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Inounthe ninth letter of the English alphabet, a vowel.
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i-variant of y-.
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i.
i.abbreviationimperator.
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-i-the typical ending of the first element of compounds of Latin words, as -o- is of Greek words, but often used in English with a first element of any origin, if the second element is of Latin origin.
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I.abbreviationIndependent.
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-isuffixof or relating to a region or people, esp of the Middle East
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1 AmericanMathematics.
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Also called imaginary unit. the imaginary number .
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a unit vector on the x -axis of a coordinate system.
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[ahy]
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the ninth letter of the English alphabet, a vowel.
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any spoken sound represented by the letter I or i, as in big, nice, or ski.
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something having the shape of an I.
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a written or printed representation of the letter I or i.
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a device, as a printer's type, for reproducing the letter I or i.
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[ahy]
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we,
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me,
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us,
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my,
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mine,
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our,
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(used to denote the narrator of a literary work written in the first person singular.)
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Metaphysics. the ego.
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Symbol.
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the ninth in order or in a series.
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(sometimes lowercase) the Roman numeral for 1.
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Chemistry. iodine.
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Biochemistry. isoleucine.
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Electricity. current.
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Logic. particular affirmative.
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(italics) isotopic spin.
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imperator.
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incisor.
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interest.
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intransitive.
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island.
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isle; isles.
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Independent.
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Island; Islands.
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Isle; Isles.
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Island or Isle
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chem iodine
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physics current
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physics isospin
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logic a particular affirmative categorial statement, such as some men are married, often symbolized as SiP Compare A E O 1
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the ninth letter and third vowel of the modern English alphabet
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any of several speech sounds represented by this letter, in English as in bite or hit
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something shaped like an I
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See me.
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Etymology
Origin of I
First recorded before 900; Middle English ik, ich, i, Old English ic, ih; cognate with Gothic ik, German ich, Old Norse ek, Latin ego, Greek egṓ, Old Church Slavonic azŭ, Lithuanian aš, Sanskrit ahám
Example Sentences
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The i Paper says it was the "day that changed the world".
From BBC ● Sep. 11, 2026
The i Paper says Chancellor John Healey will announce a new ISA which will help older first-time buyers in Britain.
From BBC ● Sep. 8, 2026
The deal would mark Couche-Tard’s largest-ever acquisition after it abandoned a $47 billion takeover attempt of Seven & i, the Japanese owner of 7-Eleven, last year.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 1, 2026
David Zwirner presents Roy DeCarava’s “the sound i saw,” bringing together photographs taken in the late 1940s and 1960s.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 1, 2026
It’s is short for it is, and the apostrophe replaces the missing i in is.
From "Woe Is I" by Patricia T. O'Conner
"My school was very tolerant towards what I was doing, so I was fortunate."
From BBC ● Sep. 18, 2026
She said: "I really do believe we can break it, but a lot of things have got to come together."
From BBC ● Sep. 18, 2026
"I just think I'm so fortunate that I was in a sport where everybody accepted that you have men and women's races in the Olympics."
From BBC ● Sep. 18, 2026
Lee said Friday it was "clear" that "Trump wants dialogue, and I am also urging President Trump to engage in dialogue."
From Barron's
I want to tell Father, “Stop, slow,” but I can feel how his spirit, his mind are trying to rush pass sadness.
From "Will’s Race for Home" by Jewell Parker Rhodes
Yet that doesn't make its turnaround solely the work of one heavily stubbled mastermind, who saved a company through his singular vision, taste and liberal use of the i- prefix.
From The Guardian ● Jan. 25, 2011
But it wasn't until Cipla came out with the i- pill in 2007, marketing it to modern young women through television and magazine advertising, that women took to it.
From Time ● May 26, 2010
Cecil replied, "Yes, madam,-282--vol i- and she says your majesty would like to do so too;" lord Robert Dudley then filling the office of master of the horse to the queen.
From Memoirs of the Court of Queen Elizabeth by Lucy Aikin
By a change he had every thing to lose, and nothing to-129--vol i- gain.
From Memoirs of the Court of Queen Elizabeth by Lucy Aikin
With a just and pleasing confidence, the queen replied, 'I warrant you it is for-251--vol i- gladness,'" "How many nosegays did her grace receive at poor women's hands!
From Memoirs of the Court of Queen Elizabeth by Lucy Aikin
And a lot of people, not just the Gilbreths, were very worried that the “best women” i. e. highly educated women were not reproducing.
From Scientific American ● Sep. 21, 2023
Combining the results from parts i. and ii., draw a rough sketch of f .
From Textbooks ● Mar. 30, 2016
Properties i. and ii. say that line integrals are linear, which is true of single-variable integrals as well.
From Textbooks ● Mar. 30, 2016
Within minutes, I got my answer: “@sethporges yes. my girlfriend cathy and i. and i used to do puppet shows.”
