TA
See also: Appendix:Variations of "ta"
Translingual
Symbol
TA
- (metrology) Symbol for teraampere, an SI unit of electrical current equal to 1012 amperes.
English
Proper noun
TA
- Initialism of Territorial Army.
Noun
TA (countable and uncountable, plural TAs)
- (countable) Initialism of transportation authority.
- (countable) Initialism of teaching assistant.
- (countable) Initialism of travel agent.
- (countable) Initialism of target audience.
- (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)
- (intransitive) To act as a teaching assistant.
- The university offered me a chance to TA this semester.
Anagrams
Chinese
Alternative forms
Pronunciation
- Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)+
- Hanyu Pinyin:
- Zhuyin: ㄊㄚ
- Tongyong Pinyin: ta
- Wade–Giles: tʻa1
- Yale: tā
- Gwoyeu Romatzyh: ta
- Palladius: та (ta)
- Sinological IPA (key): /tʰä⁵⁵/
- (Standard Chinese)+
Pronoun
- (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.
Spanish
Proper noun
TA
- Abbreviation of Tamaulipas. (Mexican state)
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