What is the meaning of at?
Definition of at. 3 —used as a function word to indicate that with which one is occupied or employed at work at the controls good at chess 4 —used as a function word to indicate situation in an active or passive state or condition at liberty at rest 5 —used as a function word to indicate the means, cause,...
When to use at and when to use in?
… We use to when we are talking about movement in the direction of a point, place, or position: … We use at: … We use at: … We use in to say how long it takes someone to do something: …
What happened to Atzerodt at Germantown?
Atzerodt was tried, convicted and hanged on July 7, 1865, along with co-conspirators Mary Surratt, Lewis Powell, and David Herold at Washington, D.C. 's Fort McNair. Germantown did not have a public school until after the end of the American Civil War.
Idioms about at
be at (someone), to be sexually aggressive toward (a person): She's pregnant again because he's at her morning, noon, and night.
How to use at in a sentence
I spoke first with Scott Ellman, a student at Wesleyan University and now the Huffington Post editor- at -large for his campus.
Medical definitions for at (2 of 2)
The American Heritage® Stedman's Medical Dictionary Copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Company.
at preposition (EMAIL ADDRESS)
"What's your email address ?" "It's dictionary at cambridge dot org ."
Grammar
At is a preposition. We use at to refer to time or place. We also use it to refer to activities. …
Modern use
In contemporary English usage, @ is a commercial symbol, meaning at and at the rate of or at the price of. It has rarely been used in financial ledgers, and is not used in standard typography.
Names in other languages
In many languages other than English, although most typewriters included the symbol, the use of @ was less common before email became widespread in the mid-1990s. Consequently, it is often perceived in those languages as denoting "the Internet", computerization, or modernization in general. Naming the symbol after animals is also common.
Unicode
In Unicode, the at sign is encoded as U+0040 @ COMMERCIAL AT (HTML @ · @ ). The named entity @ was introduced in HTML5.
History
Nomadic Paleo-Indians traveled to Las Vegas 10,000 years ago, leaving behind petroglyphs. Anasazi and Paiute tribes followed at least 2,000 years ago.
Geography
Las Vegas is situated within Clark County, in a basin on the floor of the Mojave Desert, and is surrounded by mountain ranges on all sides. Much of the landscape is rocky and arid, with desert vegetation and wildlife.
Economy
The primary drivers of the Las Vegas economy are tourism, gaming, and conventions, which in turn feed the retail and restaurant industries.
Culture
The city is home to several museums, including the Neon Museum (the location for many of the historical signs from Las Vegas's mid-20th century heyday), The Mob Museum, the Las Vegas Natural History Museum, the DISCOVERY Children's Museum, the Nevada State Museum and the Old Las Vegas Mormon Fort State Historic Park.
Sports
The Las Vegas Valley is the home of three major professional teams: the Vegas Golden Knights of the National Hockey League, an expansion team that began play in the 2017–18 NHL season at T-Mobile Arena in nearby Paradise, the Las Vegas Raiders of the National Football league who relocated from Oakland, California in 2020 and play at Allegiant Stadium in Paradise, and the Las Vegas Aces of the Women's National Basketball Association who play at the Mandalay Bay Events Center ..
Parks and recreation
Las Vegas has 68 parks. The city owns the land for, but does not operate, four golf courses: Angel Park Golf Club, Desert Pines Golf Club, Durango Hills Golf Club, and the Las Vegas Municipal Golf Course.
Government
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Overview
The at sign, @, is normally read aloud as "at"; it is also commonly called the at symbol, commercial at, or address sign. It is used as an accounting and invoice abbreviation meaning "at a rate of" (e.g. 7 widgets @ £2 per widget = £14), but it is now seen more widely in email addresses and social media platform handles.
The absence of a single English word for the symbol has prompted some writers to use the Fren…
History
The earliest yet discovered symbol in this shape is found in a Bulgarian translation of a Greek chronicle written by Constantinos Manasses in 1345. Held today in the Vatican Apostolic Library, it features the @ symbol in place of the capital letter alpha "Α" as an initial in the word Amen; however, the reason behind it being used in this context is still unknown. The evolution of the symbol as use…
Modern use
In contemporary English usage, @ is a commercial symbol, meaning at and at the rate of or at the price of. It has rarely been used in financial ledgers, and is not used in standard typography.
In 2012, "@" was registered as a trademark with the German Patent and Trade Mark Office. A cancellation request was filed in 2013, and the cancellation wa…
Names in other languages
In many languages other than English, although most typewriters included the symbol, the use of @ was less common before email became widespread in the mid-1990s. Consequently, it is often perceived in those languages as denoting "the Internet", computerization, or modernization in general. Naming the symbol after animals is also common.
See also
• ASCII
• Circle-A
• Enclosed A (Ⓐ, ⓐ)
• Unicode
External links
• commercial-at at the Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
• "The Accidental History of the @ Symbol ", Smithsonian magazine, September 2012, Retrieved October 2021.
• The @-symbol, part 1, intermission, part 2, addenda, Shady Characters ⌂ The secret life of punctuation August 2011, Retrieved June 2013.