Agn.¹

Brit.

/ˌeɪˈdʒiː/, U.S.

/ˌeɪˈdʒi/

Origin: Formed within English, by clipping or shortening; modelled on a Latin lexical item. Etymon: silver n.

Etymology: Symbolic abbreviation for silver n., after use as symbolic abbreviation for classical Latin argentum argent n. in the system introduced by Berzelius (see quot. 1814).

Chemistry.

The element silver.

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the world > matter > chemistry > elements and compounds > metals > specific elements > silver > [noun]

silverc825

moona1500

Ag1814

Tree of Diana1849

1814 tr. J. J. Berzelius in Ann. Philos. 3 355 Argentum, silver (Ag).

1860 Photogr. Notes 5 180/2 A whole sheet of paper contains, after sensitizing, about twenty-seven grains Ag. Cl. only.

1906 H. J. H. Fenton Notes Qualitative Anal. (new ed.) 1 Solutions of silver salts (e.g. AgNO₃) give with..caustic soda, brown ppt. of silver oxide Ag₂O.

1931 E. Nordenskiöld Compar. Ethnogr. Stud. IX. 104 The awl..has been analyzed by Dr. K. G. Almström, and found to contain 33% Au, 12% Ag and 55% Cu.

2007 Biol. Bull. 213 17/1 The electric fields produced in the aquarium were measured using a pair of Teflon-coated Ag/AgCl wires.

This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, June 2011; most recently modified version published online December 2021).

agadj.n.²

Brit.

/aɡ/, U.S.

/æɡ/

Forms: 1900s– ag., 1900s– ag (without point).

Origin: Formed within English, by clipping or shortening. Etymons: agricultural adj.; agriculture n.

Etymology: In use as adjective (and probably also in use as noun in sense B. 2) shortened < agricultural adj., originally as a graphic abbreviation. In use as noun (in sense B. 1) shortened < agriculture n. Compare Min of Ag n. and War Ag n. at war n.¹ Compounds 4, and also Aggie n.¹, Aggie adj.

colloquial (originally North American).

A. adj.

= agricultural adj.Many examples could equally well be interpreted as attributive uses of sense B. 1.

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the world > food and drink > farming > [adjective]

georgical1588

geoponical1646

agricultural1661

geoponic1663

georgic1690

agricolous1779

agric1812

ag1844

terracultural-

1844 Cultivator Mar. Contents 104/1 Ag. College in Tennessee, 74.

1862 Country Gentleman 11 Dec. 385/3 Pupil of the Imperial Ag. School of Grignon.

1916 Alumni Q. (Univ. Illinois) 15 Dec. 145/1 Wilkie Leggett teaches in a state ag school at Russellville.

1942 L. V. Berrey & M. Van den Bark Amer. Thes. Slang §829/2 Ag, ag coll, aggie, cow college, an agricultural college.

1958 Whig-Standard (Kingston, Ont.) 14 Jan. 6/8 Don McArthur, ‘ag-rep’ for Frontenac County, will be the principal speaker.

1974 Ridge Citizen (Johnston, S. Carolina) 18 Apr. 8/8 Feed, seed, fertilizers, farm supplies and ag chemicals are manufactured and purchased for farmer members.

1989 M. Moffatt Coming of Age in New Jersey iv. 173 Cook College, the old ‘ag school’.

2005 E. Levinson Edible Journey 113 It's [sc. a farmers' market] held..at the ‘Ag Hall’.

B. n.²

1. = agriculture n.Frequently (with capital initial) in the names of government departments with responsibility for agriculture, as Ag and Fish, Department of Ag. See also Min of Ag n.

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the world > food and drink > farming > [noun]

tiltha1100

husbandrya1398

agriculture?1440

tillagea1538

tilture1573

farming1642

gainery1670

farmery1759

terraculture1847

ag1905

1905 G. M. Odlum Culture of Tobacco 149 (caption) Sumatra tobacco with half the leaves harvested (U.S. Department of Ag.).

1977 R. Hall Glide Time 36 The Boss has got promotion. Going to Ag and Fish.

1990 Farm Jrnl. Jan. 20/1 Swaim..has categorized the major philosophies that make up alternative ag.

2004 R. Manning in Amer. Scholar Winter 28 Sefton sees Andreas as the point man of industrial ag, the champion of farmers.

