameIntroducedCPUFeatures
PCAug 19818088Floppy disk system
XTMar 19838088Slow hard disk
XT/370Oct 19838088IBM 370 mainframe emulation
3270 PCOct 19838088With 3270 terminal emulation
PCjrNov 19838088Floppy-based home computer
PC PortableFeb 19848088Floppy-based portable
ATAug 1984286Medium-speed hard disk
ConvertibleApr 19868088Microfloppy laptop portable
XT 286Sep 1986286Slow hard disk

PS/2 range
ModelIntroducedCPUFeatures
25August 19878086PC bus (limited expansion)
30April 19878086PC bus
30August 1987286PC bus
50April 1987286Micro Channel Architecture bus
50ZJune 1988286Faster Model 50
55 SXMay 1989386SXMCA bus
60April 1987286MCA bus
70June 1988386Desktop, MCA bus
P70May 1989386Portable, MCA bus
80April 1987386Tower, MCA bus

IBM PC compatible specifications
CPUClock
speed
(MHz)
CPU
bus
width (bits)
System
Bus
width (bits)
RAM
(megabytes)
Floppy
disk drive
Hard drive
(megabytes)
Operating
System
80884.77-9.51681 (1)5.25, 360K
3.5, 720K
3.5, 1.44M
10-40DOS
80866-121620-60
2866-251-8 (1)5.25, 360K
5.25, 1.2MB
20-300DOS, OS/2
38616-3332321-16 (2)3.5, 720K
3.5, 1.44MB
40-600UNIX
386SX16

  1. Under DOS, RAM is expanded beyond 1M with EMS memory boards
  2. Under DOS, RAM is expanded beyond 1M with normal "extended" memory and a memory management program.

This article was originally based on material (
IBM PC) from FOLDOC, used with permission. Update as needed.

Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "IBM PC."

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List of people by name: At

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List of people by name: A - B - C - D - E - F - G - H - I - J - K - L - M - N - O - P - Q - R - S - T - U - V - W - X - Y - Z Aa - Ab - Ac - Ad - Ae - Af - Ag - Ah - Ai - Aj - Ak - Al - Am - An - Ao - Ap - Aq - Ar - As - At - Au - Av - Aw - Ax - Ay - Az

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PC/AT

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The IBM PC/AT was IBM's third-generation personal computer, designed around the Intel 80286 microprocessor and released in 1984. Because the AT used various technologies that were rare at the time in personal computers, the name AT originally stood for 'advanced technology. See also IBM PC.

IBM's efforts to trademark the name AT largely failed, and numerous clones appeared. "AT" eventually became a standard term referring either to any computer utilizing a 286 processor or better, or, especially after the release of Intel's ATX specification, for motherboards whose size and screw positions approximated those of IBM's original standard power supplies that could plug into them, and cases that could house them.

The AT architecture was an ad hoc standard, and while the power supplies and motherboards that fit in one AT case usually fit another, the specifications were not universal and there were sometimes physical incompatibilities.

A so-called "AT keyboard" refers to a computer keyboard with a full-size 5-pin DIN connector compatible with the original PC/AT, as opposed to the later-style PS/2 6-pin mini-DIN connector.

Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "PC/AT."

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Abbreviations & Acronyms: At

The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted.
EntrySourceExpressionField

AT

DanishØstrigGeography

at

DutchAtmosfeer absoluutN/A

at

EnglishAbsolute atmosphereN/A

AT

FinnishItävaltaGeography

AT

FrenchElément assistance techniqueN/A

AT

GermanRepublik ÖsterreichGeography, Law

AT

GreekΑυστρίαGeography

AT

ItalianRepubblica d'AustriaN/A

AT

PortugueseAlta tensãoN/A

AT

SpanishRepública de AustriaGeography

AT

SwedishÖsterrikeGeography
AT VehicleEnglishAll Terrain VehicleTransportation
AT.VOLGermanAtomvolumenN/A
At.ItalianAtomicoPhysics
ATLANTICEnglishAdvanced Television at Low Bitrates and Networked Transmission over Integrated Communication SystemsComputing

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Synonyms: At

Synonyms: astatine (n), atomic number 85 (n). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: At

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Expectation

Verb: expect; look for, look out for, look forward to; hope for; anticipate; have in prospect, have in contemplation; keep in view; contemplate, promise oneself; not wonder; at, not wonder if.

Sociality

Party, entertainment, reception, levee, at, home, conversazione, soiree, matin_e; evening party, morning party, afternoon party, bridge party, garden party, surprise party; kettle, kettle drum; partie carr_e, dish of tea, ridotto, rout; housewarming; ball, festival; smoker, smoker-party;sociable, stag party, hen party, tamasha; tea-party, tea-fight. (amusement); " the feast of reason and the flow of soul ".

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: At

Non-English Usage: "At" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses.

Danish (that, to, to for infinitive), Faeroese (that), Latin (but, but. (more emphatic and emotional than sed), however, nevertheless, yet), Portuguese (Austria, high tension, high voltage, HiVO, Republic of Austria), Scottish (become tumid, becoming tumid, puff up, swell), Serbo-Croatian (horse), Tagalog (and), Turkish (equine, gee, gee-gee, hack, horse, knight, Steed), Turkmen (first name, horse), Welsh (at, by, for, to, toward, towards), Wolof (year).

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Modern Usage: At

DomainUsage

Screenplays

What? Three months at Gitmo, and you've never had a meal (A Few Good Men; writing credit: Aaron Sorkin)

Jeez you don't have to laugh at me. (American Pie; writing credit: Adam Herz)

At three o'clock in the afternoon (A Time to Kill; writing credit: Akiva Goldsman)

Your father and I were just discussing his day at work (American Beauty; writing credit: Alan Ball)

Look at his sweater (A Hard Day's Night; writing credit: Alun Owen)

Lyrics

Out of nothing at all. (Making Love Out Of Nothing At All; performing artist: Air Supply)

I KNOW, I KNOW, I KNOW WHERE IT'S AT (I Know Where It's At; performing artist: All Saints)

Maybe I should drop you at your door (At The Stars; performing artist: Better Than Ezra)

Right at your feet (World At Your Feet; performing artist: Fabian)

It was love at 1st sight (Love At First Sight; performing artist: Kylie Minogue)

Clever

Man was made at the end of the week's work when God was tired. (references; author: Mark Twain)

If you watch a game, it's fun. If you play it, it's recreation. If you work at it, it's golf. (references; author: Bob Hope)

Envy shoots at others and wounds herself. (references; author: Swedish Proverb)

When a mouse laughs at a cat, there's usually a hole nearby. (references; author: Arabian Proverb)

Be good or be good at it! (references; author: unknown)

Tongue Twisters

Do drop in at the Dewdrop Inn. (references; author: unknown)

Gertie's great-grandma grew aghast at Gertie's grammar. (references; author: unknown)

Peter poked a poker at the piper, so the piper poked pepper at Peter. (references; author: unknown)

Sherman shops at cheap chop suey shops. (references; author: unknown)

Movie/TV Titles

Eloise at the Plaza (2003)

Sessions at West 54th (1997)

On the Come Up at the Source Awards (2001)

At the Time of Whaling (1974)

The Whiz Kid and the Mystery at Riverton (1974)

Song Titles

AT THE TOP OF THE STAIRS  (performing artist: Formations )

Party at the End of the Universe (performing artist: Honey Would You Be Meshuga Tonite?)

