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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 |
MDA | Dutch | Tenamfetamine | Food & Agriculture, Medicine |
MDA | English | Manual data acquisition | N/A |
MDA | French | Méthylènedioxyamphétamine | Food & Agriculture, Medicine |
MDA | German | Methyldiamphetamin | N/A |
MDA | Italian | Altitudine minima di discesa | N/A |
MDA | Portuguese | Metilenodioxianfetamina | N/A |
MDA | Spanish | Píldora del amor | Medicine, Social Sciences |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
Crosswords: MDA |
| Specialty definitions using "MDA": Designer Drugs, display standard ♦ hysterical reasons. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "MDA" is also a word in the following language with English translations in parentheses. Portuguese (Love pill, Mellow Drug of America, speed for lovers). |
| Domain | Usage | |
Movie/TV Titles | MDA (2002) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | Methylenedioxyamphetamine (MDA) and methylenedioxyethylamphetamine (MDEA) are drugs chemically similar to MDMA. MDMA is taken orally, usually in a tablet or a capsule. (references) | |
MDA, the parent drug of MDMA, is an amphetamine-like drug that has also been abused and is similar in chemical structure to MDMA. Research shows that MDA also destroys serotonin-producing neurons in the brain. (references) | ||
The first preliminary gene replacement trials for any form of muscular dystrophy have been designed by MDA for a form of limb girdle muscular dystrophy caused by a defect in a component of the dystrophin-glycoprotein complex. (references) | ||
Human Rights | Singapore | The MDA permits detention without trial. (references) |
Singapore | At the end of 1998, the most recent year for which there are statistics, almost 5,000 persons were detained under the provisions of the MDA for treatment and rehabilitation. (references) | |
Singapore | The Government has wide discretionary powers under the ISA, CLA, MDA, and UPA to conduct searches without a warrant if it determines that national security, public safety or order, or the public interest are at issue. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "MDA" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 87.50% of the time. "MDA" is used about 8 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) | 87.5% | 7 | 133,076 |
| Noun (singular) | 12.5% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 8 | 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. |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: dam, mad. | |
| Words within the letters "a-d-m" | |
-1 letter: ad, am, ma. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-d-m" | |
+1 letter: amid, dame, damn, damp, dams, dram, duma, made, mads, maid, maud, mead. | |
+2 letters: adeem, adman, admen, admit, admix, aimed, almud, amend, amide, amido, amids, armed, daman, damar, dames, damns, damps, datum, derma, dogma, dolma, domal, douma, drama, drams, dream, dumas, dumka, dunam, edema, famed, gamed, lamed, maced, madam, madly, madre, maids, maned, mated, mauds, maund, mawed, mayed, mazed, meads, medal, media, menad, modal, monad, mudra, named, nomad, tamed. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)4D 44 41 |
| 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)01001101 01000100 01000001 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)M D A |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)004D 0044 0041 |
| 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)473835 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Quotations: Non-fiction 7. Usage Frequency 8. Expressions: Internet | 9. Abbreviations 10. Acronyms 11. Anagrams 12. Orthography | 13. Bibliography |
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