2. An agricultural college.Earliest in the abbreviated names of particular colleges.

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society > education > place of education > college or university > [noun] > college > other colleges

agricultural college1778

state college1806

ladies' college1835

fem sem1842

junior college1899

ag1905

correspondence college1911

Aggie1920

seven sisters1927

juku1962

sixth-form college1965

1905 Spalding's Official Foot Ball Guide 197 Foot ball schedules... Holy Cross vs. Mass. Ag., at Worcester.

1914 Tribune (N.Y.) Almanac 434/1 Kansas State Ag.

1942 L. V. Berrey & M. Van den Bark Amer. Thes. Slang §829/2 Ag, ag coll, aggie, cow college, an agricultural college.

1997 C. Higson et al. Fast Show: Ser. 3 (BBC TV script for Darlington filming 27 July–10 Aug.) 87 Ralph : Sorry... Ohhh... While I was at The Ag I flirted with the dramatic arts. I and a small group of friends formed an experimental theater group ‘The Soul Farmers’.

Compounds

General attributive.

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1945 Billboard 13 Jan. 44/2 It will replace the Agriculture Building destroyed by fire... Before the fire the fair board had planned to raze the ag building.

1971 R. E. Pfadt Fund. Appl. Entomol. (ed. 2) i. 27 Many students, principally ‘ag’ students, will not have had a previous course in entomology.

1993 New Mexico's 1993 State Fair 12 Sept. 9/2 Joel Edwards, my ag teacher at Moriarty High School, encouraged me and helped me a lot.

2005 M. O'Connor Bitch Posse xiv. 185 I glance around to see if there are any teachers or student spies, but mostly it's quiet near the Ag wing.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2012; most recently modified version published online December 2021).

agint.

Brit.

/ax/,

/ʌx/, U.S.

/əx/, South African English

/ʌx/

Origin: A borrowing from Afrikaans. Etymon: Afrikaans ag.

Etymology: < Afrikaans ag (South African Dutch ach ach int.).For representations of South African Dutch ach as ach in English see ach int.

South African.

Expressing regret, sympathy, dismissiveness, reproach, frustration, etc.

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1936 C. Birkby Thirstland Treks 47 Ja, we left the old village. Ag, it was a nice village and I liked it.

1969 A. Paton Kontakion for you Departed 105 I said to Elizabeth teasingly, how can a Roman Catholic join in an Anglican Communion? Elizabeth said, Ag, there's only one God, isn't there?

1988 S. Gray Time of our Darkness vi. 93 ‘Write your name on there,’ I said. ‘Ag, I can do that easy,’ he said.

2003 L. Lokko Sundowners (2004) xxv. 213 ‘Ag, Lisette, come on,’ Hendryk complained.

2014 M. Poland Keeper iv. 34 At the dry-cleaners on the corner of Marine Road and, ag what's the name of that street?

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2012; most recently modified version published online December 2021).

> as lemmas

AG n. Adjutant General.

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society > armed hostility > warrior > soldier > leader or commander > officer according to function > [noun] > aide-de-camp or adjutant

corporal of the field1591

general-adjutant1632

adjutant1641

adjutant general1644

agitant1644

aide-de-camp1670

aid-major1670

Adj.1708

aid1761

Adjt.1763

aide1776

D.A.A.G.1899

AG1913

D.A.G.-

1913 W. T. Rogers Dict. Abbrev. 7/1 A.G., Adjutant-General.

1998 I. M. Brown Brit. Logistics on Western Front ii. 48 Had Sir John French not had three consummate professionals as his QMG, AG, and IGC, he might have had a terrible problem on his hands.

extracted from An.

AG n. Attorney General.

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society > law > legal profession > lawyer > [noun] > state or public law officers

the King's Attorney1414

attorneya1513

attorney-general1533

Solicitor-General1533

city attorney1664

state's attorney1779

AG1814

Official Solicitor1875

1814 J. Campbell Rep. Cases Nisi Prius 3 501 Garrow, A. G., for the defendant, contended that these facts afforded sufficient evidence.

1841 in F. A. Carrington & J. Payne Rep. Cases Nisi Prius IX. 139 Campbell, A.G., opened the case for the Crown, and in his opening said:—This indictment against John Frost consists of four counts.

1889 A. J. Balfour Let. 11 Apr. (Br. Libr. Add. MSS 49827 f. 845) My dear A.G.

1992 J. Batten Class of ‘75 ii. 63 Blacklock articled at the Ontario attorney general's office..and he was offered a job... So were four other students. The AG was seriously short of bodies.

