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Definition: ARDS |
ARDSNoun1. Acute lung injury characterized by coughing and rales; occurs among persons exposed to irritants such as corrosive chemical vapors or ammonia or chlorine etc. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "ARDS" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1904. (references) |
"ARDS" is a common misspelling or typo for: ads, arcs, arts, bards, cards. |
| 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 |
ARDS | English | AIDS related syndrome | N/A |
ARDS | Italian | Sindrome di difficoltà respiratoria dell'adulto | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
Synonyms: ARDSSynonyms: adult respiratory distress syndrome (n), wet lung (n), white lung (n). (additional references) |
| Synonyms by domain: acute respiratory distress syndrome (medicine), adult respiratory distress syndrome, AIDS related syndrome. |
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | The estimated mortality rate of ARDS is 50-70 percent. (references) | |
ARDS can occur in individuals with or without previous lung disease. (references) | ||
ARDS is often associated with multiple organ failure (heart, liver, kidneys, and lungs). (references) | ||
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "ARDS" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 93.41% of the time. "ARDS" is used about 167 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) | 93.41% | 156 | 25,144 |
| Noun (plural) | 6.59% | 11 | 106,044 |
| Total | 100.00% | 167 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "ARDS" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Ards | Last name | 100 | 88,422 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "ARDS": Ards-cliftonville, Ards-glentoran. | |
| 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. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
ards | 182 |
ards e | 6 |
ards greeting | 4 |
ards e free | 3 |
adult ards | 3 |
ards net | 2 |
ards c yugioh | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Derivations | |
Words ending with "ARDS": afterwards, awards, backboards, backwards, backyards, bankcards, bards, bargeboards, barnyards, baseboards, bastards, bayards, beards, beaverboards, becowards, bedwards, beeyards, billboards, billiards, biohazards, blackboards, blackguards, blinkards, blizzards, blowhards, bluebeards, boards, boatyards, bodyguards, bollards, bombards, boneyards, boulevards, boxboards, boyards, brassards, breadboards, briards, brickyards, buckboards, bustards, buzzards, camelopards, canards, cardboards, cards, carryforwards, centerboards, chalkboards, chards, checkerboards. (additional references) | |
Words containing "ARDS": boardsailing, boardsailings, boardsailor, boardsailors, cardsharp, cardsharper, cardsharpers, cardsharps, coastguardsman, coastguardsmen, guardsman, guardsmen, hardscrabble, hardset, hardship, hardships, hardstand, hardstanding, hardstandings, hardstands, stewardship, stewardships, wardship, wardships, yardstick, yardsticks. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: rads, sard. | |
| Words within the letters "a-d-r-s" | |
-1 letter: ads, ars, rad, ras, sad. | |
-2 letters: ad, ar, as. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-d-r-s" | |
+1 letter: bards, brads, cards, darbs, dares, darks, darns, darts, dears, dorsa, drabs, drags, drams, drats, draws, drays, duras, fards, grads, hards, lards, nards, pards, raids, rands, rased, reads, roads, sards, sarod, shard, sward, wards, yards. | |
+2 letters: absurd, adders, adores, adorns, adsorb, aiders, alders, ardebs, ardors, aroids, awards, bardes, beards, boards, braids, brands, breads, broads, cadres, cairds, cedars, chards, damars, darers, darics, dasher, daters, deairs, debars, denars, derats, derays, dermas, dewars, dinars, disarm, disbar, dobras, dorsad, dorsal, douras, draffs, drafts, drails, drains, drakes, dramas, drapes, drawls, dreads, dreams, drears, dryads, durras, dwarfs, erased, faders, farads, frauds, grades, gradus, grands, guards, hoards, hydras, irades, laders, lairds, liards, lidars, madras, madres, mudras, nadirs, oreads, padres, parsed, purdas, radars, radios, radish, radius, radons, raised, ranids, rapids, rasped, readds, redans, redias, resaid, reseda, sabred, sacred, sadder, sander, sardar, sarode, sarods, scared, seared, serdab, shader, shaird, shards, shared, sirdar, snared, soared, spader, spared, sparid, spread, sradha, stared, strand, sudary, swards, trades, treads, triads, visard, waders, yairds. | |
| 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 52 44 53 |
| 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 01010010 01000100 01010011 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)A R D S |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0041 0052 0044 0053 |
| 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)35523853 |
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