ADJ.

Domain	Definition
Public Administration	Satisfying the appropriate regulations for use in situations where there is a risk of explosions. (CEI Publ. 50 (1970)). Source: European Union. (references)
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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
adj.	Dutch	Adjudant	Military & Defense
adj.	English	Adjustable	N/A
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Synonym: ADJ.

Synonym by domain: flameproof (public administration, electrical engineering).

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Taciturnity	Verb: be silent; adj.; keep silence, keep mum; hold one's tongue, hold one's peace, hold one's jaw; not speak.; say nothing, keep one's counsel; seal the lips, close the lips, button the lips, zipper the lips, put a padlock on the lips, put a padlock on the mouth; put a bridle on one's tongue; bite one's tongue, keep one's tongue between one's teeth; make no sign, not let a word escape one; keep a secret; not have a word to say; hush up, hush, lay the finger on the lips, place the finger on the lips; render mute.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: ADJ.

English words defined with "ADJ.": Dueling ♦ Fault-finding ♦ Hiberno-Celtic ♦ out and out ♦ Phlogisticate. (references)

Etymologies containing "ADJ.": String. (references)

Non-English Usage: "ADJ." is also a word in the following language with English translations in parentheses.

Portuguese (bevelled, swollen).

Domain	Title
Books	CEN (Ceridian): Q4 In-Line; Adj. Ests. For Acct. Change [DOWNLOAD: PDF] (reference) (more book examples)

High Tech	Premium Monitor View Clip Adj. Ht. Brkt Attaches To Mntr (reference) Adj. Phone Arm-rotates 360 Degr 3 Position Angle-3 Pos Ext Plat (reference) (more camera examples; more video game examples; more computer examples; more electronic examples; more software examples)
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Thumbnail	Description & Credit
	The honourable Major Cathcart, Dep. As. Adj. Gen. to the Light Division. Credit: Library of Congress.
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Subject	Topic	Quote
Lexicography	Devil's Dictionary	GENEROUS, adj. Originally this word meant noble by birth and was rightly applied to a great multitude of persons. It now means noble by nature and is taking a bit of a rest.
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"ADJ." is generally used as a noun (common) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "ADJ." is used about 3 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 (common)	100%	3	202,518

Expression using "ADJ.": adj. (BS 205:1943). Additional references.
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Language		Translations for "ADJ."; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Danish		kost (broom), føde (dietary, food ( adj. )). (various references)

Dutch		adjudant (adjutant, aide-de-camp), adj. (Adjt., Adjutant, continuous), verwisselbaar (arbitrary (direction of flute), exchangeable, reversible, symmetrically dependent), buitenwerks (exterior, outside, overall), binnenwerks (inside, interior). (various references)

Finnish		ruoka- (dietary, food ( adj. )), ravinto- (dietary, food ( adj. )). (various references)

French		réversible, intérieurement, extérieurement. (various references)

German		außen (external, hors, out, outdoors, outside), umtauschbar (convertible, exchangeable), im Lichten (inside, interior), äusserlich (exterior, outside). (various references)

Italian		alimentare (alimentary, feed, nourish, plump). (various references)

Pig Latin		adj.ay

Portuguese		alimentar (aliment, diet, fare, feed, food, forage, foster, nourish, nurture, nutritive), alimentício (alimentary, alimony, nourishing). (various references)

Scottish		gur h- (precedes n. and adj. beginning with vow.), gur (at your, brood of birds, festering, hatching, precedes n. and adj. beginning in con., that), féin (as, follows the n., pron. or adj., self), car (before an adj. : car coltach ri, fraud : an caraibh a, somewhat like, trick, turn, twist). (various references)

Spanish		alimentario (alimentary). (various references)

Swedish		närings (dietary, food ( adj. )), livsmedels (dietary, food ( adj. )). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Language	Period	Translations
Latin	500 BCE-Modern	praeter. (various references)
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters ".-a-d-j"
	-2 letters: ad.
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ADJ.

Specialty Definition: ADJ.

Public Administration

Abbreviations & Acronyms: ADJ.

adj.

adj.

Synonym: ADJ.

Synonyms within Context: ADJ.

Taciturnity

Crosswords: ADJ.

Commercial Usage: ADJ.

Books

High Tech

Photo Album: ADJ.

Non-Fiction Usage: ADJ.

Lexicography

Devil's Dictionary

Usage Frequency: ADJ.

Expression: ADJ.

Modern Translation: ADJ.

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Ancestral Language Translations: ADJ.

Anagrams: ADJ.

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