English Explanatory Dictionary

TA

English dictionary entry

Meanings

name
  1. Initialism of Territorial Army.
noun
  1. Initialism of transportation authority.
  2. Initialism of teaching assistant.
  3. Initialism of travel agent.
  4. Initialism of target audience.
  5. Initialism of traffic advisory (a type of TCAS warning).
  6. Initialism of transactional analysis.
  7. Initialism of term assurance.
verb
  1. To act as a teaching assistant (for a class).
adj
  1. Initialism of toxin-antitoxin.
intj
  1. Thanks.
  2. give (imperative)
prep
  1. Pronunciation spelling of to, representing the standard unstressed pronunciation before consonants.
noun
  1. In solfège, the lowered seventh note of a major scale (the note B-flat in the fixed-do system): te.

Pronunciation

/tɑː/ [tʰɑː] en-au-ta.ogg /tə/

Word forms

TA TAs TA's TAing TA'ing TAed TA'd TA'ed TAd taa

Etymology

Uncertain, but possibly young child's pronunciation of thanks. Alternatively, derived from Danish tak, from Old Norse þǫkk, from Proto-Germanic *þankō, *þankaz.

Synonyms

te B-flat li

Related words

ta everso ta muchly pok-ta-pok ta-da Yah-ta-hey

Derived words

TA system
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