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ea¹

  • /ˈiː(ə)/

Rhymes with -iː, -iːə

Where it comes from

From Middle English ee, ea, æ, from Old English ēa (“river”), from Proto-West Germanic *ahu (“waters, river”), from Proto-Germanic *ahwō (“waters, river”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ekʷeh₂ (“water, flowing water”). Compare English aqua.

Cognates

Cognate with North Frisian ia (“river”), Saterland Frisian Äi (“river”), West Frisian ie (“water, stream”), Dutch a (“water, stream”), German Ache (“water, stream, river, flood”), Danish å (“stream, creek”), Swedish å (“stream, creek”), Icelandic á (“stream, river”), Latin aqua (“water”).

noun eas

  1. UK, archaic, dialectal A river or watercourse. And they rowed away for Crowland, by many a mere and many an ea; through narrow reaches of clear brown glassy water; between the dark-green alders; between the pale-green reeds; where the coot clanked, and the bittern boomed, and the sedge-bird, not content with its own sweet song, mocked the song o

ea²

Where it comes from

Abbreviation.

determiner

  1. alternative Alternative form of ea.ea.

EA³

noun EAs

  1. abbreviation, countable, initialism, uncountable Initialism of executive assistant.executive assistant
  2. abbreviation, countable, initialism, uncountable Initialism of estate agent.estate agent
  3. US, abbreviation, countable, initialism, uncountable Initialism of enrolled agent.enrolled agent
  4. Canada, abbreviation, countable, initialism, uncountable Initialism of educational assistant.educational assistant
  5. abbreviation, countable, initialism, uncountable Initialism of ethyl acetate.ethyl acetate For copolymers of ethylene, the other comonomer can be an alkene such as propene, butene, hexene or octene, or a compound having a polar functional group such as vinyl acetate (VA), acrylic acid (AA), ethyl acetate (EA), methyl acrylate (MA) or vinyl alcohol (VOH).
  6. abbreviation, countable, initialism, uncountable Initialism of environmental assessment.environmental assessment After the EA is issued, a public hearing and associated public comment period will be held to again solicit public input and to create an administrative record.
  7. abbreviation, countable, initialism, uncountable Initialism of enterprise architecture.enterprise architecture
  8. abbreviation, countable, initialism, uncountable Initialism of evolutionary algorithm.evolutionary algorithm
  9. abbreviation, countable, initialism, uncountable Initialism of effective altruism.effective altruism […] Christine Emba’s Sept. 6 op-ed, “The trouble with ‘longtermism,’ ” countered this philosophy’s occasional fanaticism with glib reductiveness. Moreover, she tarred with the same brush the spirit of the entire effective altruism (EA) movement — the giveaway at the start is that EA is derided for b
  10. abbreviation, countable, initialism, uncountable Initialism of effective altruist.effective altruist In November, 2022, when ChatGPT was released, [Sam] Bankman-Fried, the richest and most famous effective altruist, was unmasked as a generational talent at white-collar crime. Many E.A.s now disavow the label: I interviewed people who had attended E.A. conferences, lived in E.A. group houses, and ad

proper noun

  1. abbreviation, initialism Initialism of Environment Agency.Environment Agency
  2. abbreviation, initialism Initialism of Eid al-Adha.Eid al-Adha
  3. abbreviation, initialism Initialism of East Africa.East Africa
  4. abbreviation, initialism Initialism of Electronic Arts.Electronic Arts Jade Raymond, the executive in charge of SG&E who previously worked at Sony (SNE), Electronic Arts (EA) and Ubisoft (UBSFF), will leave Google (GOOG) to “pursue other opportunities,” Harrison added.

Ea⁴

noun

  1. abbreviation, uncountable Abbreviation of elastane

proper noun

  1. The name of Enki in Akkadian and Babylonian mythology. The Chaldeans had great faith in Ea, their god of healing, to whom prayers were said in case of sickness, but herb remedies were also given the patient by the god's representative in the community.

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