i.

¹ American  

abbreviation

1. imperator.

2. incisor.

3. interest.

4. intransitive.

5. island.

6. isle; isles.

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I. ² American  

abbreviation

1. Independent.

2. Island; Islands.

3. Isle; Isles.

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I ³ American  

Symbol.

1. the ninth in order or in a series.

2. (sometimes lowercase) the Roman numeral for 1.

3. Chemistry. iodine.

4. Biochemistry. isoleucine.

5. Electricity. current.

6. Logic. particular affirmative.

7. (italics) isotopic spin.

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I ⁴ American  

[ahy] / aɪ /

pronoun

nominative

I,

possessive

my, mine,

objective

me,

plural nominative

we,

possessive

our, ours,

objective

us

1. the nominative singular pronoun, used in referring to oneself, the person speaking, writing, or otherwise communicating.

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noun

plural

I's

1. (used to denote the narrator of a literary work written in the first person singular.)

2. Metaphysics. the ego.

i- ⁵ American  

1. variant of y-.

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I ⁶ American  

abbreviation

1. interstate (used with a number to designate an interstate highway).

   I-95.

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i ⁷ American  

Mathematics.

1. Also called imaginary unit.  the imaginary number .

2. a unit vector on the x -axis of a coordinate system.

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I ⁸ American  

[ahy] / aɪ /

Or i

noun

plural

I's, Is, i's, is

1. the ninth letter of the English alphabet, a vowel.

2. any spoken sound represented by the letter I or i, as in big, nice, or ski.

3. something having the shape of an I.

4. a written or printed representation of the letter I or i.

5. a device, as a printer's type, for reproducing the letter I or i.

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-i- ⁹ American  

1. 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.

   cuneiform; Frenchify.

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-i ¹ British  

suffix

1. of or relating to a region or people, esp of the Middle East

   Iraqi

   Bangladeshi

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i ² British  

symbol

1. Also called: j.  the imaginary number √–1

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I. ³ British  

abbreviation

1. International

2. Island or Isle

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-i- ⁴ British  

1. used between elements in a compound word Compare -o-

   cuneiform

   coniferous

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i ⁵ British  

/ aɪ /

noun

1. the ninth letter and third vowel of the modern English alphabet

2. any of several speech sounds represented by this letter, in English as in bite or hit

3. 1. something shaped like an I

   2. ( in combination )

      an I-beam

4. to pay meticulous attention to detail

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I ⁶ British  

/ aɪ /

pronoun

1. (subjective) refers to the speaker or writer

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I ⁷ British  

symbol

1. chem iodine

2. physics current

3. physics isospin

4. logic a particular affirmative categorial statement, such as some men are married, often symbolized as SiP Compare A E O 1

5. one See Roman numerals

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abbreviation

1. Italy (international car registration)

i Scientific  

/ ī /

1. The number whose square is equal to −1. Numbers expressed in terms of i are called imaginary or complex numbers.

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i Idioms  

1. see dot the i's and cross the t's.

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Grammar

See me.

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

This is a truth I keep close when I start planning my homemade holiday treats: flavor matters, yes—but so does intention.

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Is this going to look like I panicked in the baking aisle?

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I may not know you personally, but I know exactly which one you’ll reach for.

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I know because I’d grab it, too.

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And then there’s the other route, which I recommend wholeheartedly — spending an inordinate amount of non-holiday time scouring Etsy and eBay for vintage tins, jars and containers that feel like they already have a story to tell.

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