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| Domain | Definition |
Computing | Admin /ad-min'/ n. Short for `administrator'; very commonly used in speech or on-line to refer to the systems person in charge on a computer. Common constructions on this include `sysadmin' and `site admin' (emphasizing the administrator's role as a site contact for email and news) or `newsadmin' (focusing specifically on news). Compare postmaster, sysop, system mangler. Source: Jargon File. |
Census | Designation for (Administration), (Administrator), or (Administrative). (references) |
Slang | Noun. Source: An abbreviated version of administration. Definition: The administration of the Universtiy of Oregon. Context: Used when referring to actions that the administration of the university makes regarding policing policies. It is not a word with necessarily negative connotations, and is used around higher ranking police officials. A word which usually has no relevance. Social Source: Young Law Enforcement Officers. Source: Compiled by The University of Oregon. (additional 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 |
ADMIN | Dutch | Onderafdeling Administratie | N/A |
ADMIN | English | Administrator | N/A |
ADMIN | French | Section administration | European Union, Military & Defense |
ADMIN | Italian | Sezione Amministrazione | European Union, Military & Defense |
| ADM | English | Admin manager | Post & Telecom |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
Crosswords: ADMIN |
| Specialty definitions using "ADMIN": call processing manager ♦ system mangler. (references) |
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Business | The market for basic disposables, such as gloves, needles, syringes, blades, bandages, gauze, basic catheters, tubes (Levin, PVC, nasal/oral), IV admin sets etc., is very well supplied by Asian countries which offer reasonable quality at unbeatable prices. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "ADMIN" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 93.28% of the time. "ADMIN" is used about 119 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) | 93.28% | 111 | 30,796 |
| Noun (proper) | 4.2% | 5 | 157,705 |
| Unclassified Items | 2.52% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Total | 100.00% | 119 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "ADMIN": sales-admin. | |
| 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 | Expression | Frequency per Day |
admin | 657 | php my admin | 23 |
social security admin | 432 | admin petfinder.org | 22 |
sys admin | 375 | admin maryland motor vehicle | 21 |
admin mod | 216 | admin ss | 20 |
remote admin | 152 | admin drug food | 20 |
admin command counter strike | 92 | 62.215.233.98 admin htt | 18 |
small business admin | 81 | admin mod plugins | 18 |
admin counter mod strike | 69 | hp jet admin | 18 |
admin zoo | 59 | admin command mod | 17 |
admin counter strike | 58 | network admin | 16 |
security admin | 53 | admin index | 16 |
admin command cs | 46 | admin petfinder.com | 16 |
admin cs mod | 36 | admin job | 15 |
admin forum monster | 32 | admin download mod | 15 |
admin tool | 31 | admin password | 15 |
mysql admin | 27 | admin security transportation | 15 |
admin fitnessgeardeals.com | 27 | admin united | 15 |
admin jet | 26 | admin sfimg.com | 14 |
admin file | 25 | admin localhost | 14 |
admin command | 24 | admin extra pro.com | 13 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "ADMIN"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 行" (Administrative, Administratively, Executively, Executory). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | ADM-processor (admin manager), ADMIN-processor (admin manager). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | ADMIN (admin manager, Administration Branch, Directorate-General for Personnel and Administration, Personnel and Administration DG), ADM (add/drop multiplexer, add-drop multiplexing, admin manager, drop-and-insert multiplexing), Onderafdeling Administratie (Administration Branch), Directoraat-generaal Personeelszaken en Administratie (Directorate-General for Personnel and Administration, Personnel and Administration DG), DG Personeelszaken en administratie (Directorate-General for Personnel and Administration, Personnel and Administration DG). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | ADMIN-prosessori (admin manager). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | administrateur (administrator), ADMIN (Administration Branch, Directorate-General for Personnel and Administration, Personnel and Administration DG), Section administration (Administration Branch), Direction générale du personnel et de l'administration (Directorate-General for Personnel and Administration, Personnel and Administration DG), DG Personnel et administration (Directorate-General for Personnel and Administration, Personnel and Administration DG). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Admin-Manager (admin manager). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | ADMIN (admin manager), ADM (add-drop multiplexing, admin manager, drop-and-insert multiplexing), διοικητικός διαχειριστής (admin manager). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | ADMIN (Administration Branch), Sezione Amministrazione (Administration Branch), Direzione generale del Personale e dell'amministrazione (Directorate-General for Personnel and Administration, Personnel and Administration DG), DG Personale e amministrazione (Directorate-General for Personnel and Administration, Personnel and Administration DG). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | アドオン方式 (ad campaign, ad hoc, ad man, ad-balloon, add-on, ad-hocracy, admission, Admission Free, admittance, advance, advanced, advantage, advantage rule, adventure, advertisement, advertising, advice, adviser). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | アドミン . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | adminay gestor administrador (admin manager). (various references) администрация (administration, management). (various references) administración (administration, dispensation of justice, government, management, operation, stewardship), gestor de administración (admin manager). (various references) administration (administration, executive, management). (various references) yönetim (administration, conduct, direction, executive, governance, government, helm, management, rudder, ruling, steering, the man), idare (administration, chancellery, conduct, control, disposition, dominion, economy, government, handling, helm, management, mastery, regimen, rein, rule, ruling, sparing, steerage, steering, stewardship, supervision, sway, thrift, wire). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "ADMIN": administer, administered, administering, administers, administrable, administrant, administrants, administrate, administrated, administrates, administrating, administration, administrations, administrative, administratively, administrator, administrators, administratrices, administratrix. (additional references) | |
Words containing "ADMIN": antiadministration, badminton, badmintons, coadministration, coadministrations, maladminister, maladministered, maladministering, maladministers, maladministration, maladministrations, misadministration, misadministrations, superadministrator, superadministrators. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-d-i-m-n" | |
-1 letter: amid, amin, damn, maid, main, mina, mind. | |
-2 letters: aid, aim, ain, ami, and, ani, dam, dim, din, mad, man, mid, nam, nim. | |
-3 letters: ad, ai, am, an, id, in, ma, mi, na. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-d-i-m-n" | |
+1 letter: aidman, aidmen, amidin, daimen, daimon, diamin, domain, maiden, mantid, median, medina. | |
+2 letters: amidine, amidins, amidone, birdman, daimons, damming, damnify, damning, damping, diamine, diamins, diamond, domains, dynamic, inarmed, indamin, madding, maidens, mandril, mankind, mantids, maudlin, medians, mediant, medinas, midland, monacid, monadic, nomadic, rimland, sideman, unaimed. | |
+3 letters: abdomina, adeeming, admiring, admixing, admonish, adynamia, adynamic, amandine, amending, amidines, amidogen, amidones, ammonoid, animated, bondmaid, comedian, cyanamid, daemonic, daimones, daimonic, dairyman, dairymen, damaging, dampings, dandyism, defaming, dementia, demoniac, demonian, diamante, diamines, diamonds, didynamy, dominant, dominate, dopamine, dramming, dreaming, dynamics, dynamism, dynamist, dynamite, endemial, examined, filmland, handmaid, humanoid, imagined, impawned, indamine, indamins, inflamed, landmine, machined, maenadic, maidenly, mainland, maligned, manatoid, mandalic, mandarin, mandible, mandioca, mandolin, mandrill, mandrils, manifold, margined, marinade, maundies, medaling, medianly, mediants, melanoid, meridian, midbrain, midlands, midrange, misandry, misbrand, misdrawn, misnamed, monacids, monadism, monoacid, mridanga, muraenid, nomadism, pandemic, pomading, radioman, radiomen, remained, rhodamin, rimlands, saintdom, salmonid, scandium, tamarind, vanadium, zamindar, zemindar. | |
| 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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