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"TDS" is a common misspelling or typo for: ads. |
| 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 |
tds | English | Tons dry solids | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
| Domain | Title |
References | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Business | In addition to specialized IT-service companies such as EDS, TDS or Datev, a large number of hardware vendors are increasingly focusing on this highly lucrative market - e.g. IBM, Hewlett-Packard and Bull. According to statements from hardware manufacturers, for example, their revenues derived from IT services already exceed those achieved with hardware sales, a trend which is expected to continue. (references) | |
Human Rights | Tonga | The court system consists of the Supreme Court (which has original jurisdiction over all major cases), the police magistrates' courts, a general court, a court martial for the TDS, a court tribunal for the police force, and a court of review for the Inland Revenue Department. (references) |
Political Economy | Ireland | However, the number of "Independent" TDs has grown in recent years, with many standing as "single issue" candidates. (references) |
Tonga | The 430-man TDS force is responsible to and controlled by the Minister of Defense, and the police force is responsible to and controlled by the Minister of Police and Prisons. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "TDS" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "TDS" is used about 26 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) | 100% | 26 | 68,323 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Country | Name |
| Germany | TDS Informationstechnologie AG |
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Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.
| 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 | Expression | Frequency per Day |
tds | 440 | 318 bmw tds | 6 |
tds metrocom | 273 | inc tds | 6 |
tds telecom | 198 | tds iii | 6 |
tds 3 | 46 | bmw 525 tds | 6 |
mail tds | 36 | tds telecom wi | 6 |
net tds | 29 | tds phone company | 5 |
tds meter | 28 | tds metro com | 5 |
tds phone | 17 | tds monitor | 5 |
automotive tds | 15 | software surveying tds | 5 |
internet tds | 13 | survey tds | 5 |
0002 317 892 tds | 10 | tds dsl | 4 |
showclub tds | 9 | personnel tds | 4 |
tds communication | 9 | tds 210 | 4 |
tds recon | 9 | itt tds | 4 |
tds telcom | 8 | tds telecommunication | 4 |
internet services tds | 7 | software tds | 4 |
home page tds | 7 | email tds | 4 |
tds metro | 7 | online store tds | 4 |
tds ranger | 7 | internet service tds | 4 |
tds phone service | 6 | pro survey tds | 4 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words containing the letters "d-s-t" | |
+1 letter: dits, dost, dots, dust, stud, tads, teds, tods. | |
+2 letters: adits, adust, darts, dates, datos, dauts, dawts, debts, deets, deist, delts, dents, didst, diets, dints, dirts, ditas, dites, ditsy, doats, doest, doits, dolts, dotes, drats, drest, ducts, duets, duits, dunts, durst, dusts, dusty, edits, hadst, midst, odist, sated, sited, stade, staid, stand, stead, steed, stied, stood, studs, study, styed, tends, thuds, tides, toads, tsade, tsadi, tsked, turds. | |
| 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)54 44 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)01010100 01000100 01010011 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)T D S |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0054 0044 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)543853 |
| 1. Definition 2. Usage: Commercial 3. Quotations: Non-fiction 4. Usage Frequency | 5. Names: Company Usage 6. Expressions: Internet 7. Abbreviations 8. Acronyms | 9. Anagrams 10. Orthography 11. Bibliography |
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