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| Domain | Definition |
Aerospace | = automatic direction finder.Abbreviation. (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 |
ADF | English | Adefovir | Medicine |
ADF | French | Assemblée des départements de France | Law |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
Crosswords: ADF |
| Specialty definitions using "ADF": automatic direction finder ♦ semiactive tracking system. (references) |
| Domain | Title |
High Tech |
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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Human Rights | Uganda | The ADF and the LRA abducted civilians. (references) |
Uganda | NGO's estimated that since 1996 the ADF has abducted more than 1,000 Ugandan children. (references) | |
Uganda | Both the ADF and the LRA abducted civilians for training as guerrillas and as sex slaves and porters; most victims were children and young adults. (references) | |
Minorities | Uganda | Abuses were inflicted upon members of the Bakonjo and Bamba tribes in the west by ADF rebels. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "ADF" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 58.33% of the time. "ADF" is used about 12 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) | 58.33% | 7 | 133,076 |
| Noun (proper) | 33.33% | 4 | 175,879 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 8.33% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 12 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Country | Name |
| Italy | Aeroporto Firenze - AdF Spa |
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Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.
Expressions using "ADF": ADF letdown ♦ adf loop aerials. 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. |
| Language | Translations for "ADF"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||
Dutch | adf-daling (ADF letdown, automatic direction finder letdown). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
French | percée radio-compas (ADF letdown), inversion de l'indicateur de direction (ADF reversal). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
German | umkehr des ADF (ADF reversal), Durchstossen im Funkkompaßverfahren (ADF letdown, automatic direction finder letdown). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Greek | κάθοδος με ραδιοπυξίδα (ADF letdown, automatic direction finder letdown), κάθοδος ADF (ADF letdown, automatic direction finder letdown). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | automatikus iránymérõ (automatic direction finding). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Italian | discesa con radiogoniometro automatico (ADF letdown, automatic direction finder letdown), discesa con ADF (ADF letdown, automatic direction finder letdown). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | adfay penetração-descida por radiogoniómetro (ADF letdown, automatic direction finder letdown). (various references) penetración por radiogoniómetro automático (ADF letdown, automatic direction finder letdown), inversión de indicación del radiocompás (ADF reversal). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words containing "ADF": breadfruit, breadfruits, deadfall, deadfalls, dreadful, dreadfully, dreadfulness, dreadfulnesses, dreadfuls, gadflies, gadfly, headfirst, headfish, headfishes, headforemost, shadflies, shadfly, steadfast, steadfastly, steadfastness, steadfastnesses, threadfin, threadfins, toadfish, toadfishes, toadflax, toadflaxes. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: fad. | |
| Words within the letters "a-d-f" | |
-1 letter: ad, fa. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-d-f" | |
+1 letter: daff, daft, deaf, fade, fado, fads, fard. | |
+2 letters: daffs, daffy, decaf, defat, draff, draft, dwarf, faced, faddy, faded, fader, fades, fadge, fados, faked, famed, farad, fards, fared, fated, fauld, faxed, fayed, fazed, fraud. | |
+3 letters: adrift, afeard, afford, afield, afraid, aidful, baffed, barfed, chafed, daffed, dafter, daftly, dayfly, deafen, deafer, deafly, decafs, deface, defame, defang, defats, defeat, deflea, defoam, defray, draffs, draffy, drafts, drafty, dwarfs, fabled, facade, fadein, faders, fadged, fadges, fading, fagged, failed, faired, fandom, fanged, fanned, fantod, farads, farced, farded, fardel, farmed, farted, fashed, fasted, fatted, faulds, fawned, feared, feased, feazed, fedora, feudal, flaked, flamed, flared, flawed, flayed, foaled, foamed, forbad, framed, frauds, frayed, gadfly, gaffed, hafted, leafed, loafed, malfed, rafted, shaduf, waffed, wafted, waifed, yaffed. | |
| 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. | |
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