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LA
Abbreviation
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Louisiana, a state of the United States of America.
I live in Baton Rouge, LA.
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Lao People's Democratic Republic, a member state of the United Nations.
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Lampung, a province of Indonesia.
LA
Initialism
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Los Angeles, a city in the state of California in the United States.
We went to LA for the summer.
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Lead arsenate, a pesticide introduced in the United States in 1892, mostly replaced by DDT in the late 1940s, and banned in 1988.
trahison
noun
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(rare) Treason.
DES
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noun
(= diethylstilbestrol)
a potent estrogen used in medicine and in feed for livestock and poultry
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noun
(= diethylstilbesterol)
synthetic nonsteroid with the properties of estrogen; formerly used to treat menstrual problems but was found to be associated with vaginal cancers in the daughters of women so treated during pregnancy
image
Noun
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An image is something you can see or imagine that looks like the real thing.
Many people have an image of God as an old man.
The image on the screen reminded him of the town where he grew up.
The image in the mirror was not how she saw herself.
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An image is the good or bad opinion about someone or something.
What's your image of Paris?
We should be trying to create an image of the company as helpful and friendly.
image
Verb
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If you image something, you create an image of it.
The lunar surface at the Apollo 17 site, imaged by the Apollo 17 astronauts.