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Definitions: FID |
FIDNoun1. A block of wood used in mounting and dismounting heavy guns. 2. A pin of hard wood, tapering to a point, used to open the strands of a rope in splicing. 3. A wooden or metal bar or pin, used to support or steady anything. 4. A square bar of wood or iron, used to support the topmast, being passed through a hole or mortise at its heel, and resting on the trestle trees. |
Etymology: Fid \Fid\, noun. [Prov. English fid small, thick lump.]. (Websters 1913) |
| 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 |
FID | English | Flame Ionization Determination | N/A |
FID | French | Fédération Internationale de Documentation | Information |
FID | German | Flammenionisationsdetektor | Chemistry, Engineering & Technology |
FID | Italian | Federazione Internazionale di Documentazione | Information |
FID | Portuguese | Federação Internacional de Documentação | N/A |
FID | Spanish | Federación Internacional de Documentación | Information |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Pungency | Nicotine, tobacco, snuff, quid, smoke; segar; cigar, cigarette; weed; fragrant weed, Indian weed; Cavendish, fid, negro head, old soldier, rappee, stogy. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: FID |
| Specialty definitions using "FID": FID OF TOBACCO, First Special Service Force ♦ Green Berets ♦ RUNNING RIGGER ♦ US Army Special Forces. (references) |
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| "FID" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 80.00% of the time. "FID" is used about 5 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) | 80% | 4 | 175,879 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 20% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 5 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "FID": fid-elity. | |
| 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 |
fid | 144 |
fid irock | 50 |
0f8191733573 fid freelotto.com login.asp lottopicker | 25 |
4b5726418021 fid freelotto.com login.asp lottopicker | 18 |
analyzer fid | 6 |
fid inv.com | 5 |
card fid | 4 |
gc fid | 3 |
aerienne compagnie fid lisation programme | 3 |
fid permit | 3 |
fid people | 2 |
dyna fid | 2 |
britt def dei fid gra imp ind regina victoria | 2 |
detector fid | 2 |
board.php fid forum nocturnalsoldier.org yugioh | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "FID"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | Binar (batten, beam, crossbeam, scantling). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | Подпора. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | όουρέλλο. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | Árbockeresztfa-csapszeg. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | tackish chroan hoshee. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | idfay Ficticiamente, Cavirão. (various references) Клин (Gib, Gore, Spike). (various references) deo jedra (doubling). (various references) Defensor (advocate, assertor, backer, champion, defender, guardsman, proponent, supporter, zealot). (various references) สลักสำหรับยึ"ค้ำ. (various references) Kama (cotter, dagger, spline, stiletto, wedge), Çelik. (various references) Клин (Gore), Шпилька. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "FID": fiddle, fiddleback, fiddlebacks, fiddled, fiddlehead, fiddleheads, fiddler, fiddlers, fiddles, fiddlestick, fiddlesticks, fiddling, fiddly, fideism, fideisms, fideist, fideistic, fideists, fidelities, fidelity, fidge, fidged, fidges, fidget, fidgeted, fidgeter, fidgeters, fidgetiness, fidgetinesses, fidgeting, fidgets, fidgety, fidging, fido, fidos, fids, fiducial, fiducially, fiduciaries, fiduciary. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "FID": bifid, disulfid, multifid, pinnatifid, sulfid, trifid. (additional references) | |
Words containing "FID": affidavit, affidavits, bifidities, bifidity, bifidly, bisulfide, bisulfides, confidant, confidante, confidantes, confidants, confide, confided, confidence, confidences, confident, confidential, confidentialities, confidentiality, confidentially, confidently, confider, confiders, confides, confiding, confidingly, confidingness, confidingnesses, diffidence, diffidences, diffident, diffidently, disulfide, disulfides, disulfids, infidel, infidelities, infidelity, infidels, nonconfidence, nonconfidences, nonconfidential, overconfidence, overconfidences, overconfident, overconfidently, perfidies, perfidious, perfidiously, perfidiousness, perfidiousnesses. (additional references) | |
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"FID" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Fadd, Fadh, fahd, faid, fd, fdi, fedd, feid, fgid, fi, fiad, fic, Fidc, Fidh, fidi, fidic, fidj, fidl, fido, fidw, fif, fild, fiv, fiw, flid, fod, foid, Fpda, frid, fsd, ftd, fudd, ifd, ifid, Mfid, uid. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words ending with "id": Brid, Cid, DID, gid, lid, Scrid, TID. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "d-f-i" | |
-1 letter: id, if. | |
| Words containing the letters "d-f-i" | |
+1 letter: defi, fido, fids, find. | |
+2 letters: bifid, defis, deify, drift, edify, felid, fetid, fidge, fidos, field, fiend, fifed, filed, finds, fined, fiord, fired, fixed, flied, fluid, fried, fundi, wifed. | |
+3 letters: adrift, afield, afraid, aidful, biffed, bifold, codify, coifed, defied, defier, defies, defile, define, deific, differ, drifts, drifty, fadein, fading, failed, faired, felids, fervid, fibbed, fiddle, fiddly, fidged, fidges, fidget, fields, fiends, figged, filled, filmed, finder, finked, finned, fiords, firmed, fished, fisted, fitted, fizzed, flited, florid, fluids, foetid, foiled, foined, foodie, forbid, fordid, fridge, friend, frigid, frized, fucoid, fulgid, fundic, gifted, infold, knifed, lifted, miffed, modify, nidify, redfin, refind, riffed, rifled, rifted, sifted, sulfid, tiffed, trifid, waifed. | |
| 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)46 49 44 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)..-. .. -.. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000110 01001001 01000100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)F I D |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0046 0049 0044 |
| 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)404338 |
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