2006 U. Smartt Media Law for Journalists ii. 63 The AG sought injunctions against the Guardian, the Observer and the Sunday Times newspapers.

extracted from An.

n.¹1814

adj.n.²1844

int.1936

as lemmas

单词	ag
释义	Agn.¹ Brit. /ˌeɪˈdʒiː/, U.S. /ˌeɪˈdʒi/ Origin: Formed within English, by clipping or shortening; modelled on a Latin lexical item. Etymon: silver n. Etymology: Symbolic abbreviation for silver n., after use as symbolic abbreviation for classical Latin argentum argent n. in the system introduced by Berzelius (see quot. 1814). Chemistry. The element silver. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > chemistry > elements and compounds > metals > specific elements > silver > [noun] silverc825 moona1500 Ag1814 Tree of Diana1849 1814 tr. J. J. Berzelius in Ann. Philos. 3 355 Argentum, silver (Ag). 1860 Photogr. Notes 5 180/2 A whole sheet of paper contains, after sensitizing, about twenty-seven grains Ag. Cl. only. 1906 H. J. H. Fenton Notes Qualitative Anal. (new ed.) 1 Solutions of silver salts (e.g. AgNO₃) give with..caustic soda, brown ppt. of silver oxide Ag₂O. 1931 E. Nordenskiöld Compar. Ethnogr. Stud. IX. 104 The awl..has been analyzed by Dr. K. G. Almström, and found to contain 33% Au, 12% Ag and 55% Cu. 2007 Biol. Bull. 213 17/1 The electric fields produced in the aquarium were measured using a pair of Teflon-coated Ag/AgCl wires. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, June 2011; most recently modified version published online December 2021). agadj.n.² Brit. /aɡ/, U.S. /æɡ/ Forms: 1900s– ag., 1900s– ag (without point). Origin: Formed within English, by clipping or shortening. Etymons: agricultural adj.; agriculture n. Etymology: In use as adjective (and probably also in use as noun in sense B. 2) shortened < agricultural adj., originally as a graphic abbreviation. In use as noun (in sense B. 1) shortened < agriculture n. Compare Min of Ag n. and War Ag n. at war n.¹ Compounds 4, and also Aggie n.¹, Aggie adj. colloquial (originally North American). A. adj. = agricultural adj.Many examples could equally well be interpreted as attributive uses of sense B. 1. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > [adjective] georgical1588 geoponical1646 agricultural1661 geoponic1663 georgic1690 agricolous1779 agric1812 ag1844 terracultural- 1844 Cultivator Mar. Contents 104/1 Ag. College in Tennessee, 74. 1862 Country Gentleman 11 Dec. 385/3 Pupil of the Imperial Ag. School of Grignon. 1916 Alumni Q. (Univ. Illinois) 15 Dec. 145/1 Wilkie Leggett teaches in a state ag school at Russellville. 1942 L. V. Berrey & M. Van den Bark Amer. Thes. Slang §829/2 Ag, ag coll, aggie, cow college, an agricultural college. 1958 Whig-Standard (Kingston, Ont.) 14 Jan. 6/8 Don McArthur, ‘ag-rep’ for Frontenac County, will be the principal speaker. 1974 Ridge Citizen (Johnston, S. Carolina) 18 Apr. 8/8 Feed, seed, fertilizers, farm supplies and ag chemicals are manufactured and purchased for farmer members. 1989 M. Moffatt Coming of Age in New Jersey iv. 173 Cook College, the old ‘ag school’. 2005 E. Levinson Edible Journey 113 It's [sc. a farmers' market] held..at the ‘Ag Hall’. B. n.² 1. = agriculture n.Frequently (with capital initial) in the names of government departments with responsibility for agriculture, as Ag and Fish, Department of Ag. See also Min of Ag n. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > [noun] tiltha1100 husbandrya1398 agriculture?1440 tillagea1538 tilture1573 farming1642 gainery1670 farmery1759 terraculture1847 ag1905 1905 G. M. Odlum Culture of Tobacco 149 (caption) Sumatra tobacco with half the leaves harvested (U.S. Department of Ag.). 1977 R. Hall Glide Time 36 The Boss has got promotion. Going to Ag and Fish. 1990 Farm Jrnl. Jan. 20/1 Swaim..has categorized the major philosophies that make up alternative ag. 2004 R. Manning in Amer. Scholar Winter 28 Sefton sees Andreas as the point man of industrial ag, the champion of farmers. 2. An agricultural college.Earliest in the abbreviated names of particular colleges. ΘΚΠ society > education > place of education > college or university > [noun] > college > other colleges agricultural college1778 state college1806 ladies' college1835 fem sem1842 junior college1899 ag1905 correspondence college1911 Aggie1920 seven sisters1927 juku1962 sixth-form college1965 1905 Spalding's Official Foot Ball Guide 197 Foot ball schedules... Holy Cross vs. Mass. Ag., at Worcester. 