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Ta
Definitions
- 1 Initialism of toxin-antitoxin. abbreviation, alt-of, initialism, not-comparable
- 1 Thanks. Commonwealth, Ireland, UK, colloquial
"Ta for the cup of tea."
- 2 give (imperative) Commonwealth, childish
"Mummy needs the bottle back. Ta!"
- 1 Initialism of Territorial Army. abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
- 1 Initialism of transportation authority. abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism
- 2 In solfège, the lowered seventh note of a major scale (the note B-flat in the fixed-do system): te. uncountable
- 3 a hard grey lustrous metallic element that is highly resistant to corrosion; occurs in niobite and fergusonite and tantalite wordnet
- 4 Initialism of teaching assistant. abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism
- 5 Initialism of travel agent. abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism
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- 6 Initialism of target audience. abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism
- 7 Initialism of traffic advisory (a type of TCAS warning). abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism
- 8 Initialism of transactional analysis. abbreviation, alt-of, initialism, uncountable
- 9 Initialism of term assurance. abbreviation, alt-of, initialism, uncountable
- 1 Pronunciation spelling of to, representing the standard unstressed pronunciation before consonants. alt-of, pronunciation-spelling
"hasta"
- 1 To act as a teaching assistant (for a class). intransitive, transitive
"The university offered me a chance to TA this semester."
Etymology
Uncertain, but possibly young child's pronunciation of thanks. Alternatively, derived from Danish tak, from Old Norse þǫkk, from Proto-Germanic *þankō, *þankaz.
Altered from si in the 19th century to prevent having two notes of the musical scale starting with the same letter, to become ti. vowel changed to 'a' to signify a flattened note.
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