OA

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Translingual[edit]

Symbol[edit]

OA

  1. (international standards) Indeterminately reserved ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code for the African Intellectual Property Organization.

Usage notes[edit]

This is an indeterminately reserved code, included as part of ISO 3166-1 on the request of the World Intellectual Property Organization due to its use in the WIPO ST.3 standard, and is not endorsed for general use by the ISO.

English[edit]

Preposition[edit]

OA

  1. Initialism of on or about.

Noun[edit]

OA

  1. Initialism of open access.
  2. Initialism of organizing authority.
  3. Initialism of office assistant.
  4. (UK, census) Initialism of output area.

Adjective[edit]

OA (comparative more OA, superlative most OA)

  1. (Philippines) Initialism of overacting.
    He's even more OA than you.
    He's even more overreactive than you.

Proper noun[edit]

OA

  1. (scouting) Order of the Arrow

Derived terms[edit]

Anagrams[edit]

Japanese[edit]

For pronunciation and definitions of OA – see the following entry.
オンエア
[noun] being on the air, being transmitted by a broadcast station (not necessarily live)
[verb] be on the air
(This term, OA, is an alternative spelling of the above term.)

Spanish[edit]

Proper noun[edit]

OA

  1. Abbreviation of Oaxaca. (Mexican state)

Tagalog[edit]

Alternative forms[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Philippine English OA, from the initialism of English overacting.

Pronunciation[edit]

  • IPA(key): /ʔo ˈʔej/, [ʔo ˈʔɛɪ̯]

Adjective[edit]

OA (Baybayin spelling ᜂᜁᜌ᜔)

  1. (colloquial) overreactive; tending to react in an overexaggerated manner
    Ang OA mo kasi e!
    It's cuz you're so overreactive!
    Napaka-OA mo naman!
    You're so overreactive!
    'Wag kang OA!
    Don't be overreactive!

Further reading[edit]

  • Zorc, R. David; San Miguel, Rachel (1993) Tagalog Slang Dictionary[1], Manila: De La Salle University Press, →ISBN