Where's the Party At (performing artist: Jagged Edge)

WHERE THE PART AT (performing artist: JAGGED EDGE W/NELLY)

AT SEVENTEEN  (performing artist: Janis Ian )

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: At

DomainTitle

References

  • AT Comm Corporation: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

  • AT Plastics Inc: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

  • At Road, Inc: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

  • Shop At Home, Inc.: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

  • Help at Home, Inc.: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

    (more reference examples)

  

Books

  • Irene at Large (reference)

  • Modernity at Large: Cultural Dimensions of Globalization (Public Worlds, V. 1) (reference)

  • Tales of a Female Nomad: Living at Large in the World (reference)

  • The Art of Growing Up: Simple Ways to Be Yourself at Last (reference)

  • Always Have at Least 3 Friends & Never Eat a Fly: The Rules of Life According to Kids (reference)

    (more book examples)

  

Periodicals

  

Theater & Movies

  • Walt Disney Treasures - Behind the Scenes at the Walt Disney Studio (reference)

  • Disney's Sing Along Songs - Beach Party at Walt Disney World (reference)

  • Lakota Woman - Seige at Wounded Knee (reference)

  • Mickey's Fun Songs: Campout at Disney World (reference)

    (more DVD examples; more video examples)

  

Music

  

High Tech

  

Consumer Goods

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Image Slideshow: At

Photos:
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Photo Album: At

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A 10 year-old white girl is pictured here with her father in a swimming pool. She was diagnosed at age three with a form of Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia (ALL) that did not respond to therapy. She is presently in long-term remission after an experimental bone marrow transplant was performed. She now suffers from chronic GVH (Graft Versus Host Disease) which is rare. Credit: Linda Bartlett (photographer).

A 9 year-old white child is pictured here in a home setting chatting with her mother. The girl is a long-term survivor of massive abdominal surgery at age 3 for neuroblastoma. She is presently disease-free. Credit: Linda Bartlett (photographer).

Dissected rat showing evidence of echinococcosis due to Echinococcus multilocularis in organs at 45 days. Gross pathology. Credit: CDC.

This genus is characterized by the absence of a siphon, and the presence of palmate hairs. Palmate, or float hairs are present on at least some of the larva's abdominal segments. Credit: CDC.

"Tsunami at the Shore Simulation" (movie) by Сергей Бирюков (Sergei Biryukov).

FAST CTAS system operation trials at Dallas/FT Worth. Credit: NASA.

Pioneer at TRW. Credit: NASA.

New Animation Depicts Changs in Antarctic Ice Sheet For the first time, scientists at NASA have generated a computer model depicting changes in the Antarctic ice sheet since the peak of the last ice age - nearly 20,000 years ago. The West Antarctic ice. Credit: NASA.

Rocket on Launcher at Wallops Island. Credit: NASA.

Saturn V Stage at Michould Assembly Facility. Credit: NASA.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

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Digital Photo Gallery: At
 

"Pelican at Healesville Sanctua" by Lauren Sims
Commentary: "Pelican."
"Xmas at city council, Valencia" by Marcos Rodriguez Lopez
Commentary: "The pic was taken at city council of Valencia in Spain., 24th December of 2002. Obviously was Xmas. Merry Xmas everyone!."

Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers.

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Sounds Captioned with "At".

PlayCaptionPlayCaption
Clarinet solo over a string drone with a hammered dulcimer at the end.Crowd noise at a gamelan festival with dancing.
Robust chorale for piano featuring a typical cadence at the end.Chimpanzee screaming at animal.
Two motorcycles racing at high speed.Lear jet flying past at a low altitude.
Drum roll at the circus.Conversations at a party.
Chimpanzee screaming at animal.Birds chirping at dawn.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Familiar Quotations: At

AuthorQuotation

Alexander Pope

At every word a reputation dies.

Daniel Webster

Wisdom begins at the end.
The past at least is secure.

George Burns

At my age flowers scare me.

Jacob Boehme

You are at enmity with yourself.

John Milton

At shut of evening flowers.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

We never touch but at points.
We boil at different degrees.
Every hero becomes a bore at last.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Historic Usage: At

AuthorDateQuotation

Magna Carta

1215

No village or individual shall be compelled to make bridges at river banks, except those who from of old were legally bound to do so. (reference)

John Locke

1690

At sunt paucorum generum commissa ejusmodi quae hunc effectum pariunt. (Second Treatise of Government)

US Declaration of Independence

1776

He has called together legislative bodies at places unusual, uncomfortable, and distant from the depository of their public Records, for the sole purpose of fatiguing them into compliance with his measures. (reference)

US Constitution

1791

Clause 3: The Electors shall meet in their respective States, and vote by Ballot for two Persons, of whom one at least shall not be an Inhabitant of the same State with themselves. (reference)

US Bill of Rights

1795

Amendment VII. In suits at common law, where the value in controversy shall exceed twenty dollars, the right of trial by jury shall be preserved, and no fact tried by a jury, shall be otherwise reexamined in any Court of the United States, than according to the rules of the common law. (reference)

Amendment to US Constitution

1795-1996

But when the right to vote at any election for the choice of electors for President and Vice-President of the United States, Representatives in Congress, the Executive and Judicial officers of a State, or the members of the Legislature thereof, is denied to any of the male inhabitants of such State, being twenty-one years of age,* and citizens of the United States, or in any way abridged, except for participation in rebellion, or other crime, the basis of representation therein shall be reduced in the proportion which the number of such male citizens shall bear to the whole number of male citizens twenty-one years of age in such State. (reference)

Marbury v. Madison

1803

It is prescribing limits, and declaring that those limits may be passed at pleasure. (reference)

Communist Manifesto

1848

Let the ruling classes tremble at a Communistic revolution. (reference)

The Emancipation Proclamation

1862

"That the executive will on the 1st day of January aforesaid, by proclamation, designate the States and parts of States, if any, in which the people thereof, respectively, shall then be in rebellion against the United States; and the fact that any State or the people thereof shall on that day be in good faith represented in the Congress of the United States by members chosen thereto at elections wherein a majority of the qualified voters of such States shall have participated shall, in the absence of strong countervailing testimony, be deemed conclusive evidence that such State and the people thereof are not then in rebellion against the United States." (Abraham Lincoln)

Treaty of Versailles

1919

The High Commissioner shall reside at Danzig. (reference)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Use in Literature: At

TitleAuthorQuote

Emma

Austen, Jane

Emma was quite at a loss

Through the Looking-Glass

Carroll, Lewis

She looked at the Queen, who seemed to have suddenly wrapped herself up in wool

A Christmas Carol

Dickens, Charles

At length it broke upon his listening ear.

