er
IPA: ɝ
noun
- The name of the Cyrillic script letter Р / р.
- Initialism of Elizabeth Regina (“Queen Elizabeth”).
- (Britain) Initialism of Edward Rex. (on coins, letterboxes, etc.) The royal cypher for Edward VII, king of Great Britain
- (US politics) Initialism of Eleanor Roosevelt.
- (US sports) Abbreviation of Erie (“Erie, Pennsylvania, USA”). [A tribe of Native Americans.]
- (baseball) Initialism of earned run. [(baseball) A run that was recorded without the benefit of an error.]
- (biology) Initialism of endoplasmic reticulum. [(cytology) A network of membranes within the cytoplasm of cells, where proteins and lipids are synthesized.]
- (computing) Initialism of entity-relationship.
- (medicine) Initialism of emergency room. [(US, Canada, healthcare) A department of a hospital where seriously ill or injured patients, often with life-threatening conditions that require urgent or immediate treatment, are brought in, usually by ambulance.]
- (biochemistry) Initialism of estrogen receptor.
- (physics) Initialism of Einstein-Rosen bridge. [(physics) A type of wormhole that is inherently unstable and collapses before any information or matter can pass through.]
- (military) Initialism of enhanced radiation.
verb
- (informal) To utter the word "er" when hesitating in speech, found in the phrase um and er.
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Examples of "er" in Sentences
- The streets ere demolished.
- They thought the results ere deducible.
- He became symptomatic and went to the ER.
- The dyspeptic process was told to be erred.
- Greene organizes the ramshackle but fun annual ER banquet.
- For the first time, she takes an unaided walk through the ER.
- Enzymes of the smooth ER can also help detoxify drugs and poisons.
- The encoded protein is localized to the ER and the plasma membrane.
- However, if so, it is the linesman who erred rather than the referee.
- Erring on the side of caution, I removed the words describing the subject.
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