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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.
j en · SYM
Pronunciation
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- jā (letter, name)
- /dʒ/ (phoneme)
- /dʒeɪ/ (letter, name)
- /ˈd͡ʒaɪ/ (Scotland, archaic, dialectal)
Meanings
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(letter, lowercase) The tenth letter of the English alphabet, called jay and written in the Latin script.
Forms
Deriveds
j-slur · jth · j-word
j en · NOUN · etymology 1
Pronunciation
- (US) audio
- (UK) audio
- jā (letter, name)
- /dʒ/ (phoneme)
- /dʒeɪ/ (letter, name)
- /ˈd͡ʒaɪ/ (Scotland, archaic, dialectal)
Meanings
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(slang) A term for a marijuana cigarette ('joint').
"I went outside to smoke myself a J" — Paul Simon, from the song "Late in the Evening" from the album, "One Trick Pony."
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An alternative version of i, the positive square root of -1; used in the context of electronics.
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The second unit vector, after i
Forms
j en · ADV · etymology 2
Pronunciation
- (US) audio
- (UK) audio
- jā (letter, name)
- /dʒ/ (phoneme)
- /dʒeɪ/ (letter, name)
- /ˈd͡ʒaɪ/ (Scotland, archaic, dialectal)
Meanings
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(Internet, abbreviation, alt-of, not-comparable) Abbreviation of just.