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An unknown quantity or unknown value.

Numerale

  1. 1

    An unknown quantity or unknown value.

    Let X represent the forecast traffic flow in 20 years’ time.

Herkunft

Introduced by René Descartes in the context of mathematical notation, but has since widened to other contexts.

Eigenname

  1. 1

    A placeholder for an unknown, suppressed or hypothetical name.

    The woman known until now as Witness X has been unmasked after a court ruling.

    Suppose that Mr and Mrs X have been married for many years.

  2. 2

    A surname, used by those who have had their identity or heritage, including their proper ancestral names, erased or forgotten.

    Malcolm X

  3. 3

    An online social media network, formerly known as Twitter.

    Two senior USAid security officials were suspended on Sunday for blocking Doge officials from a restricted area, a day after the agency’s website went offline, and Musk posted to X that USAid was “beyond repair” and needed to be shut down.

character

  1. 1

    The twenty-fourth letter of the English alphabet, called ex and written in the Latin script.

Substantiv

  1. 1

    Any mark that looks like that letter, such as a mark made by a person who cannot read or write in lieu of a signature.

  2. 2

    The spot behind the goal.

Adjektiv

  1. 1

    Intersex or non-binary (in passports and identification documents).

    So last summer, when the Massachusetts State Legislature became one of the first in the nation to consider a bill to add an “X” option for nonbinary genders to the “M” and “F” on the state driver’s license, El, 17, was less surprised than some at the maneuver that effectively killed it.

Verb

  1. 1

    Variante von exAlternative spelling of ex (“to delete; to cross out”).

    I Xed the ballot for our Congressman last election just because he seemed […]

Substantiv

  1. 1

    SlangEcstasy, a particular street drug.

    You can find me in the club, bottle full of bub'. Look, mami, I got the X if you into takin' drugs.

    Tonight the kids will go out and party down in a more righteous mode. Alcohol and not a few tabs of X will be ingested. Club music will throb through big speakers.

    I'm a love druggie falling for these drug junkies. Come n call on me besides these X parties. It's fucking hard on my body.

Herkunft

Presumably by abbreviation of the pronunciation of ecstasy.

Adjektiv

  1. 1

    veraltendSuitable only for those aged sixteen or (later) eighteen years and over.

  2. 2

    Obscene; adult; pornographic; XXX.

    If you go to an X movie you do so knowingly, as does everyone else in the audience. Or if the same thing comes up on TV you can switch over, or, if you wish, enjoy it in relative privacy.

Eigenname

  1. 1

    umgangssprachlichChrist

Herkunft

From Christ by abbreviation, orthographic borrowing from Ancient Greek Χ (Kh, letter chi), from Χριστός (Khristós, “Christ”).

Substantiv

  1. 1

    Cross, crossing.

    Kennington via Charing X

Herkunft

From cross, due to the X symbol being a cross saltire.

Adjektiv

  1. 1

    Variante von extremeumgangssprachlichAbbreviation of extreme.

Eigenname

  1. 1

    The X Window System, a windowing system for bitmap displays commonly used in Unix-like systems.

Herkunft

Named after its predecessor, the W Window System; X follows W in the Latin alphabet.

Formen

Plural
Xs, X's, Xes
Komparativ
more X
Superlativ
most X
Präteritum
Xed
Partizip II
Xed
Partizip I
Xing
3. Person Singular
Xs
Die NachbarseitenDie alphabetische Reihenfolge folgt den Regeln der Sprache, nicht den Bytewerten: Ein Akzent entscheidet nur zwischen zwei sonst gleichen Wörtern, und das Spanische führt Ñ als eigenen Buchstaben.

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