Ana vs Maria - What's the difference?
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A collection of things associated with a person or place, especially a personal collection of anecdotes or conversations at table
* 1803 , publisher's advertisement in Memoirs of the Late Mrs. Robinson ,
* 1903', , Franklin B. Sawvel (editor), ''The complete '''anas of Thomas Jefferson , Round Table Press, New York
* 2008 , Kevin J. Hayes, The road to Monticello: The life and mind of Thomas Jefferson ,
(in prescriptions ) Of each; an equal quantity; as, wine and honey, ana (or contracted to aa), / ij. (that is, of wine and honey, each, two ounces).
(Internet, slang) Anorexia (used especially by the pro-ana movement).
In a direction analogous to up, but along the additional axis added by the fourth dimension.
* 1985 , Rudy von Bitter Rucker, The Fourth Dimension: A Guided Tour of the Higher Universes (page 43)
* 2005 , Animation journal (volumes 13-15)
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* 1629 , , Meditations upon Creed , The Works of Thomas Adams, James Nichol (1862), volume 3, page 211:
* 1776 , Adam Fitz-Adam: The World of Adam Fitz-Adam. Edinburgh, Apollo Press 1776: Numb. 187. Thursday, July 29, 1756:
* 1957 , Arthur Laurents/Stephen Sondheim/Leonard Bernstein: ''West Side Story: Maria ( a song):
A Dravidian language spoken in Maharashtra and Madhya Pradesh provinces in India.
As a noun ana
is .As a proper noun maria is
.ana
English
Etymology 1
Formed from the (etyl) suffix (-ana); compare ism (from ).Noun
(en noun)Page 8
- The FRENCH ANAS', or Selections from the best of the French ' Anas , interspersed with biographical sketches. In three elegant Volumes, small 8vo. price 15s. boards
- Jefferson was aware of the literary tradition of anas , which extended back at least as far as Athenaeus's Dipnosophistarum , a delightful collection of table talk from ancient times covering a variety of subjects including law, literature, medicine, and philosophy.
Etymology 2
From Greek (anĂ¡), of each .Adverb
(-)Etymology 3
Noun
(-)Derived terms
* pro-anaEtymology 4
(etyl); see (ana-).Adverb
(en adverb)- Your right half would move ana , let us say, and your left half would move kata. The two halves would, in their parallel spaces, move past the plane of rotation, and then they would swing back into our space.
- Added to the conventional FPS control keys are two extra keys that move the player in ana and kata direction in 4d space. If you go in this extra direction the space around you changes, the room transforms.
Antonyms
* kataAnagrams
* English palindromes ----maria
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) Maria, from (etyl) . A Latinate variant of the vernacular English (l).Proper noun
(en proper noun)- Yet herein they come short of the monks and friars in their conceits of the word Maria ; they have so tossed it and turned it, so anagrammatized and transposed it, that never were five poor letters so worried since time did put them into the alphabet.
- By their dresses, their names, and the airs of quality they give themselves, I am rendered ridiculous among all my acquaintance. My wife, who is a very plain good woman, and whose name is Amey, has been new-christened, and is called Amelia; and my little daughter, a child of a year old, is no longer Polly, but Maria .
- I've just kissed a girl named Maria', / And suddenly I found how wonderful a sound can be! / ' Maria ! Say it loud and there's music playing - / Say it soft and it's almost like praying