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See also: Appendix:Variations of "a" and Appendix:Variations of "at"
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Translingual
Etymology
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”).)
Symbol
@
- At the rate of; per.
- 7 @ $2 = $14 (that is, seven, at two dollars each, are fourteen dollars).
- (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.
- (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?
English
Pronunciation
Preposition
@
Verb
@
- (informal, neologism) 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.
- Cars 2 is the most influential film of all time. Don't @ me.
Usage notes
Chiefly used in the phrase "don't @ me". It can be used humorously when stated after an unpopular or ironic opinion, to forestall dissent.
See also
Symbol
@
Hebrew
Symbol
@
- (computing) The symbol used as a separator between a username and a domain name in an e-mail address.
Usage notes
The symbol is called כְּרוּכִית (krukhit, “strudel; at sign, @”), or sometimes colloquially שְׁטְרוּדֶל (“strudel; at sign, @”).
Hungarian
Symbol
@
- (computing) The symbol used as a separator between a username and a domain name in an e-mail address.
Japanese
Symbol
@
- at a rate of
- 500@¥5
- 500 items at a rate of 5 yen
- (slang, gaming) Alternative form of あと (ato, “remaining”)
- @5個
- @ 5 ko
- 5 items remaining
- @1時間で寝る
- @ 1 jikan de neru
- I'll go to bed in a hour
- @5個
- (internet jargon) 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
Malagasy
Abbreviation
@
- (informal) Abbreviation of amin'ny.
Portuguese
Russian
Usage notes
- This symbol is called эт (et), лягу́шка (ljagúška), обезья́нка (obezʹjánka), соба́ка (sobáka), or комме́рческое «эт» (kommérčeskoje “et”).
Serbo-Croatian
Spanish
Swedish
Symbol
@
- (computing) The symbol used as a separator between a username and a domain name in an e-mail address.
Usage notes
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
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