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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.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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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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we,
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me,
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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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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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"Find the money to fund end-of-life care," is Lord Blunkett's "plea to Burnham", according to the i Paper.
From BBC ● Sep. 7, 2026
The British royal family is vulnerable to cyber attacks from hostile states, according to the i Paper.
From BBC ● Sep. 3, 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
Well, this book’s position is that yesterday’s custom can be safely ignored. i TOMBSTONE: Use It is I, not It is me.
From "Woe Is I" by Patricia T. O'Conner
He added: "I know they've done it with a florist before, and I think they've done it with an ice cream parlour before."
From BBC ● Sep. 18, 2026
"He came with his football - the way he wants to play and the high intensity which I think will benefit me, the club and the way the club wants to play football," added Isak.
From BBC ● Sep. 18, 2026
"And I think that the police's urgency to get him arrested and the urgency to get it in the press, I think he couldn't understand why there wasn't an urgency to help clear his name."
From BBC ● Sep. 18, 2026
"I don't think it does our reputation as a welcoming destination any good and can become quite damaging -- tourism is an important part of the Australian economy," she told AFP.
From Barron's
Often, she says what I want to say but can’t.
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
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
The old ‘Minor Declensions’ had begun to pass over into the vocalic, especially into the i- and a-, declensions in the oldest OHG.
From A Middle High German Primer Third Edition by Joseph Wright
A remarkable incident soon served to intimate the coolness and caution with which it was her intention-254--vol i- to proceed in re-establishing the maxims of the reformers.
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
Vol. ii. pt. i., by L. Nix and W. Schmidt, contains the Mechanics in Arabic, Greek fragments of the same, the Catoptrica in Latin with appendices of extracts from Olympiodorus, Vitruvius, Pliny, &c.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 4 "Hero" to "Hindu Chronology" 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
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
Pearl diving has all but disappeared, particularly after the mass production of cultured pearls on farms after World War I. In Gulf countries, the extinction of this profession converges with a familiar story.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 6, 2026
Even a retreat that flops can draw employees closer while they commiserate over its lameness, adds Michael I. Norton, a Harvard Business School professor who has studied group rituals.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 23, 2026
The violin in Baerwald’s hands was the one his German-Jewish grandfather played as a Japanese prisoner of war in the Bandō camp at Tokushima during World War I. “It’s a very serviceable violin,” Baerwald notes.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 8, 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
“So did I. Don’t go away, please, unless you’d rather.”
From "Little Women" by Louisa May Alcott
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
I, except that some of them have imperatives in -i: vaki, þęfi; uni. lifa, sęgja have imper. lif, sęg.
From Icelandic Primer with Grammar, Notes and Glossary by Henry Sweet
In most words of this class the final -i of the stem is lost in the Nominative Singular; in others it appears as -e.
From New Latin Grammar by Charles E. (Charles Edwin) Bennett
Thus final -o bespeaks a noun; -a, an adjective; -e, an adverb; -i, an infinitive, etc.
From International Language Past, Present and Future: With Specimens of Esperanto and Grammar by Walter John Clark
Judges were unmoved that Luitpold’s forebears had brewed in the region since 1260, written the purity law and invented Oktoberfest for his great-great-grandfather King Ludwig I’s 1810 wedding.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 7, 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
Child I's mother suggested senior managers should face sanctions if they ignore whistleblowers' concerns.
From BBC ● Sep. 19, 2024
The WNBA’s No. 1 overall draft pick and Division I’s career scoring leader revved up a raucous Indiana Pacers crowd by pumping the accelerator of a replica IndyCar before Game 3 against the Milwaukee Bucks.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 26, 2024
I's the one what set him to dusting.
From "How It Went Down" by Kekla Magoon
Watch: Is Canada about to join the EU?
From BBC ● Sep. 17, 2026
Appeared in the September 17, 2026, print edition as 'Kevin Warsh Is an Inflation Hawk'.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 16, 2026
Is this sort of thing worth the hassle?
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 16, 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 it possible he was asking to be connected to the man who had just attacked me?
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
The deputy chief told Boyd that Spivey’s body was towed “to make sure that every i’s dotted, t’s crossed to clear you.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 21, 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
The i's Anna Bonet added Intermezzo is "mature and profound and feels like a culmination of everything she has done before".
