Ga.n.¹

Origin: Formed within English, by clipping or shortening. Etymon: proper name Georgia.

Etymology: Shortened < the name of Georgia (see Georgia n.), as a graphic abbreviation.

U.S.

The state of Georgia, U.S.A.

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1824 Adams Centinel (Gettysburg, Pa.) 7 Apr. Augusta (Ga.).

1869 Sci. Amer. 22 May 333/2 Pea Dropper.—A. J. Williams, Barnesville, Ga.

1901 J. E. Homans ABC of Telephone xx. 268 A Strowger exchange in Atlanta, Ga., has as many as 500 subscribers.

1957 F. O'Connor Let. 9 Aug. in Habit of Being (1979) 235 An old man..who came from Louvail, Ga., sent I am sure by the Lord to be a plague to the penwoman.

2007 Sophisticate's Black Hair Styles & Care Guide Mar. 54/2 I..go to a great hair salon in Atlanta, GA.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2018; most recently modified version published online March 2019).

Gan.²adj.

Brit.

/ɡɑː/, U.S.

/ɡɑ/, West African English

/ɡa/

Inflections: Plural unchanged, Gas.

Origin: A borrowing from Ga. Etymon: Ga Gã-.

Etymology: < Ga Gã- (pronounced /ɡã/), self-designation (in e.g. Gãmei Ga people, Gãnyo Ga person, etc.); also denoting the region inhabited by the Ga people.

A. n.²

1. A West African language of the Kwa language group spoken primarily in south-eastern Ghana and parts of Togo.

1852 48th Rep. Brit. & Foreign Bible Soc. p. cxxxi The Bible—and especially the Hebrew—(which closely approaches the Ga and the Otsi)—can be more easily transferred into a simple African tongue than into any of those spoken in Europe.

1858 J. Zimmermann Grammatical Sketch Akra- or Gã-lang. i. p. vii To learn Gã, it must be heard and to read it fluently, we must read whole sentences together.

1879 Encycl. Brit. X. 756/1 The south-eastern corner of the Gold Coast is occupied by another language known as the Ga or Acra, which comprises the Ga proper and the Adangme and Crobo dialects.

1955 P. Strevens Papers in Lang. (1965) ix. 114 The languages spoken in this area are almost entirely confined to members of the Kwa Larger Unit, comprising such languages as Twi, Ga, Fante, [etc.].

1979 Amer. Ethnologist 6 700 Many Adangbe speak Ga as a second language.

2017 Business & Financial Times (Ghana) (Nexis) 19 Aug. ‘Oya’ is a common expression here with the same meaning in Ga, which is: ‘quickly’.

2. A member of the Ga-speaking people of Ghana or their descendants.

1884 Encycl. Brit. XVII. 319/1 The chief Negro and Negroid races and languages... West Soudan and Guinea... Ewe Group: Acra (Ga), Fantee, Ashantee, Ffon, Mina, Jeji, Dahoman, Nago, Otyi, Yoruba. Gold and Slave coasts.

1899 A. H. Keane Man, Past & Present iii. 55 The Ga of the Volta delta are here bracketed with the Tshi.

1962 Listener 25 Jan. 156/1 There should be no reference to Fantis, Ashantis, Ewes, Gas, Dagombas, ‘strangers’, and so forth, but we should all call ourselves Ghanaians.

1977 M. E. Kropp Dakubu Korle meets Sea iv. 67 Many Ga..live in outer areas like Nima.

2010 Jrnl. Afr. Hist. 51 359 The anti malaria campaign occurred during a period of fierce chiefly disputes among the Ga, and at a time when the office of the priest at the House of Korle was vacant.

B. adj.

Of or relating to the Ga or their language.

1852 48th Rep. Brit. & Foreign Bible Soc. p. cxxxi The writer of this..has been led with astonishment to see how slightly he has as yet penetrated into the depths of the Ga (Accra) language.

