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Date "LL" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1550. (references) |
"LL" is a common misspelling or typo for: all, ell, ill, lilt, lily, loll, lull, lulu. |
| Domain | Definition |
Satire | LL.D. Letters indicating the degree Legumptionorum Doctor, one learned in laws, gifted with legal gumption. Some suspicion is cast upon this derivation by the fact that the title was formerly LL.d., and conferred only upon gentlemen distinguished for their wealth. At the date of this writing Columbia University is considering the expediency of making another degree for clergymen, in place of the old D.D. -- Damnator Diaboli. The new honor will be known as Sanctorum Custus, and written $$c. The name of the Rev. John Satan has been suggested as a suitable recipient by a lover of consistency, who points out that Professor Harry Thurston Peck has long enjoyed the advantage of a degree. Source: Devil's Dictionary. |
Computing | LL |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
In Welsh, Ll stands for a voiceless lateral fricative sound, found also in Navajo, where it is written as crossed l and in some (north-west) caucasian languages where it is spelled l followed by the hard sign (cyrillic alphabet). The IPA signifies this sound as l with belt (may or may not render as ɬ). This sound is very common in place names because it occurs in the word Llan, a church, and Welsh placenames are therefore very often sadly mispronounced by English speakers, especially those from outside the British Isles.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Ll."
| 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 |
LL | English | Law Lord | N/A |
LL | Italian | Legge federale del 13 marzo 1964 sul lavoro nell'industria,nell'artigianato e nel commercio;Legge sul lavoro | Law, Labor |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
Crosswords: LL |
| English words defined with "LL": By any means ♦ Dead pledge ♦ Living pledge ♦ Mouille ♦ Vicar forane. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "LL": Barbarians ♦ Hoods ♦ O'Doherty ♦ Titles with Proper Names. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "LL": Viscount. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Lyrics | LL cool J (Fatty Girl; performing artist: Ludacris) | |
Song Titles | Hey Lover (performing artist: LL Cool J) Luv U Better (performing artist: LL Cool J) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | LL type wireline sounding machine C&GS 1942 Hydrographic Manual. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |  | James Moores Ball, M.D., LL.D. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |
 | Prof. W.W. Browning, LL.B., M.D. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |  | Nobilis Et Clarissimus Joannes Baptista Besardus Civis Bisuntinus Ac LL. Doctor. / Lucas Kilian Aug. ad uivum delin. et sculp. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |
 | Bust in Memory of Jacob Bigelow, A.M., M.D., LL.D. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |  | John B. Chapin, M.D., LL.D. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |
 | Thomas Addis Emmet, M.D., LL.D. / Painted by James Archer, 1885. Engraved by Samuel Sartain. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |  | N.S. Davis, M.D., LL.D. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |
 | Stephen Smith, M.D., LL.D. / P. Credit: National Library of Medicine; photo by Bachrach.. |  | David Livingstone, Esqre.. LL.D. / Engraved by D.J. Pound from a photograph by Mayall. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | Phillips LL, Lyeth BG, Hamm RL, Reeves TM, Povlishock JP. Glutamate antagonism during secondary deafferentation enhances cognition and axodendritic integrity after traumatic brain injury. (references) | |
Economic History | Barbados | FORDE, Mr. John Fitzgerald Alexis, LL.B. (Hons.), LL.M. (Corporate and Commercial Law). (references) |
Barbados | Also holds B.Sc. (Public Administration), LL.B. General Practice: Criminal and Civil (Estates, Conveyancing). (references) | |
Syria | Born in Alexandria, Egypt 1924. LL Diploma (with honors) 1945 and 1949. Admitted to Syrian Bar (Master in Law). (references) | |
Trade | Lebanon | The National Institute for the Guarantee of Deposits insures up to LL 5 million (about $3,317) of Lebanese and foreign currency deposits in commercial banks. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "LL" is generally used as a noun (common) -- approximately 43.33% of the time. "LL" is used about 90 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 (common) | 43.33% | 39 | 55,036 |
| Modal Auxiliary Verb | 28.89% | 26 | 68,323 |
| Noun (proper) | 20% | 18 | 82,615 |
| Noun (singular) | 4.44% | 4 | 175,879 |
| Cardinal Number | 2.22% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 1.11% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 90 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "LL": I' ll. Additional references. | |
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "LL": we-e-e-ll, we-ll. | |
| 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. |
| Language | Translations for "LL"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||
German | wollen (be willing to, desire, intend, like, need, ordain, want, will, wish, woolen). (various references) | ||||
Japanese Kanji | ラムé…' (lame, laminated ski, LAN, Land Cruiser, Langerhans, language, language laboratory, language processor, lariat, lauan, lullaby, lung, rally, Ralph Lauren, rank, ranking, rum, run, wraparound retaining straps worn with the old ski cable bindings). (various references) | ||||
Japanese Katakana | ランゲージラボラトリー (language laboratory). (various references) | ||||
Pig Latin | llay | ||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "LL": llama, llamas, llano, llanos. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "LL": ahull, ainsell, all, anthill, antipill, antiroll, appall, argyll, ashfall, atoll, backfill, bacteriochlorophyll, ball, bankroll, barbell, baseball, basketball, beadroll, beanball, bedell, bedroll, befall, befell, begall, bell, bellpull, bill, birdcall, blackball, blackpoll, blowball, blueball, bluebell, bluebill, bluegill, boatbill, boll, bombshell, bonspell, bookstall, bridewell, brill, brimfull, broomball, buckyball, bull, butterball, buttonball, call, cannonball, carrell. (additional references) | |
Words containing "LL": abdominally, abiogenically, abiotically, abnormally, abolla, abollae, aborally, aboriginally, abysmally, academically, accentually, accidentally, acellular, acerbically, achillea, achilleas, achromatically, acoustically, acrobatically, acronymically, acropetally, acrostically, actinically, actually, actuarially, adaptationally, additionally, adiabatically, adjectivally, adrenergically, adverbially, aerially, aerobically, aerodynamically, aeronautically, aesthetically, affectionally, agalloch, agallochs, agonistically, agriculturally, agronomically, aiguille, aiguilles, aiguillette, aiguillettes, aimfully, ainsells, alchemically, alcoholically, algebraically. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words containing the letters "l-l" | |
+1 letter: all, ell, ill. | |
+2 letters: alls, ally, ball, bell, bill, boll, bull, call, cell, cull, dell, dill, doll, dull, ells, fall, fell, fill, full, gall, gill, gull, hall, hell, hill, hull, ills, illy, jell, jill, kill, lall, leal, lilt, lily, loll, lull, lulu, mall, mell, mill, moll, mull, nill, null, olla, pall, pill, poll, pull, rill, roll, sall, sell, sill, tall, tell, till, toll, vill, wall, well, will, yell, yill, zill. | |
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