Life, the Universe and Everything

Douglas Adams

Ford was practicing being sullen and getting quite good at it.

Scarlet Letter

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

She looked also at her slumbering child

Les Miserables

Hugo, Victor

An omnibus with two white horses passed at the end of the street

Cymon and Iphigenia

John Dryden

Love taught him shame; and shame, with love at strife, Soon taught the sweet civilities of life

Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

Joyce, James

At the end of all those billions and trillions of years eternity would have scarcely begun

Time Enough for Love

Robert Heinlein

It can make you shoot at tax collectors, and miss

King Richard III

Shakespeare, William

[She spits at him] Why dost thou spit at me

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Non-Fiction Usage: At

SubjectTopicQuote

Health

A new look at old links. (references)

Use a humidifier at night. (references)

Everyone feels sleepy at times. (references)

Business

He is currently at Harvard University. (references)

Other services are taxed at 20.6 percent. (references)

The IVA is recovered at the point of sale. (references)

Children

Maldives

This law was being implemented at year's end. (references)

Rwanda

At least 85,000 households are headed by children. (references)

Malaysia

Actual attendance at primary school is 96 percent. (references)

Civil Liberties

Turkey

His trial continued at year's end. (references)

Malaysia

His case was pending at year's end. (references)

Panama

Rodriguez still works at La Prensa. (references)

Discrimination

Brazil

The others had not yet been tried at year's end. (references)

Namibia

During a March 19 speech at the University of Namibia, President Nujoma announced that "the Republic of Namibia does not allow homosexuality or lesbianism here. (references)

Papua New Guinea

Skirmishes and conflicts tend to be based on disputes between clans over issues such as boundaries, land ownership, injuries, and insults suffered by one clan at the hands of another; they are not ethnically based. (references)

Economic History

Lesotho

The Loti is at par with the Rand. (references)

Nepal

Elections: At least every 5 years. (references)

Senegal

E-Commerce is at its early stages. (references)

Human Rights

Chile

All were free on bail at year's end. (references)

Djibouti

He remained at liberty at year's end. (references)

Ghana

The hearing was ongoing at year's end. (references)

Indigenous People

Colombia

ONIC maintained its suspension of dialog with the Government at year's end. (references)

Argentina

Other demographers in recent years have provided estimates of at most 450,000 persons. (references)

Ecuador

With few exceptions, indigenous people are at the lowest end of the socioeconomic scale. (references)

Minorities

Czech Republic

Her case was pending at year's end. (references)

United Kingdom

The inquiry continued at year's end. (references)

Russia

The law remained in effect at year's end. (references)

Political Economy

East Timor

The trial continued at year's end. (references)

Eritrea

Nominal GNP was estimated at $695 million. (references)

FINLAND

Foodstuffs are taxed at a 17 percent rate. (references)

Political Rights

Bangladesh

M.P.'s are elected at least every 5 years. (references)

Hungary

Elections are held at least every 4 years. (references)

Turkey

The deputies remained in prison at year's end. (references)

Trade

Israel

BIRD has a website at WWW.birdf.com. (references)

Uruguay

SBA may be contacted at 202-653-7794. (references)

Uruguay

OPIC may be contacted at 202-336-8799. (references)

Travel

Bahrain

Travel at night is more hazardous. (references)

Finland

Tuition at universities is minimal. (references)

Taiwan

Taxis are available at the airport. (references)

Women

Kenya

FGM usually is performed at an early age. (references)

Ghana

The CHRAJ was investigating the case at year's end. (references)

Tanzania

No updated statistics were available at year's end. (references)

Worker Rights

Philippines

Some report never being paid at all. (references)

Nigeria

Her trial was ongoing at year's end. (references)

Slovak Republic

This case was pending at year's end. (references)

Lexicography

Devil's Dictionary

INSURANCE, n. An ingenious modern game of chance in which the player is permitted to enjoy the comfortable conviction that he is beating the man who keeps the table. INSURANCE AGENT: My dear sir, that is a fine house -- pray let me insure it. HOUSE OWNER: With pleasure. Please make the annual premium so low that by the time when, according to the tables of your actuary, it will probably be destroyed by fire I will have paid you considerably less than the face of the policy. INSURANCE AGENT: O dear, no -- we could not afford to do that. We must fix the premium so that you will have paid more. HOUSE OWNER: How, then, can I afford that? INSURANCE AGENT: Why, your house may burn down at any time. There was Smith's house, for example, which -- HOUSE OWNER: Spare me -- there were Brown's house, on the contrary, and Jones's house, and Robinson's house, which -- INSURANCE AGENT: Spare me! HOUSE OWNER: Let us understand each other. You want me to pay you money on the supposition that something will occur previously to the time set by yourself for its occurrence. In other words, you expect me to bet that my house will not last so long as you say that it will probably last. INSURANCE AGENT: But if your house burns without insurance it will be a total loss. HOUSE OWNER: Beg your pardon -- by your own actuary's tables I shall probably have saved, when it burns, all the premiums I would otherwise have paid to you -- amounting to more than the face of the policy they would have bought. But suppose it to burn, uninsured, before the time upon which your figures are based. If I could not afford that, how could you if it were insured? INSURANCE AGENT: O, we should make ourselves whole from our luckier ventures with other clients. Virtually, they pay your loss. HOUSE OWNER: And virtually, then, don't I help to pay their losses? Are not their houses as likely as mine to burn before they have paid you as much as you must pay them? The case stands this way: you expect to take more money from your clients than you pay to them, do you not? INSURANCE AGENT: Certainly; if we did not -- HOUSE OWNER: I would not trust you with my money. Very well then. If it is certain, with reference to the whole body of your clients, that they lose money on you it is probable, with reference to any one of them, that he will. It is these individual probabilities that make the aggregate certainty. INSURANCE AGENT: I will not deny it -- but look at the figures in this pamph -- HOUSE OWNER: Heaven forbid! INSURANCE AGENT: You spoke of saving the premiums which you would otherwise pay to me. Will you not be more likely to squander them? We offer you an incentive to thrift. HOUSE OWNER: The willingness of A to take care of B's money is not peculiar to insurance, but as a charitable institution you command esteem. Deign to accept its expression from a Deserving Object.

