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Type Words
Synonyms uracil
Type of base, nucleotide
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Synonyms atomic number 92, uranium
Type of metallic element, metal
Has types uranium 235, uranium 238
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Type of letter of the alphabet, letter, alphabetic character

Examples of u

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It did a U-turn for home right after the Jan. 5 swearing-in of the new Congress.
From the tennessean.com
Driver said it can still bring a smile to his face just seeing a U-Haul trailer.
From the sportsillustrated.cnn.com
After securing three commitments Saturday, U-M had another landmark day Tuesday.
From the freep.com
Miles'close friend, John Wangler, a former U-M quarterback, sees it differently.
From the freep.com
Mike if u do decide to come out go on a buy a ticket and sit with the commoners.
From the orlandosentinel.com
She says U-CAN has changed the lives of SCOE students who want to go to college.
From the sacbee.com
Bridgewater said U of L fans will see close to a carbon copy of himself in Cato.
From the courier-journal.com
The first game against MSU in every recent U-M coach's career has not been kind.
From the freep.com
The wild card is the U-M offense and if QB Denard Robinson makes poor decisions.
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  • (chiefly British) of or appropriate to the upper classes especially in language use
  • Uracil: a base containing nitrogen that is found in RNA (but not in DNA) and derived from pyrimidine; pairs with adenine
  • Uranium: a heavy toxic silvery-white radioactive metallic element; occurs in many isotopes; used for nuclear fuels and nuclear weapons
  • The 21st letter of the Roman alphabet
  • (u.s.) United States government: the executive and legislative and judicial branches of the federal government of the United States
  • (u.s.) United States: North American republic containing 50 states - 48 conterminous states in North America plus Alaska in northwest North America and the Hawaiian Islands in the Pacific Ocean; achieved independence in 1776
  • The double acute accent ( u02DD ) is a diacritic mark of the Latin script. It is used primarily in written Hungarian, and consequently is sometimes referred to by typographers as Hungarumlaut. The signs formed with diacritic marks are letters in their own right in the Hungarian alphabet (for instance, they are separate letters for the purpose of collation).
  • Unicode is a computing industry standard for the consistent representation and handling of text expressed in most of the world's writing systems. ...
  • U (pronounced "oo", beginning and ending with a glottal stop) is the first opera entirely in the Klingon language, billed as "The first authentic Klingon opera on Earth". ...