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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 |
DRD | English | Data Reading Device | Computer - Computer - (CAD) |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | DRD has been remarkably responsive to small doses of this dopamine-boosting treatment. (references) | |
The diagnosis of DRD may be missed since it mimics many of the symptoms of cerebral palsy. (references) | ||
Typically, DRD begins in childhood or adolescence with progressive difficulty in walking and, in some cases, spasticity. (references) | ||
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "DRD" is generally used as a noun (common) -- approximately 60.00% of the time. "DRD" is used about 5 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) | 60% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Noun (proper) | 40% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 5 | 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 | Expression | Frequency per Day |
drd | 34 | 8080b drd dvd lg rom | 3 |
derbi drd senda | 16 | 420re drd | 3 |
drd 8160b | 7 | 8161b drd | 3 |
derbi drd | 5 | 420 drd rca | 2 |
drd 8080b | 5 | drd pool | 2 |
drd u624 | 5 | 8160b drd driver | 2 |
derbi drd senda sm | 4 | drd rca | 2 |
420 drd | 3 | drd u824 | 2 |
drd dvd rom torisan u824 | 3 | derbi drd r senda | 2 |
drd u424 | 3 | drd driver torisan u824 | 2 |
drd torisan u824 | 3 | drd r senda | 2 |
8160b drd lg | 3 | 485rg drd | 2 |
drd preferreds | 2 | ||
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words containing the letters "d-d-r" | |
+1 letter: redd, rudd. | |
+2 letters: adder, dared, dread, dreed, dried, droid, druid, dryad, dured, odder, readd, redds, reded, redid, rudds, ruddy, udder. | |
+3 letters: adders, adored, badder, barded, bedder, bedrid, bidder, birded, budder, carded, codder, corded, cruddy, curded, dander, darked, darned, darted, deader, deodar, deride, dirdum, dirked, dirled, dirndl, dodder, dodger, dorado, dorsad, dotard, draped, drayed, dreads, dredge, dreidl, droids, droned, droved, drownd, drudge, druids, dryads, durned, eroded, farded, fodder, forded, fordid, gadder, girded, graded, grided, herded, horded, hydrid, judder, kidder, ladder, larded, lorded, madder, mudder, nodder, odored, padder, prided, radded, raddle, raided, readds, redbud, redded, redden, redder, reddle, redyed, reeded, rended, ridded, ridden, ridder, riddle, ridged, rinded, rodded, rudder, ruddle, sadder, siddur, sordid, tedder, traded, udders, wadder, warded, wedder, widder, worded, yarded. | |
| 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)44 52 44 |
| 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)01000100 01010010 01000100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)D R D |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0044 0052 0044 |
| 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)385238 |
| 1. Quotations: Non-fiction 2. Usage Frequency 3. Expressions: Internet 4. Abbreviations | 5. Acronyms 6. Anagrams 7. Orthography 8. Bibliography |
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