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Spoken Usage: At

SpeakerPhrase(s)

Dennis Miller

At heart, we are a nation of morbid rubberneckers.

Diane Sawyer

Right, because I asked for a Kleenex and it was the only thing you had in house at this fine establishment, as I recall.

Ed McMahon

Sure. He reads the letters. He read the letters. Sure. He's a company man. I mean, he really works at being Johnny Carson.

Gerald Ford

In a subjective sense. You know, I had a fairly good record in athletics at the University of Michigan.

Heather Mills McCartney

Or any boyfriends before that. Every guy I've been out with has asked me to marry them within a week, so, not at all.

Peter Jennings

We're having a visitation, I think, of Bishops at ABC this week to complain about the broadcast that I just did.

Phyllis Diller

When I go to bed at night, I've got so much grease on my body, I wear snow chains to hold up my gown.

Rush Limbaugh

We are at great risk in a dangerous world.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Speeches: At

SpeakerTermPhrase(s)

Thomas Jefferson

1801-1809This, fellow citizens, is the state of the public interests at the present moment and according to the information now possessed.

Abraham Lincoln

1861-1865Finding themselves safely at home, it would be utterly immaterial whether they had ever been abroad.

Harry S. Truman

1945-1953Demobilization will continue thereafter, but at a slower rate, determined by our military responsibilities.

Dwight Eisenhower

1953-1961This conflict strikes directly at the faith of our fathers and the lives of our sons.

John F. Kennedy

1961-1963Strengthening the economy That task must begin at home.

Richard Nixon

1969-1974Therefore, I shall resign the Presidency effective at noon tomorrow.

Ronald Reagan

1981-1989Families stand at the center of our society.

George Bush

1989-1993President Yeltsin's early response has been very positive, and I expect our talks at Camp David to be fruitful.

Bill Clinton

1993-2001Home sales are at a record high.

George W. Bush

2001-2005Yet, tens of thousands of trained terrorists are still at large.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Usage Frequency: At

"At" is generally used as a preposition (except "of") -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "At" is used about 477,672 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Preposition (except "of")100%477,65620
                    Total100.00%477,672N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Derived & Related Names: At

The following table summarizes names derived from the word "At".
 
NameGenderLanguageMeaning
AgrippinaN/AAncient Roman

One who causes great pain at his birth

AgrippaN/ABiblical

One who causes great pain at his birth

PekahN/ABiblical

That is at liberty

RehoboamN/ABiblical

Who sets the people at liberty

ZerubbabelN/ABiblical

A stranger at Babylon

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

 

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Usage in Company Names: At

CountryNameCountryName
Canada

AT Plastics Inc

USA

AT Comm Corporation

 (more examples...)  

Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.

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Expressions: At

Expressions using "At": a bit at a time a child at the breast a drowning man will catch at a straw a drowning man will clutch at a straw a friend at court a game at cards a whale at abidance at abuse at smb. hurl accident at sea act at the relation of smb. Action aimed at young people action at a distance action at law ad at a stand ad at intervals ad at one fell swoop ad at one's books ad at rest ad at the helm ad in at the death adept at adept at smth. admire at Aftergame at Irish aim a blow at aim a pistol at aim a rifle at smb. aim at aim at doing aim at smth. all at once all at sea amaurotic cat's eye blindness of one eye due to various intraocular conditions in which a bright reflection is observed at the pupil as it would appear from the tapetum lucidum of a cat angle at the center angry at any ... at all any day at all apply at the office armed at all points arms at the order arrive at arrive at a conclusion arrive at a decision arrive at a place arrive at a resolution arrive at an understanding aspire at astonished at astonished at nothing at ... o'clock at 5 o'clock at 8 o'clock at a bargain price at a blow at a bound at a bowshot at a boy at a certain remove at a clap at a crossroads at a dash at a disadvantage at a discount at a distance at a distance of several years at a draught at a fearful rate at a gallop at a given time at a glacial pace at a glance at a go at a good clip at a good pace at a great pace at a great rate at a guess at a gulp at a halfway stage at a heat at a high noon at a late hour at a later hour at a later time at a leisurely pace at a loose end at a lope at a loss at a low ebb at a low price at a lower place at a mouthful at a pinch at a premium at a price at a push at a quick pace at a range of at a rare bat at a rate of knots. Additional references.

Hyphenated Usage

Beginning with "At": AT-3, at-a, at-a-glance, at-alike, at-alikes, at-all-times, at-at, at-bat, at-bats, at-best, at-bus, at-cha!, at-chee!, at-class, at-compatible, at-dealing, at-ease, At-eileen, at-first-glance, at-grade, at-home, at-homeness, at-'im, At-khalil, at-large, at-odds, at-one, at-one-ment, at-oneness, At-ouja, at-rest, at-rich, at-risk, at-seat, at-series, at-seven, At-shara, at-slow, at-specific, at-that, at-the, at-the-double, at-the-money, at-university.

Ending with "At": Pc-at.

Containing "At": down-at-heel, ill-at-ease, serjeants-at-arms, stay-at-homes, tenants-at-will.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: At

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

at t wireless

17,903

at and t

629

how to work at home

11,973

check email at yahoo

600

at

7,865

at t worldnet

589

register at search engine

6,637

at t cell phone

583

at t.com

2,942

national work at home employment center

562

work at home job

2,352

university of texas at san antonio

561

university of texas at austin

2,021

at t broadband

555

horse at work

1,497

work at home

550

love at aol

1,346

university of colorado at boulder

542

rogers at t

1,111

computer work at home

537

seti at home

1,089

university of texas at dallas

532

make money at home

1,021

work at home for free

497

university of texas at arlington

998

the mall at short hills

488

shop at home

967

university of north carolina at chapel hill

480

work at home moms

951

at t phone

475

university at buffalo

946

university of maryland at college park

475

work at home opportunity

914

southern living at home

454

nick at nite

797

breakfast at tiffanys

450

at the drive in

794

when you say nothing at all

422

work at home business

640

university of hawaii at manoa

415
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: At

Language Translations for "At"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Afrikaans