1863 R. F. Burton Wanderings W. Afr. II. ix. 173 The land of the Akan and Gá races.

1895 Pop. Sci. Monthly Jan. 330 The Gã tribes of the Gold Coast likewise have a week of seven days and some nine hours.

1963 Listener 7 Feb. 231/2 African languages are being studied as the modern languages of Europe are studied in European universities. A Ga student learns Akan.

2017 Herald (Ghana) (Nexis) 27 Oct. According to Ga tradition, the kingship rotates among four royal houses.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2018; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

Gan.³

Brit.

/ˌdʒiːˈeɪ/, U.S.

/ˌdʒiˈeɪ/

Origin: Formed within English, by clipping or shortening. Etymon: gallium n.

Etymology: Symbolic abbreviation for gallium n. First used in a French context (P.-É. Lecoq de Boisbaudran 1875, in Comptes rendus hebd. de l'Acad. des Sci. 81 1101).

Chemistry.

The element gallium.

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

Ga1875

gallium1875

1875 Nature 16 Dec. 137/1 The salts of Ga which M. Lecoq de Boisbaudran has used in his researches, have been from the blend of Pierrefitte.

1922 T. M. Lowry Inorg. Chem. xliv. 889 The hydroxide, Ga(OH)₃, precipitated from an aqueous solution of a gallic salt, dissolves readily in potassium hydroxide.

1990 D. F. Shriver et al. Inorg. Chem. x. 318 The use of excess Li reagent leads to the uptake of a fourth alkyl group by the Ga atom to form a salt.

2009 Publ. Astron. Soc. Pacific 121 549/1 Extrinsic photoconductors such as gallium-doped germanium (Ge:Ga) with a typical crystal size of about 1 mm have very high sensitivity in far-infrared.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2018; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

> as lemmas

GA n. Gamblers Anonymous, a self-help organization, following a philosophy modelled on that of Alcoholics Anonymous.

ΚΠ

1950 Washington Post 24 Oct. 13/2 Recovered gamblers in GA act as friendly counsellors in helping others to overcome temptation.

1988 St. Petersburg Times (Florida) (Nexis) 12 Jan. 1 d [They] are working on the painful, one-day-at-a-time process of rebuilding their lives and putting their addiction behind them. They attend weekly GA meetings.

2012 K. Twaddle & S. Burns Life on Line xxiv. 196 Going to GA and turning my life around has given me a completely new focus and has helped me grow up and become a more mature person.

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GA n. a body of representatives of the whole of an organization; (also) a meeting of this body; = general assembly n. at general adj. and n. Compounds 2.

1844 Missionary Herald (Boston) May 175/1 Minutes of the G. A., 1832.

1880 Jrnl. United Labor 1 74/3 The G.A. met at Grand Army Hall.

2011 N.Y. Mag. 5 Dec. 41/1 When I came to the last two or three GAs before September 17, it was actually amazing, because suddenly you had a group that was easily finding consensus.

2017 J. A. Moore & J. Pubantz New United Nations (ed. 2) iv. 119 The GA meets in formal session every fall at UN headquarters in New York City.

extracted from Gn.

GA n. civil aviation activities other than large-scale commercial passenger or freight transport; = general aviation n. at general adj. and n. Compounds 2.

ΚΠ

1974 Palmdale Intercontinental Airport: Environmental Impact Study (Arthur D. Little, Inc.) I. ii. 71 In the interests of increasing airport capacity, it has been proposed that general aviation (GA) activity be diverted from the major air carrier airports.

1990 Pilot Oct. 60/1 All GA flights using the main apron at Luton must now be handled—self-handling is no longer allowed.

