TA

See also: Appendix:Variations of "ta"

Translingual

Symbol

TA

1. (metrology) Symbol for teraampere, an SI unit of electrical current equal to 10¹² amperes.

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English

Proper noun

TA

1. Initialism of Territorial Army.

Noun

TA (countable and uncountable, plural TAs)

1. (countable) Initialism of transportation authority.
2. (countable) Initialism of teaching assistant.
3. (countable) Initialism of travel agent.
4. (countable) Initialism of target audience.
5. (uncountable, insurance) Initialism of term assurance.

Verb

TA (third-person singular simple present TAs or TA's, present participle TAing or TA'ing, simple past and past participle TAd or TA'd)

1. (intransitive) To act as a teaching assistant.

   The university offered me a chance to TA this semester.

Anagrams

• 'at, A-T, A/T, AT, at, at-

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Chinese

Alternative forms

• ta, Ta

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): tā

  (Zhuyin): ㄊㄚ

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: tā
    • Zhuyin: ㄊㄚ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: ta
    • Wade–Giles: tʻa¹
    • Yale: tā
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: ta
    • Palladius: та (ta)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tʰä⁵⁵/

Pronoun

1. (Internet slang) An alternative spelling of the third-person pronoun 他 (tā) that is explicitly gender-neutral: they; them

References

• Victor Mair, "The degendering of the third person pronoun in Mandarin". Language Log.
• Victor Mair, "Roman-letter Mandarin pronoun of indeterminate gender". Language Log.

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Spanish

Proper noun

TA

1. Abbreviation of Tamaulipas. (Mexican state)