From Forbes ● Jun. 26, 2012
Econom. i. 4-8-9.648.Plutarch enforces the duty at length, in his very beautiful work on marriage.
From History of European Morals From Augustus to Charlemagne (Vol. 2 of 2) by William Edward Hartpole Lecky
The concord of the 4th prefix, Mi-, is gi-, -i-, -ji-, and sometimes -mi-.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 3 "Banks" to "Bassoon" by Various
It may be a connecting sound, like the -i- in nacht-i-gale.
From A Handbook of the English Language by R. G. (Robert Gordon) Latham
There is a gorgeous, heartbreaking story about a piano prodigy in France during World War I. The final story concerns the marriage between a Dutch clockmaker and a theoretical physicist.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 18, 2026
Born in Oregon to Taiwanese immigrants, Wang is herself a beneficiary of the doctrine she defended during the historic oral argument—as am I. Following the argument, interest in her background exploded.
From Slate ● May 26, 2026
But for the 11 months we were married, I experienced the glory of being a we instead of an I. Suddenly I was part of a giant club, the Partnered People.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 22, 2026
Jef I. Richards is a professor emeritus of advertising and public relations at Michigan State University’s College of Communication Arts and Sciences.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 15, 2026
We used to listen to the radio every evening, Mutti and I. All through the war we had done this, listening for news from the particular battlefront where we thought Papi was fighting.
From "An Elephant in the Garden" by Michael Morpurgo
Then, when you get to the step where you’re actually running the check-backup command, add -i ~/Downloads/pegasus.stix2 into the option section.
From The Verge ● Jul. 21, 2021
Singular masculine words end in -us, plurals end in -i.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 11, 2010
Nouns ending in -a, -e, -i, -y, -o, -l, -n, -t, -ar, -ur, -ŭs are Neuter.
From New Latin Grammar by Charles E. (Charles Edwin) Bennett
Its inflections are -as present, -is preterite, -os future, -us conditional, -u imperative and subjunctive, -i infinitive, together with the following participles:— Active.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 7 "Equation" to "Ethics" by Various
The suffix of manner defining the verb, is formed by adding the adjective with the final syllable changed to -i.
From The Mafulu Mountain People of British New Guinea by Robert Wood Williamson
The medieval Cloth Hall and St. Martin’s Church were two of the most prominent monuments in Ypres, Belgium, and among World War I’s early casualties.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 15, 2026
Caleb said he was told the Llantrisant Mace was older than most of the Crown Jewels and survived Oliver Cromwell trying to melt down any remaining precious metal bearing Charles I's crest.
From BBC ● Jun. 18, 2026
The company taking the top spot on Gauntlet I’s leaderboard External link was Skycutter, a British startup that partnered with Ukrainian drone company SkyFall.
From Barron's ● Apr. 28, 2026
Queen Elizabeth I’s elaborate mask-like daily makeup ritual not only hid her smallpox scars but was also meant to project a preternatural agelessness.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 24, 2024
“Son, I’s gwine ax you to come up to de house wid me. My old feets, dey cain’ make it back down heah agin today.”
From "Cold Sassy Tree" by Olive Ann Burns
Is the iPhone Duo discriminating against left-handed users?
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 17, 2026
Is it control of self-replicating armies of autonomous drones, or a cancer-free utopia that hits Type II on the Kardashev scale?
From Salon ● Sep. 16, 2026
"Is your ability to look after yourself changing? Are you able to decompress from work? Is your sleep OK?"
From BBC ● Sep. 15, 2026
Is it vertical applications like Harvey for legal or Cursor for coding?
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 15, 2026
Is it possible that he was never asking to be connected to the Forty-Eighth regiment?
From "The Brightwood Code" by Monica Hesse
"I had really dotted all the i's and crossed all the t's of the experiment," he said.
From Science Daily ● May 18, 2026
Sometimes, he says, “dotting i’s and crossing t’s has to come second to right and wrong.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2025
“I know sometimes people feel like, why hasn’t there been more information? But again, just trying to make sure we have i’s dotted and t’s crossed.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 26, 2025
A Japanese company of Seven & i's size has never been bought by a firm from overseas.
From BBC ● Oct. 8, 2024
He tries it in various styles, his hand unaccustomed to the angles of the N, the dotting of the two i’s.
From "The Namesake" by Jhumpa Lahiri
The Mythic Reinvention exhibition, which is free, includes just a small fraction of the theatre's collection.
From BBC ● Sep. 18, 2026
Mythic Reinvention: An exhibition celebrating 50 Years of Costume and Craft is open until 15 November.
From BBC ● Sep. 18, 2026
When customers asked why their drink was free, his staff told them "because Harry Styles is buying everyone's coffee today," he said.
From BBC ● Sep. 18, 2026
Police said they believe she then boarded a bus to nearby Altrincham at about 13:50 BST, but it is not known where she got off.
