ala
noun
a wing.
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ala
1 American
[ey-luh]
/ ˈeɪ lə /
noun
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alae
plural
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a wing.
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a winglike part, process, or expansion, as of a bone, shell, seed, or stem.
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either of the two side petals of a flower in the legume family, as the pea.
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(in an ancient Roman house) a small room, as an alcove, opening into a larger room or courtyard.
Ala
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American
[ah-lah]
/ ˈɑ lɑ /
noun
Ala
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American
abbreviation
Biochemistry.
Ala.
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American
abbreviation
A.L.A.
5
American
abbreviation
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American Library Association.
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Associate in Liberal Arts.
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Authors League of America.
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Automobile Legal Association.
ala
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British
/ ˈeɪlə /
noun
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zoology a wing or flat winglike process or structure, such as a part of some bones and cartilages
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botany a winglike part, such as one of the wings of a sycamore seed or one of the flat petals of a sweet pea flower
Ala.
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Etymology
Origin of ala
1730–40; < Latin āla wing, armpit, shoulder, representing *aks-lā, derivative of same base as axis axle ( see axis 1); see axle
Vocabulary lists containing ala
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Last month I also decided to practice manifestation ala influencer Amanda Francis, and as I delivered four large dishes to a client, I said to myself, “Money is flowing toward me in abundance.”
From Salon ● Dec. 16, 2024
The only question is whether he breaks the bank or opts for a more team-friendly deal ala Tom Brady to surround himself with more talent.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 15, 2022
Nicknames get coined for losses like these, ala the “Monday Night Massacre” of 2010.
From Washington Times ● Dec. 26, 2021
The game pauses, and you have so many seconds to make your choice before action resumes with a little “Character will remember that” box ala the Telltale games of yore.
From The Verge ● Oct. 27, 2021
WAKA: "E—o, heaha la kau o ka po e ala nei?"
From The Hawaiian Romance Of Laieikawai by Martha Warren Beckwith
The idea is to serve Hyatt’s more affluent guests, but in smaller markets like Marysville, Calif., and Mobile, Ala.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 29, 2026
Kiker earned his nickname because he sang while working his day job, hanging off the back of a garbage truck in Mobile, Ala.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 14, 2025
Her two sisters, Ala and Jana, nod in agreement as we sit, squeezed together on this cold winter's day, on an old lumpy sofa in their humble home in Homs.
From BBC ● Dec. 17, 2024
Memory has reduced “Forrest Gump” to a few lines of dialogue and the ubiquitous meme of Tom Hanks “running like the wind” blows down the country road outside his home in Greenbow, Ala.
From Salon ● Jul. 7, 2024
“Really? I thought if we studied the Ala Wai Canal . . .” She trails off.
From "Clairboyance" by Kristiana Kahakauwila
He found more than 100 in Huntsville, Ala., his hometown, and started DeFlock, a site to organize opposition and create a crowdsourced map of camera locations.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 26, 2026
Born Trent Clutts on Dec. 16, 1958, in Huntsville, Ala., Cody was inspired to pursue a career in broadcasting during visits to a Kentucky radio station with his dad.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 11, 2026
The company is based in Huntsville, Ala., and is led by James “Trip” Ferguson External link.
From Barron's ● Jun. 3, 2026
District Court in Birmingham, Ala., issued a preliminary injunction directing the state to re-use the “race blind” maps the court created for the 2024 congressional election.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 26, 2026
Early in my career I was fortunate enough to secure the show rights for a fair in Montgomery, Ala., which was held just at the end of the northern show season.
From Sawdust & Spangles Stories & Secrets of the Circus by W. C. Coup
The A.L.A. experimented with arrangements for choosing the winners before opting, in the late 1930s, for a committee of 23 librarians who selected both the Newbery and Caldecott recipients.
From New York Times ● Dec. 12, 2019
They’d been at the A.L.A. midwinter conference, in Atlanta.
From The New Yorker ● Feb. 19, 2017
But Ungerer crossed a line at the A.L.A. event, as the crowd pushed him—asking how dare he draw “Fornicon” and children’s books.
From The New Yorker ● Feb. 4, 2015
It was the first A.L.A. award for Mr. Alexander, a poet and novelist who has published 17 books.
From New York Times ● Feb. 2, 2015
Trustees, Boards of, 265; duties of, 279; standpoint in library work, 261; A.L.A. section, 265.
From The Library and Society Reprints of Papers and Addresses by Arthur Elmore Bostwick
The wildlife refuge is a wetland that provides nesting, feeding and resting habitat to the endangered Hawaiian stilt, known as aeo, and the Hawaiian coot or alae keokeo.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 9, 2023
The facial disc is divided into three parts by a median area of straight or irregular lateral boundaries ending anteriorly in two in-turned scrolls suggesting the alae of the nose.
From Animal Figures in the Maya Codices by Alfred M. (Alfred Marston) Tozzer
So, by the direction of the alae, Maui-mua began to rub the leaf-stalk of the a-pe plant with a piece of stick, but the fire would not come.
From Hawaiian Folk Tales A Collection of Native Legends by Thomas G. (Thomas George) Thrum
In the days that followed he devised many cunning schemes to trap one of the alae birds, but they, too, were cunning and carefully refrained from building any fire when Maui was near.
From Legends of the Wailuku by Will Herwig
Like Osteocephalus, skulls of the members of the genus Phrynohyas are broader than long, have extensive dermal roofing bones, and have posterolaterally oriented parasphenoid alae.
From A Synopsis of Neotropical Hylid Frogs, Genus Osteocephalus by William E. Duellman
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