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Al
is always a great word to know.
So is gobo. Does it mean:
| a screen or mat covered with a dark material for shielding a camera lens from excess light or glare. |
| a fool or simpleton; ninny. |
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- (cf. ar-1. ); recent lapses in this rule have produced semantically distinct pairs, as familiar and familial.
-al
3Chemistry. a suffix indicating that a compound contains an aldehyde group: chloral.
AL
1.
Alabama (approved especially for use with zip code).
2.
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.
noun
tər, ˈoʊr-
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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) |
| -al1 | |
| —suffix forming adjectives | |
| of; related to; connected with: functional; sectional; tonal | |
| [from Latin -ālis] | |
| -al2 | |
| —suffix forming nouns | |
| the act or process of doing what is indicated by the verb stem: rebuttal; recital; renewal | |
| [via Old French -aille, -ail, from Latin -ālia, neuter plural used as substantive, from -ālis | |
| -al3 | |
| —suffix forming nouns | |
| 1. | indicating an aldehyde: ethanal |
| 2. | indicating a pharmaceutical product: phenobarbital |
| [shortened from | |
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Word Origin & History
-al
suffix forming adjectives from nouns or other adjectives, "of, like, related to," M.E. -al, -el, from O.Fr. or directly from L. -alis (see -al (2)).
-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
(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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al.
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| a.l. autograph letter |
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