From BBC ● Sep. 23, 2024
At Swarthmore, Libbi got all A’s and B’s and started to spell her name with two i’s.
From "Woe Is I" by Patricia T. O'Conner
The auction comes ahead of the release of Marr's first studio album in four years, The Age Of Everything, which is due out on 2 October.
From BBC ● Sep. 18, 2026
The Mythic Reinvention exhibition, which is free, includes just a small fraction of the theatre's collection.
From BBC ● Sep. 18, 2026
Conservationists have said they are worried a grant the charity had secured is at risk if the work is not completed in time.
From BBC ● Sep. 18, 2026
A right of way has now been established, while the council has been ordered by the courts to pay £50,000 costs and to ensure her access is not impeded again.
From BBC ● Sep. 18, 2026
It is here that Joey—now cured of tuberculosis—meets Renato Guerrero.
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
"It wasn't actually something we had in mind when we were developing the exhibition, or even when we asked the National Gallery if they would lend this painting," he explained.
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
"There is no improvement anywhere, and when things evolve in a way that every day things get a little bit worse, we are at a serious risk of an explosion."
From Barron's
The farther we get from Mr. Thompson’s farm, the more the wide-open, remote land stirs him with wonder.
From "Will’s Race for Home" by Jewell Parker Rhodes
“It was quite an image that is very vivid to me right now.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 18, 2026
"He came with his football - the way he wants to play and the high intensity which I think will benefit me, the club and the way the club wants to play football," added Isak.
From BBC ● Sep. 18, 2026
He said: "I am grateful for the opportunity to respond, but I remain committed to the ongoing trust investigation, and it would be inappropriate for me to discuss this whilst proceedings are ongoing."
From BBC ● Sep. 17, 2026
Before I started working, Murano to me, was one door: my grandfather’s factory.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 17, 2026
The other man sets me down on the dirt like I don’t matter at all.
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
Dozens of affected women and their families contacted us following our earlier reporting.
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
The Government wants us all to start preparing for severe disruption to our lives.
From BBC ● Sep. 17, 2026
“Wasn’t afraid. We walked for almost a year. Over rough terrain. Crossing streams, rivers. Snarled woods and swamps. Just us two.”
From "Will’s Race for Home" by Jewell Parker Rhodes
“La Opinión helped families like mine stay informed about what was happening in our communities and gave Spanish-speaking Angelenos a voice,” she said in a written statement.
From Los Angeles Times ● 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
“Increased mining rates at Break of Day following the Stage 2 cutback, along with mine life extensions at Penny, should drive higher head grades through FY27 and FY28,” says the broker.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 14, 2026
On April 19, it struck a British mine and sank.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 14, 2026
Every seat in the place is taken, all eyes except mine are glued to one of the flat-screen TVs, watching the Leafs battle the Montréal Canadiens.
From "Red Flags and Butterflies" by Sheryl Azzam
"I don't think that I would have been able to do it without the financial support from my parents," 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
“We’re trying to shift our mindset,” Mitchell said, “and not try to hold ourselves to the expectations of what I saw my mom do.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 17, 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
Yet, I realize, my arms and legs are puny compared to Midnight’s limbs.
From "Will’s Race for Home" by Jewell Parker Rhodes
Read our article on why some US restaurants are banning tips.
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
A frontbencher said: "With the possible exception of our position on Trump, you could characterise most of our press lines as 'a Lib Dem spokesperson said, steady on now, gently does it'."
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
“Come to our house,” she says, and hangs up.
From "At Last She Stood" by Erin Entrada Kelly
Whenever he seems confused, I’m delighted; it’s reassuring to see someone so smart still struggle to fathom this thing of ours.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 15, 2026
“It looked like this newsroom has money and ours doesn’t,” Koman adds.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 11, 2026
Dolly was one of us, ours, but of course she was also much more.
From Salon ● Aug. 26, 2026
"Back then, the settlers were living alongside us, and we coexisted peacefully. They lived their lives and we lived ours," he told me.
From BBC ● Aug. 21, 2026
But Anna’s house was like ours: a hearth with banked-up ashes, a bed of straw, a three-legged stool.
From "Nory Ryan’s Song" by Patricia Reilly Giff
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