na
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not applicable. Also n/a
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not available.
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no account.
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not applicable. Also NA
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not available.
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North America
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Netherlands Antilles (international car registration)
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Etymology
Origin of na1
before 900; Middle English (north and Scots); in part representing Old English nā ( n ( e ) not, nor + ā ever; ay 1 ); in part variant of ne; no 1
Origin of Na2
From the New Latin word natrium
Example Sentences
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C.C. was about to point out that salt is not something polar bears need to seek out in their diet and that another word for salt is “sodium” and the chemical element of sodium is Na and that polar bears will get their necessary dietary sodium just from the foods they eat, but she didn’t because she was practicing listening.
From Literature
Nam Jin and Na Hoon-A, widely considered South Korea's first pop "idols", pushed trot to new heights during their fierce rivalry from the late 1960s to the mid-1970s.
From BBC
Listen to No, I'm not crying by Na Hoon-A below:
From BBC
Fully computer-animated films followed, along with fully digital nonhuman characters such as Gollum in “The Lord of the Rings” and the Na’vi from “Avatar.”
Zhang and Na conducted the work as postdoctoral researchers at Caltech and are now based at Tsinghua University and Peking University in Beijing, respectively.
From Science Daily
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