ab
Short definition from Wiktionary
Noun
- Clipping of abdominal muscle .
- An abscess caused by injecting an illegal drug, usually heroin.
- Abbreviation of abortion.
- The early stages of; the beginning process; the start.
- Initialism of able seaman or able-bodied seaman.
- Initialism of afterburner.
- Initialism of aid to the blind.
- Initialism of airbase.
- Abbreviation of alkylbenzene.
- Initialism of antibody.
- Initialism of artificial breeding.
- Initialism of assembly bill.
- A blood type of the ABO system that has both blood antigens and may receive all blood types, and donate to AB.
- A blood type of the ABO system that has both blood antigens and may receive all blood types, and donate to AB: A person with this blood type.
- Initialism of adult baby.
- Initialism of asymmetric bars.
- A halal snack pack consisting of doner meat topped with chips, tomato sauce, chilli sauce, barbecue sauce, and garlic sauce.
- Antibody.
- In Egyptian belief, the heart and will and conscience of a person, especially that of the recently deceased which proceeds to the afterlife and is weighed as evidence during his or her judgement.
- An Ancient Egyptian amulet in the shape of a heart (ib).
- Abbreviation of Abbot.
Verb
- To abseil.
- Abbreviation of abort.
Preposition
- Abbreviation of about.
Adverb
- Abbreviation of about.
Proper noun
- Abbreviation of Alberta: a province of Canada.
- Initialism of Artium baccalaureus.
- Initialism of Aryan Brotherhood, a US white supremacist, neo-Nazi prison gang and crime syndicate.
- Initialism of Anheuser-Busch.
- Av.
- A diminutive of the male given name Abner, from Hebrew, occasionally used as a formal given name.
Adjective
- Initialism of airborne.
- Initialism of antiballistic.
- Initialism of at bat.
Symbol
- Obsolete chemical symbol for alabamine, now named astatine.
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