2005 Pilot Oct. 31/2 Commercial aviation would rather encourage scud-running than see GA get a freebie.

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n.²adj.1852

n.³1875

as lemmas

单词	ga
释义	Ga.n.¹ Origin: Formed within English, by clipping or shortening. Etymon: proper name Georgia. Etymology: Shortened < the name of Georgia (see Georgia n.), as a graphic abbreviation. U.S. The state of Georgia, U.S.A. ΚΠ 1824 Adams Centinel (Gettysburg, Pa.) 7 Apr. Augusta (Ga.). 1869 Sci. Amer. 22 May 333/2 Pea Dropper.—A. J. Williams, Barnesville, Ga. 1901 J. E. Homans ABC of Telephone xx. 268 A Strowger exchange in Atlanta, Ga., has as many as 500 subscribers. 1957 F. O'Connor Let. 9 Aug. in Habit of Being (1979) 235 An old man..who came from Louvail, Ga., sent I am sure by the Lord to be a plague to the penwoman. 2007 Sophisticate's Black Hair Styles & Care Guide Mar. 54/2 I..go to a great hair salon in Atlanta, GA. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2018; most recently modified version published online March 2019). Gan.²adj. Brit. /ɡɑː/, U.S. /ɡɑ/, West African English /ɡa/ Inflections: Plural unchanged, Gas. Origin: A borrowing from Ga. Etymon: Ga Gã-. Etymology: < Ga Gã- (pronounced /ɡã/), self-designation (in e.g. Gãmei Ga people, Gãnyo Ga person, etc.); also denoting the region inhabited by the Ga people. A. n.² 1. A West African language of the Kwa language group spoken primarily in south-eastern Ghana and parts of Togo. Π 1852 48th Rep. Brit. & Foreign Bible Soc. p. cxxxi The Bible—and especially the Hebrew—(which closely approaches the Ga and the Otsi)—can be more easily transferred into a simple African tongue than into any of those spoken in Europe. 1858 J. Zimmermann Grammatical Sketch Akra- or Gã-lang. i. p. vii To learn Gã, it must be heard and to read it fluently, we must read whole sentences together. 1879 Encycl. Brit. X. 756/1 The south-eastern corner of the Gold Coast is occupied by another language known as the Ga or Acra, which comprises the Ga proper and the Adangme and Crobo dialects. 1955 P. Strevens Papers in Lang. (1965) ix. 114 The languages spoken in this area are almost entirely confined to members of the Kwa Larger Unit, comprising such languages as Twi, Ga, Fante, [etc.]. 1979 Amer. Ethnologist 6 700 Many Adangbe speak Ga as a second language. 2017 Business & Financial Times (Ghana) (Nexis) 19 Aug. ‘Oya’ is a common expression here with the same meaning in Ga, which is: ‘quickly’. 2. A member of the Ga-speaking people of Ghana or their descendants. Π 1884 Encycl. Brit. XVII. 319/1 The chief Negro and Negroid races and languages... West Soudan and Guinea... Ewe Group: Acra (Ga), Fantee, Ashantee, Ffon, Mina, Jeji, Dahoman, Nago, Otyi, Yoruba. Gold and Slave coasts. 1899 A. H. Keane Man, Past & Present iii. 55 The Ga of the Volta delta are here bracketed with the Tshi. 1962 Listener 25 Jan. 156/1 There should be no reference to Fantis, Ashantis, Ewes, Gas, Dagombas, ‘strangers’, and so forth, but we should all call ourselves Ghanaians. 1977 M. E. Kropp Dakubu Korle meets Sea iv. 67 Many Ga..live in outer areas like Nima. 2010 Jrnl. Afr. Hist. 51 359 The anti malaria campaign occurred during a period of fierce chiefly disputes among the Ga, and at a time when the office of the priest at the House of Korle was vacant. B. adj. Of or relating to the Ga or their language. Π 1852 48th Rep. Brit. & Foreign Bible Soc. p. cxxxi The writer of this..has been led with astonishment to see how slightly he has as yet penetrated into the depths of the Ga (Accra) language. 1863 R. F. Burton Wanderings W. Afr. II. ix. 173 The land of the Akan and Gá races. 1895 Pop. Sci. Monthly Jan. 330 The Gã tribes of the Gold Coast likewise have a week of seven days and some nine hours. 1963 Listener 7 Feb. 231/2 African languages are being studied as the modern languages of Europe are studied in European universities. A Ga student learns Akan. 2017 Herald (Ghana) (Nexis) 27 Oct. According to Ga tradition, the kingship rotates among four royal houses. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2018; most recently modified version published online March 2022). Gan.³ Brit. /ˌdʒiːˈeɪ/, U.S. /ˌdʒiˈeɪ/ Origin: Formed within English, by clipping or shortening. Etymon: gallium n. Etymology: Symbolic abbreviation for gallium n. First used in a French context (P.-É. Lecoq de Boisbaudran 1875, in Comptes rendus hebd. de l'Acad. des Sci. 81 1101). Chemistry. The element gallium. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > chemistry > elements and compounds > metals > specific elements > gallium > [noun] Ga1875 gallium1875 1875 Nature 16 Dec. 137/1 The salts of Ga which M. Lecoq de Boisbaudran has used in his researches, have been from the blend of Pierrefitte. 1922 T. M. Lowry Inorg. Chem. xliv. 889 The hydroxide, Ga(OH)₃, precipitated from an aqueous solution of a gallic salt, dissolves readily in potassium hydroxide. 1990 D. F. Shriver et al. Inorg. Chem. x. 318 The use of excess Li reagent leads to the uptake of a fourth alkyl group by the Ga atom to form a salt. 2009 Publ. Astron. Soc. Pacific 121 549/1 Extrinsic photoconductors such as gallium-doped germanium (Ge:Ga) with a typical crystal size of about 1 mm have very high sensitivity in far-infrared. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2018; most recently modified version published online March 2022). > as lemmas GA GA n. Gamblers Anonymous, a self-help organization, following a philosophy modelled on that of Alcoholics Anonymous. ΚΠ 1950 Washington Post 24 Oct. 13/2 Recovered gamblers in GA act as friendly counsellors in helping others to overcome temptation. 1988 St. Petersburg Times (Florida) (Nexis) 12 Jan. 1 d [They] are working on the painful, one-day-at-a-time process of rebuilding their lives and putting their addiction behind them. They attend weekly GA meetings. 2012 K. Twaddle & S. Burns Life on Line xxiv. 196 Going to GA and turning my life around has given me a completely new focus and has helped me grow up and become a more mature person. extracted from Gn. GA GA n. a body of representatives of the whole of an organization; (also) a meeting of this body; = general assembly n. at general adj. and n. Compounds 2. Π 1844 Missionary Herald (Boston) May 175/1 Minutes of the G. A., 1832. 1880 Jrnl. United Labor 1 74/3 The G.A. met at Grand Army Hall. 2011 N.Y. Mag. 5 Dec. 41/1 When I came to the last two or three GAs before September 17, it was actually amazing, because suddenly you had a group that was easily finding consensus. 2017 J. A. Moore & J. Pubantz New United Nations (ed. 2) iv. 119 The GA meets in formal session every fall at UN headquarters in New York City. extracted from Gn. GA GA n. civil aviation activities other than large-scale commercial passenger or freight transport; = general aviation n. at general adj. and n. Compounds 2. ΚΠ 1974 Palmdale Intercontinental Airport: Environmental Impact Study (Arthur D. Little, Inc.) I. ii. 71 In the interests of increasing airport capacity, it has been proposed that general aviation (GA) activity be diverted from the major air carrier airports. 1990 Pilot Oct. 60/1 All GA flights using the main apron at Luton must now be handled—self-handling is no longer allowed. 2005 Pilot Oct. 31/2 Commercial aviation would rather encourage scud-running than see GA get a freebie. extracted from Gn. < n.¹1824n.²adj.1852n.³1875 as lemmas
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