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Ir

1 American  

abbreviation

  1. Irish.


Ir 2 American  
Symbol, Chemistry.
  1. iridium.


IR 3 American  

abbreviation

  1. infrared.

  2. Football, Ice Hockey. injured reserve.

    Ending up on the IR so close to the end of the regular season may keep him off the ice for the entire Stanley Cup playoffs.

  3. intelligence ratio.

  4. information retrieval.


ir- 4 American  
  1. variant of in- (by assimilation) before r: irradiate.


ir- 5 American  
  1. variant of in- (by assimilation) before r: irreducible.


Ir. 6 American  

abbreviation

  1. Ireland.

  2. Irish.


I.R. 7 American  

abbreviation

  1. immediate reserve.

  2. infantry reserve.

  3. intelligence ratio.

  4. internal revenue.


IR 1 British  

abbreviation

  1. infrared

  2. (formerly, in Britain) Inland Revenue

  3. Iran (international car registration)

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

Ir. 2 British  

abbreviation

  1. Ireland

  2. Irish

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

Ir 3 British  

symbol

  1. iridium

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

ir- 4 British  

prefix

  1. a variant of in- 1 in- 2

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

ir 5 British  

abbreviation

  1. Iran

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Example Sentences

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Baden-Baden received the Mayor with flags and cheering, despite the immediate outcropping of his ir- repressible tendency to jest�this time a decision that the town "ought to be called Good & Gooder."

From Time Magazine Archive

It becomes il- before l; im- before b, m, and p; ir- before r.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 4 of 4: S-Z and supplements) by Various

The line of breakers ran for about a mile from southwest to northeast, and two hundred fathoms to the north of the ship an ir- regular mass of rocks formed a small islet.

From The Survivors of the Chancellor by Verne, Jules

During all this time the pris- 431:6 oner attended to his daily labors, partaking of food at ir-         regular intervals, sometimes going to sleep immediately         after a heavy meal.

From Science and Health, with Key to the Scriptures by Eddy, Mary Baker

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

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