  

om (around, beside, by, on, to, upon, with), by (around, beside, by, for, near, near to, nearby, next, next to, with), teen (across from, against, by, in exchange for, on, opposed, opposed to, opposite, upon), naby (about, beside, by, close, near, near to, nearby, next, next to), langs (alongside, beside, by, near, near to, nearby, next, next to), jeens (across from, against, by, in exchange for, on, opposed, opposed to, opposite, upon). (various references)

   

Albanian

  

tek (being an odd number, making up an odd number, odd, off, to, uneven, unto, while), te (into, to), (against, in, inside, into, on, onto, per, to, under, upon, within). (various references)

   

Arabic 

  

لدى (by), عند (by, if possible, near), ‏في (among, by, during, in, on, thereof, within), ‏نحو (about, across, to, toward, towards), ‏لدى (at the side of, near, to, with), ‏عند (near, with), ‏على (across, below, causal, exalt, in, lift, onto, to, upon, vocalic), ‏إلى (down, to, until, within), ‏بسبب (because of, for, inasmuch, of, on account of, owing to, saker, with reason, within reason). (various references)

   

Asturian

  

mirar (to look at). (various references)

   

Aymara

  

uñch'uquiña (to look at). (various references)

   

Basque

  

zortzietan (at eight), semaforoan (at the light), ordutan (at time, at what time), bostetan (at five), banketxean (at the bank). (various references)

   

Bemba

  

ukulolesha pa (to look at). (various references)

   

Blackfoot

  

ssapi (to look at). (various references)

   

Breton

  

da (to). (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

срещу (against, contra, for, in return for, on, opposite, up, versus, vis-а-vis, with), с (about, by, cum, for, in, of, on, per, to, via, with), върху (on, onto, over, upon), в (aboard, about, against, around, by, down, in, inside, into, on, to, under, unto, up, within), от (by, ex-, for, from, in, of, off, on, out, out of, over, since, than, through, to, with), на (aboard, against, by, for, in, into, of, on, onto, over, per, to, unto, up, upon, with), за (about, after, against, for, for one's sake, for the sake of, in, of, off, on, over, pro-, re, to, touching, toward, towards, unto), пред (afore, before, in, with), при (about, alongside, beside, by, during, given, in, on, to, under, unto, with), по (about, according to, after, against, around, by, for, from, in, of, on, out, out of, over, per, round, through, to, up, upon), до (alongside, as far as, beside, do, ere, next, next to, over, pending, prior to, to, until, unto). (various references)

   

Catalan

  

a (in, inside, into, on, per, to, toward, towards, within). (various references)

   

Cebuano

  

mosud-ong (to look at). (various references)

   

Chamorro

  

para ma atan (to look at). (various references)

   

Chinese 

  

(Asia, Asian, in, inferior, next to, second). (various references)

   

Croatian

  

u (in, in at, in into, to), na (on, on for, on per), kod (near). (various references)

   

Czech

  

v (amid, in, inside of, into, on, under, upon, within), na (about, aft, against, by, for, in, into, on, onto, over, per, to, upon, with), u (aft, beside, by, near, on, over, up, with). (various references)

   

Danish

  

(by, from, in, inside, into, of, on, per, since, to, toward, towards, upon, within). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

tot (as, by, like, on, till, to, toward, towards, until, upon), op (above, according as, according to, as, by, exhausted, for, from, in, inside, into, on, out of, owing to, per, spent, through, to, toward, towards, up, uphill, upon, upwards, used up, within, worn, write down), om (about, around, by, in order to, on, round, so as, to, towards, untranslated, untranslated here, upon), naast (alongside, beside, besides, by, near, near to, nearby, nearest, next, next to), in (by, in, inside, into, on, per, upon, with, within), bij (bee, beside, by, in, to, toward, towards, with), aan (about, above, after, behind, beside, by, by means of, concerning, from, in, inside, into, near, near to, nearby, next to, no translation, of, on, over, per, recommend, since, through, to, toward, towards, upon, with, within). (various references)

   

Esperanto

  

je (by, on, upon). (various references)

   

Estonian

  

juures. (various references)

   

Faeroese

  

við (beside, by, by means of, on, through, with), undir liðini á (beside, by, near, near to, nearby, next to), hjá (beside, by, from, of, on, since, with), øðrumegin við (beside, by, near, near to, nearby, next to). (various references)

   

Farsi 

  

پهلوی (By), مشغول (Busy, Engross), نزدیک (About, Adjacent, Beside, Besides, By, Close, Contiguous, Hailfellow, In, Near, Neighbor, Nigh, Proximate, Upcoming), سرتاسر (Across, Capapie, Crossways, Crosswise, Hipandthigh, Overall, Through), ازقرار, دم (Blast, Breath, Instant, Minute, Moment, Tail, Train, Trice), درنتیجه (As, Thereupon), در (About, Door, For, Pearl, Plug, Pylon, To, Valve, Wicket), به (Against, Bah, In, Into, Oh, On, Quince), بنابر (To), بقرار, بسوی (Against, Into, To, Toward), بطرف (In, Into, On, To, Toward, With), برحسب (To, Unitage). (various references)

   

Finnish

  

vieressä (beside, by, from close by, from the side of, near, near to, nearby, next to), tähdätä (aim, be aimed, be directed, take aim), puoliyön aikaan (about), pahastua (be offended, take it ill, take offence), luona (beside, with), keskiyöllä, hintaan (at the price of). (various references)

   

Flemish

  

om (around, for, to), in (for, in), bij (for). (various references)

   

French

  

chez, à (at the rate of), sur, en, de. (various references)

   

French Canadian

  

a (has, to), à (in, to). (various references)

   

Frisian

  

by (beside, by, near, near to, nearby, next to). (various references)

   

Galician

  

a (into, the, to), ás (at + the). (various references)

   

German

  

zu (a, an, as, at the rate of, beside, bought in addition, closed, for, in, inside, into, off, on, per, shut, to, too, too much, toward, towards, unto, with, within), um (about, after, around, by, for, in order, in order to, of, on, per, round, roundabout, to, towards, upon), an (about, across from, adjoi, against, along, beside, by, in exchange for, near, near to, nearby, next to, on, onto, opposed to, opposite, to, toward, towards, upon, with), bei (about, among, beside, by, despite, during, in, in case of, near, near to, nearby, next to, nr, of, on, to, upon, with), auf (for, in, into, on, onto, open, pointinghinweisend, to, toward, towards, up, upon, waitingwartend), in (a, chunkily, consistent, in, inside, into, intro, on, over, per, to, toward, towards, trendy, within). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

