"OAP" meaning in English

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Proper name

Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-OAP.wav [Southern-England]
Head templates: {{en-prop}} OAP
  1. Initialism of Office of Atoms for Peace. Tags: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism Alternative form of: Office of Atoms for Peace
    Sense id: en-OAP-en-name-yl5CuSUv
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Categories (other): People Disambiguation of People: 0 0 0 0

Noun

Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-OAP.wav [Southern-England] Forms: OAPs [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} OAP (plural OAPs)
  1. (microchips) Initialism of orthogonal array processor. Tags: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism Alternative form of: orthogonal array processor
    Sense id: en-OAP-en-noun-ZW3gHlMf
  2. (theater) Initialism of one-act play. Tags: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism Alternative form of: one-act play
    Sense id: en-OAP-en-noun-dZJfYsdc Categories (other): Theater Topics: entertainment, lifestyle, theater
  3. (UK, Ireland) Initialism of old-age pensioner. Tags: Ireland, UK, abbreviation, alt-of, initialism Alternative form of: old-age pensioner
    Sense id: en-OAP-en-noun-WKI9hJS5 Categories (other): British English, English links with redundant alt parameters, English links with redundant wikilinks, Irish English, English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 20 5 16 59 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 12 1 16 71 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 23 1 14 62
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Categories (other): People Disambiguation of People: 0 0 0 0

Inflected forms

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Download raw JSONL data for OAP meaning in English (3.1kB)

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