AL

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does AL mean? 

• AL (noun)
  The noun AL has 2 senses:

1. a silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite

2. a state in the southeastern United States on the Gulf of Mexico; one of the Confederate states during the American Civil War

  Familiarity information: AL used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• AL (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite

Classified under:

Nouns denoting substances

Synonyms:

Al; aluminium; aluminum; atomic number 13

Hypernyms ("Al" is a kind of...):

metal; metallic element (any of several chemical elements that are usually shiny solids that conduct heat or electricity and can be formed into sheets etc.)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "Al"):

alum; potash alum; potassium alum (a white crystalline double sulfate of aluminum: the potassium double sulfate of aluminum)

alum; ammonia alum; ammonium alum (a white crystalline double sulfate of aluminum: the ammonium double sulfate of aluminum)

Holonyms ("Al" is a substance of...):

aluminium foil; aluminum foil; tin foil (foil made of aluminum)

bauxite (a clay-like mineral; the chief ore of aluminum; composed of aluminum oxides and aluminum hydroxides; used as an abrasive and catalyst)

Duralumin (an aluminum-based alloy)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A state in the southeastern United States on the Gulf of Mexico; one of the Confederate states during the American Civil War

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Synonyms:

AL; Ala.; Alabama; Camellia State; Heart of Dixie

Hypernyms ("AL" is a kind of...):

South (the region of the United States lying to the south of the Mason-Dixon line)

Instance hypernyms:

American state (one of the 50 states of the United States)

Meronyms (parts of "AL"):

Tuscaloosa (a university town in west central Alabama)

Tombigbee; Tombigbee River (a river that rises in northeastern Mississippi and flows southward through western Alabama to join the Alabama River and form the Mobile River)

Tallapoosa; Tallapoosa River (river that rises in northwestern Georgia and flows southwest through central Alabama to join the Coosa River near Montgomery and form the Alabama River)

Mobile Bay (a bay of the Gulf of Mexico; fed by the Mobile River)

Mobile; Mobile River (a river in southwestern Alabama; flows into Mobile Bay)

Coosa; Coosa River (river that rises in northwestern Georgia and flows southwest through eastern Alabama to join the Tallapoosa River near Montgomery and form the Alabama River)

Alabama; Alabama River (a river in Alabama formed by the confluence of the Coosa and Tallapoosa Rivers near Montgomery; flows southwestward to become a tributary of the Mobile River)

Tuskegee (a town in eastern Alabama)

Selma (a town in central Alabama on the Alabama river; in 1965 it was the center of a drive to register Black voters)

Mobile (a port in southwestern Alabama on Mobile Bay)

Huntsville (a city in northern Alabama; center for space research)

Gadsden (an industrial town in north central Alabama)

Decatur (a town in northern Alabama on the Tennessee River)

Birmingham; Pittsburgh of the South (the largest city in Alabama; located in northeastern Alabama)

capital of Alabama; Montgomery (the state capital of Alabama on the Mobile River)

Domain member region:

battle of Chickamauga; Chickamauga (a Confederate victory in the American Civil War (1863); Confederate forces under Braxton Bragg defeated Union forces)

Holonyms ("AL" is a part of...):

America; the States; U.S.; U.S.A.; United States; United States of America; US; USA (North American republic containing 50 states - 48 conterminous states in North America plus Alaska in northwest North America and the Hawaiian Islands in the Pacific Ocean; achieved independence in 1776)

Gulf States (a region of the United States comprising states bordering the Gulf of Mexico; Alabama and Florida and Louisiana and Mississippi and Texas)

Deep South (the southeastern region of the United States: South Carolina and Georgia and Alabama and Mississippi and Louisiana; prior to the American Civil War all these states produced cotton and permitted slavery)

Holonyms ("AL" is a member of...):

Confederacy; Confederate States; Confederate States of America; Dixie; Dixieland; South (the southern states that seceded from the United States in 1861)

 Context examples 

A standardized rating scale developed by Posner et al (version 6/23/10), which is used to determine the presence of suicidal ideation or behavior.

(Columbia-Suicide Severity Rating Scale Children's Baseline Questionnaire, NCI Thesaurus)

Spontaneous tumors of the thymus (Dunning and Curtis 1946, Dunning et al 1947)

(COP, Rat Strain, NCI Thesaurus)

DA: Urinary bladder tumors 54% in males and 14% in females, with a peak incidence at 25-30 months of age (Deerberg et al 1985).

(DA, Rat Strain, NCI Thesaurus)

A chemically heterogeneous group of lipid molecules found in food containing one glycerol molecule that is esterified with two fatty acids and either inositol, choline, serine or ethanolamine. (Shils, et al.).

(Dietary Phospholipid, NCI Thesaurus/CRCH)

A standardized rating scale developed by Posner et al (version 1/14/09), which is used to determine the presence of suicidal ideation or behavior.

(Columbia-Suicidality Severity Rating Scale Baseline/Screening Version Phase 1 Study 1/14/09 Questionnaire, NCI Thesaurus)

Lipid composed of 27 carbon atoms which form three fused cycloheane (6-carbon) rings, a cyclopentane (5-carbon ring) and a side chain of 8 carbon atoms. (Ensminger et al).

(Cholesterol, NCI Thesaurus/CRCH)

Wang Q et al. found that Plk3 is closely associated with the centrosome and that this is dependent on the integrity of the microtubules.

(Cell Cycle Progression Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/BIOCARTA)

At the Université de Montréal, Étienne Artigau leads a team that will use Webb to study a specific brown dwarf, labeled SIMP0136.

(NASA’s Webb Telescope to Investigate Mysterious Brown Dwarfs, NASA)

In addition to binding PKA-RIIa, AKAP350 binds PKN (Takahashi et al 1999) and the phosphatases PP1 and PPA2 (Takahashi et al 1999).

(Centrosome Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/BIOCARTA)

A standardized questionnaire developed by Gelinas et al in 1998, which is used to measure the changes in functional activities in patients with Alzheimer's disease.

(Disability Assessment for Dementia Questionnaire, NCI Thesaurus)