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VD

Definition: VD

VD

Noun

1. A communicable disease transmitted by sexual intercourse or genital contact.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

 

Abbreviations & Acronyms: VD

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.

EntrySourceExpressionField

VD

EnglishVirus DiarrhoeaN/A

VD

FrenchCanton de VaudGeography, Law

VD

GermanKanton WaadtGeography, Law

VD

ItalianCantone di VaudGeography, Law

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Synonyms: VD

Synonyms: sexually transmitted disease (n), social disease (n), venereal disease (n). (additional references)

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Crosswords: VD

Specialty definitions using "VD": HEALTH OFFICER, FIELDinvestigator, communicable diseasesingle-rate auction. (references)
Non-English Usage: "VD" is also a word in the following language with English translations in parentheses.

Spanish (esquire, you).

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Modern Usage: VD

DomainUsage

Movie/TV Titles

About VD (1974)

VD (1972)

How to Keep from Catching VD (1971)

VD (1988)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: VD

DomainTitle

Books

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Photo Album: VD

ThumbnailDescription & CreditThumbnailDescription & Credit

U.S. Public Health Service. : Rapid Treatment Center for VD, Columbia, SC / Photograph by Roy Perry.Credit: National Library of Medicine.

VD treatment center. : Police officer and medical examiner with patients. / P.Credit: National Library of Medicine; photo by Roy Perry..

VD treatment center. : Patient's recreation hall. / P.Credit: National Library of Medicine; photo by Roy Perry..

VD is nothing to clap about.Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: VD

"VD" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "VD" is used about 59 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 SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (singular)100%5944,010

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: VD

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.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

vd

190

symptom vd

9

picture vd

7

disease vd

7

meer robine vd

4

std vd

4

hgvdhq m vd

3

crabs vd

3

vd player

2

vd veen

2

vd wart

2

berg fotograaf peter vd

2

now vd

2

goorbergh jurgen vd

2

planeta.terra.com.br relacionamento vd

2

hysterectomy vd

2

hotel valk vd

2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: VD

Language Translations for "VD"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Arabic 

  

‏مرض جنسي. (various references)

   

Chinese 

  

性病 (sexually transmitted disease, venereal disease). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

nemi betegség (venereal disease), gyõzelem napja (V-day). (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

"ット毎 (bidet, bit-wise, coccyx, VCR, very important person, video, video art, video camcorder, video camera, video cassette recorder, Video CassetteRecorder, video clip, video engineer, video game, video hall, video journalist, video magazine, video meter, Video Research Ltd., video shop, video soft, video tape recorder, videocassette, videodisc, videogenic, video-tape, videotex, VIP). (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

"デオディスク (videodisc). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

vday

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations: VD

Derivations

Words containing "VD": havdalah, havdalahs. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: VD

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

 Words containing the letters "d-v"
 

+1 letter: dev.

 

+2 letters: avid, davy, deva, devs, diva, dive, dove, veld, vend, vide, vied, void.

 

+3 letters: avoid, bovid, caved, coved, daven, davit, deave, delve, devas, devel, devil, devon, divan, divas, dived, diver, dives, divot, divvy, doven, doves, drave, drive, drove, duvet, eaved, evade, gyved, hived, ivied, jived, laved, lived, livid, loved, moved, ovoid, paved, pavid, raved, rived, roved, saved, valid, vanda, vaned, vapid, velds, veldt, vends, vexed, viand, viced, video, vined, virid, vised, vivid, vodka, vodun, voids, voled, voted, vowed, waved, wived.

