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TA

/tɑː/ · name

Meaning

  1. Initialism of Territorial Army.
  2. Initialism of transportation authority.
  3. Initialism of teaching assistant.
  4. Initialism of travel agent.
  5. Initialism of target audience.
  6. Initialism of traffic advisory (a type of TCAS warning).
  7. Initialism of transactional analysis.
  8. Initialism of term assurance.
  9. To act as a teaching assistant (for a class).
  10. Initialism of toxin-antitoxin.
  11. Thanks.
  12. give (imperative)
  13. Pronunciation spelling of to, representing the standard unstressed pronunciation before consonants.
  14. In solfège, the lowered seventh note of a major scale (the note B-flat in the fixed-do system): te.

Etymology / origin

Uncertain, but possibly young child's pronunciation of thanks. Alternatively, derived from Danish tak, from Old Norse þǫkk, from Proto-Germanic *þankō, *þankaz.

  1. *þankō(gem-pro)
  2. þǫkk(non)
  3. tak(Danish)
  4. TA (English)
  5. Relations: bor, der, der

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