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What (who) is a- - definition
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A- (disambiguation)
A-
·- A, as a prefix to English words, is derived from various sources. (1) It frequently signifies on or in (from an, a forms of ·AS on), denoting a state, as in afoot, on foot, abed, amiss, asleep, aground, aloft, away (·AS onweg), and analogically, ablaze, atremble, ·etc. (2) ·AS of off, from, as in adown (·AS ofd/ne off the dun or hill). (3) ·AS a- (·Goth. us-, ur-, ·Ger. er-), usually giving an intensive force, and sometimes the sense of away, on, back, as in arise, abide, ago. (4) ·OF y- or i- (corrupted from the ·AS inseparable particle ge-, cognate with OHG. ga-, gi-, ·Goth. ga-), which, as a prefix, made no essential addition to the meaning, as in aware. (5) ·Fr. a (·Lat. ad to), as in abase, achieve. (6) ·Lat. a, ab, abs, from, as in avert. (7) Greek insep. prefix / without, or privative, not, as in abyss, atheist; akin to ·Eng. un-.
a-
A- is added to the beginning of some adjectives in order to form adjectives that describe someone or something that does not have the feature or quality indicated by the original word.
I'm a completely apolitical man...
...asymmetrical shapes.
PREFIX
a-
a-1
(often an- before a vowel)
¦ prefix not; without: atheistic.
Origin
from Gk.
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a-2
¦ prefix
1. to; towards: aside.
2. in the process of: a-hunting.
in a specified state: aflutter.
Origin
OE, unstressed form of <a href="">ona>.
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a-3
¦ prefix variant spelling of <a href="">ad-a> before sc, sp, and st (as in ascend, aspire and astringent).
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a-4
¦ prefix
1. of: anew.
2. utterly: abash.
Origin
unstressed form of <a href="">ofa> (sense 1); Anglo-Norman Fr. a-, from L. ex (sense 2).
Wikipedia
A-
A- or a- may refer to:
- A-hyphen
- A- (plane), a U.S. military aircraft prefix
- Privative a, a prefix expressing negation
- Copulative a, a prefix expressing unification
- A-minus
- A−, a blood type in the ABO blood group system
- A− (grade), an educational grade in the letter-grading system, above B+ but below A
Examples of use of a-
1. In the high school classroom you are a drill sergeant, a rabbi, a shoulder to cry on, a disciplinarian, a singer, a low–level scholar, a clerk, a referee, a clown, a counsellor, a dress–code enforcer, a conductor, an apologist, a philosopher, a collaborator, a tap dancer, a politician, a therapist, a fool, a traffic cop, a priest, a mother–father–brother–sister–uncle–aunt, a bookkeeper, a critic, a psychologist, the last straw.
2. A rooster represents a boyfriend or a husband; a hen represents a girlfriend or a wife.
3. He never advised a client on a tax return, a plea bargain, a restraining order, a will or a divorce.
4. But we have a unity government: a Kurd president, a prime minister who‘s a Shia, a speaker who‘s a Sunni.
5. "Don is a husband, a father, a son, a grandfather and a friend," she said.