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TA

name
/tɑː//tə/

Etymology

Altered from si in the 19th century to prevent having two notes of the musical scale starting with the same letter, to become ti. vowel changed to 'a' to signify a flattened note.

  1. derived from *þankō✻
  2. derived from þǫkk
  3. borrowed from tak

Definitions

  1. Initialism of Territorial Army.

  2. Initialism of transportation authority.

  3. Initialism of teaching assistant.

  4. ›+ 11 more definitions

    1. Initialism of travel agent.

    2. Initialism of target audience.

    3. Initialism of traffic advisory (a type of TCAS warning).

    4. Initialism of transactional analysis.

    5. Initialism of term assurance.

    6. To act as a teaching assistant (for a class).

      • The university offered me a chance to TA this semester.
      • I really want to TA Programming 1 some day.

    7. Initialism of toxin-antitoxin.

    8. Thanks.

      • Ta for the cup of tea.

    9. give (imperative)

      • Mummy needs the bottle back. Ta!

    10. Pronunciation spelling of to, representing the standard unstressed pronunciation before…

      Pronunciation spelling of to, representing the standard unstressed pronunciation before consonants.

      • hasta

    11. In solfège, the lowered seventh note of a major scale (the note B-flat in the fixed-do…

      In solfège, the lowered seventh note of a major scale (the note B-flat in the fixed-do system): te.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA