See also Appendix:Variations of "l", and ã„´

Translingual

Symbol

L or l

  1. Symbol for liter or litre.
  2. Symbol for the Roman numeral 50; Previous XLIX 49, Next LI 51
  3. (biochemistry) IUPAC 1-letter abbreviation for leucine

Letter

L (uppercase, lowercase l)

  1. The twelfth letter of the English alphabet, preceded by K and followed by M.

Noun

L

  1. (sports) The statistic for the number of losses by a team or player limited by some criteria (e.g. this season, at home, on turf)
  2. Alternative spelling of el (elevated train).
    • 1925 February 21, "Co-operation" (cartoon), The New Yorker, page 2,
      PLEASE! HELP US KEEP THE "L" AND SUBWAY CLEAN

Derived terms

  • (sports): OTL

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L is the twelfth letter of the basic modern Latin alphabet. Its name in English is spelled el or occasionally ell (pronounced /ɛl/).

History

The letter L is derived from the Phoenician crook or goad which stood for /l/. This originally may have been based on an Egyptian hieroglyph that was adapted by Semites for alphabetic purposes. The Greek letter Lambda Λ (upper case) or λ (lower case), as well as the equivalent Etruscan and Latin letters, represent the same sound as the Semitic letter.

Egyptian hieroglyph `wt Proto-Semitic L Phoenician L Etruscan L Greek Lambda

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How often do l clean my small fish tank?
Q. l have 4 mosquito fish and 3 snails. How often do l clean my little fish tank and how would l remove my snails without hurting them? l don't have a filter.
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A. Clean the fish tank once a month.. if its like reaaally small but if its average size then just change the filter & replace the water like every 4 months or so. snails you can just pick them up by their shell and place them in a bowl with the fishies while your cleaning the tank... if you don't want to touch the snails then get something like tweezers or something..
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How much swelling should l expect when getting my wisdom teeth pulled?
Q. l had 6 wisdom teeth, and they extracted 4 of them, and left the other 2 because after digging around for one of them, they couldn't find it and decided to leave both of them there. One side of my mouth is practically normal, the other side is blown up HUGE. Is this to be expected? They said that the swelling peaks at about 48hrs, and it's been about 48hrs, and l'm yet to see a decrease in size, but l'm just really surprised that just the one side of my face is huge, and the other side isn't.
Asked by washingtonnnn - Fri Aug 15 11:21:23 2008 - - 4 Answers - 0 Comments

A. It is normal, if you are not putting ice packs on your cheecks. You should be doing that for twenty minutes every couple of hours. It will help with swelling and pain. I can only guess why one side of your face is swollen, perhaps that is the side that they dug around for the other teeth.
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How do I modify the stomacher of a robe a l'anglaise to resemble the stomacher of a robe a la francaise?
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