ana

noun

1. A collection of things associated with a person or place, especially a personal collection of anecdotes or conversations at table

   “The FRENCH ANAS, or Selections from the best of the French Anas, interspersed with biographical sketches. In three elegant Volumes, small 8vo. price 15s. boards”

   “Jefferson was aware of the literary tradition of anas, which extended back at least as far as Athenaeus's Dipnosophistarum, a delightful collection of table talk from ancient times covering a variety of subjects including law, literature, medicine, and philosophy.”

2. (Internet, uncountable)Anorexia.
3. (alt-of, alternative)Alternative form of anna (“a former subdivision of the rupee”).
4. (abbreviation, alt-of, initialism)Initialism of anti-nuclear antibody.
5. (UK, abbreviation, alt-of, initialism)Initialism of animal nursing assistant.
6. (plural, plural-only)A member of the Ana people.

adv

1. (not-comparable)Of each; an equal quantity.

   “wine and honey, ana / ij”

   “Take Sugrede Coriandre ſeedes 3 qv. of an ovvnce, deſcidede liqveriſh ℥ [?]. Calmus, redd Roſes, ana a q. of an ounce, Cĩnamone 3 qv. of an ounce, Ginger, cloves, Mace, Nuttmegges, ana a q. of an oũce, all vvhich being contunded together, & as much Suger mixede thervvith, as ther is of the other poulder, or accordinge as vve deſire the dulcor therof, vve muſt in the morning faſting, or one hovver before ſuppervſe heerof.”

2. In a direction analogous to up, but along the additional axis added by the fourth dimension.

   “Your right half would move ana, let us say, and your left half would move kata. The two halves would, in their parallel spaces, move past the plane of rotation, and then they would swing back into our space.”

   “Added to the conventional FPS control keys are two extra keys that move the player in ana and kata direction in 4d space. If you go in this extra direction the space around you changes, the room transforms.”

name

1. (abbreviation, alt-of)Abbreviation of Anaheim.
2. (abbreviation, alt-of, initialism)Initialism of Afghan National Army.
3. (abbreviation, alt-of, initialism)Initialism of All Nippon Airways.
4. (Australia, abbreviation, alt-of, historical, initialism)Initialism of Australian National Airways.
5. (US, abbreviation, alt-of, initialism)Initialism of American Nurses Association.
6. A female given name, equivalent to English Anna or Hannah.
7. A river in Oregon, United States.
8. (alt-of, alternative)Alternative spelling of Anah, a city in Anbar, Iraq.

   “Ana Island and a strip of flat land below the steep banks bordering the Euphrates, some 350 km (220 miles) due east of Palmyra, were occupied for millennia by the buildings of a succession of important settlements...”

9. An ethnicity within the Yoruba people, mostly living in Benin and Togo in West Africa.
10. The language within the Niger-Congo family spoken by the Ana people.