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| Domain | Definition |
Agriculture | Less developed countries. See developing countries. (references) |
| Less developed countries. (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 |
LDCs | English | Less advanced countries | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
Crosswords: LDCS |
| Specialty definitions using "LDCS": Fourth World. (references) |
| Domain | Title |
Books | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| "LDCS" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 50.89% of the time. "LDCS" is used about 224 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) | 50.89% | 114 | 30,294 |
| Noun (plural) | 49.11% | 110 | 30,952 |
| Total | 100.00% | 224 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; 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 |
ldcs | 3 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "LDCS"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||
Danish | statsgaeld (national debt, official debt, official foreign debt, public debt, state debt, the total indebtedness of a national government;smaller than the public debt, usually larger than the net national debt;national debt consists of funded debt and unfunded debt ;The poorest of the LDCs who have been clamouring for relief from their burden of official debts), offentlig gaeld (national debt, official debt, official foreign debt, public debt, state debt, the total indebtedness of a national government;smaller than the public debt, usually larger than the net national debt;national debt consists of funded debt and unfunded debt ;The poorest of the LDCs who have been clamouring for relief from their burden of official debts). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Dutch | staatsschuld (national debt, official debt, official foreign debt, public debt, state debt, the total indebtedness of a national government;smaller than the public debt, usually larger than the net national debt;national debt consists of funded debt and unfunded debt ;The poorest of the LDCs who have been clamouring for relief from their burden of official debts), publieke schuld (national debt, official debt, official foreign debt, public debt, state debt, the total indebtedness of a national government;smaller than the public debt, usually larger than the net national debt;national debt consists of funded debt and unfunded debt ;The poorest of the LDCs who have been clamouring for relief from their burden of official debts), overheidsschuld (national debt, official debt, official foreign debt, public debt, state debt, the total indebtedness of a national government;smaller than the public debt, usually larger than the net national debt;national debt consists of funded debt and unfunded debt ;The poorest of the LDCs who have been clamouring for relief from their burden of official debts), openbare schuld (national debt, official debt, official foreign debt, public debt, state debt, the total indebtedness of a national government;smaller than the public debt, usually larger than the net national debt;national debt consists of funded debt and unfunded debt ;The poorest of the LDCs who have been clamouring for relief from their burden of official debts), officiële schuld (national debt, official debt, official foreign debt, public debt, state debt, the total indebtedness of a national government;smaller than the public debt, usually larger than the net national debt;national debt consists of funded debt and unfunded debt ;The poorest of the LDCs who have been clamouring for relief from their burden of official debts). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
French | dette publique (usually larger than the net national debt;national debt consists of funded debt and unfunded debt ;The poorest of the LDCs who have been clamouring for relief from their burden of official debts), dette officielle (usually larger than the net national debt;national debt consists of funded debt and unfunded debt ;The poorest of the LDCs who have been clamouring for relief from their burden of official debts), dette de l'Etat (usually larger than the net national debt;national debt consists of funded debt and unfunded debt ;The poorest of the LDCs who have been clamouring for relief from their burden of official debts). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
German | Staatsverschuldung (public debt), Staatsschuld (national debt), öffentliche Schuld (national debt, official debt, official foreign debt, public debt, state debt, the total indebtedness of a national government;smaller than the public debt, usually larger than the net national debt;national debt consists of funded debt and unfunded debt ;The poorest of the LDCs who have been clamouring for relief from their burden of official debts). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Greek | δημόσιο χρέος (national debt, official debt, official foreign debt, public debt, state debt, the total indebtedness of a national government;smaller than the public debt, usually larger than the net national debt;national debt consists of funded debt and unfunded debt ;The poorest of the LDCs who have been clamouring for relief from their burden of official debts). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Italian | debito pubblico (national debt, official debt, official foreign debt, public debt, state debt, the total indebtedness of a national government;smaller than the public debt, usually larger than the net national debt;national debt consists of funded debt and unfunded debt ;The poorest of the LDCs who have been clamouring for relief from their burden of official debts), debito di Stato (national debt, official debt, official foreign debt, public debt, state debt, the total indebtedness of a national government;smaller than the public debt, usually larger than the net national debt;national debt consists of funded debt and unfunded debt ;The poorest of the LDCs who have been clamouring for relief from their burden of official debts). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ldcsay divida pública (national debt, official debt, official foreign debt, public debt, state debt, the total indebtedness of a national government;smaller than the public debt, usually larger than the net national debt;national debt consists of funded debt and unfunded debt ;The poorest of the LDCs who have been clamouring for relief from their burden of official debts). (various references) deuda pública (national debt), deuda del Estado (national debt, official debt, official foreign debt, public debt, state debt, the total indebtedness of a national government;smaller than the public debt, usually larger than the net national debt;national debt consists of funded debt and unfunded debt ;The poorest of the LDCs who have been clamouring for relief from their burden of official debts). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words containing the letters "c-d-l-s" | |
+1 letter: clads, clods, colds, scald, scold. | |
+2 letters: alcids, caulds, clades, closed, clouds, decals, scalds, scaled, scolds, sliced. | |
+3 letters: alcades, calends, candles, castled, caudles, cedulas, chields, childes, cladist, clashed, clasped, classed, clerids, coddles, codlins, coldest, coldish, coleads, couldst, cradles, cuddles, cudgels, curdles, dactyls, deciles, deckels, deckles, declass, declaws, delicts, dulcets, muscled, scalade, scalado, scalded, scaldic, scalped, scandal, scolded, scolder, scowled, sculked, sculled, sculped, seclude, sickled, skaldic, slacked, slicked, sluiced, solaced, spliced, suckled. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)4C 44 43 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)01001100 01000100 01000011 01010011 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)L D C S |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)004C 0044 0043 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)46383753 |
| 1. Crosswords 2. Usage: Commercial 3. Usage Frequency 4. Expressions: Internet | 5. Translations: Modern 6. Abbreviations 7. Acronyms 8. Anagrams | 9. Orthography 10. Bibliography |
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