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english | america |

As a noun english

is (us) spinning or rotary motion given to a ball around the vertical axis, as in billiards or bowling.

As an adjective america is

american.

english

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Of or pertaining to England or its people.
  • English-language; of or pertaining to the English language.
  • Of or pertaining to an Englishman or Englishwoman.
  • *
    • , title=(The Celebrity), chapter=2 , passage=Sunning himself on the board steps, I saw for the first time Mr. Farquhar Fenelon Cooke. He was dressed out in broad gaiters and bright tweeds, like an English tourist, and his face might have belonged to Dagon, idol of the Philistines.}}
  • Of or pertaining to the avoirdupois system of measure.
  • (Amish) Non-Amish.

    • Proper noun

    (en proper noun)
  • (collective plural) The people of England; Englishmen and Englishwomen.
    • The Scottish and the English have a history of conflict.
  • The language originating in England but now spoken in all parts of the British Isles, the Commonwealth of Nations, North America, and other parts of the world.
    • English is spoken here as an unofficial language and lingua franca.
  • (Amish, collective plural) The non-Amish.
  • (surname)

    • Usage notes

    * The name of the language, English , when it means "the English language", does not assume an article. Hence: "Say it in plain English!" * The people as a collective noun require the definite article "the" or a demonstrative adjective. Hence: "The English are coming!" or "Oh, those English, always drinking their tea..."

    Noun

    (en-noun)
  • One's ability to employ the English language correctly.
    • My coworker has pretty good English for a non-native speaker.
  • The English-language term or expression for something.
    • How do you say ‘à peu près’ in English ?
  • Specific language or wording; a text or statements in speech, whether a translation or otherwise.
    • The technical details are correct, but the English is not very clear.
  • (countable) A regional type of spoken and or written English; a dialect.
  • (printing, dated) A kind of type, in size between pica and great primer.
  • (North American) Spin or side given to a ball, especially in pool or billiards.
    • Put more English on the ball.

    Verb

    (es)
  • (archaic) To translate, adapt or render into English.
  • *, page 214 (2001 reprint):
  • *:severe prohibuit viris suis tum misceri feminas in consuetis suis menstruis, etc. I spare to English this which I have said.

    • Derived terms

    * African American Vernacular English * American English * Australian English * BBC English * British English * Canadian English * Commonwealth English * Early Modern English * Elizabethan English * English Bluebell * English Channel * English basement * English bond * English breakfast * English breakfast tea * English flute * English garden * English horn * English Latin * English mile * English muffin * English pale * English pea * English pease * English plantain * English plus * English rhubarb * English saddle * English sonnet * English sparrow * English studies * English vice * English walnut * English wheat * Englishman * Englishmen * Englishness * Englishwoman * Englishwomen * Estuary English * full English * full English breakfast * gone English * Hiberno-English * Indian English * King's English * Korean English * Medieval English * Middle English * Modern English * Multicultural London English * Newfoundland English * New Zealand English * Old English * Old English Sheepdog * Queen's English * Scottish English * South African English * Standard English * White English Bulldog * do you speak English?

    See also

    {{projectlinks , disambig , pedia, page2=English language , pedia, page3=English literature , pedia, page4=English studies , pedia, page5=English people}} * (en)

    Quotations

    * (English Citations of "English")

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    * (l) English autological terms

    america

    English

    Alternative forms

    *(North and South America) *(the United States of America) (humourous) (sometimes derogatory)

    Proper noun

    (Americas)
  • The continents of North and South America, especially when considered to form a single continent; the Americas
  • * 2009 , (Diarmaid MacCulloch), A History of Christianity (Penguin 2010), page 691:
    • Franciscan attitudes in the Canaries offered possible precedents for what Europe now came to call ‘the New World’, or, through a somewhat tangled chain of circumstances, ‘America ’.
  • The United States of America.
  • * {{quote-magazine, title=No hiding place
    • , date=2013-05-25, volume=407, issue=8837, page=74, magazine=(The Economist) citation , passage=In America alone, people spent $170 billion on “direct marketing”—junk mail of both the physical and electronic varieties—last year. Yet of those who received unsolicited adverts through the post, only 3% bought anything as a result.}}

    Usage notes

    Residents of the United States of America may refer to their country as the "United States" (more formal), "America" (common and often patriotic), "the U.S.A.", or simply "the States" (informal). Residents of Alaska, United States of America's northernmost state, refer to mainland America as "the " (informal). Residents of the United Kingdom typically refer to the United States of America as "America". Residents of Canada less frequently refer to the United States of America as "America", referring otherwise to "the United States" (more formal), "the U.S." (common), or simply "the States" (informal). Peoples from Latin American countries usually use "America" to mean the whole continent; they rarely use the term "Americas" which is mostly used in the United States. The plural form "the Americas" is common when referring to North and South America together, to avoid ambiguity. Seen as a single continent, it is commonly "the continent of America".

    Quotations

    * 1922 , (James Joyce), , II.402: *: Thou sawest thy America , thy lifetask, and didst charge to cover like the transpontine bison.

    Synonyms

    * (North and South America) Americas * (United States of America) see

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