911
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See also 9/11
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[edit] Translingual
[edit] Symbol
- the number nine hundred and eleven
[edit] English
[edit] Etymology
[edit] Pronunciation
- (US, standard) IPA: /ˌnaɪnwʌnˈwʌn/, SAMPA: /%naInwVn"wVn/ (i.e. as nine-one-one)
- (US, rare) IPA: /ˌnaɪnɪlˈɛvən/, /ˌnaɪnəlˈɛvən/, SAMPA: /%naInIl"Ev@n/, /%naIn@l"Ev@n/ (i.e. as nine-eleven)
- Rhymes: -ʌn
[edit] Proper noun
911
- In the United States and Canada, the telephone number used to call the police or other emergency services.
[edit] Noun
911 (plural 911s)
- (figuratively, by extension of the previous sense) An emergency.
[edit] Verb
911 (third-person singular simple present 911s, present participle 911ing, simple past and past participle 911ed)
- To make an emergency call.
- 1997, “50 New Fall Hair Looks”, in Cosmopolitan, v 223, n 2 (August), p 208:
- London hairstylist Rick Haylor for the John Frieda Salon—the man Nicole Kidman 911s when she wants her curly mop to lie down and look glamorous—tells you how to go straight.
- 1997, “50 New Fall Hair Looks”, in Cosmopolitan, v 223, n 2 (August), p 208:
