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Translingual edit
Etymology edit
A cursive variation of ᾱ or ᾱᾱ, the abbreviation of Greek ἀνά (aná) used in recipes and prescriptions with the meaning "of each", and later extended to accounting. (Other explanations have that it is ā, an abbreviation of Latin ad (“to”), or French à (“to”).)
Use to create gender-neutral spellings of Spanish and Portuguese words is due to the fact that @ resembles both the feminine ending/element a and the masculine o.
Symbol edit
@ (English symbol name at sign)
- (computing) The symbol used as a separator between a username and a domain name in an e-mail address ("at" the domain name).
- My e-mail address is psychonaut@example.com.
- At the rate of; per.
- 7 @ $2 = $14(that is, seven, at two dollars each, are fourteen dollars).
- (computing, IRC) The most common choice of configurable prefix symbol to identify a channel operator.
- (Internet) Prepended to the name of the user to whom a remark is addressed.
- Bob: How can I stop other people from accessing my files when they use my computer?
Jack: @Bob: You need to protect the files with a password.
- Bob: How can I stop other people from accessing my files when they use my computer?
- (phonetics) A pulse of laughter. (Thus @@@ is the transcription equivalent of ha! ha! ha! or hee! hee! hee! etc. in conventional orthography.)
See also edit
- English: at sign
English edit
Pronunciation edit
- (stressed) enPR: ăt, IPA(key): /æt/ ("at")
- (unstressed) IPA(key): /ət/
- (Northern US, rare) IPA(key): /itʃæt/ ("each at")
Audio (US) (file) - Rhymes: -æt
- Homophone: at
Preposition edit
@
- at a rate of (so much each)
- 15 items @ $10
- @ 80 km/h (at eighty kilometres per hour)
- (informal) at (any sense)
- @ 20°C (at twenty degrees Celsius)
- Text message: "im @ school."
Translations edit
Verb edit
@ (third-person singular simple present @s, present participle @ing, simple past and past participle @ed)
- (Internet slang) To reply to or talk to someone, either online or face to face. (from the practice of targeting a message or reply to someone online by writing @name)
- Honestly, don't @ me if you don't have anything nice to say.
- He angrily @ed me after I made an innocent comment.
Usage notes edit
Chiefly used in the phrase "don't @ me". It can be used humorously when stated after an unpopular or ironic opinion, to forestall dissent.
Alternative forms edit
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@
- Forming gender-neutral versions of Spanish-derived words by replacing both the masculine -o and feminine -a.
- By extension, sometimes used to blend other pairs of words that differ by being spelled with o vs a.
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German edit
Pronunciation edit
Preposition edit
@
- (informal, Internet) regarding
- (The addition of quotations indicative of this usage is being sought:)
Hebrew edit
Symbol edit
@
- (computing) The symbol used as a separator between a username and a domain name in an e-mail address.
Usage notes edit
The symbol is called כְּרוּכִית (krukhit, “strudel; at sign, @”), or sometimes colloquially שְׁטְרוּדֶל (“strudel; at sign, @”).
Hungarian edit
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@
- (computing) The symbol used as a separator between a username and a domain name in an e-mail address.
Usage notes edit
The symbol is called kukac (“worm”) in Hungarian because of its shape.
Japanese edit
Etymology 1 edit
Symbol edit
@
- (computing) The symbol used as a separator between a username and a domain name in an e-mail address.
- (Internet slang) used to attach a qualifier to someone's name
- cosMo@暴走P
- cosMo@BōsōP
- cosMo@Bōsō-P
- てさぐれ!部活もの
- ドンチキ田中@イケメン大好き
- Donchiki Tanaka@Ikemen daisuki
- Donchiki Tanaka@I Love Hot Men
- ドンチキ田中@イケメン大好き
- cosMo@暴走P
Usage notes edit
The symbol is called 単価記号 (tankakigō), アットマーク (atto māku), or アット (atto).
Etymology 2 edit
Pronunciation edit
Particle edit
- at a rate of
- 500 @ 5円
- gohyaku atto go-en
- 500 items at 5 yen each
- 500 @ 5円
Etymology 3 edit
Pronunciation edit
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Etymology 4 edit
Pronunciation edit
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Malagasy edit
Preposition edit
@
- (informal) Abbreviation of amin'ny.
Portuguese edit
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@
Russian edit
Symbol edit
@
Usage notes edit
- This symbol is called эт (et), лягу́шка (ljagúška), обезья́нка (obezʹjánka), соба́ка (sobáka), or комме́рческое «эт» (kommérčeskoje “et”).
Serbo-Croatian edit
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@
Usage notes edit
The sign has several possible names:
Spanish edit
Symbol edit
@
- the symbol for the arroba unit of weight and volume
- (informal) a replacement for o or e and a, to include both masculine and feminine forms
- l@s alumn@s = {los alumnos, las alumnas}
- the students
- est@ usuari@ = {este usuario, esta usuaria}
- this user
- 2000, Onofre Ricardo Contreras Jordán, La formación inicial y permanente del profesor de educación física, Univ de Castilla La Mancha, →ISBN, page 131:
- Deberá el/la tutor/a orientar, reconducir y resolver las mil y una dudas que se plantean l@s alumn@s en el prácticum ya sea I, II o III, en sus diferentes actuaciones docentes, en cuanto a evaluación, niveles de dificultad parámetros que evaluar y un largo etc […]
- The tutor must guide, redirect and resolve the thousand and one doubts that students have in the practicum, whether I, II or III, in their different teaching activities, in terms of evaluation, levels of difficulty, parameters to be evaluated and a broad […]
Swedish edit
Symbol edit
@
- (computing) The symbol used as a separator between a username and a domain name in an e-mail address.
Usage notes edit
The symbol is called snabel-a (“elephant's trunk A”) in Swedish because of its shape. Less formally it is also known as kanelbulle (“cinnamon roll”) or alfakrull (“alpha curl”)
Turkish edit
Symbol edit
@ (et işareti)
- her biri (“each”)