O
[əʊ] or [o]
Definition
(noun.) the blood group whose red cells carry neither the A nor B antigens; 'people with type O blood are universal donors'.
(noun.) the 15th letter of the Roman alphabet.
Checker: Sylvia--From WordNet
Definition
(-) Among the ancients, O was a mark of triple time, from the notion that the ternary, or number 3, is the most perfect of numbers, and properly expressed by a circle, the most perfect figure.
(n.) The letter O, or its sound.
(n.) Something shaped like the letter O; a circle or oval.
(n.) A cipher; zero.
(a.) One.
(interj.) An exclamation used in calling or directly addressing a person or personified object; also, as an emotional or impassioned exclamation expressing pain, grief, surprise, desire, fear, etc.
Checker: Rene
Definition
interj. an exclamation of wonder pain desire fear &c. The form oh is the more usual in prose.—O hone! Och hone! an Irish exclamation of lamentation.
an abbrev. for of and on.
Checker: Terrance
Examples
- O, my good Lord! Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
- O child, the human heart _can_ suffer! Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Let it suffice h ere to state that Rutherford assumes that the greater mass of the atom consis ts o f negatively charged particles rotating about a positive nucle us. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- Dating from three o'clock yesterday. Jane Austen. Emma.
- Oh, at six o'clock: he keeps early hours in the country. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- O, good citizens, if you would have so much compassion for us! Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- At nine o'clock in the morning we went and stood before this marble colossus. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- The unfortunate inquirer staggered against a wall, a faint cry escaped her --O! Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- Had they not better throw these bodies to the plant men and then return to their quarters, O Mighty One? Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- At two o'clock I descended again to the breakfast-room, a little anxiously. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- Colonel O'Dowd, of the --th regiment, one of those occupying in Paris, warned Lieutenant Spooney of that corps. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- It was three o'clock in the morning. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- But as to listening to what one lawyer says without asking another--I wonder at a man o' your cleverness, Mr. Dill. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- He's one o' th' oud-fashioned sort. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- Punctually at eleven o'clock, the carriages began to arrive. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- The ray _RO_ (Fig. 65) passes obliquely through the air to the surface of the water, but, on entering the water, it is bent or refracted and takes the new path _OS_. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- Why, here's three Js, and three Os, and three J-O, Joes in it, Pip! Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- When the ray _RO_ enters the water, its path changes to _OS_. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
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