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| Domain | Definition |
Computing | ADL 1. |
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 |
ADL | English | Arthur D.Little Inc | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
Crosswords: ADL |
| Specialty definitions using "ADL": Adventure Definition Language ♦ DDL ♦ games ♦ TLAs. (references) |
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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Author | Date | Quotation |
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. | ||
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
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. | ||
| "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 Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 77.78% | 7 | 133,076 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 11.11% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Noun (proper) | 11.11% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 9 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; 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 |
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. | |
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). | |
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. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)41 44 4C |
| 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 01000100 01001100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)A D L |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0041 0044 004C |
| 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)353846 |
| 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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