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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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1 AmericanMathematics.
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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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Is,
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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,
objective
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us,
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my,
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mine,
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our,
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ours
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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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symbol
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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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one See Roman numerals
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International
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Island or Isle
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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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an I-beam
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to pay meticulous attention to detail
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Idioms
Grammar
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 deal, if successful, would be the largest-ever acquisition for the owner of Circle K, which abandoned a $47 billion takeover attempt of Seven & i, the Japanese owner of 7-Eleven, last July.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 31, 2026
"Game changer" is the i Paper's verdict as "Europe tackles Infantino" – continuing with the football metaphors.
From BBC ● Jul. 31, 2026
The move comes less than a week after Seven & i decided against proceeding with a potential investment in Zabka.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 31, 2026
"Cost of living, cost of living, cost of living," declares the i Paper, reporting that Burnham has told his cabinet to find ways to "cut UK prices and offer hope".
From BBC ● Jul. 22, 2026
She was deep i n conversation with the farm women, but when I started to put my nickel on the counter, her palm was outstretched to take it.
From "A Long Way from Chicago" by Richard Peck
“So for us to be able to be down here, open it up for them, I don’t know how many there were here, but there were two flag football teams here as well.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 11, 2026
"I was looking at the screen and I saw the guy try and surge. But he ran a PB, so he's messed up with the final ahead."
From BBC ● Aug. 11, 2026
"That's not my job. I cover the president. Reporters take risks as part of the job, but not on behalf of the president."
From Barron's ● Aug. 11, 2026
In 2020, I calculated that repealing the firewall would lead to $2.2 trillion in higher subsidy spending over a decade for the estimated 24 million people who would switch from employer coverage to the exchanges.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 11, 2026
“I make no promises, for I do not know what lies ahead, in an uncharted sea.”
From "At Last She Stood" by Erin Entrada Kelly
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
With a just and pleasing confidence, the queen replied, 'I warrant you it is for-251--vol i- gladness,'" "How many nosegays did her grace receive at poor women's hands!
From Memoirs of the Court of Queen Elizabeth by Lucy Aikin
The queen immediately-18--vol i- retired, and the next day was committed to custody.
From Memoirs of the Court of Queen Elizabeth by Lucy Aikin
Yea a ruffian will have more in his ruff and his hose than he should-283--vol i- spend in a year.
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
Hist. of Latin Christianity, vol. i. pp. 214-215.406.Milman,
From History of European Morals From Augustus to Charlemagne (Vol. 2 of 2) by William Edward Hartpole Lecky
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
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
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
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
In a recent study, Purusharth I. Rajyaguru and colleagues used Saccharomyces cerevisiae, a type of yeast commonly used in research, to explore how life might respond to Mars-like stress.
From Science Daily ● Apr. 12, 2026
Astronauts Virgil I. Grissom, Edward H. White II, and Roger B. Chaffee were sitting in the command module as the command center counted them down toward a launch.
From "Reaching for the Moon" by Katherine Johnson
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
Oncus -i: a welt: applied to welt-like ridges on caterpillars.
From Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology by John. B. Smith
Verbs in -i add -ua to the final syllable.
From The Mafulu Mountain People of British New Guinea by Robert Wood Williamson
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
The medieval Cloth Hall and St. Martin’s Church were two of the most prominent monuments in Ypres, Belgium, and among World War I’s early casualties.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 15, 2026
Caleb said he was told the Llantrisant Mace was older than most of the Crown Jewels and survived Oliver Cromwell trying to melt down any remaining precious metal bearing Charles I's crest.
From BBC ● Jun. 18, 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
“Yeah, it takes us a little longer, but we dot our I’s and we cross our Ts,” she said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 22, 2024
“I says, ‘I’s sorry, ma’am, I’s just ’bout to bust from not seeing my mama!’
From "Elijah of Buxton" by Christopher Paul Curtis
Appeared in the August 12, 2026, print edition as 'Unregulated Open-Weight AI Is an Invitation to Disaster'.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 11, 2026
Don’t miss: ‘I want to meet someone rich. Is that so wrong?’
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 11, 2026
"Is he simply going to ramp up the name of Liverpool in order to make as much money as possible?"
From BBC ● Aug. 11, 2026
Only three Ramones songs ever made it to the Billboard Hot 100 — “Rockaway Beach,” “Sheena Is A Punk Rocker,” and “Do You Wanna Dance,” all absolute bangers that should be enshrined in the culture.
From Salon ● Aug. 10, 2026
“What are you doing here? Is everything okay?”
From "Glitch" by Laura Martin
"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
It’s just making sure our i’s are dotted and our t’s are crossed.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 30, 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
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
He tries it in various styles, his hand unaccustomed to the angles of the N, the dotting of the two i’s.
