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ADL

"ADL" is a common misspelling or typo for: ad, add, addle, ado, ads, adz, ail, all, awl.


Specialty Definition: ADL

DomainDefinition

Computing

ADL 1. Adventure Definition Language. 2. Ada Development Language. R.A. Lees, 1989. 3. API Definition Language. A project for Automatic Interface Test Generation. (1995-11-17). Source: The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing.

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

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Abbreviations & Acronyms: ADL

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

ADL

EnglishArthur D.Little IncN/A

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

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Crosswords: ADL

Specialty definitions using "ADL": Adventure Definition LanguageDDLgamesTLAs. (references)

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Commercial Usage: ADL

DomainTitle

Books

  • Att faststèalla och mèata fèormêaga till dagliga livets aktiviteter (ADL) : en kritisk granskning av ADL-instrument och arbetsterapipraxis (reference)

  • Beitrèage zur Gegenstandsbestimmung der Sportpèadagogik : 1. Internationales Symposium fèur Sportpèadagogik des ADL, 29. September-3. Oktober 1975 in Karlsruhe (reference)

  • New Adl Handbook on Israel Zbs-250 (reference)

  • New Paper Backs for Yng Adl Them Gd 2 (reference)

    (more book examples)

  

Periodicals

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

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Historic Usage: ADL

AuthorDateQuotation

Treaty of Versailles

1919

Butzig, Cziskowo, Battrow, Bock, Grunau; thence in a northerly direction the boundary between the Kreise of Konitz and Schlochau to the point where this boundary cuts the river Brahe; thence to a point on the boundary of Pomerania 15 kilometres east of Rummelsburg: a line to be fixed on the ground leaving the following places in Poland: Konarzin, Kelpin, Adl. (reference)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Non-Fiction Usage: ADL

SubjectTopicQuote

Minorities

Russia

Afterwards Alexander Axelrod, the Director of the ADL Moscow office, stated, "...[C]emetery desecrations remain one of the most common types of anti-Semitic attacks in Russia." Several other Jewish cemeteries, including those in Nizhniy Novgorod and Samara, also were vandalized during the year. (references)

Russia

The ADL expressed concern that this spate of anti-Semitic incidents may be the result of the nationalist rhetoric of some politicians who had blamed "Jews and Zionists" for the September 11 terrorist attacks on the U.S. Axelrod stated to the press, "Nationalism and xenophobia figure prominently these days in the press, in public rantings, on the Internet. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: ADL

"ADL" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 77.78% of the time. "ADL" is used about 9 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 (singular)77.78%7133,076
Lexical Verb (base form)11.11%1339,140
Noun (proper)11.11%1339,140
                    Total100.00%9N/A

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: ADL

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

adl

234

adl technology

11

adl scorm

10

adl care

9

700 adl remington

8

adl software

3

adl aol technology

3

adl crime hate hindu muslim

3

adl autistic child teaching

3

adl disease

3

adl insulflex

2

adl autistic child skill

2

adl bell klein scale

2

adl equipment

2

06 30 700 adl camo remington

2

adcs adl

2

adl tobacco

2

adl computer

2

adl aol

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

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Derivations: ADL

Derivations

Words containing "ADL": badland, badlands, badly, beadle, beadles, beadlike, breadline, breadlines, broadleaf, broadloom, broadlooms, broadly, chadless, cradle, cradled, cradler, cradlers, cradles, cradlesong, cradlesongs, cradling, deadlier, deadliest, deadlift, deadlifted, deadlifting, deadlifts, deadlight, deadlights, deadline, deadlines, deadliness, deadlinesses, deadlock, deadlocked, deadlocking, deadlocks, deadly, dreadlock, dreadlocks, gladlier, gladliest, gladly, goadlike, headlamp, headlamps, headland, headlands, headless, headlessness, headlessnesses. (additional references)

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

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Anagrams: ADL

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: dal, lad.

Words within the letters "a-d-l"

-1 letter: ad, al, la.

 Words containing the letters "a-d-l"
 

+1 letter: auld, bald, clad, dahl, dale, dals, deal, dhal, dial, dual, glad, lade, lads, lady, laid, land, lard, laud, lead, load, yald.

 

+2 letters: acold, addle, adult, ahold, ailed, aland, alcid, alder, aldol, algid, alkyd, allod, almud, aloud, axled, badly, balds, baldy, baled, blade, bland, cauld, clade, clads, dahls, daily, dales, dally, deals, dealt, decal, dedal, delay, delta, dhals, dials, dobla, dolma, domal, dotal, drail, drawl, duals, ducal, dulia, dural, eland, fauld, glade, glads, glady, gland, hadal, haled, halid, ideal, iliad, laced, laded, laden, lader, lades, ladle, laird, laked, lamed, lands, lards, lardy, lased, lated, lauds, laved, lawed, layed, lazed, leads, leady, liard, lidar, loads, lyard, madly, medal, modal, naled, nidal, nodal, padle, paled, pedal, plaid, plead, sadly, salad, scald, skald, tidal, ulnad, valid, waldo, waled, weald, woald, yauld.

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

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Alternative Orthography: ADL


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

41 44 4C

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 01000100 01001100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#65 &#68 &#76

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0041 0044 004C

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

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

353846

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INDEX

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


  

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