κατά (against, on, per, versus), σεαatavism, σε (in, into, on, thee, to, upon), στη, στον, στο, εισ (for, in, into, on, one, to, unto, upon), εν (in, wherein). (various references)

   

Guarani

  

asajepytépe (at high noon), ykére (at the side), rendápe (at the place, in the place), rembiaporãme (at work), rembiapópe (at work), pyharépe (at night, night), mbo'ehápe (at school, to school), ko'êtîramo (at daybreak), ko'êtîme (at dawn), juasápe (at the crossing), jerokýpe (at dancing), ógape (at home, in the house), árape (at the day). (various references)

   

Haitian Creole

  

a (ah, now, on, the), sou (on), nan (by, in, the, to). (various references)

   

Hawaiian

  

afër (beside, by, near, near to, nearby, next to). (various references)

   

Hebrew 

  

ב- (by, for, in, into, on, to, upon). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

-on (in, on, upon), -nél (by, on, than, with), -nál (by, on, than, with), mellett (along, beside, by, death-watch, given the proper conditions, near, near to, nearby, next, next to, nip and tuck, past, to dwell on sg, to give sy the cut direct, to rush past sy, with), -kor, -en (in, on, upon), -ben (in, inboard, inside), -ban (in, inboard, inside), -ön (in, on, upon). (various references)

   

Icelandic

  

við (thou, we, with, with/at, with/by, ye, you), hjá, á (AT/ON, by, on, ON/AT, upon). (various references)

   

Indonesian

  

pada (in, on), di (in, on), dekat (by, close, imminent, near, nearby, nigh). (various references)

   

Inuktitut

  

takuluni (to look at). (various references)

   

Irish

  

ag. (various references)

   

Italian

  

a (a, beside, by, for, from, in, inside, into, of, on, onto, per, to, toward, towards, up, upon, with, within), su (about, beside, in, on, on to, on top of, out, over, there, up, upon, with), presso (about, among, beside, by, close, in, near, next, not far from, thereby, withal). (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

於いて (in, on), 於ける (in), (in, on), にいにい蝉 (as for, grin, in, Nini-zemi, on, regarding, small cicada, smile, smiling, with regards to), アダムスストークス症候群 (accelerando, achievement test, Adams-Stokes syndrome, adult, adult education, adult shop, adult video, assembly, at bat, at home, attenuator, axe, sex shop, upper, uppercut, upper-middle), 並行 (abreast, concurrent, going side by side). (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

おいて (except, fair or favorable wind, in, no other, on, pursuer, tailwind), おける (in), (cord, drawing, figure, illustration, in, on, picture, ridge, strap, tail, thong), において (as for, in, on, regarding), における (as for, in, on, regarding, with regards to), アット . (various references)

   

Kongo

  

ku-tala (to look at). (various references)

   

Korean 

  

(AT&T, On, through, Thru, To, To-, to-do, Upon, with). (various references)

   

Lombard

  

almen (at least), alla fin (at last, finally, ultimately), a cà (at home). (various references)

   

Luganda

  

ku (on the, over the, to). (various references)

   

Luxembourgish

  

em (around), beim, ëm (about). (various references)

   

Malagasy

  

an-tsekoly (in or at school, in/at school), an-trano (in or at the house), am-piasana (at work), am-pianarana, amin'ny (at the), aminao, tamin'ny, tamin'i. (various references)

   

Malay

  

akhirnya (at last, finally, ultimately). (various references)

   

Manx

  

ec (have). (various references)

   

Maori

  

titiro (ki) (to look at). (various references)

   

Maya

  

cha'an (to look at). (various references)

   

Norwegian

  

ved (about, for, in, timber, wood), (a, by, in, inside, into, of, on, per, to, toward, towards, upon, within). (various references)

   

Papago

  

ab neith (to look at). (various references)

   

Papiamen

  

anochi (at night, by night, during the night, in the evening), asombrá (marvel, marvel at, wonder), awó (at present, now), awor (at present, currently, now, nowadays, these days), aya (at that place, over there, there, yon, yonder), alafin (at last, at long last), inmediatamente (at once, immediately, just, promptly, right away, right now), ei (at that place, over there, there, yon, yonder), umbes (at once, immediately, just, promptly, right away, right now), mesora (at once, immediately, just, promptly, right away, right now), na cas (at home), na kas (at home), por lo menos (at least), porfin (at last, at long last), umbé (at once, immediately, just, promptly, right away, right now), disponé (absorb, have at one's disposal). (various references)

   

Pidgin English

  

fo (for, in, on, to). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

atay.(various references)

   

Polish

  

obok (beside, by, near, near to, nearby, next to). (various references)

   

Portuguese

  

em (a, beside, in, in-, inside, into, on, per, to, under, up, upon, with, within), a (at the, beside, him/her, in, it, on, the, the one, to, toward, towards, upon, with, ye, you). (various references)

   

Portuguese Brazilian

  

a (him/her, no translation, on, the, to), às (at the, to the). (various references)

   

Provencal

  

agachar (to look at). (various references)

   

Romanian

  

la (a, about, by, for, in, La, on, over, to, toward, towards, with). (various references)

   

Ruanda

  

kureba (to look at). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

у (beside, by, in, near, near to, next to, off, over), в (a, always, back in the, both in, east, for, in, in both, inside, into, on, onto, per, pick out, throughout, time, to, to either, toward, towards, within), на (a, against, by, for, for !мес!, in, inside, into, on, onto, over, per, to, toward, towards, upon, upwards, within). (various references)

   

Samoan

  

e vaai iai (to look at). (various references)

   

Scottish

  

aig (beside, by, in the possession of, near, near to, nearby, next to), ag (and, engaged in; precedes v.n. beginning with vow., hesitation). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

u (board: on board, in, inside, inside of, into, of, to, unto, up in, within), pri (in, near, on, over, towards), na (board: on board, for, in, of, on, on board, to, unto, upon), kod (care: in care of, code, of, with). (various references)

   

Slovene

  

pri, ob. (various references)

   

Somali

  

lagu (to), la (able to be, together with, with), ka (about, from, of). (various references)

   

Sotho

  

ka (and, by, in, may, me, my, on, that, through, to, with). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

en (a, about, by, for, in, inside, into, on, per, to, upon, within), a (a, and, away, by, every, from, in, inside, into, of, off, on, per, to, toward, towards, upon, with, within). (various references)

   

