DA

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

IPA (US):

• DA (noun)
  The noun DA has 1 sense:

1. an official prosecutor for a judicial district

  Familiarity information: DA used as a noun is very rare.

• DA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An official prosecutor for a judicial district

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

DA; district attorney

Hypernyms ("DA" is a kind of...):

prosecuting attorney; prosecuting officer; prosecutor; public prosecutor (a government official who conducts criminal prosecutions on behalf of the state)

 Context examples 

"No more Maria washa da wools," her story always ended.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

These were the findings of a special report titled Impacto, vulnerabilidade e adaptação das cidades costeiras brasileiras às mudanças climáticas.

(Brazil's coastal cities more vulnerable to climate change, Agência Brasil)

This agent has minimal effects on the CNS neuronal reuptake of norepinephrine (NE) and dopamine (DA).

(Citalopram Hydrobromide, NCI Thesaurus)

A transplantable cell line (RUCA-I) derived from such a tumor in DA rats can produce these tumors in ectopic sites.

(DA, Rat Strain, NCI Thesaurus)

Fenoldopam, a dopamine (DA) receptor agonist, binds specifically to peripheral DA1 receptors and to alpha-2 adrenoceptors with moderate affinity.

(Fenoldopam, NCI Thesaurus)

According to the 2016 Amazon Deforestation Report (original Portuguese title: Panorama do Desmatamento da Amazônia 2016), the states with the largest increase in deforestation rates were Amazonas, Acre and Pará, with 54%, 47% and 41% respectively.

(Amazon lost 7,989 km² of forest in 12 months, Agência Brasil)

I will not bore those whom this narrative may reach by an account of our luxurious voyage upon the Booth liner, nor will I tell of our week's stay at Para (save that I should wish to acknowledge the great kindness of the Pereira da Pinta Company in helping us to get together our equipment).

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Such sayings exist in numerous languages: other examples in English include "Grape or grain, but never the twain”, while Germans claim “Wein auf Bier, das rat’ ich Dir—Bier auf Wein, das lass’ sein” and the French say “Bière sur vin est venin, vin sur bière est belle manière”.###!!!###

(Wine before beer, or beer before wine? Either way, you’ll be hungover, University of Cambridge)

And then, to show that it was purely business foresight and not prejudice, "Hava da drink on da house—good friends justa da same."

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

DA: Urinary bladder tumors 54% in males and 14% in females, with a peak incidence at 25-30 months of age (Deerberg et al 1985).

(DA, Rat Strain, NCI Thesaurus)