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EDF

Specialty Definition: EDF

DomainDefinition

Computing

EDF earliest deadline first. (1995-11-12). Source: The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing.

Agriculture

Environmental Defense Fund. (references)

Census

(Edited Detail File) See HEDF (100-Percent Edited Detail File) and SEDF (Sample Edited Detail File) for description. (references)

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

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Abbreviations & Acronyms: EDF

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

EDF

DutchEuropese Democratische FractieN/A

EDF

EnglishErythroblast differentiation factorN/A

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

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Synonyms: EDF

Synonyms by domain: efficient data flow (computing), Environmental Defense Fund (environment), erythroblast differentiation factor (medicine), erythroid differentiating factor, European Defense Force (military & defense), European Democratic Forum (politics & international affaires), European Development Fund (public administrationeuropean union), European Disabled Persons Forum (medicine).

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Crosswords: EDF

Specialty definitions using "EDF": earliest deadline first, EDF. (references)

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Usage Frequency: EDF

"EDF" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 50.00% of the time. "EDF" is used about 10 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)50%5157,705
Noun (common)40%4175,879
Noun (proper)10%1339,140
                    Total100.00%10N/A

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

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Expression: EDF

Hypenated Usage

Ending with "EDF": Scan-EDF.

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: EDF

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

edf

148

edf gdf

55

edf mann

6

edf sailing

5

edf man

4

edf recrutement

3

edf file

3

50 edf gws

3

edf france

2

edf trading

2

edf renovation

2

edf jet

2

aide climatisation edf

2

cgt edf

2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: EDF

Language Translations for "EDF"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Chinese 

  

欧洲开发基金. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

edfay

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations: EDF

Derivations

Words containing "EDF": bedfast, bedfellow, bedfellows, bedframe, bedframes, heedful, heedfully, heedfulness, heedfulnesses, hundredfold, medflies, medfly, needful, needfully, needfulness, needfulnesses, needfuls, piedfort, piedforts, redfin, redfins, redfish, redfishes, stedfast. (additional references)

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

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Anagrams: EDF

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: fed.

Words within the letters "d-e-f"

-1 letter: de, ed, ef.

 Words containing the letters "d-e-f"
 

+1 letter: deaf, defi, deft, defy, delf, fade, feds, feed, fend, feod, feud, fled.

 

+2 letters: decaf, defat, defer, defis, defog, deify, delfs, delft, edify, faced, faded, fader, fades, fadge, faked, famed, fared, fated, faxed, fayed, fazed, feeds, felid, fends, feods, feted, fetid, feuds, feued, fidge, field, fiend, fifed, filed, fined, fired, fixed, fjeld, flied, flued, foxed, freed, fremd, fried, fudge, fumed, fused, fuzed, offed, refed, unfed, wifed.

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

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Alternative Orthography: EDF


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

45 44 46

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

=

Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

.    -..    ..-.

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000101 01000100 01000110

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#69 &#68 &#70

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0045 0044 0046

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

393840

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INDEX

1. Synonyms
2. Crosswords
3. Usage Frequency
4. Expressions
5. Expressions: Internet
6. Translations: Modern
7. Abbreviations
8. Acronyms
9. Derivations
10. Anagrams
11. Orthography
12. Bibliography


  

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