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Definition: PID |
PIDNoun1. Inflammation of the female pelvic organs (especially the Fallopian tubes) caused by infection by any of several microorganisms (chiefly gonococci and chlamydia); symptoms are abdominal pain and fever and foul-smelling vaginal discharge. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "PID" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1598. (references) |
"PID" is a common misspelling or typo for: pad, paid, pie, pied, pig, pin, pip, pit, pod. |
| Domain | Definitions |
Computing | PID process identifier. Source: The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing. |
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Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "PID."
| 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 |
PID | English | Photo-ionization detector | N/A |
PID | French | Proportionnel,Intégral et Derivé | N/A |
PID | Greek | ID διεργασίας | Post & Telecom |
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Synonym: PIDSynonym: pelvic inflammatory disease (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: PID |
| Specialty definitions using "PID": anti-reset windup ♦ process identifier, process table. (references) |
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Movie/TV Titles | Pid horoju - pod góra (1994) | |
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Health | PID can be cured with antibiotics. (references) | |
Symptoms of PID vary from none to severe. (references) | ||
If the findings suggest PID, treatment is necessary. (references) | ||
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| "PID" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 66.67% of the time. "PID" is used about 3 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 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 66.67% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Noun (proper) | 33.33% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 3 | 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. |
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "PID": piddle, piddled, piddler, piddlers, piddles, piddling, piddly, piddock, piddocks, pidgin, pidginization, pidginizations, pidginize, pidginized, pidginizes, pidginizing, pidgins. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "PID": bicuspid, cupid, cuspid, elapid, glycolipid, hispid, insipid, intrepid, limpid, lipid, phospholipid, rapid, salpid, sapid, stupid, tepid, torpid, trepid, tricuspid, ultrarapid, vapid, vespid. (additional references) | |
Words containing "PID": aspidistra, aspidistras, bicuspids, cupidities, cupidity, cupids, cuspidal, cuspidate, cuspidation, cuspidations, cuspides, cuspidor, cuspidors, cuspids, dilapidate, dilapidated, dilapidates, dilapidating, dilapidation, dilapidations, elapids, epidemic, epidemical, epidemically, epidemicities, epidemicity, epidemics, epidemiologic, epidemiological, epidemiologically, epidemiologies, epidemiologist, epidemiologists, epidemiology, epidendrum, epidendrums, epiderm, epidermal, epidermic, epidermis, epidermises, epidermoid, epiderms, epidiascope, epidiascopes, epididymal, epididymides, epididymis, epididymitis, epididymitises, epidote. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: dip. | |
| Words within the letters "d-i-p" | |
-1 letter: id, pi. | |
| Words containing the letters "d-i-p" | |
+1 letter: dips, dipt, drip, padi, paid, pied. | |
+2 letters: aphid, biped, bipod, cupid, dippy, dipso, drips, dript, imped, lipid, padis, padri, pardi, pavid, piked, piled, pined, piped, plaid, plied, podia, poind, pride, pried, pudic, pyoid, rapid, redip, riped, sapid, siped, spied, tepid, vapid, wiped. | |
+3 letters: adipic, aliped, aphids, bipeds, bipods, capsid, copied, cupids, cuspid, depict, diaper, diapir, dimple, dimply, diplex, diploe, dipnet, dipody, dipole, dipped, dipper, dipsas, dipsos, dispel, dopier, doping, drippy, duping, elapid, espied, giddap, gimped, gipped, griped, hipped, hispid, impede, impend, isopod, kidnap, kipped, limped, limpid, lipide, lipids, lipoid, lipped, lisped, nipped, opined, opioid, paiked, pained, paired, pallid, pandit, pardie, peined, peised, peptid, perdie, period, picked, piddle, piddly, pidgin, pieced, pigged, pilled, pimped, pinder, pinged, pinked, pinned, pipped, piqued, pished, pissed, pithed, pitied, pitted, placid, plaids, pleiad, ploidy, podite, podium, poinds, poised, pongid, ponied, priced, prided, prides, primed, prised, prized, psocid, pundit, putrid, rapids, redips, redipt, repaid, ripped, salpid, sipped, sliped, sniped, spadix, sparid, spiced, spider, spiked, spiled, spined, spired, spited, stiped, stupid, swiped, tipped, torpid, trepid, tripod, unipod, unpaid, upbind, updive, upgird, upside, upwind, vespid, windup, wisped, yipped, zipped. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)50 49 44 |
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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