“Getting out of x band is on option,” said one senior Air Force official.
A bunch of old, white, rock titans come together with young, white, x Factor hotties to persuade Britain to heal Africa.
His company names all ended in an x—EBx, OGx, MMx—because in numerology, x stands for the multiplication of wealth.
x was then warned of the near miss via a correspondent who had worked with him in the past.
He said that he had secured the fixer, ‘x,’ through a fellow Western journalist, and not by writing to 30 Syrians via Facebook.
I have let x equal the unknown quantity, but I don't know Y.
"Why—er—well, there's the most competition on the x & Y Road," he said, slowly.
And the 'x' would indicate that it is inhabited, but not by intelligent beings.
x received this declaration with his usual woodenness and went on.
The x's, Flossie explained, indicated kisses—a dozen to an x.
most English words beginning in -x- are of Greek origin or modern commercial coinages. East Anglian in 14c. showed a tendency to use -x- for initial sh-, sch- (cf. xal for shall), which didn't catch on but seems an improvement over the current system. As a symbol of a kiss on a letter, etc., it is recorded from 1765. In malt liquor, XX denoted "double quality" and XXX "strongest quality" (1827).
Algebraic meaning "unknown quantity" (1660 in English), sometimes said to be from medieval use, originally a crossed -r-, probably from Latin radix (see root (n.)). Other theories trace it to Arabic, but a more prosaic explanation says Descartes (1637) took x, y, z, the last three letters of the alphabet, for unknowns to correspond to a, b, c, used for known quantities.
Used allusively for "unknown person" from 1797, "something unknown" since 1859. As a type of chromosome, attested from 1902 (first so called in German; Henking, 1891). First used 1950 in Britain to designate "films deemed suitable for adults only;" adopted in U.S. Nov. 1, 1968.
22nd letter of the Greek alphabet, representing a -kh- sound (see ch). The letter is shaped like an X, and so the Greek letter name was used figuratively to signify such a shape or arrangement (e.g. khiasma "two things placed crosswise;" khiastos "arranged diagonally; marked with an X;" khiazein "to mark with an 'X', to write the letter 'X'"). Some dialects used chi to represent the -ks- sound properly belonging to xi; Latin picked this up and the sound value of chi in Latin-derived alphabets is now that of English X.
chi or khi (kī)
n.
Symbol χ The 22nd letter of the Greek alphabet.
noun
A variety of amphetamine narcotic: Ecstasy, by emergency order of the Drug Enforcement Administration, illegal (1980s+ Narcotics)
noun
A former wife or husband, girlfriend or boyfriend, etc: He introduced his ex rather casually, considering they were together 27 years (1929+)
noun
A person's signature: Just put your X on this and we're in business
[fr the custom of an illiterate person to make an X in place of a written signature]
noun
Ecstasy, a variety of amphetamine narcotic (1990s+ Narcotics)
verb
To use the narcotic ecstasy: Many of us have had the experience of being around someone who is X-ing
