Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun An engma.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A large deciduous tree, Dipterocarpus tuberculatus, of Chittagong in Bengal, and of Burma.
  • noun A common abbreviation of England and of English.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun Roman alphabet ŋ: The Latin-based letter formed by combining the letters n and g, used in the IPA, Saami, Mende, and some Australian aboriginal languages. In the IPA, it represents the voiced velar nasal, the ng sound in running and rink.

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[Probably on the model of em and en.]

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Examples

  • "I love you [rev. eng]" is divided into four investigative areas - political, cultural, technical and historical - and focuses on the controversial positions of security experts and hackers, of net artists and programmers, of literature experts and code poets ...

    Boing Boing: September 19, 2004 - September 25, 2004 Archives 2004

  • Since we wish to add sound-files and pictures, we should make sure that these will all be in one folder which for convenience is being called eng-deu.

    KDE UserBase - Recent changes [en] 2010

  • Since we wish to add soundfiles and pictures, we should make sure that these will all be in one folder which for convenience is being called eng-deu.

    KDE UserBase - Recent changes [en] 2010

  • Since we wish to add soundfiles and pictures, we should make sure that these will all be in one folder which for convenience is being called eng-deu.

    KDE UserBase - Recent changes [en] Coles 2010

  • Since we wish to add soundfiles and pictures, we should make sure that these will all be in one folder which for convenience is being called eng-deu.

    KDE UserBase - Recent changes [en] 2010

  • Since we wish to add sound-files and pictures, we should make sure that these will all be in one folder which for convenience is being called eng-deu.

    KDE UserBase - Recent changes [en] 2010

  • Since we wish to add sound-files and pictures, we should make sure that these will all be in one folder which for convenience is being called eng-deu.

    KDE UserBase - Recent changes [en] 2010

  • Since we wish to add sound-files and pictures, we should make sure that these will all be in one folder which for convenience is being called eng-deu.

    KDE UserBase - Recent changes [en] 2010

  • Since we wish to add sound-files and pictures, we should make sure that these will all be in one folder which for convenience is being called eng-deu.

    KDE UserBase - Recent changes [en] 2010

  • Since we wish to add soundfiles and pictures, we should make sure that these will all be in one folder which for convenience is being called eng-deu.

    KDE UserBase - Recent changes [en] 2010

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  • the symbol ŋ, also called agma and angma

    February 29, 2008