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ABD

"ABD" is a common misspelling or typo for: abed, ad, add, aid, and, bad.


Specialty Definition: ABD

DomainDefinition

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.

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Abbreviations & Acronyms: ABD

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.
EntrySourceExpressionField

ABD

EnglishAutologous blood donationMedicine

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Crosswords: ABD

English words defined with "ABD": Fore bodyright angle. (references)

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Commercial Usage: ABD

DomainTitle

Books

  • The Tibyan: Memoirs of Abd Allah B. Buluggin, Last Zirid Amir of Granada (Medieval Iberian Peninsula , Vol 5) (reference)

  • Phytophthora: Symposium of the British Mycological Society, the British Society for Plant Pathology Abd the Society of Irish Plant Pathologists Held (reference)

  • The Spiritual Writings of Amir Abd Al-Kader (Suny Series in Western Esoteric Traditions) (reference)

  • Taylor's Guide to Roses: How to Select abd Grow 380 Roses, Including the New Hardy Ever-Blooming Varieties - Flexible Binding (Taylor's Gardening Guides) (reference)

  • The phantom caravan : or, Abd el Kader, Emir of Algeria (1808-1883) (reference)

    (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Non-Fiction Usage: ABD

SubjectTopicQuote

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.

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Usage Frequency: ABD

"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 SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (proper)91.84%9034,744
Lexical Verb (base form)6.12%6143,867
Noun (singular)1.02%1339,140
Noun (common)1.02%1339,140
                    Total100.00%98N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expression: ABD

Hyphenated Usage

Beginning with "ABD": Abd-ar-rahman.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: ABD

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.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

abd

109

abd dumb dumberer

4

abd bath bed beyond

41

abd el hafez halim

3

abd racing

38

abd el halim

3

barnes abd noble

24

abd intake

3

abd insurance

16

abd news

3

abd distributing

14

abd razak tun

3

abd pad

10

abd degree

3

abd barrel crate

7

abd news sports

3

abd ru shin

7

abd credit union

3

abd baseball

7

abd group

3

abd rahman tunku

6

abd el naser

3

abd vw

6

abd paper pulp

3

abd bed breakfast

5

abd abdel abdelrazzak abdul abdul abdul abdul abdul abdul al al al al al al al al al al alhashimi dr dr hashemi hashemi hashemi hashemi hashemi hashimi hashimi hashimi hashimi hashimi karim karim razzak razzaq razzaq rizzak

2

abd performance

5

abd appliance

2

abd el kader

5

abd el farrag nadja

2

abd development

5

abd al al jilani qadir

2

abd bath body works

4

abd big bore intake

2

abd home

4

abd financial insurance services

2

abd insurance services

4

abd biodata rahman tunku

2

abd fast furious

4

abd bulldogs

2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Derivations: ABD

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).

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Anagrams: ABD

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.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: ABD


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

41 42 44

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

=

Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

.-    -...    -..

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000001 01000010 01000100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#65 &#66 &#68

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0041 0042 0044

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

353638

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Usage: Commercial
4. Quotations: Non-fiction
5. Usage Frequency
6. Expressions
7. Expressions: Internet
8. Abbreviations
9. Acronyms
10. Derivations
11. Anagrams
12. Orthography
13. Bibliography


  

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