E

character

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   The fifth letter of the English alphabet, called e and written in the Latin script.

   On several occasions, indeed, he did learn E, F, G, H, but by the time he knew them, it was always discovered that he had forgotten A, B, C, and D.

numéral

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   The fifth numeral symbol of the English alphabet, called e and written in the Latin script.

symbol

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   East.

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   Variante de everyoneAbbreviation of everyone.

nom

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   argotThe drug ecstasy (MDMA), particularly in pill form.

   Sick Boy brings oot some E. White doves; ah think. It's mental gear. Most Ecstasy hasnae any MDMA in it, it's just likesay, ken, part speed, part acid in its effects . . .

   And I don't quite understand just what this feeling is / But that's okay cause we're all sorted out for E's and wizz

   You mentioned you were taking stuff. Did you mean ecstasy? / What else? It’s excellent. I’m not an addict or nothing, and I steer clear of crack and that. People say E is for losers but, hey, I’d never be without some eccy in my bag.

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   The grade below D in some grading systems. In most such systems, it is a failing grade.

   1999, Julian Stallabrass, High Art Lite: British Art in the 1990s, Verso, →ISBN, page 25, In line with this, he is marketed not only as a mental innocent, but as a class primitive, someone who only got an E in A-level art […]

   2003, Rick, quoted in Linda MacDowell, Redundant Masculinities?: Employment Change and White Working Class Youth, Blackwell Publishing (2003), →ISBN, page 198, My results weren’t that great, to be honest. I weren’t right happy with them; I got an E in Maths and that were a surprise, but I did get a B in Technology – that were all right.

   2005, S. J. Smith, Joe Public, Virtualbookworm Publishing, →ISBN, page 125, Not really, but perhaps I’d have got an ‘E’ in Tech Drawing no matter how much I’d asserted myself. Maybe Mr. Pinkerton would have seen to it that my exam paper was tampered with. A spot of teacher to student revenge.

   2005, Craig Taylor, Light, Reverb, →ISBN, page 103, But she didn’t get the bit about my accidental artistic career, “But you can’t draw love. You got an E in your exam. I remember that. You drew that onion that looked like a boil.”

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   Variante de estrogen or estradiolAbbreviation of estrogen or estradiol.

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   Variante de episodeAbbreviation of episode (“installment of a series”).

   The pilot episode is S01E01.

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   Variante de executionInitialism of execution.

nom propre

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   Variante de ElohistAbbreviation of Elohist.

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   Variante de EniAbbreviation of Eni.

   Magnus said that companies such as Italy’s Eni (E) and ConocoPhillips (COP) that already operate in Alaska could be interested in drilling in ANWR.

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   A state in ancient China of varying location in present-day Shanxi, Henan, and Hubei.

   The discovery suggests also that the center of the state of E was located in the Suizao corridor in Hubei, not far from the location of E as suggested by ancient geographical works.

   These three bronzes, though clearly modeled on Zhou types, are quite distinctive from the Zhou tradition. They suggest that, although the state of E served as an ally and agent of the Western Zhou state, it probably had a distinctive cultural origin of its own.

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   Its capital, also known as Echeng and Ezhou.

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   A surname from Mandarin Chinese.

nom propre

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   A Tai-Chinese mixed language spoken primarily in Rongshui Miao Autonomous County, Guangxi, China; Kjang E.

nom propre

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   A river in Highland council area, Scotland.

Formes

pluriel

Es, E's