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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]
/ aɪ /
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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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to pay meticulous attention to detail
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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 Weekend says the "biggest societal change in decades" has been blocked, amid "celebration and tears from MPs".
From BBC ● Sep. 12, 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
Housing Secretary Angela Rayner has revealed plans for 70,000 new homes across England, according to the i Paper.
From BBC ● Aug. 24, 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
She added: "I knew this would probably be my last chance, because there were other girls in Britain trying to do it."
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
"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
Lee said Friday it was "clear" that "Trump wants dialogue, and I am also urging President Trump to engage in dialogue."
From Barron's
“Your pa has money. I saw him collecting coins.”
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
She answered-163--vol i- that she had little to say to him or to the rest that were in the Tower.
From Memoirs of the Court of Queen Elizabeth by Lucy Aikin
From the new sovereign substantial benefits as well as flattering distinctions awaited him, being reinstated-266--vol i- by her in the possession of his confiscated estates and appointed a privy-councillor.
From Memoirs of the Court of Queen Elizabeth by Lucy Aikin
From this period the cause of popery proceeded-183--vol i- triumphantly: a reign of terror commenced; and the government gained fresh strength and courage by every exertion of the tyrannic power which it had assumed.
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
For each of the following functions, determine the i. domain and ii. range.
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
But the converse, i. e. consideration for the historical conditions of Ephesus and its sister churches, on the part of the body of the work, is absolutely wanting.
From The Making of the New Testament by Benjamin Wisner Bacon
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
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
Soccer: it’s been a long time coming between you and I. But here I am!
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 20, 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
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
“I want you to remember that, now, you hear me? Cornelius Warne could never forget what happened to his brother. And neither could I. So that’s why we both carried on.”
From "The Detective's Assistant" by Kate Hannigan
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
The suffix -i, added to a noun stem, forms generally a neuter verb.
From The Mafulu Mountain People of British New Guinea by Robert Wood Williamson
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
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
In a statement read to the public inquiry examining how Letby was able to attack babies, Child I's mother said: "I believe the doctors and nursing staff should have acted earlier."
From BBC ● Sep. 19, 2024
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
“Mae Mobley, you know I’s just teasing you, about all them seventeen kids being mine? They ain’t really. I only had me one child.”
From "The Help" by Kathryn Stockett
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 the Premier League already a two-team title race?
From BBC ● Sep. 15, 2026
Is this market like 1999 all over again?
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 15, 2026
Is it vertical applications like Harvey for legal or Cursor for coding?
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 15, 2026
“And then Sally will bring out tea and shortbread while we talk. Or if it’s after one o’clock she can bring out cucumber sandwiches. Is it after one?”
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
And I don’t tend to favor biographies, because there generally are some tedious sections in the middle as the writer dots the i’s and crosses the t’s of the subject’s life.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 17, 2026
“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
"Your proposal does not adequately acknowledge the multiple and significant challenges such a transaction would face from US competition law enforcement agencies," Seven & i's letter added.
From BBC ● Sep. 5, 2024
I recognized your tiny handwriting right away, all wobbly and with those weird loops you put on top of your t's and i's.
From "When You Reach Me" by Rebecca Stead
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
The painting is one of more than 100 works to go on display as part of Turner, Wedgwood & Beyond: Inspired by Flaxman, which opens at the gallery on Friday.
From BBC ● Sep. 18, 2026
The site is central to a restoration programme that aims to boost this type of specialist habitat across the county.
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
Leprosy is no longer considered a quarantinable disease by the Louisiana legislature, for example.
From "At Last She Stood" by Erin Entrada Kelly
"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
“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
"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
"Just because oil has been found, some people think this will become the new Dubai, but we really don't know what's going to happen."
From Barron's
I get in with my dad, and we go the long way like I suggested.
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
Believe what you want, she said, "just don't press it on me".
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
He has it with him now as Joey, alarmed, says, “Give it to me, quickly!”
From "At Last She Stood" by Erin Entrada Kelly
"I think he's holding us back," said one of the party's spokespeople who is planning a tilt at the leadership if a race is triggered.
From BBC ● Sep. 18, 2026
“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
“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
"So no, I don't think we are psychologically prepared… but I do think that we are beginning to recognise that war is something that is closer to us than we'd like to think".
From BBC ● Sep. 17, 2026
Rattling, jostling wagons, ahead of us and beside us, threaten to crash and trample.
From "Will’s Race for Home" by Jewell Parker Rhodes
The stock was weighed by relatively short mine lives and low margins, as well as significant rehabilitation needs and high emissions intensity.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 16, 2026
“Tova’s crabbiness certainly fits with mine right now. And her age,” she said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 15, 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
Still trying to cover Caesar’s body with mine, I awkwardly press the bandages.
From "Will’s Race for Home" by Jewell Parker Rhodes
“I am intentional about making sure I’m eating enough and getting my protein.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● 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
“The fact that my daughter was involved and was the cause of it is just extremely disturbing,” she told the outlet.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 17, 2026
"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
Ducking, with all my might, I shove the man’s back.
From "Will’s Race for Home" by Jewell Parker Rhodes
"It will be a chance to celebrate every individual who has helped create and shape this beloved theatre as we look to our future."
From BBC ● Sep. 18, 2026
“We took 25% of our production engineers and said ‘Sorry, all your projects are on hold.
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 found a page where she talked about our gift.
From "Split the Sky" by Marie Arnold
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
At Camp Golden Eagle, in Woodruff, Wis., all the usual activities were ours: baseball, archery, canoeing, swimming.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 3, 2026
In July, outgoing prime minister Sir Keir Starmer issued a formal apology to those mothers, telling them: "The shame is not yours... the shame is ours."
From BBC ● Aug. 30, 2026
It’s offensive because cases like ours could have been settled for significantly less than what the verdict is.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 22, 2026
“He is no burglar. Simon is a friend of ours from London. And a very talented playwright, too,” she added.
From "The Unseen Guest" by Maryrose Wood
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