From "The Namesake" by Jhumpa Lahiri
“This is my journey, I’m telling it. This is what it is. You can take what you want away from it,” Amabile said on the podcast.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 11, 2026
The organization is also helping families get access to blankets, food, water, medicine and other basic supplies.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 11, 2026
Now it seems that Amabile is bringing people along on his healing journey, having documented his anxieties before surgery.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 11, 2026
La Cruz Roja Colombiana is looking to provide essential medical care, help fix the failing telecommunications networks, give access to potable water, connect families and aid in rescue missions.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 11, 2026
There is nothing about the extraordinary life she lived.
From "At Last She Stood" by Erin Entrada Kelly
“We got the good news that it wasn’t enhancing and we got the concerning news that it still was something. It wasn’t nothing,” Pitt said on the podcast.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 11, 2026
"In the past I have participated in operations where we have pulled out survivors after seven days trapped."
From BBC ● Aug. 11, 2026
"This is part of our separation from Meta; we must take this step to comply with regulatory requirements in specific parts of the world," the firm said in a statement posted to its website.
From Barron's ● Aug. 11, 2026
“Customer demand is accelerating as enterprise adoption broadens and we continue to deepen our technology platform.”
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 11, 2026
If we don’t make it, there’s no money back, and for the first time, I realize how awful it would be to return home, exhausted, broke.
From "Will’s Race for Home" by Jewell Parker Rhodes
"You feel anguish. Every time there is an alert about someone being alive, hope is reborn that we will find him," Gallego tells me emotionally.
From BBC ● Aug. 11, 2026
"Since yesterday, I got here and I haven't left. Until they give me the body, I'm not leaving this place," Gonzalez tells AFP.
From Barron's ● Aug. 11, 2026
You might drop this paper with an “ick” if you knew how many readers proved my point by shrieking “denier” at me.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 11, 2026
A shop attendant shuttled me into a shady spot by the tonic bar, where the mixologist began mixing me cooling drinks.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 11, 2026
He guides his horse closer to Father and me.
From "Will’s Race for Home" by Jewell Parker Rhodes
“So for us to be able to be down here, open it up for them, I don’t know how many there were here, but there were two flag football teams here as well.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 11, 2026
"He will be greatly missed by all of us," the statement from the firm added.
From BBC ● Aug. 11, 2026
“For us, for geographical reasons, Russia is our first priority.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 11, 2026
Presidents rightly expect more security than the rest of us, but that typically comes with greater scrutiny of their locations and activities too.
From Slate ● Aug. 11, 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
In 2026 there have been multiple hits to production worldwide and to accommodate for this, Price adjusts his global mine supply forecast by 3.5% every year.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 11, 2026
"She just walked past, and she saw me there. Her jaw just dropped, so did mine," Zainab tells me.
From BBC ● Aug. 9, 2026
Humanity is still a long way from operating its first mine in space.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 7, 2026
The bank raises its share-price target to A$13.00 from A$12.00 to reflect increased expected mine life and output at some operations.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 2026
Once Miss Genovese leaves, I feel the soft nudge of Helen’s sleeve against mine.
From "The Brightwood Code" by Monica Hesse
“In the snap of fingers, my best friend, my confidant, my partner, my soul mate was transitioned to another dimension — a higher plane,” she wrote in her post.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 11, 2026
The last week or so has been up and down with my body, but I was able to come out here regardless of how I was feeling.
From BBC ● Aug. 11, 2026
"That's not my job. I cover the president. Reporters take risks as part of the job, but not on behalf of the president."
From Barron's ● Aug. 11, 2026
On the bouncing folk-rock number “Liberty Tree,” which again mentions Bobby, she sings, “I was alone with my thoughts / In an outline of chalk,” illustrating how isolation can feel like death.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 11, 2026
When I have my own property, I’m going to welcome everyone.
From "Will’s Race for Home" by Jewell Parker Rhodes
“California will keep moving toward pest management practices that protect health and our ecosystems.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 11, 2026
"We're very good at keeping secrets, as our name says. Everybody doesn't need to know everything."
From BBC ● Aug. 11, 2026
"This is part of our separation from Meta; we must take this step to comply with regulatory requirements in specific parts of the world," Manus said in a blog post.
From Barron's ● Aug. 11, 2026
“Social Security is strengthening our disability programs and making the disability determination process better, faster and higher-quality to serve the American public,” Social Security Commissioner Frank Bisignano said in a statement.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 11, 2026
In our time, Phineas Gage is a textbook case.
From "Phineas Gage" by John Fleischman
Salzburg’s worries are our worries; its triumphs can be ours as well.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 5, 2026
As much as we might wish otherwise, Kylie Jenner and Taylor Swift are not like us, and we cannot measure their autonomy and power on the same scale as ours.
From Slate ● Aug. 5, 2026
“Whirlpool has been a great partner of ours for decades and decades,” he said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 4, 2026
Anthropic added that it is "approaching the fixes as if the responsibility were ours alone."
From BBC ● Jul. 31, 2026
There are other meetings like ours being held, petitions being passed around, and calls for action.
From "The (Mostly) True Story of Cleopatra's Needle" by Dan Gutman
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