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Definition: VD |
VDNoun1. A communicable disease transmitted by sexual intercourse or genital contact. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
| 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 |
VD | English | Virus Diarrhoea | N/A |
VD | French | Canton de Vaud | Geography, Law |
VD | German | Kanton Waadt | Geography, Law |
VD | Italian | Cantone di Vaud | Geography, Law |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
Synonyms: VDSynonyms: sexually transmitted disease (n), social disease (n), venereal disease (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: VD |
| Specialty definitions using "VD": HEALTH OFFICER, FIELD ♦ investigator, communicable disease ♦ single-rate auction. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "VD" is also a word in the following language with English translations in parentheses. Spanish (esquire, you). |
| Domain | Usage | |
Movie/TV Titles | About VD (1974) VD (1972) How to Keep from Catching VD (1971) VD (1988) | |
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Books | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & 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. | |||
| "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 Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 59 | 44,010 |
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. |
| Expression | Frequency 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. | |
| 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 | ||||
Derivations | |
Words containing "VD": havdalah, havdalahs. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
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. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)56 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)01010110 01000100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)V D |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0056 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)5638 |
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