OA
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See also: Appendix:Variations of "oa"
Translingual
[edit]Symbol
[edit]OA
- (international standards) Indeterminately reserved ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code for the African Intellectual Property Organization.
Usage notes
[edit]This is an indeterminately reserved code, included as part of ISO 3166-1 on the request of the World Intellectual Property Organization due to its use in the WIPO ST.3 standard, and is not endorsed for general use by the ISO.
English
[edit]Preposition
[edit]OA
- Initialism of on or about.
Noun
[edit]OA
- Initialism of open access.
- Initialism of organizing authority.
- Initialism of office assistant.
- (UK, census) Initialism of output area.
Adjective
[edit]OA (comparative more OA, superlative most OA)
- (Philippines) Initialism of overacting.
- He's even more OA than you.
- He's even more overreactive than you.
Proper noun
[edit]OA
Derived terms
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[edit]Japanese
[edit]For pronunciation and definitions of OA – see the following entry. | ||
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(This term, OA (OA), is an alternative spelling of the above term.) |
Spanish
[edit]Proper noun
[edit]OA
- Abbreviation of Oaxaca. (Mexican state)
Tagalog
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Philippine English OA, from the initialism of English overacting.
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Standard Tagalog) IPA(key): /ˌʔo ˈʔej/ [ˌʔo ˈʔeɪ̯]
- Rhymes: -ej
Adjective
[edit]OA (Baybayin spelling ᜂᜁᜌ᜔)
- (colloquial) overreactive; tending to react in an overexaggerated manner; over the top
- Ang OA mo kasi e!
- It's cuz you're so overreactive!
- Napaka-OA mo naman!
- You're so overreactive!
- 'Wag kang OA!
- Don't be overreactive!
Further reading
[edit]- Zorc, R. David, San Miguel, Rachel (1993) Tagalog Slang Dictionary[1], Manila: De La Salle University Press, →ISBN
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