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Al
is always a great word to know.
So is flibbertigibbet. Does it mean:
| a scrap or morsel of food left at a meal. |
| a chattering or flighty, light-headed person. |
Example Sentences
- Cuando llego seguramente al lado más lejano, siento que mi corazón está latiendo muy fuerte.
- The lomo al trapo was, as expected, a succulent delight.
- Gluten-free pastas can quickly go from al dente to mushy.
al-
variant of ad- before l: allure.
Al-
a word in Arabic names meaning “family” or “the house of”: Al-Saud, or the members of the house of Saud.
Origin:
< Arabic āl family
< Arabic āl family
-al
1a suffix with the general sense “of the kind of, pertaining to, having the form or character of” that named by the stem, occurring in loanwords from Latin (autumnal; natural; pastoral), and productive in English on the Latin model, usually with bases of Latin origin (accidental; seasonal; tribal). Originally, -al1 was restricted to stems not containing an -l- (compare ar-1); recent lapses in this rule have produced semantically distinct pairs, as familiar and familial.
AL
1.
Alabama (approved especially for use with zip code).
Al
Symbol, Chemistry.
AL.
al.
1.
other things. Origin:
< Latin alia
< Latin alia
2.
other persons.
Origin:
< Latin aliī
< Latin aliī
A.L.
a.l.
autograph letter.
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World English Dictionary
| al | |
| —the internet domain name for | |
| Albania | |
| Al | |
| —the chemical symbol for | |
| aluminium | |
| AL | |
| —abbreviation for | |
| 1. | Alabama |
| 2. | Anglo-Latin |
| 3. | (in the US and Canada) American League (of baseball teams) |
| 4. | Albania (international car registration) |
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Word Origin & History
-al
suffix forming nouns of action from verbs, mostly from Latin and French, meaning "act of ______ing" (e.g. survival, removal), M.E. -aille, from Fr. fem. sing. -aille, from L. -alia, neut. pl. of adj. suffix -alis, also used in English as a noun suffix. Nativized in English and used with Germanic verbs
EXPAND(e.g. bestowal, betrothal).
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American Heritage
Medical Dictionary
Al
The symbol for the element aluminum.
al- pref.
Variant of ad-.
-al 3
suff.
Aldehyde: butyral.
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Science Dictionary
| Al
The symbol for aluminum. |
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American Heritage
Abbreviations & Acronyms
| Al aluminum |
AL
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