 

+4 letters: advect, advent, adverb, advert, advice, advise, avidin, avidly, avoids, avowed, bovids, braved, calved, carved, cervid, craved, curved, dative, davens, davies, davits, deaved, deaves, delved, delver, delves, derive, devein, devels, devest, device, devils, devise, devoid, devoir, devons, devote, devour, devout, divans, divers, divert, divest, divide, divine, diving, divots, dovens, dovish, drivel, driven, driver, drives, droved, drover, droves, duvets, dyvour, endive, envied, evaded, evader, evades, evened, evited, evoked, fervid, gloved, graved, gravid, groved, halved, heaved, helved, hooved, invade, kidvid, leaved, leveed, levied, navaid, nerved, nevoid, overdo, overed, ovoids, paveed, peeved, proved, reaved, reeved, reived, revved, salved, served, shaved, shoved, sieved, skived, slaved, solved, staved, swived, updive, updove, vadose, vailed, valued, valved, vamped, vandal, vandas, vanned, varied, varved, vatted, vaward, vealed, veered, veiled, veined, veldts, vended, vendee, vender, vendor, vendue, venged, vented, verbid, verdin, verged, versed, vespid, vested, vetoed, vetted, vialed, viands, videos, viewed, viroid, visaed, visard, viscid, viseed, vizard, vodkas, vodoun, voduns, vogued, voiced, voided, voider, voodoo, waived, weaved.

 

+5 letters: advance, advects, advents, adverbs, adverse, adverts, advices, advised, advisee, adviser, advises, advisor, alcoved, anviled, arrived, availed, avenged, averred, averted, aviated, avidins, avidity, avocado, avodire, avoided, avoider, avulsed, bedevil, behaved, behoved, beloved, beveled, bravado, bravoed, cadaver, caviled, chevied, chivied, cleaved, codrive, codrove, couvade, covered, coveted, datival, datives, davened, deaving, deceive, decurve, deleave, deliver, delvers, delving, deprave, deprive, derived, deriver, derives, dervish, deserve, devalue, deveins, develed, develop, devests, deviant, deviate, devices, deviled, devilry, devious, devisal, devised, devisee, deviser, devises, devisor, devoice, devoirs, devolve, devoted, devotee, devotes, devours, diluvia, disavow, dissave, diverge, diverse, diverts, divests, divided, divider, divides, divined, diviner, divines, divisor, divorce, divulge, divvied, divvies, dogvane, dovecot, dovekey, dovekie, dovened, drivels, drivers, driving, drovers, droving, duumvir, duvetyn, dwarves, dyvours, endives, evaders, evading, everted, evicted, evident, evinced, evolved, favored, fevered, gaveled, glaived, gravida, greaved, grieved, grooved, havened, havered, hoveled, hovered, impavid, invaded, invader, invades, invalid, invited, invoked, khedive, kidvids, leveled, levered, livened, lividly, louvred, medevac, motived, naevoid, navaids, obovoid, outvied, overbed, overbid, overdid, overdog, overdry, overdub, overdue, overdye, overfed, oversad, ovicide, oviduct, ovoidal, pervade, pivoted, predive, prevued, provide, ravaged, raveled, ravened, ravined, redrive, redrove, relived, removed, repaved, reveled, revered, reviled, revised, revived, revoked, revoted, rivaled, riveted, salvoed, savaged, savored, savvied, scrived, severed, sheaved, shelved, shrived, skydive, skydove, sleaved, sleeved, starved, steeved, strived, swerved, thieved, thrived, unlived, unloved, unmoved, unpaved, unsaved, unvexed, updived, updives, vacated, valeted, valgoid, validly, vamosed, vanadic, vandals, vandyke, vanward, vapidly, vapored, vaulted, vaunted, vawards, vedalia, vedette, velured, vendace, vendees, venders, vending, vendors, vendues, venomed, veranda, verbids, verdant, verdict, verdins, verdure, veridic, vespids, vexedly, viaduct, vialled, vidette, vidicon, viduity, viroids, visaged, visards, viscoid, visited, visored, vistaed, vittled, vivider, vividly, vizards, vizored, vocoder, vodouns, voiders, voiding, volumed, voluted, vomited, voodoos, vouched, voyaged, vroomed, wavered.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: VD


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

56 44

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

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Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010110 01000100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#86 &#68

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0056 0044

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

5638

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Modern
5. Usage: Commercial
6. Images: Photo Album
7. Usage Frequency
8. Expressions: Internet
9. Translations: Modern
10. Abbreviations
11. Acronyms
12. Derivations
13. Anagrams
14. Orthography
15. Bibliography


  

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