Il
illinium.
Il
1 AmericanSymbol, Chemistry.
IL
2
American
abbreviation
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Illinois (approved especially for use with zip code).
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Baseball. injured list.
Players testing positive for the virus will be put on a specially designated IL, but details of their medical condition will not be disclosed.
il-
3
American
il-
4
American
-il
5
American
il.
6
American
abbreviation
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illustrated.
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illustration.
IL
1
British
abbreviation
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Illinois
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Israel (international car registration)
il
2
British
abbreviation
il-
3
British
prefix
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In October, Pogacar was due to defend his title at the European Championships in Ljubljana, in his home country, and in the Il Lombardia - the final one-day Monument race of the season.
From BBC ● Sep. 5, 2026
The payoff is a vanity project like no other, except maybe Saddam Hussein’s commissioned Victory Arch of swords in Baghdad, or Kim Il Sung’s North Korean Mansu Hill Grand Monument.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 5, 2026
An Italian restaurant in Manhattan, Il Punto, said the woman Sara Sanchez, was the wife of one of its employees, and that their baby Antonella Garcia was the second fatality.
From Barron's ● Aug. 10, 2026
In 1982, Il Yeon Kwon, a Korean immigrant, realized that New Yorkers needed a reliable source for napa cabbage, the essential ingredient in kimchi, and opened a small grocery store in Queens.
From Salon ● Jul. 23, 2026
The music tinkled out shrilly, a song from Carmen or Il Trovatore.
From "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" by Betty Smith
Cleveland Guardians: Jo Adell didn’t come off the IL, but the addition of the former confounding Angels prospect in an August salary dump has bolstered the Guardians’ outfield — long a problem area.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 16, 2026
López was placed on the IL again Tuesday.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 16, 2026
Pham was activated from the IL on Wednesday and could provide valuable postseason experience to complement his young new teammates — he has hit .315 in 37 career playoff games.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 16, 2026
“Where we’re at in the season, an IL is not an option in the sense of — I personally don’t think we have a better option,” Roberts said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 15, 2026
“We used to play mah jong, winner take all. But the same 1 n IL JUI L,UL> A UL.UD people were always winning, the same people always losing,” she says.
From "The Joy Luck Club" by Amy Tan
But to the major league pitchers who had used "spitballs" extensively before they became il- legal, permission was given to continue using them.
From Time Magazine Archive
Jesus il- lumines them, showing the poverty of mortal existence, 501:9 but richly recompensing human want and woe with spiritual gain.
From Science and Health, with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy
This prefix thus appears as en-, i-, il-, im-, in-, ir-, as enemy, ignoble, illegal, immortal, infirm, irregular.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 4 of 4: S-Z and supplements) by Various
NOTE.—The forms il-, im-, and ir- are euphonic variations of in-.
From New Word-Analysis Or, School Etymology of English Derivative Words by William Swinton
This prefix thus appears as am-, an-, em-, en-, il-, im-, in-, ir-, as ambush, anoint, embrace, enclose, illude, immure, include, irritate.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 4 of 4: S-Z and supplements) by Various
To hew = hak‑i; -il denotes instrument; -ist denotes agent. 2Brother and sister.
From International Language Past, Present and Future: With Specimens of Esperanto and Grammar by Walter John Clark
See -ive. -il, -ile, able, as civil, ductile.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 4 of 4: S-Z and supplements) by Various
To hew = hak‑i; suf. -il denotes instrument. 8Leader of the band.
From International Language Past, Present and Future: With Specimens of Esperanto and Grammar by Walter John Clark
I took one more and it said, “chicago il. 3.19.32.”
From "Bud, Not Buddy" by Christopher Paul Curtis
Midsummer night's dream; introductory story, decorations and il. by L.F.
From Lists of Stories and Programs for Story Hours by Effie L. (Effie Louise) Power
Et il dist que donc lottroyera il. and he is well entertained.
From Lancelot of the Laik A Scottish Metrical Romance by Walter W. (Walter William) Skeat
—Tales from the field, a series of popular tales from the Norse, by Sir G. Dasent, il. by M. Smith.
From Lists of Stories and Programs for Story Hours by Effie L. (Effie Louise) Power
Rose and the ring; il. by Gordon Browne.
From Lists of Stories and Programs for Story Hours by Effie L. (Effie Louise) Power
No doubt this was because it was impossible to imagine il Divino, as Michelangelo was known in his day, being dependent on anyone’s ideas but his own.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 30, 2026
Other developed countries also experienced their post-World War II growth spurts: les Trente Glorieuses in France, the Wirtschaftswunder in Germany, il miracolo economico in Italy, or the Japanese economic miracle.
From Salon ● Aug. 5, 2023
A thunderous cheer along with scattered calls of “Viva il papa!”
From New York Times ● Jun. 18, 2023
The newspaper il Corriere della Sera reports that the area guarantees the governments of Italy and Israel a certain freedom of movement.
From BBC ● Jun. 2, 2023
But it doesn’t matter, I will utter those few words I still remember: La illaha il Allah, Muhammad u rasul ullah.
From "The Kite Runner" by Khaled Hosseini
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