ana

plural anas

1. A collection of things associated with a person or place, especially a personal collection of anecdotes or conversations at table

   The FRENCH ANAS, or Selections from the best of the French Anas, interspersed with biographical sketches. In three elegant Volumes, small 8vo. price 15s. boards

   1803, publisher's advertisement in Memoirs of the Late Mrs. Robinson, Page 8

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   Jefferson was aware of the literary tradition of anas, which extended back at least as far as Athenaeus's Dipnosophistarum, a delightful collection of table talk from ancient times covering a variety of subjects including law, literature, medicine, and philosophy.

   2008, Kevin J. Hayes, The road to Monticello: The life and mind of Thomas Jefferson

1. not comparableOf each; an equal quantity.

   wine and honey, ana / ij

   of wine and honey, each, two ounces

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   Take Sugrede Coriandre ſeedes 3 qv. of an ovvnce, deſcidede liqveriſh ℥ [?]. Calmus, redd Roſes, ana a q. of an ounce, Cĩnamone 3 qv. of an ounce, Ginger, cloves, Mace, Nuttmegges, ana a q. of an oũce, all vvhich being contunded together, & as much Suger mixede thervvith, as ther is of the other poulder, or accordinge as vve deſire the dulcor therof, vve muſt in the morning faſting, or one hovver before ſuppervſe heerof.

   1599, Oswaldus Gabelhouer, translated by Charles Battus and A. M., The Boock of Physicke: […], Dort: […] Isaack Caen, page 116, column 2

   Synonyms: aa

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comparative more ana · superlative most ana

1. In a direction analogous to up, but along the additional axis added by the fourth dimension.

   Added to the conventional FPS control keys are two extra keys that move the player in ana and kata direction in 4d space. If you go in this extra direction the space around you changes, the room transforms.

   2005, Animation journal, volumes 13-15

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   Your right half would move ana, let us say, and your left half would move kata. The two halves would, in their parallel spaces, move past the plane of rotation, and then they would swing back into our space.

   1985, Rudy von Bitter Rucker, The Fourth Dimension: A Guided Tour of the Higher Universes, page 43

   Antonyms: kata

plural anas

1. alternativeAlternative form of anna (“a former subdivision of the rupee”).

1. abbreviationhobbiesAbbreviation of Anaheim.
2. abbreviationinitialismgovernmentInitialism of Afghan National Army.
3. abbreviationinitialismaeronauticsInitialism of All Nippon Airways.
4. AustraliaabbreviationhistoricalinitialismaeronauticsInitialism of Australian National Airways.
5. USabbreviationinitialismmedicineInitialism of American Nurses Association.

plural ANAs

1. abbreviationinitialismbiologyInitialism of anti-nuclear antibody.

   Synonyms: ANF

2. UKabbreviationinitialismInitialism of animal nursing assistant.

1. A female given name, equivalent to English Anna or Hannah.
2. A river in Oregon, United States.

1. alternativeAlternative spelling of Anah, a city in Anbar, Iraq.

   Ana Island and a strip of flat land below the steep banks bordering the Euphrates, some 350 km (220 miles) due east of Palmyra, were occupied for millennia by the buildings of a succession of important settlements...

   2012, David Kennedy et al., Rome's Desert Frontier from the Air, page 114

1. An ethnicity within the Yoruba people, mostly living in Benin and Togo in West Africa.
2. The language within the Niger-Congo family spoken by the Ana people.

   Synonyms: Ifè

1. pluralplural onlyA member of the Ana people.