Sranan

  

wante'wante (at once, immediately, just, promptly, right away, right now), spotu (gag, jeer at, joke, make fun of, mock), noya (at present, now), nownow (at once, immediately, just, promptly, right away, right now), now (at present, now), fruwondru (marvel, marvel at, wonder), biten (at the right time, in time). (various references)

   

Swahili

  

kwenye (on). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

vid (about, against, beside, broad, by, extensive, for, fore, full, in, in case of, large, near, near to, nearby, next to, of, off, on, over, so, space, spacious, to, unto, vast, wide, with), (about, across, away, because of, by, concerning, for, for sake of, forth, in, of, off, on, on account of, over, owing to, through, to, toward, towards, unto, upon, with), i (a, among, for, i, in, inside, into, of, on, over, per, through, to, unto, with, within, ye), hos (about, beside, by, in, near, near to, nearby, next to, with), till (by, for, into, more, of, on, onto, over, till, to, toward, towards, until, unto, with). (various references)

   

Tagalog

  

sa (a, beside, for, from, in, inside, into, not translatable, on, out of, per, to, with, within). (various references)

   

Thai

  

ในลักษณะ, เข้าร่วม (attend, enter, join), ไปยัง (around, for, onto), ที่, ณ เวลา, จาก (from). (various references)

   

Tswana

  

teng (there), mo (around, in, just), kwa (for, other side, to, to the), ka (be, by, I, more, on, on the, that), fa (when). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

asker (army, askari, guardsman, Kern, kerne, man-at-arms, military service, pawn, serviceman, soldier, troops, warrior), -ye (into, to), -ya (to), savaşçı (bellicose, belligerent, combatant, fighter, fighting, martial, trigger-happy, warlike, warrior), -e (into, onto, to), -de (in, on), -da (in), -a. (various references)

   

Turkmen 

  

ьstaюyr (about, over), golaяynda. (various references)

   

Ukrainian

  

у (among, amongst, in, inside, into, off, on, onto, with, within), в (in, inside, into, on, to, to the, within), на (against, by, from, in favor of, in favour of, into, on, onto, round, to, toward, towards, upon), за (abaft, about, according to, after, around, behind, beyond, by, in favor of, in favour of, off, on, out, outside, per, to, with, within, without), біля (against, alongside, anigh, around, by, near, nearly, next, on, round), при (about, on), до (against, as far as, before, by, down, ere, for, into, near, of, on, or, previous to, previously to, prior to, till, to, to the, toward, towards, until, unto, while). (various references)

   

Vietnamese 

  

vào lúc, nhắm vào, như thế hơn nữa, đang lúc vào. (various references)

   

Welsh

  

wrth (as, because, beside, by, during, for, how, like, near to, next to, since, such a, such as, to, what a, whereas, while, whilst, with), ger (beside, by, near, near to, next to), at (by, for, to, toward, towards), am (about, around, because, by, concerning, upon). (various references)

   

Xhosa

  

ngentsimbi (At the hour), ngecala (At half, Half past), ngaxesha (At time), ngabani (At what), emsebenzini (At work), ekhaya (At home), ebusuku (At night). (various references)

   

Yucatec

  

naats' (beside, by, near, near to, nearby, next to). (various references)

   

Zulu

  

eduze (beside, by, near, near to, nearby, next to). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Ancestral Language Translations: At

LanguagePeriodTranslations
Latin500 BCE-Modern

apud. (various references)

Avestan200-600

â. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Bible Trace: At

LanguageDateSourceMatthew Chapter 8, Verse 6
Greek (transliterated)250 BCSeptuagintKai legwn kurie o paiV mou beblhtai en th oikia paralutikoV deinwV basanizomenoV
Latin405VulgateEt dicens Domine puer meus iacet in domo paralyticus et male torquetur
Old English990West Saxon& þus cweðende. Drihten. min cnapelið on mine huse lame. & mid yfele ge-þred.
Middle English1395WyclifAnd seide, Lord, my childe lijth in the hous sijk on the palesie, and is yuel turmentid.
Renaissance English1526TyndaleSayinge: Master my seruaunt lyeth sicke at home of ye palsye and ys greuously payned.
Jacobean English1611King JamesAnd saying, Lord, my servant lieth at home sick of the palsy, grievously tormented.
Victorian English1833WebsterAnd saying, Lord, my servant lieth at home sick with the palsy, grievously tormented.
Basic English1964OgdenSaying, Lord, my servant is ill in bed at the house, with no power in his body, and in great pain.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Matched Bible Translations: At

LanguageMatthew Chapter 8, Verse 6
Cebuanonga nag-ingon, "Ginoo, sa balay atua ang akong binatonan nga giparalisis, nagahigda nga nagaantus sa hilabihan gayud."
Croatian"Gospodine, sluga mi leži kod kuæe uzet, u strašnim mukama."
Danish"Herre! min Dreng ligger hjemme værkbruden og, pines svarlig."
DutchEn zeggende: Heere! mijn knecht ligt te huis geraakt, en lijdt zware pijnen.
Finnishja sanoi: "Herra, minun palvelijani makaa kotona halvattuna ja on kovissa vaivoissa".
Frenchle priant et disant: Seigneur, mon serviteur est couché à la maison, atteint de paralysie et souffrant beaucoup.
Germanund sprach: HERR, mein Knecht liegt zu Hause und ist gichtbrüchig und hat große Qual.
Haitian CreoleMèt, domestik mwen an kouche lakay, li paralize nèt, l'ap soufri anpil.
HungarianÉs ezt mondván: Uram, az én szolgám otthon gutaütötten fekszik, és nagy kínokat szenved.
Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari"Bapak," kata perwira itu, "pelayan saya sakit di rumah. Ia berbaring lumpuh di tempat tidur dan menderita sekali."
Indonesian-Terjemahan Lamasambil berkata, "Ya Tuhan, budak sahaya terbaring di rumah dengan sakit tepok, dan teramat sangat sengsaranya."
Italian«Signore, il mio servo giace in casa paralizzato e soffre terribilmente».
LatvianSacîdams: Kungs, mans kalps, triekas skarts, guï mâjâs un ïoti cieð.
Manx GaelicAs gra, Hiarn, ta my er-mooinjerey ny lhie ching ec y thie jeh'n chingys-craaee, ayns stayd feer treih.
MaoriKa mea, E te Ariki, ko taku pononga kei te whare e takoto ana, he pararutiki, e ngaua kinotia ana.
NorwegianHerre! min dreng ligger verkbrudden hjemme og pines forferdelig.
PortugueseSenhor, o meu criado jaz em casa paralítico, e horrivelmente atormentado.   
Rumanianwi -I zicea: ,,Doamne, robul meu zace kn casq slqbqnog, wi se chinuiewte cumplit.``
RussianзПУРПДЙ! УМХЗБ НПК МЕЦЙФ ДПНБ Ч ТБУУМБВМЕОЙЙ Й ЦЕУФПЛП УФТБДБЕФ.
Shuar"Uuntá, Tímiayi. Winia uchir tampemaru Jeá tepes ti wait Ajáa tepawai" Tímiayi.
Spanishdiciendo: --Señor, mi criado está postrado en casa, paralítico, y sufre terribles dolores.
Swahiliakisema, "Mheshimiwa, mtumishi wangu amelala nyumbani, mgonjwa wa kupooza na anaumwa sana."
Swedishoch sade: "Herre, min tjänare ligger därhemma lam och lider svårt."
Umana'uli': "Tuama, batua-ku peda' lia-i ria hi tomi. Ntora turu-i-wadi, pai' ntora ntodohaka-i."

