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| Domain | Definition |
Computing | CDC Control Data Corporation. Source: The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing. |
Agriculture | Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. (references) |
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 |
CDC | Dutch | Center for Disease Control and Prevention | Medicine |
CDC | English | Commonwealth Development Corporation | N/A |
CDC | French | Centre de contrôle des maladies | Medicine |
CDC | German | Kameruner Entwicklungsgesellschaft | N/A |
CDC | Italian | Ciclo di divisione cellulare | Medicine |
CDC | Spanish | Centro de control de enfermedades | Medicine |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
Crosswords: CDC |
| English words defined with "CDC": terza rima. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "CDC": Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome, Algorithmic Processor Description Language ♦ CATO, Community Development Corporation, CYBIL ♦ Formula ALGOL ♦ General Purpose Language ♦ Meta, Michigan Algorithm Decoder ♦ Pascal- ♦ SYMPL ♦ TC/IX, TLAs. (references) |
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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
Operators answering calls at CDC switchboard. Credit: CDC. | CDC spray equipment leaving the warehouse at a field office in Laredo, TX, for work in a flood area. Credit: CDC. | ||
Pictured here is a trial run of a patient taken from CDC to a nearby medical center. A doctor is administering care to the patient with supportive help from the Isolation Unit medical staff. Credit: CDC. | The Lunar Receiving Station shipped in refurbished condition to CDC by NASA, was to be used in the event one of the CDC team members became ill while working with the first Ebola virus outbreak. It is currently stored at CDC's Lawrenceville facility. Credit: CDC. | ||
Since the beginning of the AIDS epidemic, the CDC has been at the forefront of HIV investigation and lab research. Credit: CDC. | CDC lab technician, Dana Shealy, is conducting a lab experiment in the toxicology robotics lab. Credit: CDC. | ||
Since 1946, CDC has expanded its Clifton Road campus, as well as increased the number of facilities worldwide. As of 2002, CDC has approximately 8,500 employees in 170 occupations. Credit: CDC. | Crowd waiting for oral polio vaccine in 1962. Today CDC now recommends that we give only the injectable vaccine because of the very small chance that the oral dose can lead to a polio infection. Credit: CDC. | ||
This poster is part of a series of posters collected throughout the world on smallpox and/or measles vaccination. In 1966, the CDC began the worldwide smallpox eradication campaign in Africa and by 1979 the world was declared smallpox-free. Credit: CDC. | Dr. Walter Dowdle, Dr. William Foege, and Dr. David Fraser at the Senate Hearing on Legionnaires' disease held at the CDC, in 1977. Credit: CDC. | ||
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | CDC is not a regulatory agency. (references) | |
CDC. Pertussis surveillance report. (references) | ||
CDC. Toxic-shock syndrome United States. (references) | ||
Business | Some local brands include IBN, RBN, CDC, FIBER, MYCOM, DC, BYTE, PC Net, More, etc. mainly using parts and peripherals from Taiwan, Korea and Malaysia. (references) | |
Economic History | Botswana | CDC is located on Ditlhakore Way in Gaborone. (references) |
Tanzania | Several venture capitals (including FEDHA Fund and CDC Capital Partners) have been established which offer substantial equity injection to potential business establishment. (references) | |
Botswana | Under the 1999 U.S. Government's Leadership and Investment in Fighting an Epidemic (LIFE) Initiative, CDC through the BOTUSA Project has undertaken many projects and has assisted many organizations in the fight against the HIV/AIDS epidemic in Botswana. (references) | |
Trade | Kenya | Its shareholders are CDC, DEG (the German Investment & Development Company), Barclays Bank of Kenya and Development Bank of Kenya. (references) |
Travel | Nepal | Additional information on health matters can be obtained from the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) and Prevention's International Traveler's Hotline at 888/232-3228, the autofax service at 888/232-3299, or by visiting the CDC home page on the Internet at http://www.cdc.gov/. (references) |
Turkey | Information on vaccinations and other health precautions can be obtained from the Center for Diseases Control and Prevention's (CDC) hotline for international travelers at 1-877-FYI-TRIP (1-877-394-8747), fax 1-800-CDC-FAXX (1-800-232-3299), or via CDC's Internet site at http://www.cdc.gov/. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "CDC" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 95.18% of the time. "CDC" is used about 83 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) | 95.18% | 79 | 37,388 |
| Noun (singular) | 2.41% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Noun (common) | 2.41% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 83 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Country | Name |
| Italy | CDC SPA |
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Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.
Expression using "CDC": cdc gene. Additional references. | |
| 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. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
cdc | 5,168 | cdc job | 15 |
cdc sars | 96 | cdc government | 15 |
cdc chart growth | 48 | aiwa cdc x217 | 15 |
atlanta cdc | 47 | aids cdc | 13 |
cdc mp3 | 35 | cdc credit union | 13 |
cdc federal credit union | 35 | cdc.gov ddt ddthome.htm nccdphp | 13 |
cdc.gov nip | 34 | cdc funds nvest | 13 |
cdc new | 34 | cdc.gov pox small | 13 |
cdc ixis | 31 | aiwa cdc mp32 | 12 |
cdc foundation | 27 | cdc nile west | 12 |
cdc diabetes | 26 | cdc computer | 11 |
cdc travel | 25 | cdc home page | 10 |
cdc monkeypox | 21 | cdc dress | 9 |
cdc guidelines | 19 | cdc small pox | 9 |
aiwa cdc mp3 | 17 | cdc health traveler | 9 |
cdc nile virus west | 17 | aiwa cdc x227 | 9 |
cdc nvest | 17 | cdc center control disease | 9 |
cdc monkey pox | 16 | aiwa cdc z117 | 9 |
cdc site web | 16 | cdc obesity | 9 |
cdc hiv | 15 | cdc lyme disease | 8 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "CDC"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||
French | gène du cycle de division cellulaire (cdc gene), gène cdc (cdc gene). (various references) | ||||
German | cdc-Gen (cdc gene, cell-division-cycle gene), Gen des Zellteilungszyklus (cdc gene, cell-division-cycle gene). (various references) | ||||
Italian | gene del ciclo di divisione cellulare (cdc gene, cell-division-cycle gene), gene cdc (cdc gene, cell-division-cycle gene). (various references) | ||||
Pig Latin | cdcay | ||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words containing the letters "c-c-d" | |
+2 letters: codec, cycad. | |
+3 letters: accede, accord, acidic, cached, cadmic, cicada, coccid, cocked, codecs, cycads, cycled, decoct, sicced. | |
+4 letters: acceded, acceder, accedes, accidia, accidie, accords, accrued, accused, cackled, cacodyl, cactoid, caddice, cadence, cadency, caducei, cardiac, cascade, chalcid, chanced, checked, chocked, chucked, cicadae, cicadas, cichlid, cinched, circled, clacked, cliched, clicked, clocked, clucked, coached, coacted, coccids, coccoid, cockade, cockled, codices, codicil, coerced, comedic, concede, concord, conduce, conduct, couched, cracked, cricked, cricoid, crocked, cuckold, culicid, cycloid, decency, decocts, deictic, dicycly, docetic, ecocide, flaccid, flocced, icicled, occlude, octadic, saccade, scaldic, scandic, sconced, specced, succeed. | |
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