1914 Tribune (N.Y.) Almanac 434/1 Kansas State Ag. 1942 L. V. Berrey & M. Van den Bark Amer. Thes. Slang §829/2 Ag, ag coll, aggie, cow college, an agricultural college. 1997 C. Higson et al. Fast Show: Ser. 3 (BBC TV script for Darlington filming 27 July–10 Aug.) 87 Ralph : Sorry... Ohhh... While I was at The Ag I flirted with the dramatic arts. I and a small group of friends formed an experimental theater group ‘The Soul Farmers’. Compounds General attributive. ΚΠ 1945 Billboard 13 Jan. 44/2 It will replace the Agriculture Building destroyed by fire... Before the fire the fair board had planned to raze the ag building. 1971 R. E. Pfadt Fund. Appl. Entomol. (ed. 2) i. 27 Many students, principally ‘ag’ students, will not have had a previous course in entomology. 1993 New Mexico's 1993 State Fair 12 Sept. 9/2 Joel Edwards, my ag teacher at Moriarty High School, encouraged me and helped me a lot. 2005 M. O'Connor Bitch Posse xiv. 185 I glance around to see if there are any teachers or student spies, but mostly it's quiet near the Ag wing. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2012; most recently modified version published online December 2021). agint. Brit. /ax/, /ʌx/, U.S. /əx/, South African English /ʌx/ Origin: A borrowing from Afrikaans. Etymon: Afrikaans ag. Etymology: < Afrikaans ag (South African Dutch ach ach int.).For representations of South African Dutch ach as ach in English see ach int. South African. Expressing regret, sympathy, dismissiveness, reproach, frustration, etc. ΚΠ 1936 C. Birkby Thirstland Treks 47 Ja, we left the old village. Ag, it was a nice village and I liked it. 1969 A. Paton Kontakion for you Departed 105 I said to Elizabeth teasingly, how can a Roman Catholic join in an Anglican Communion? Elizabeth said, Ag, there's only one God, isn't there? 1988 S. Gray Time of our Darkness vi. 93 ‘Write your name on there,’ I said. ‘Ag, I can do that easy,’ he said. 2003 L. Lokko Sundowners (2004) xxv. 213 ‘Ag, Lisette, come on,’ Hendryk complained. 2014 M. Poland Keeper iv. 34 At the dry-cleaners on the corner of Marine Road and, ag what's the name of that street? This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2012; most recently modified version published online December 2021). > as lemmas AG AG n. Adjutant General. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > warrior > soldier > leader or commander > officer according to function > [noun] > aide-de-camp or adjutant corporal of the field1591 general-adjutant1632 adjutant1641 adjutant general1644 agitant1644 aide-de-camp1670 aid-major1670 Adj.1708 aid1761 Adjt.1763 aide1776 D.A.A.G.1899 AG1913 D.A.G.- 1913 W. T. Rogers Dict. Abbrev. 7/1 A.G., Adjutant-General. 1998 I. M. Brown Brit. Logistics on Western Front ii. 48 Had Sir John French not had three consummate professionals as his QMG, AG, and IGC, he might have had a terrible problem on his hands. extracted from An. AG AG n. Attorney General. ΘΚΠ society > law > legal profession > lawyer > [noun] > state or public law officers the King's Attorney1414 attorneya1513 attorney-general1533 Solicitor-General1533 city attorney1664 state's attorney1779 AG1814 Official Solicitor1875 1814 J. Campbell Rep. Cases Nisi Prius 3 501 Garrow, A. G., for the defendant, contended that these facts afforded sufficient evidence. 1841 in F. A. Carrington & J. Payne Rep. Cases Nisi Prius IX. 139 Campbell, A.G., opened the case for the Crown, and in his opening said:—This indictment against John Frost consists of four counts. 1889 A. J. Balfour Let. 11 Apr. (Br. Libr. Add. MSS 49827 f. 845) My dear A.G. 1992 J. Batten Class of ‘75 ii. 63 Blacklock articled at the Ontario attorney general's office..and he was offered a job... So were four other students. The AG was seriously short of bodies. 2006 U. Smartt Media Law for Journalists ii. 63 The AG sought injunctions against the Guardian, the Observer and the Sunday Times newspapers. extracted from An. < n.¹1814adj.n.²1844int.1936 as lemmas
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Agn.1

agadj.n.2

Compounds

agint.

> as lemmas

Agn.¹

agadj.n.²