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| Domain | Definition |
Computing | Qualifies a circuitry or a system that can be attached to a computer to increase memory or performance. Source: European Union. (references) |
Post & Telecom | A facility which enables a recipient of an incoming call to add a third line to the connection, making it a three-way conference call. Source: European Union. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Crosswords: ADD-ON |
| Specialty definitions using "ADD-ON": 3DO ♦ Apple Newton ♦ Carbon Absorber ♦ Desktop Management Interface ♦ hybrid multiprocessing ♦ OS/2, OS2 ♦ RealAudio, reserved memory ♦ symmetric multiprocessing ♦ wav ♦ XT bus architecture. (references) |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | In an add-on to a third NHLBI-funded study, the Physician's Health Study II, researchers will examine whether the antioxidant supplement or multivitamin the participants are taking to measure effects on cardiovascular function have an influence on their age-related cognitive changes. (references) | |
A cognitive component has also been added to a second NHLBI trial, the Women's Antioxidant Cardiovascular Study, in which older women at high risk of cardiovascular disease are taking either antioxidants or a combination of folate and vitamins B6 and B12. In both of these trials, the add-on studies are testing the effect of these compounds on age-related cognitive decline. (references) | ||
Business | Foreign suppliers of IT services interested in the German market need a competent local agent, distributor or systems integrator or should consider a joint venture with a local IT service company, who would take on their service line as an add-on to their own portfolio. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
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Fred Thompson | That very well could be the case, because part of what we've got to do, and I think really kind of the add-on to what I just said, is that we have got to be proactive in some areas. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| "ADD-ON" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 98.39% of the time. "ADD-ON" is used about 62 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) | 98.39% | 61 | 43,149 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 1.61% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 62 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "ADD-ON"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | add-on, udvidelse (expansion). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | uitbreiding (annex, contents, database state, encroachment, extension, extension of the data base, instance, state), toevoeging (addition). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | lisälaite (accessory), lisä- (peripheral). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | additionnel (additional), programme additionnel, outil complémentaire. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Zusatz (accessory, addend, addition, additive, adjunct, admixture, amendment, application, apposition, backing, codicil, endorsement, replacement, replenishment, rider, separable element, supplement). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | πρόσθετο (additive), επιπρόσθετο (adjunct). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | addizionale (additional, extra, farther, further, plus), supplementare (additional, extra, relief, supplementary), complementare (complementary). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | アドオン方式 (ad campaign, ad hoc, ad man, ad-balloon, ad-hocracy, admin, admission, Admission Free, admittance, advance, advanced, advantage, advantage rule, adventure, advertisement, advertising, advice, adviser), アト"ー性皮膚炎 (ad, ad impact, add-on module, adobe, advertisement, at random, atmosphere, atom, atomic, atopic dermatitis, atrium, attraction, attractive, attractor, attribute, autoload, studio). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | アドオンほうしき, アドオン . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | add-onay acessório (accessory, accidental, accompaniment, adjunct, appendant, attachment, collateral, fixture, incidental, paraphernalia, secondary, side, subsidiary, unessential), serviço suplementar de conferência de três partes. (various references) расширение (amplification, dilatation, dilation, distension, distention, enhancement, enlargement, expansion, extension, spread-out, widening). (various references) agregado (aggregate, aggregated, aggregation, aggregative, attache, attached, incorporated), suplemento (extra, replacement, replenishment, supplement), complemento (appendix, complement, object, obverse, supplement, supporting feature). (various references) tilläggs- (additional, supplementary). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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"ADD-ON" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: addon, addton, Adson, Iddon. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-d-d-n-o" | |
-1 letter: dado, dona. | |
-2 letters: add, ado, and, dad, don, nod, odd. | |
-3 letters: ad, an, do, na, no, od, on. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-d-d-n-o" | |
+2 letters: adenoid, adorned, android, dadoing, deodand, diamond, donated, duodena, goddamn. | |
+3 letters: abounded, addition, adenoids, adjoined, androids, anodized, bondmaid, deaconed, deodands, diamonds, dockhand, dockland, dognaped, downland, download, downward, drawdown, duodenal, goddamns, handhold, landlord, ordained, ordinand, pandowdy, pardoned, unloaded, woodland. | |
+4 letters: abandoned, absconded, addiction, additions, adduction, adenoidal, adjourned, andromeda, antidoted, astounded, bondmaids, broadband, broadened, canoodled, cloudland, commanded, dandelion, decapodan, demantoid, deodorant, detonated, diagnosed, diamonded, dichondra, dockhands, docklands, dodecagon, dognapped, dominated, downdraft, downgrade, downlands, downloads, downwards, dragooned, drawdowns, fanfolded, gadrooned, goddamned, hacendado, handholds, hardbound, iodinated, landlords, mordanted, nonaddict, nongraded, nonleaded, offhanded, ordinands, outadding, outdanced, poniarded, readorned, unadorned, videoland, woodlands. | |
| 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. | |
| 1. Crosswords 2. Usage: Commercial 3. Quotations: Non-fiction 4. Quotations: Spoken | 5. Usage Frequency 6. Translations: Modern 7. Derivations 8. Anagrams | 9. Bibliography |
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