IL

n. (Chemistry) illinium (former name of the metallic element promethium); extension for an Internet address of a person or site located in Israel (Computers)

As an abbreviation, IL may refer to:Israel, ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code IL, IATA designator for Sri Lankan airline LankirIL Protocol, (Internet Link protocol) developed originally as part of Plan 9 from Bell LabsIllinois, United States postal abbreviationIlmenau, vehicle registration plate code for Ilmenau, a town in Thuringia, Germany (newer plates obtain code for district IK, Ilm-Kreis)Ilyushin, Russian design bureau and aircraft manufacturer, i.e. aircraft or aircraft type of this making (plural for these: ILs)International League, Class Triple-A league in North American Minor League Baseball
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.il is the Internet country code top-level domain (ccTLD) of Israel. It is administered by the Israel Internet Association.The .il top-level domain is one of the earliest registered ccTLDs. When Israel registered it, on 24 October 1985, it was the third registration of any ccTLD, after .us and .uk, which were registered earlier that year.
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The prefix Il- serves as the definite article in the Maltese language, which can be translated as the in the English language. Il- derives from Arabic Al-, and has more or less the same function and dynamics.The Maltese definite article is L- when in front of a word that starts with a vowel and Il- when in front of a word that starts with a consonant.l-omm (the mother)il-missier (the father)Much like in Arabic, the Maltese definite article assimilates when in front of solar consonants (konsonanti xemxin), that are: Ċ, D, N, R, S, T, X, Ż and Z.iċ-ċikkulata (the chocolate)id-dar (the house)in-nar (the fire)ir-razzett (the farm)is-serrieq (the saw)it-tifel (the boy)ix-xemx (the sun)iż-żarbun (the shoe)iz-zalzetta (the sausage)
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Noun
1. a Midwest state in north-central United States
(synonym) Illinois, Prairie State, Land of Lincoln
(hypernym) American state
(part-holonym) Midwest, Middle West
(part-meronym) Cairo

Adjective
1. being nine more than forty
(synonym) forty-nine, 49
(similar) cardinal

pron. he, it

art. the