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Au

noun
1.
A soft yellow malleable ductile (trivalent and univalent) metallic element; occurs mainly as nuggets in rocks and alluvial deposits; does not react with most chemicals but is attacked by chlorine and aqua regia.  Synonyms: atomic number 79, gold.
2.
A unit of length used for distances within the solar system; equal to the mean distance between the Earth and the Sun (approximately 93 million miles or 150 million kilometers).  Synonym: Astronomical Unit.



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"Au" Quotes from Famous Books



... not Heber and De Thou, And Scott, and Southey, kind and wise, La chasse au bouquin still ...
— Rhymes a la Mode • Andrew Lang

... he gets out of it," I said, remembering the odd Texas legend. (The traveller read the bill-of-fare, you know, and called for a vol-au-vent. And the proprietor looked at the traveller, and running a pistol into his ear, observed, "You'll take hash.") I was thinking of this and wondering what would happen to me. So I ...
— The Virginian - A Horseman Of The Plains • Owen Wister

... Au debut je n'avais pas cru a la possibilite de forcer les Dardanelles sans l'intervention de l'armee. C'est pour cela que, si la decision m'eut appartenus et avant d'avoir ete place sous vos ordres, j'avais songe a debarquer a ...
— Gallipoli Diary, Volume I • Ian Hamilton

... mal au coeur d'avoir trop regarde votre croute,"[2] said I, and made my escape, scarce with ...
— The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 13 (of 25) • Robert Louis Stevenson

... kou e, aloha kou; Ke aloha mai kou ka hoahele I ka makani, i ka apaapaa Anuu o Ahulua. Moe iho uei au I ka po uliuli, Po uliuli eleele. Anapanapa, alohi mai ana ia'u Ke aa o Akua Nunu. Ine ee au e kui e lei Ia kuana na aa kulikuli. Papa o hee ia nei lae. E u'alo, e u'alo Ua alo mai nei ia'u Ka launiu e o peahi e; E hoi au ...
— Northern California, Oregon, and the Sandwich Islands • Charles Nordhoff


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