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Definition: NAD |
NADNoun1. A coenzyme derived from the B vitamin nicotinic acid. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "NAD" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1817. (references) |
| Domain | Definitions |
Agriculture | National Appeals Division. (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 |
NAD | Danish | Namibisk dollar | Geography |
NAD | Dutch | Namibische dollar | Geography |
NAD | English | Non-aqueous dispersion | Chemical Industry |
NAD | Finnish | Namibian dollari | Geography |
NAD | French | Dollar de Namibie | Geography |
NAD | German | Namibia-Dollar | Geography |
NAD | Greek | δολάριο Ναμίμπια· ραντ Νότιας Αφρικής | Geography |
NAD | Italian | Dispersione non acquosa | Chemical Industry |
NAD | Portuguese | Dólar da Namíbia | Geography |
NAD | Spanish | Dólar namibio | Geography |
NAD | Swedish | Lösningsmedelsburen dispersion | Chemical Industry |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
Synonym: NADSynonym: nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: NAD |
| English words defined with "NAD": deep supporting fire. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "NAD": 3-Hydroxyacyl CoA Dehydrogenases ♦ Acetoin Dehydrogenase, Administrative Procedure Act ♦ Formate Dehydrogenases, Fructuronate Reductase ♦ Hydroxymethylglutaryl CoA Reductases ♦ IMP Dehydrogenase ♦ L-Iditol 2-Dehydrogenase ♦ myo-Inositol-1-Phosphate Synthase ♦ NAD+ Nucleosidase, NADH Dehydrogenase, NADP Transhydrogenase, National Appeals Division, Niacinamide, Nicotinamide-Nucleotide Adenylyltransferase ♦ Poly Adenosine Diphosphate Ribose, Prephenate Dehydrogenase, Progesterone Reductase. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "NAD" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. Czech (above, beyond, hyper-, in excess of, outside, over, past, upon), Serbo-Croatian (above, over). |
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Movie/TV Titles | Krov nad glavom (1974) Zarevo nad Drava (1974) Groza nad byeloy (1968) Most nad torami (1968) Vsadnik nad gorodom (1967) | |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | Required by the body for the formation of coenzymes NAD and NADP. (references) | |
Business | VAB Sipox Banovce nad Bebravou sold 6 vehicles (Microcar) and assembled 10 heavy commercial vehicles (Tatra). (references) | |
Corridor IV will connect German border (Dresden) through Decin, Praha, Veseli nad Luznici, Horni Dvoriste with Austrian border. (references) | ||
Local producers decreased by 55.3 percent (-164 vehicles) Both local producers TAZ Sipox Trnava and VAB Sipox Banovce nad Bebravou are at this time out of the business due to financial insolvency. (references) | ||
Minorities | Czech Republic | In August 1999, approximately 30 skinheads attacked several Romani homes in a village near Jaromerice nad Rokytnou, which resulted in several injuries to 2 Roma and damage to several cars and houses. (references) |
Czech Republic | There is a Romani journalism course at the College of Publicity, here has been a Department of Romani Language Studies at Charles University in Prague since 1991, and additional university-level Romani language study program exist in Usti nad Labem and Brno. (references) | |
Czech Republic | The Interministerial Commission for Romani Community Affairs, which includes 12 government representatives and 12 Romani representatives, as well as the Commissioner for Human Rights and his deputy continued to take an active role in resolving disputes between Romani communities and their non-Romani neighbors in towns such as Usti nad Labem and Rokycany. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "NAD" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 72.22% of the time. "NAD" is used about 18 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 (singular) | 72.22% | 13 | 97,576 |
| Noun (proper) | 22.22% | 4 | 175,879 |
| Noun (common) | 5.56% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 18 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Country | Name |
| Czech Republic | Cetrans Usti nad Labem a.s. |
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Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.
Expression using "NAD": NAD Nucleosidase. Additional references. | |
| 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 |
nad | 608 |
nad t762 | 54 |
nad electronics | 49 |
nad audio | 43 |
nad receiver | 37 |
nad t752 | 36 |
c320bee nad | 24 |
c350 nad | 24 |
l70 nad | 22 |
nad amplifier | 20 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "NAD"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Korean | 해군 탄약창. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | adnay.(various references) | |
Scottish | drogha (a nad fishing line). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "NAD": nada, nadas, nadir, nadiral, nadirs. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "NAD": gonad, maenad, menad, monad, pseudomonad, trichomonad, ulnad. (additional references) | |
