Copyright © Philip M. Parker, INSEAD. Terms of Use.
Definition: 4WD |
4WDNoun1. A motor vehicle with a four-wheel drive transmission system. 2. A transmission that provides power directly to all four wheels of a motor vehicle. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
| 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 |
4WD | English | Four-wheel drive vehicle | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
Synonym: 4WDSynonym: four-wheel drive (n). (additional references) |
| Domain | Title | ||
Books |
| ||
High Tech |
| ||
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Business | The percentage of 4WD vehicles is expected to increase in the future. (references) | |
Smaller SUV and 4WD vehicles (typically Japanese) tend to gain market share. (references) | ||
Over the last decade, sales of 4WD vehicles and equipment have increased steadily. (references) | ||
Economic History | Russia | In 2001 General Motors announced a $330 million joint venture with AutoVAZ to produce a 4WD vehicle. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "4WD" is generally used as an unclassified items -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "4WD" is used about 40 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 |
| Unclassified Items | 100% | 40 | 54,274 |
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 |
4wd hardware | 71 |
mini 4wd tamiya | 40 |
4wd car full mini tamiya | 10 |
4wd rustler | 7 |
4wd car mini tamiya | 7 |
4wd vs awd | 5 |
4wd tamiya | 5 |
4wd awd | 3 |
4wd delica exceed p35w | 3 |
4wd mazda mpv | 3 |
4wd cordia turbo | 2 |
2000 4wd envoy gmc | 2 |
4wd delica exceed | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)34 57 44 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
|
Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)00110100 01010111 01000100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)4 W D |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0034 0057 0044 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)225738 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Usage: Commercial 4. Images: Slideshow | 5. Quotations: Non-fiction 6. Usage Frequency 7. Expressions: Internet 8. Abbreviations | 9. Acronyms 10. Orthography 11. Bibliography |
Copyright © Philip M. Parker, INSEAD. Terms of Use.