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Derivations & Misspellings: At

Derivations

Words beginning with "At": atabal, atabals, atactic, ataghan, ataghans, atalaya, atalayas, ataman, atamans, atamasco, atamascos, atap, ataps, ataractic, ataractics, ataraxia, ataraxias, ataraxic, ataraxics, ataraxies, ataraxy, atavic, atavism, atavisms, atavist, atavistic, atavistically, atavists, ataxia, ataxias, ataxic, ataxics, ataxies, ataxy, ate, atechnic, atelectases, atelectasis, atelic, atelier, ateliers, atemoya, atemoyas, atemporal, ates, athanasies, athanasy, atheism, atheisms, atheist, atheistic. (additional references)

Words ending with "At": achromat, acrobat, aerosat, aerostat, afloat, airboat, amadavat, anastigmat, antifat, antistat, apparat, appestat, arhat, aristocrat, assignat, autocrat, avadavat, babysat, baccarat, backbeat, backchat, backseat, bacteriostat, bakemeat, bareboat, bat, bathmat, bearcat, beat, begat, blat, bleat, bloat, bluecoat, boat, bobcat, brat, brickbat, browbeat, buckwheat, bullbat, bumboat, bureaucrat, bushgoat, butterfat, carat, cat, catboat, caveat, cervelat, chat. (additional references)

Words containing "At": abatable, abate, abated, abatement, abatements, abater, abaters, abates, abating, abatis, abatises, abator, abators, abattis, abattises, abattoir, abattoirs, abbatial, abbreviate, abbreviated, abbreviates, abbreviating, abbreviation, abbreviations, abbreviator, abbreviators, abdicate, abdicated, abdicates, abdicating, abdication, abdications, abdicator, abdicators, aberrated, aberration, aberrational, aberrations, abjuration, abjurations, ablate, ablated, ablates, ablating, ablation, ablations, ablative, ablatively, ablatives, ablegate, ablegates. (additional references)


Misspellings

"At" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: aat, abt, aet, af, Aitc, akt, aot, aq, ast, ata, Atbc, Atd, ath, ati, atl, ato, Atq, atr, ats, att, Attf, atu, atv, atw, Atx, aty, atz, aut, av, avt, awt, axt, dt, eqt, erat, ett, etx, gtt, jt, katt, kt, ot, ott, qat, tj, tq, tt, ttt, tz, vt, ytv, zat, zatt. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "At"

# of Phoneme MatchesPronunciationWord(s) rhyming with "At" (pronounced a"t)
2a" tbat, batt, begat, brat, cat, chat, fat, flat, Gat, gnat, hat, Kat, mat, Matt, matte, nonfat, Pat, rat, sat, scat, slat, spat, splat, stat, Tat, that, vat.

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

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Anagrams: At

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: ta.

 Words containing the letters "a-t"
 

+1 letter: act, aft, ait, alt, ant, apt, art, ate, att, bat, cat, eat, eta, fat, gat, hat, kat, lat, mat, oat, pat, qat, rat, sat, tab, tad, tae, tag, taj, tam, tan, tao, tap, tar, tas, tat, tau, tav, taw, tax, tea, twa, uta, vat, wat.

 

+2 letters: abet, abut, acta, acts, adit, airt, aits, alit, alto, alts, anta, ante, anti, ants, arts, arty, atap, ates, atma, atom, atop, aunt, auto, baht, bait, bast, bate, bath, bats, batt, beat, beta, blat, boat, bota, brat, cant, cart, cast, cate, cats, chat, coat, daft, dart, data, date, dato, daut, dawt, dita, doat, drat, east, eath, eats, etas, etna, fact, fast, fate, fats, feat, feta, fiat, flat, frat, gait, gast, gate, gats, geta, ghat, gnat, goat, grat, haet, haft, halt, hant, hart, hast, hate, hath, hats, haut, heat, ikat, iota, jato, jota, kart, kata, kats, khat, kyat, last, late, lath, lati, lats, lota, malt, mart, mast, mate, math, mats, matt, maut, meat, meta, moat, neat, nota, oast, oath, oats, pact, pant, part, past, pate, path, pats, paty, peat, phat, pita, plat, prat, qats, raft, rant, rapt, rate, rath, rato, rats, rota, salt, sate, sati, scat, seat, seta, skat, slat, spat, stab, stag, star, stat, staw, stay, stoa, swat, tabs, tabu, tace, tach, tack, taco, tact, tads, tael, tags, tahr, tail, tain, taka, take, tala, talc, tale, tali, talk, tall, tame, tamp, tams, tang, tank, tans, taos, tapa, tape, taps, tare, tarn, taro, tarp, tars, tart, task, tass, tate, tats, taus, taut, tavs, taws, taxa, taxi, teak, teal, team, tear, teas, teat, tela, tepa, thae, than, that, thaw, toad, toea, toga, tola, tora, trad, tram, trap, tray, tsar, tuba, tufa, tuna, twae, twas, tzar, utas, vast, vats, vatu, vita, waft, wait, want, wart, wast, wats, watt, what, zeta.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Modern
5. Usage: Commercial
6. Images: Slideshow
7. Images: Photo Album
8. Images: Digital Art
9. Sounds
10. Quotations: Familiar
11. Quotations: Historic
12. Quotations: Fiction
13. Quotations: Non-fiction
14. Quotations: Spoken
15. Quotations: Speeches
16. Usage Frequency
17. Names: Derived from
18. Names: Company Usage
19. Expressions
20. Expressions: Internet
21. Translations: Modern
22. Translations: Ancient
23. Bible Trace
24. Abbreviations
25. Acronyms
26. Derivations
27. Rhymes
28. Anagrams
29. Bibliography


  

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