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ADMIN

Specialty Definition: ADMIN

DomainDefinition

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.

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Abbreviations & Acronyms: ADMIN

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.
EntrySourceExpressionField

ADMIN

DutchOnderafdeling AdministratieN/A

ADMIN

EnglishAdministratorN/A

ADMIN

FrenchSection administrationEuropean Union, Military & Defense

ADMIN

ItalianSezione AmministrazioneEuropean Union, Military & Defense
ADMEnglishAdmin managerPost & Telecom

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Crosswords: ADMIN

Specialty definitions using "ADMIN": call processing managersystem mangler. (references)

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Commercial Usage: ADMIN

DomainTitle

Books

  • Admin Law in Political System (reference)

  • Admin Reform Fred Wm Prus (reference)

  • CramSession's R4 System Admin 1 -Certified Lotus Professional : Certification Study Guide [DOWNLOAD: PDF] (reference)

  • Human Services Technology: Understanding, Designing, and Implementing Computer and Internet Applications in the Social Services (Haworth Social admin (reference)

  • Microsoft Windows XP Admin VTC Training CD (reference)

    (more book examples)

  

Periodicals

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Non-Fiction Usage: ADMIN

SubjectTopicQuote

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.

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Usage Frequency: ADMIN

"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 SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (singular)93.28%11130,796
Noun (proper)4.2%5157,705
Unclassified Items2.52%3202,518
                    Total100.00%119N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expression: ADMIN

Hypenated Usage

Ending with "ADMIN": sales-admin.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: ADMIN

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.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day
ExpressionFrequency
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.

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Modern Translation: ADMIN

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

   

Portuguese

  

gestor administrador (admin manager). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

администрация (administration, management). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

administración (administration, dispensation of justice, government, management, operation, stewardship), gestor de administración (admin manager). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

administration (administration, executive, management). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

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)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations: ADMIN

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).

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Anagrams: ADMIN

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.

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INDEX

1. Crosswords
2. Usage: Commercial
3. Quotations: Non-fiction
4. Usage Frequency
5. Expressions
6. Expressions: Internet
7. Translations: Modern
8. Abbreviations
9. Acronyms
10. Derivations
11. Anagrams
12. Bibliography


  

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