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Definition: Nicad |
NicadNoun1. A rechargeable battery with a nickel cathode and a cadmium anode; often used in emergency systems because of its low discharge rate when not in use. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
| Domain | Definitions |
Space | Nickel-cadmium rechargable battery. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Synonym: NicadSynonym: nickel-cadmium accumulator (n). (additional references) |
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High Tech |
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Consumer Goods | |||
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Business | The scheme has been set a target of recycling 1550 tons of NiCad batteries over four years. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Nicad" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 75.00% of the time. "Nicad" is used about 4 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) | 75% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Noun (singular) | 25% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 4 | 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. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
nicad battery | 102 |
nicad | 29 |
nicad battery charger | 11 |
mr nicad | 10 |
nicad battery charging | 9 |
nicad charger | 8 |
lady nicad | 5 |
nimh vs nicad | 4 |
nicad battery pack | 4 |
nicad battery charger circuit | 3 |
cell nicad | 3 |
aa nicad | 2 |
sub c nicad | 2 |
nicad charger circuit | 2 |
c nicad | 2 |
nicad charger schematic | 2 |
nicad tester | 2 |
aircraft battery charger nicad | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "nicad": nicads. (additional references) | |
Words containing "nicad": incommunicado. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: canid. | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-d-i-n" | |
-1 letter: acid, cadi, caid, cain. | |
-2 letters: aid, ain, and, ani, cad, can, din. | |
-3 letters: ad, ai, an, id, in, na. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-d-i-n" | |
+1 letter: anodic, candid, canids, cyanid, nicads, rancid. | |
+2 letters: antacid, cabined, cadging, cairned, candida, candids, candied, candies, carding, chained, codeina, conidia, cyanide, cyanids, dancing, discant, dynamic, echidna, faciend, fancied, gonadic, incaged, incased, incudal, indican, indicia, inlaced, iracund, monacid, monadic, nodical, nomadic, nonacid, scandia, scandic, vanadic. | |
+3 letters: abducing, abidance, acaridan, acceding, accident, acidness, acridine, actinide, actinoid, adducing, adynamic, alcidine, anconoid, anodynic, antacids, anticked, anticold, arachnid, arcadian, arcading, ascidian, audience, braconid, caddying, calcined, cancroid, candidas, candider, candidly, candling, candying, canfield, canopied, carangid, cardigan, cardinal, cardings, catenoid, chicaned, cladding, codeinas, comedian, conidial, conidian, conoidal, cordwain, cradling, crannied, ctenidia, cyanamid, cyanided, cyanides, daemonic, daimonic, daltonic, decaying, decennia, defacing, defiance, demoniac, deviance, deviancy, diaconal, diatonic, dicentra, diocesan, discants, distance, draconic, dulciana, dulcinea, duncical, dynamics, dynastic, echidnae, echidnas, enneadic, faciends, financed, fricando, guidance, hacienda, hadronic, handicap, handpick, inarched, incanted, incudate, indicans, indicant, indicate, indicias, ironclad, jaundice, machined, maenadic, mandalic, mandioca, monacids, monoacid, nictated, nonacids, nudicaul, pandemic, panicked, panicled, pedantic, pycnidia, radiance, radiancy, radicand, rancidly, riddance, sandwich, sardonic, scalding, scandias, scandium, sciaenid, spondaic, syndical, tachinid, thinclad, tornadic, uncandid, vandalic, voidance. | |
+4 letters: abducting, abduction, abidances, acaridans, accidence, accidents, according, accordion, acidulent, acridines, acridness, actinides, actinoids, addicting, addiction, adducting, adduction, advancing, advecting, advection, affianced, andesitic, androecia, anecdotic, anhedonic, anticodon, arachnids, arachnoid, arcadians, arcadings, archfiend, ardencies, ascending, ascidians, asyndetic, auctioned, audiences, avoidance, balconied, baldachin, bandicoot, braconids, brocading, cadencies, cadencing, cadential, calamined, calendric, canalised, canalized, cancroids, candidacy, candidate, candidest, candlelit, candlepin, canfields, canonised, canonized, caponized, captained, captioned, carangids, carcinoid, cardigans, cardinals, carinated, carnified, cascading, catenoids, cautioned, celandine, chagrined, chancroid, circadian, claddings, clarioned, cnidarian, coheading, coleading, comedians, companied, compendia, confidant, contained, cordwains, coriander, corrading, crusading, curtained, custodian, cyanamide, cyanamids, cyaniding, dackering, dalliance, dandiacal, deaconing, decamping, decanting, deceasing, decennial, declaring, declawing, defiances, demoniacs, demonical, desiccant, detaching, deviances, diachrony, diaconate, dicentras, dichondra, dictating, dictation, dictional, dietician, dilatancy, diocesans, discanted, discasing, distanced, distances, doctrinal, dominance, dominical, draconian, dulcianas, dulcineas, dynamical, dynamitic, educating, education, enchained, enchilada, euclidean, euclidian, fancified, genocidal, guidances, haciendas, handicaps, handpicks, hindrance, holandric, identical, impedance, inclasped, increased, incubated, indexical, indicants, indicated, indicates, indicator, infarcted, infracted, instanced, invocated, ironclads, jaundiced, jaundices, kickstand, lidocaine, macedoine, mandiocas, manicured, medicinal, mendacity, mendicant, monoacids, monodical, muscadine, nicknamed, nonacidic, nonaddict, ordinance, pandemics, pinnacled, pycnidial, quicksand, radiances, radicands, rancidity, redacting, redaction, riddances, scandiums, sciaenids, sonicated, spondaics, syndicate, synodical, tachinids, thinclads, traducing, tunicated, unchained, unclaimed, undynamic, vindicate, voidances. | |
+5 letters: abdicating, abdication, abductions, absconding, accidences, accidental, accidently, accordions, acetanilid, achondrite, acidifying, acidnesses, acquainted, adamancies, addictions, adductions, adjunction, adjunctive, admittance, adrenergic, advections, advocating, advocation, aficionada, aficionado, aldermanic, androecium, androgenic, anecdotist, anglicised, anglicized, anodically, anteceding, anticodons, antidromic, appendices, arachnoids, archfiends, ascendible, audiogenic, avoidances, backdating, baldachino, baldachins, bandicoots, biodynamic, blockading, boldfacing, brainchild, cadaverine, calamondin, calcimined, calmodulin, campaigned, candidates, candidness, candlefish, candlepins, candlewick, canoodling, carbonized, carcinoids, cardinally, carotenoid, carotinoid, celandines, centigrade, chagrinned, chainsawed, chairmaned, championed, chancroids, chandelier, chiffonade, chionodoxa, cnidarians, coadmiring, coatimundi, cocainized, codominant, cofinanced, commanding, complained, conchoidal, confidante, confidants, confirmand, contradict, coordinate, cordwainer, corianders, corrigenda, coxswained, credential, criminated, culminated, custodians, cyanamides, dalliances, daunomycin, deaconries, debauching, decenaries, decennials, decimating, decimation, decisional, declaiming, declassing, declinable, decorating, decoration, decreasing, dedicating, dedication, defecating, defecation, demoniacal, deracinate, descanting, desiccants, desistance, detoxicant, detracting, detraction, deviancies, diachronic, diaconates, diagenetic, diagnostic, dichondras, dicoumarin, dictations, dictionary, dieticians, discanting, discarding, discarnate, discordant, discrepant, discussant, disenchant, disgracing, displacing, dissonance, distancing, dominances, dormancies, dynamistic, educations, eicosanoid, enchiladas, enchiridia, endarchies, endocardia, endothecia, enunciated, escalading, fascinated, fornicated, fractioned, franchised, fricandeau, fricandoes, fungicidal, gramicidin, grandchild, grandniece, haciendado, handicraft, handpicked, hindrances, imbalanced, impedances, inadequacy, incandesce, incarnated, incendiary, incidental, includable, inculcated, inculpated, incurvated, indelicacy, indelicate, indexicals, indicating, indication, indicative, indicators, indicatory, indictable, inductance, ineducable, inoculated, intendance, interacted, interfaced, interlaced, irradiance, jackknifed, jaundicing, kickstands, lidocaines, macedoines, machinated, mandarinic, mastodonic, mechanized, mediagenic, medicament, medicating, medication, medicinals, mendacious, mendicancy, mendicants, monoacidic, mordancies, mudcapping, muscadines, narcotized, nematicide, nematocide, nictitated, nonaddicts, noncardiac, nonmedical, nudibranch, occasioned, occidental, ordinances, outdancing, paddocking, padlocking, paedogenic, picarooned, placarding, placidness, quicksands, radiancies, radicating, radiogenic, rancidness, reacceding, redactions, refinanced, sanctified, sanctioned, sandwiched, sandwiches, scandaling, scandalise, scandalize, scorpaenid, shadchanim, stockading, syndicated, syndicates, syndicator, unacademic, unachieved, uncalcined, uncandidly, unciliated, undidactic, undogmatic, undramatic, unpedantic, vacationed, vaccinated, verdancies, vindicable, vindicated, vindicates, vindicator, vulcanised, vulcanized, wainscoted. | |
| 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)4E 69 63 61 64 |
| 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)01001110 01101001 01100011 01100001 01100100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)N i c a d |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)004E 0069 0063 0061 0064 |
| 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)4875696770 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Usage: Commercial 4. Quotations: Non-fiction | 5. Usage Frequency 6. Expressions: Internet 7. Derivations 8. Anagrams | 9. Orthography 10. Bibliography |
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