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| Domain | Definition |
Literature | Abd in Arabic = slave or servant, as Abd-Allah (servant of God), Abd-el-Kader (servant of the Mighty One), Abdul-Latif (servant of the Gracious One), etc. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
ABD | English | Autologous blood donation | Medicine |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
Crosswords: ABD |
| English words defined with "ABD": Fore body ♦ right angle. (references) |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Civil Liberties | Somalia | In August 2000, the Islamic Court Militia detained Ahmed Abd Al Rahman Dhalbaaq, the editor of the Merka, Lower Shabelle, bimonthly newspaper, Gaim, reportedly for reporting on a decrease in security in the town. (references) |
Yemen | The Supreme Court also upheld the lower court's sentence of $588 (100,000 riyals) fine for the newspaper and suspension for the editor in chief (who died in 1999). The Court also sentenced the editor and the author of the article (the editor's brother, Abd al-Jabbar Saad), to flogging with 80 strokes of a lash and 1 year journalistic suspension. (references) | |
Economic History | Saudi Arabia | The Saudi state began in central Arabia in about 1750. A local ruler, Muhammad bin Saud, joined forces with an Islamic reformer, Muhammad Abd Al-Wahhab, to create a new political entity. (references) |
Political Economy | Saudi Arabia | It is ruled by King Fahd bin Abd Al-Aziz Al Saud, a son of King Abd Al-Aziz Al Saud, who unified the country in the early 20th century. (references) |
Saudi Arabia | Since the death of King Abd Al-Aziz, the King and Crown Prince have been chosen from among his sons, who themselves have had preponderant influence in the choice. (references) | |
Saudi Arabia | The Basic Law adopted in 1992 declared that Saudi Arabia is a monarchy ruled by the sons and grandsons of King Abd Al Aziz Al Saud, and that the Holy Qur'an is the constitution of the country, which is governed on the basis of Islamic law (Shari'a). (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "ABD" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 91.84% of the time. "ABD" is used about 98 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (proper) | 91.84% | 90 | 34,744 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 6.12% | 6 | 143,867 |
| Noun (singular) | 1.02% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Noun (common) | 1.02% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 98 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "ABD": Abd-ar-rahman. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "ABD": abdicable, abdicate, abdicated, abdicates, abdicating, abdication, abdications, abdicator, abdicators, abdomen, abdomens, abdomina, abdominal, abdominally, abduce, abduced, abducens, abducent, abducentes, abduces, abducing, abduct, abducted, abductee, abductees, abducting, abduction, abductions, abductor, abductores, abductors, abducts. (additional references) | |
Words containing "ABD": cabdriver, cabdrivers, habdalah, habdalahs, labdanum, labdanums, rhabdocoele, rhabdocoeles, rhabdom, rhabdomancer, rhabdomancers, rhabdomancies, rhabdomancy, rhabdome, rhabdomere, rhabdomeres, rhabdomes, rhabdoms, rhabdomyosarcoma, rhabdomyosarcomas, rhabdomyosarcomata, rhabdovirus, rhabdoviruses. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: bad, dab. | |
| Words within the letters "a-b-d" | |
-1 letter: ab, ad, ba. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-b-d" | |
+1 letter: abed, bade, bads, bald, band, bard, baud, bawd, bead, brad, dabs, darb, daub, drab. | |
+2 letters: abide, abode, adobe, adobo, ardeb, baaed, baddy, badge, badly, baked, balds, baldy, baled, bands, bandy, baned, barde, bards, bared, based, bated, bauds, bawds, bawdy, bayed, beads, beady, beard, blade, bland, board, brads, braid, brand, bread, broad, darbs, daube, daubs, dauby, debar, dobla, dobra, drabs, rabid, sabed, tabid. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)41 42 44 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references).- -... -.. |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000001 01000010 01000100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)A B D |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0041 0042 0044 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)353638 |
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