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Al

AL

abbr.

1. Alabama

2. Baseball American League

3. Arab League

4. artificial life

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al

the internet domain name for

(Computer Science) Albania

Al

the chemical symbol for

(Chemistry) aluminium

AL

abbreviation for

1. (Placename) Alabama

2. (Languages) Anglo-Latin

3. (Baseball) (in the US and Canada) American League (of baseball teams)

4. (Automotive Engineering) Albania (international car registration)

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al-

var. of before l: allure.

-al1

a suffix with the general sense “of the kind of, pertaining to, having the form or character of” that named by the stem, occurring in loanwords from Latin (autumnal; natural; pastoral), and productive in English on the Latin model, usu. with bases of Latin origin (accidental; seasonal; tribal). Compare -ical, -ar 1, -ial.

[< Latin _-ālis, -āle_]

-al2

a suffix forming nouns from verbs, usu. verbs of French or Latin origin: denial; refusal.

[< Latin _-āle_ (singular), _-ālia_ (pl.), nominalized neuter of _-ālis_ <-al>1; often replacing Middle English -aille < Old French < Latin _-ālia_]

-al3

a suffix used in the names of chemical compounds that contain an aldehyde group: acetal; furfural.

[probably extracted from ]

AL

1. Alabama.

2. Anglo-Latin.

Al

Chem. Symbol.

aluminum.

AL

al.

1. other things.

[< Latin _alia_]

2. other persons.

[< Latin _aliī_]

A.L.

1. American League.

2. American Legion.

Al

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Noun	1.	Al - a silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite, metallic element - any of several chemical elements that are usually shiny solids that conduct heat or electricity and can be formed into sheets etc.potash alum, potassium alum, - a white crystalline double sulfate of aluminum: the potassium double sulfate of aluminum, ammonia alum, ammonium alum - a white crystalline double sulfate of aluminum: the ammonium double sulfate of aluminum - a clay-like mineral; the chief ore of aluminum; composed of aluminum oxides and aluminum hydroxides; used as an abrasive and catalyst
2.	AL - a state in the southeastern United States on the Gulf of Mexico; one of the Confederate states during the American Civil Warbattle of Chickamauga, - a Confederate victory in the American Civil War (1863); Confederate forces under Braxton Bragg defeated Union forces<U.S.A.>, United States, United States of America, US, , , the States, <U.S.> - 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 1776Gulf States - a region of the United States comprising states bordering the Gulf of Mexico; Alabama and Florida and Louisiana and Mississippi and TexasSouth - the region of the United States lying to the south of the Mason-Dixon lineDeep 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 - a town in northern Alabama on the Tennessee River - an industrial town in north central Alabama - a city in northern Alabama; center for space researchMobile - a port in southwestern Alabama on Mobile Bay - a town in central Alabama on the Alabama river; in 1965 it was the center of a drive to register Black voters - a university town in west central Alabama - a town in eastern AlabamaAlabama 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, 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 RiverMobile, Mobile River - a river in southwestern Alabama; flows into Mobile BayMobile Bay - a bay of the Gulf of Mexico; fed by the Mobile River, 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, 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