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this | abc |

As a determiner this

is .

As a noun abc is

abc.

this

English

(wikipedia this)

Determiner

  • The (thing) here (used in indicating something or someone nearby).
  • The known (thing) (used in indicating something or someone just mentioned).
  • The known (thing) (used in indicating something or someone about to be mentioned).
  • A known (thing) (used in first mentioning a person or thing that the speaker does not think is known to the audience). Compare with "a ... ".
  • (Of a unit of time) which is .

    • Related terms

    * that, these, those

    Derived terms

    * thisness *

    Adverb

    (-)
  • To the degree or extent indicated.
    • I need this much water.
    We've already come this far, we can't turn back now.

    Pronoun

    (en-pron)
  • The thing, item, etc. being indicated.
    • This is the excellent foppery of the world, that, when we are sick in fortune,—often the surfeit of our own behaviour,—we make guilty of our disasters the sun, the moon, and the stars'' — Shakespeare, ''King Lear , Act 1. Scene 2.

    Related terms

    * that, these, those

    Noun

    (es)
  • (philosophy) Something being indicated that is here; one of these.
  • * 2001 , James G. Lennox, Aristotle's Philosophy of Biology (page 151)
    • Terms like 'house', 'sphere', 'animal', and 'human' do not refer to other thises distinct from these ones here — they refer to the sort of thing these ones here are.

    Interjection

    (-)
  • (Internet slang)
    • Synonyms
    * , like * IAWTP

    Statistics

    *

    Anagrams

    * * * * * 100 English basic words English third person pronouns 1000 English basic words ----

    abc

    English

    Alternative forms

    * (noun) absey

    Initialism

    (Initialism) (head)
  • ABC (B), a Belgian car market.
  • .
  • African Basketball Confederation.
  • (emergency medicine) Airway, breathing, and circulation.
  • Alcoholic beverage control.
  • (aviation) (Advance Booking Charter)
  • already been chewed, as in chewing gum.
  • American Book Center.
  • .
  • .
  • (medical) Antigen binding capacity.
  • anything but Chardonnay: a backlash against Chardonnay wine, seen as ubiquitous.
  • (Japan) Asahi Broadcasting Corporation.
  • Atlanta, Birmingham & Coast Railroad.
  • atomic, biological, and chemical.
  • Aural brevity code.
  • Australian-born Chinese.
  • (obsolete) Australian Broadcasting Commission. .
  • (obsolete) .
  • .
  • (geography) Santo André, São Bernardo do Campo and São Caetano do Sul, satellite cities around the city of São Paulo that form the most important industrial area in Brazil.

    • See also

    * ABC Islands * NBC * (American-born Chinese) CBC * (American Broadcasting Company) NBC, CBS, PBS, NPR

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (US, usually, plural only, uncountable) The alphabet.
    • Do you know your ABC s?
  • (obsolete, poetry) A type of poem in which the lines start with the letters of the alphabet in order.
  • (obsolete) A primer for teaching the Latin alphabet and first elements of reading.
  • The fundamentals of any subject.
    • the ABC of finance
  • (UK, rail transport) A British alphabetized guidebook for trains and their stations.

    • Synonyms

    * (alphabet) absey * (rudiments) basics, fundamentals

    Derived terms

    * ABC book

    See also

    Naming an alphabet after the initial letters is common; compare: * bopomofo * futhark * futhorc

    Anagrams

    * * * *

    References

    English three-letter words ----