From BBC ● Sep. 17, 2026
She can’t really hear God’s voice booming through the trees, but she pretends she does, because she’s imagining that she is Joan of Arc.
From "At Last She Stood" by Erin Entrada Kelly
“With short positioning stretched and Fed pricing aggressive, we expect the 10Y Treasury yield to consolidate in a 4.90-5.10% range for now.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026
"He said 'score goals', but he wants me to defend. The way we defend - we defend to score goals so defending, in the end, is an attacking weapon."
From BBC ● Sep. 18, 2026
Bamboo, which runs one of the most popular investor tools here, later apologised, saying: "We know we let you down."
From BBC ● Sep. 17, 2026
"I would say safety has been the core of who we are from the very beginning," Anthropic's head of policy, Sarah Heck, said at a Politico conference on Wednesday.
From Barron's
Thankfully, Nana Dee says goodbye, and we find shelter behind the closed door of Ruby’s bedroom.
From "Split the Sky" by Marie Arnold
“It was quite an image that is very vivid to me right now.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 18, 2026
"Ed is absolutely the right leader," she tells me.
From BBC ● Sep. 18, 2026
"I didn't realise how many ladies lived so near me that had been affected," says Lynn.
From BBC ● Sep. 17, 2026
“It gives me goosebumps that people can still find something in common and work together,” McCarthy said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 17, 2026
Father, his face tender, holds me at arm’s length.
From "Will’s Race for Home" by Jewell Parker Rhodes
“We thank the researchers for contacting us and sharing their findings. We narrowed the permissions on Community sign-in tokens and revoked affected tokens and sessions,” the company said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026
"There's an expectation that they keep us safe, and this flies in the face of that."
From BBC ● Sep. 17, 2026
“The school won’t allow us to practice until Wednesday and we’ll still be day-to-day after that.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 17, 2026
"It is no longer Dangote but 'Yangote', the company belongs to us now," he said while laughing.
From BBC ● Sep. 17, 2026
“Horses. One day, dozens. Neither of us will be lonely again.”
From "Will’s Race for Home" by Jewell Parker Rhodes
It has a buy rating and A$1.50 target on Larvotto, which owns a gold and antimony mine in Australia.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 16, 2026
"Macklemore coming off tour was the promoter's decision, it was not mine," Sheeran wrote in a lengthy Instagram post, adding that the rapper's contract was ended by the promoter, Messina Touring Group.
From Barron's ● Sep. 15, 2026
"Macklemore coming off tour was the promoter's decision, it was not mine," he wrote.
From BBC ● Sep. 15, 2026
On April 19, it struck a British mine and sank.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 14, 2026
Much to Mutti’s relief and mine, it did not seem to bother Marlene in the least.
From "An Elephant in the Garden" by Michael Morpurgo
“I went to my first Michigan football game in Ann Arbor, and for some mysterious reason, I fell in love with it,” she said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026
He argued that "those who come to my shows do not expect a political forum" and stressed he was not responsible for Macklemore being removed from the tour.
From BBC ● Sep. 18, 2026
"Over the last couple of months my whole TikTok and Instagram is just people learning to drive. It's like my algorithm knows, it's quite scary," she said.
From BBC ● Sep. 17, 2026
“Over the past few days, I have listened closely to the conversations, concerns, and heartfelt feedback shared across our community following my presentation honoring Chris Brown with a state resolution,” Jones said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 17, 2026
I remind myself that, like it or not, I have to find a way to clear my head of all the drama and chaos.
From "Split the Sky" by Marie Arnold
"At my age you don't know how many years you have left, and this has given me three years-plus of stress but now we have proven they blocked our rights."
From BBC ● Sep. 18, 2026
Mark Bernstein, then-board chair, said at the time it would be tantamount to “selling our soul to private capital.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026
Read our article on why some US restaurants are banning tips.
From BBC ● Sep. 18, 2026
“No family should have to suffer the loss of a child, and our thoughts continue to be with the Normandin-Parker family,” an Uber spokesperson said in a statement.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 17, 2026
I stand to the left of him, stroking Belle, our gray mule.
From "Will’s Race for Home" by Jewell Parker Rhodes
“It looked like this newsroom has money and ours doesn’t,” Koman adds.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 11, 2026
They’re surprisingly warm inside, and ours made a cozy setting for pork belly skewers, crab puffs and smoked cocktails.
From Salon ● Sep. 8, 2026
The messages prompted a quick response from the state’s governor, Democrat Michelle Lujan Grisham, who said that “New Mexico’s name isn’t up for debate—it’s been ours since before the United States existed.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 7, 2026
Liam on Marcus Rashford's future at United: I love Marcus, and the fact he is one of ours, and I would love him to come back and be as good as he was for us.
From BBC ● Aug. 21, 2026
Our shore duties also included cooking and cleaning for the master, and the boys fought over these jobs for the sake of his leftovers, which were far tastier than ours.
From "Flying Through Water" by Mamle Wolo
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