The first letter of the English and of many other alphabets. The capital A of the alphabets of Middle and Western Europe, as also the small letter (a), besides the forms in Italic, black letter, etc., are all descended from the old Latin A, which was borrowed from the Greek Alpha, of the same form; and this was made from the first letter (?) of the Phœnician alphabet, the equivalent of the Hebrew Aleph, and itself from the Egyptian origin. The Aleph was a consonant letter, with a guttural breath sound that was not an element of Greek articulation; and the Greeks took it to represent their vowel Alpha with the ä sound, the Phœnician alphabet having no vowel symbols.

In process of; in the act of; into; to; -- used with verbal substantives in -ing which begin with a consonant. This is a shortened form of the preposition an (which was used before the vowel sound); as in a hunting, a building, a begging.

the 1st letter of the Roman alphabet

A is an album by Jethro Tull. It was released on August 29, 1980 in the U.K. and September 1 of the same year in the United States. The album was recorded in the summer of 1980 using Maison Rouge Mobile and Maison Rouge Studios in Fulham, London.

"A" is the tenth single released by Ayumi Hamasaki on August 11, 1999. It is also her highest selling single. It is unique to her other singles being the only one with 4 a-side tracks.

A is a Cass Mc Combs album released on May 20, 2003 on Monitor Records.

The name of the sixth tone in the model major scale (that in C), or the first tone of the minor scale, which is named after it the scale in A minor. The second string of the violin is tuned to the A in the treble staff. -- A sharp (A#) is the name of a musical tone intermediate between A and B. -- A flat (Aþ) is the name of a tone intermediate between A and G.

A is the sixth note (submediant) in the C Major scale. "A" is generally used as a standard for tuning. When the orchestra tunes, the oboe plays an "A" and the rest of the instruments tune to match that pitch.

The A Eighth Avenue Express is a service of the New York City Subway. It is colored blue on route signs, station signs, and the official subway map, since it runs on the IND Eighth Avenue Line through Manhattan. The longest one-seat ride on the subway system is on the : over 31 miles (50 km) from 207th Street station in Inwood, Manhattan, to Mott Avenue station in Far Rockaway, Queens.

A is a service on the S-train network in Copenhagen. It is one of the base services on the network, running every 20 minutes from about 5:00 to 1:00 every day. It runs between Hundige (serving all stations on the inner part of the Køge radial) and Hillerød (with limited stops until Holte).

one of the four nucleotides used in building DNA; all four nucleotides have a common phosphate group and a sugar (ribose)

(biochemistry) purine base found in DNA and RNA; pairs with thymine in DNA and with uracil in RNA

An expletive, void of sense, to fill up the meter

a metric unit of length equal to one ten billionth of a meter (or 0.0001 micron); used to specify wavelengths of electromagnetic radiation

A barbarous corruption of have, of he, and sometimes of it and of they.

An adjective, commonly called the indefinite article, and signifying one or any, but less emphatically.

the basic unit of electric current adopted under the Systeme International d'Unites; "a typical household circuit carries 15 to 50 amps"

A are a British alternative rock band. They formed in 1995 in Suffolk, England.

any of several fat-soluble vitamins essential for normal vision; prevents night blindness or inflammation or dryness of the eyes

In each; to or for each; as, "twenty leagues a day", "a hundred pounds a year", "a dollar a yard", etc.

the blood group whose red cells carry the A antigen

In; on; at; by.

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