Words containing "NAD": afficionado, afficionados, aficionada, aficionadas, aficionado, aficionados, anadem, anadems, anadiploses, anadiplosis, anadromous, bastinade, bastinades, bastinado, bastinadoed, bastinadoes, bastinadoing, cannonade, cannonaded, cannonades, cannonading, carbonade, carbonades, carbonado, carbonadoed, carbonadoes, carbonadoing, carbonados, carbonnade, carbonnades, carronade, carronades, chiffonade, chiffonades, colonnade, colonnaded, colonnades, empanada, empanadas, esplanade, esplanades, fanfaronade, fanfaronades, gasconade, gasconaded, gasconader, gasconaders, gasconades, gasconading, gonadal, gonadectomies, gonadectomized, gonadectomy, gonadial, gonadic, gonadotrophic, gonadotrophin, gonadotrophins, gonadotropic, gonadotropin, gonadotropins, gonads, granadilla, granadillas, grenade, grenades, grenadier, grenadiers, grenadine, grenadines, harlequinade, harlequinades, inadequacies, inadequacy, inadequate, inadequately, inadequateness, inadequatenesses, inadmissibilities, inadmissibility, inadmissible, inadmissibly, inadvertence, inadvertences, inadvertencies, inadvertency, inadvertent, inadvertently, inadvisabilities, inadvisability, inadvisable, incarnadine, incarnadined, incarnadines, incarnadining, lemonade, lemonades, maenades, maenadic, maenads, marinade, marinaded, marinades, marinading, menadione, menadiones, menads, monadal, monadelphous, monades, monadic, monadism, monadisms, monadnock, monadnocks, monads, nonadaptive, nonaddict, nonaddictive, nonaddicts, nonadditive, nonadditivities, nonadditivity, nonadhesive, nonadiabatic, nonadjacent, nonadmirer, nonadmirers, nonadmission, nonadmissions, nonadult, nonadults, panada, panadas, pasquinade, pasquinaded, pasquinades, pasquinading, promenade, promenaded, promenader, promenaders, promenades, promenading, pseudomonades, pseudomonads, serenade, serenaded, serenader, serenaders, serenades, serenading, tapenade, tapenades, tornadic, tornado, tornadoes, tornados, trichomonads, unadaptable, unadapted, unaddressed, unadjudicated, unadjusted, unadmired, unadmitted, unadoptable, unadorned, unadult, unadulterated, unadulteratedly, unadventurous, unadvertised, unadvised, unadvisedly, vanadate, vanadates, vanadic, vanadium, vanadiums, vanadous. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: and. | |
| Words within the letters "a-d-n" | |
-1 letter: ad, an, na. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-d-n" | |
+1 letter: ands, band, damn, dang, dank, darn, dawn, dean, dona, hand, land, nada, nard, rand, sand, wand. | |
+2 letters: acned, adman, admen, adorn, adown, adunc, aland, amend, anode, anted, awned, bands, bandy, baned, bland, brand, candy, caned, canid, daman, damns, dance, dandy, dangs, danio, darns, daunt, daven, dawen, dawns, deans, denar, dewan, dinar, divan, diwan, donas, donga, donna, drain, drank, drawn, dunam, eland, gland, gonad, grand, hands, handy, honda, knead, laden, lands, maned, maund, menad, monad, nadas, nadir, naiad, naked, naled, named, nards, nicad, nidal, nodal, nomad, panda, pandy, paned, radon, rands, randy, ranid, redan, sands, sandy, saned, sedan, stand, ulnad, vanda, vaned, viand, wands, waned. | |
+3 letters: abound, acnode, addend, adding, adenyl, adjoin, adnate, adnexa, adnoun, adonis, adorns, advent, aedine, agenda, aiding, aidman, aidmen, alands, aldrin, alined, almond, amends, amidin, anadem, aneled, angled, ankled, anodal, anodes, anodic, anteed, append, ardent, around, ascend, atoned, attend, auding, augend, avidin, badman, badmen, banded, bander, bandit, bandog, banged, banked, banned, beaned, bedamn, bedpan, benday, brands, brandy, cadent, canard, candid, candle, candor, canids, canned, canoed, canted, cedarn, craned, cyanid, daemon, dahoon, daikon, daimen, daimon, dainty, dalton, damans, damned, damner, dampen, damson, danced, dancer, dances, dander, dandle, danged, danger, dangle, danios, danish, danker, dankly, daphne, daring, darken, darned, darnel, darner, dating, daunts, davens, dawing, dawned, dazing, deacon, deaden, deafen, deaned, decane, decant, dedans, deewan, defang, demand, demean, denari, denars, denary, denial, dental, desand, desman, detain, dewans, dharna, dhurna, diamin, diazin, dinars, dioxan, divans, diwans, dognap, dolman, domain, donate, dongas, donnas, dopant, dragon, drains, duenna, dunams, durian, dynamo, dynast, earned, elands, endear, ennead, errand, expand, fadein, fading, fandom, fanged, fanned, fantod, fawned, gained, gander, ganged, ganoid, garden, glands, gnawed, gonads, gradin, grands, hading, hadron, hagdon, handed, handle, hanged, hanked, hanted, harden, hondas, indaba, inlaid, inland, inroad, invade, inward, island, jading, jordan, kidnap, kneads, ladens, lading, ladino, ladron, lagend, lanced, landau, landed, lander, lardon, leaden, leaned, ligand, loaned, lurdan, madden, madman, madmen, maenad, maiden, manned, mantid, maunds, maundy, median, medina, menads, moaned, monads, nabbed, nacred, nadirs, nagged, naiads, nailed, naleds, nandin, napped, narked, navaid, neared, nicads, nomads, noyade, onward, ordain, padnag, pained, panada, pandas, pander, pandit, panged, panned, panted, pardon, pawned, pedant, pentad, planed, qindar, radian, radons, rained, rancid, randan, random, ranged, ranids, ranked, ranted, redans, remand, repand, riband, roband, rodman, sadden, sained, sandal, sanded, sander, sandhi, sedans, sendal, shandy, snaked, snared, snawed, soland, soldan, soudan, stands, staned, strand, suldan, sundae, tandem, tanged, tanked, tanned, tundra, unaged, unawed, unclad, undead, undraw, unhand, unlade, unlaid, unlead, unload, unmade, unpaid, unread, unsaid, upland, vandal, vandas, vanned, viands, wading, wander, wandle, wanned, wanted, warden, warned, weaned, yanked, yarned, yawned, yeaned, zander. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)4E 41 44 |
| 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)01001110 01000001 01000100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)N A D |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)004E 0041 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)483538 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Quotations: Non-fiction 7. Usage Frequency 8. Names: Company Usage | 9. Expressions 10. Expressions: Internet 11. Translations: Modern 12. Abbreviations | 13. Acronyms 14. Derivations 15. Anagrams 16. Orthography | 17. Bibliography |
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