ta

name

1. (abbreviation, alt-of, initialism)Initialism of Territorial Army.

noun

1. (abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism)Initialism of transportation authority.
2. (abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism)Initialism of teaching assistant.
3. (abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism)Initialism of travel agent.
4. (abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism)Initialism of target audience.
5. (abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism)Initialism of traffic advisory (a type of TCAS warning).
6. (abbreviation, alt-of, initialism, uncountable)Initialism of transactional analysis.
7. (abbreviation, alt-of, initialism, uncountable)Initialism of term assurance.
8. (uncountable)In solfège, the lowered seventh note of a major scale (the note B-flat in the fixed-do system): te.

verb

1. (intransitive, transitive)To act as a teaching assistant (for a class).

   “The university offered me a chance to TA this semester.”

   “I really want to TA Programming 1 some day.”

adj

1. (abbreviation, alt-of, initialism, not-comparable)Initialism of toxin-antitoxin.

intj

1. (Commonwealth, Ireland, UK, colloquial)Thanks.

   “Ta for the cup of tea.”

2. (Commonwealth, childish)give (imperative)

   “Mummy needs the bottle back. Ta!”

prep

1. (alt-of, pronunciation-spelling)Pronunciation spelling of to, representing the standard unstressed pronunciation before consonants.

   “hasta”