SA
Appearance
See also: ᎦᎪ and Appendix:Variations of "sa"
Translingual
[edit]Symbol
[edit]SA
English
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]- (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA(key): /ˈɛs.eɪ/
Audio (US): (file) Audio (General Australian): (file) - Rhymes: -ɛseɪ
- Homophones: essay, ese
Adjective
[edit]SA (not comparable)
- (anatomy, medicine) Abbreviation of sinoatrial or sinoauricular.
- SA block; SA node
- (in gay personal advertisements) Abbreviation of straight-acting.
Noun
[edit]SA (countable and uncountable, plural SAs)
- Initialism of sexual abuse.
- Hyponym: CSA
- Initialism of sex appeal.
- Initialism of special agent.
- Initialism of small arms.
- Initialism of surface area.
- Initialism of simulated annealing.
- Initialism of Sustainability Analysis.
- Initialism of Scenario Analysis.
- Initialism of social anxiety.
- Initialism of salicylic acid.
Proper noun
[edit]SA
- Abbreviation of North Sulawesi: a province of Indonesia.
- (sports) Initialism of San Antonio: a city in Texas, United States.
- Initialism of South Africa: a country in Southern Africa.
- Initialism of South America: a continent.
- Initialism of Saudi Arabia: a country in Western Asia, on the Arabian Peninsula.
- Initialism of South Australia: a state of Australia.
- Abbreviation of Sturmabteilung.
- Initialism of Stage Accompany.
- Initialism of San Andreas.
Verb
[edit]SA (third-person singular simple present SAs, present participle SAing or SA-ing or SA'ing, simple past and past participle SAed or SA'ed or SA'd)
- (transitive, Internet slang) To sexually assault (someone).
- 1995 March 9, Cindi, “no evidence that a crime was committed”, in alt.sexual.abuse.recovery[2] (Usenet):
- This time CPS did really investigate a lot more thoroughly, and the CPS worker said that she believes Allison was SA'ed by her dad, but that the role of CPS is to *remove children from abusive homes* and since Allison does not live in the abusive home, the duty falls to me to go thru the family court system to get no-visitation orders in place.
- 2017 July 14, @princesse_peche, Twitter[3], archived from the original on 2024-08-08:
- Remind me of that night and while I threw away the clothes I was SA'd in,, the clothes I wore to be around him make me feel gross too and
- 2020 September 22, @Carly4243, Twitter[4], archived from the original on 2024-08-08:
- I just saw that! She doesn’t know anything! She’s regurgitating bull for a video to make money! And her subs won’t question it!! They apparently like middle aged woman attacking a little girl who was SA’d! Absolutely vile and disgusting
- 2022 December 31, @acegirleatscake, Twitter[5], archived from the original on 2024-08-08:
- These same type of men will make disgusting “jokes” about SA’ing women they politically disagree with, a big target of theirs will be teenage girls. When said girls tell them to rightfully get lost out come the “jokes” about wanting to SA them or hoping the girls get SA’ed.
Anagrams
[edit]Catalan
[edit]Noun
[edit]SA
- initialism of societat anònima
French
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Audio: (file)
Noun
[edit]SA
- initialism of société anonyme (Incorporated (Inc.)) (Limited liability company (Ltd.))
German
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[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Audio: (file)
Proper noun
[edit]SA f
See also
[edit]Japanese
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]SA • (sābisueria)
Polish
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]SA f
- initialism of spółka akcyjna
Usage notes
[edit]S.A. is a variant spelling that does not comply with Polish orthography, but is quite common even in official use, being classified as acceptable in some dictionaries. The prescribed spelling is SA.[1]
References
[edit]- ^ Mirosław Bańko (16.02.2003) Poradnia Językowa PWN [Language clinic PWN][1], Polish Scientific Publishers PWN
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