si

IPA: sˈi

Root Word: SI

International System of Units
(music) A syllable used in solfège to represent the seventh note of a major scale.
A diminutive of the male given name Simon.
A diminutive of the male given name Silas.
A river in Shandong, China.
A county of Suzhou, Anhui, China.
(historical) Various prefectures of imperial China.
Initialism of Smithsonian Institution.
(electronics) Initialism of signal integrity.
(technology) Initialism of systems integration.
Initialism of self-injury. [self-harm]
(fandom slang) Initialism of self-insertion. (of the author into fan fiction) [(narratology) A literary device in which the author writes himself or herself into the story as a character.]
(mechanical engineering) Initialism of spark ignition.
Initialism of supporting information.
Initialism of special intelligence.
(finance) Initialism of systematic internaliser.
Initialism of swarm intelligence. [(artificial intelligence) The collective behavior of decentralized, self-organized systems, whether natural or artificial.]
Initialism of synthetic intelligence. [Synonym of artificial intelligence]
(UK, Canada, Australia, law) Initialism of statutory instrument. [(UK, Irland, Canada, Australia, law) In some common law jurisdictions, a form of delegated legislation enacted under a power derived from an act of parliament.]
Initialism of subinspector. (of police, etc) [A subordinate inspector.]
Alternative form of Xi [A river in China, the western tributary of the Pearl.]

(anatomy, medicine) Initialism of sacroiliac. [(anatomy) Relating to the sacrum and ilium, or to the region of the lower back where they are located.]

Examples of "si" in Sentences

"_Ah! si la jeunesse savait_, -- _si la vieillesse pouvait_!"
"_Si, si, si_!" he cried, nodding quickly and pointing right away into the distant valley.
So enjoy the show, y para los nominados que se preguntan si esta será su noche, les digo, ¡si se puede!
That 100-year period used to be known as a saeculum — the root of our secular and the French word siècle for century:
"_Si, si, si_!" is the simultaneous answer of assent, Calderon alone seeming to give it with reluctance; though he hesitates from timidity, not mercy.
"_Si, Senor, si, si_," answered a short, stout, black-bearded individual who formed one of the trio on the stranger's poop, "we are full of water and sinking.
Palmerius conjectured _simul tentandi gratiâ, si paterentur; et opportunitate loci, _ which Gerlach and Kritsius adopt, except that they change the place of the _et_, and put it before _si_.
[20] And, indeed, if the intellectual ability, etc. -- _Quod si -- animi virtus_, etc. "Quod si" can not here be rendered _but if; _ it is rather equivalent to _quapropter si_, and might be expressed by
Although Berne had permitted the temporary residence of the deposed count at Oron, and had granted to the countess the revenues of a small piece of land, the refugees soon left the "logis" which they found "_si froid et si mal fourni de vivres_," and repaired to Burgundy and the protection of their powerful de Vergy relatives.