Ad
Definitions
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Abbreviation of advertisement. abbreviation, alt-of
- Advantage; also, designating the left-hand side, from the player's point of view, of their half of the court, where the advantage point following a deuce is always played.
- Initialism of assistant director.
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Abbreviation of adenovirus. abbreviation, alt-of
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Initialism of Abu Dhabi. abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
- An advertisement.
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Abbreviation of advertising. abbreviation, alt-of
- advantage
- Initialism of air defence or air defense.
- Initialism of Andhra Pradesh.
- An advantage in tennis.
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Abbreviation of advertiser. abbreviation, alt-of
- Initialism of antidepressant.
- advantage (def. 4).
- Initialism of auxiliary destroyer (a naval tender, a destroyer tender that tends to destroyers).
- a prefix occurring in verbs or verbal derivatives borrowed from Latin, where it meant “toward” and indicated direction, tendency, or addition: adjoin. For variants before a following consonant, see a-5, ac-, af-, ag-, al-, an-2, ap-1, ar-, as-, at-.
- Initialism of Alzheimer's disease.
- var. of -ade1: ballad; salad.
- Initialism of airworthiness directive.
- a suffix used in anatomy to form adverbs from nouns signifying parts of the body, denoting a direction toward that part: ectad.
- Abbreviation of audio description.
- anno domini; (used in dates to mean after the birth of Jesus Christ; also used by non-Christians). in 630 AD; in the seventh century AD. nC بَعْدْ المِيلَاد сл.хр. DC po Kristovi nach Christi Geburt efter Kristus; e.Kr μετά Χριστόν (συντομογρ.) d.C., después de Cristo issanda aastal, pärast Kristuse sündi (lühend: pKr, e.m.a) پس از میلاد مسیح؛ میلادی jKr. après J.–C. לַסְפִירָה הַנוֹצְרִית ईस्वी n.e. Kr.u. vagy i.sz. M (Tahun Masehi) d.C. 西暦 그리스도 기원(후), 서기 po Kristaus gimimo, mūsų eros metais...
- Initialism of after dark.
- short for advertisement. I'll put an ad in the newspaper.
- active duty
- air-dried
Equivalents
Españold.C. (después de Cristo)
Examples
“A few moments later, the A.D. reappears. "They need⟳ you," she says. "And could you stop⟳ by Wardrobe?" Shannen rolls her eyes. "O.K.!" she snaps.”
“Many neurodegenerative diseases, including Alzheimer's disease (AD), involve⟳ pathological protein deposits.”
“What the person with AD chooses to enunciate, ‘may capture⟳ something important in the way the person makes sense⟳ of his or her life and also make⟳ meaning-based connections’ (Hydén and Örulv 2009: 206).”
“AD account”
“I have⟳ placed both of the ads in the newspaper as instructed.”
“However, the ad that was seen as the most successful in 2000 reflected Chen Shui-bian's Taiwanese roots, that was the Kuantien Ad that showed the small town where he had grown up, his neighbours, relatives and people that had known him as a child.”
“In the final few weeks before the vote⟳, a rash of ads appeared on radio and TV claiming that Hillary Clinton was too frail, too liberal and too ethically compromised to become⟳ president. […] Not many people took Morris’s ad too seriously; most news outlets were pleased for a frothy story in an election that was short on light⟳ relief.”
“[S]uddenly Agassi hits a hard heavy cross-court back hand that pulls Federer way out to his ad (= his left) side, and Federer gets to it but slices the stretch⟳ backhand short, a couple feet past the service line […].”
“ads and disads”
CEFR level
B1
Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B1 vocabulary — intermediate level.
This word is part of the CEFR B1 vocabulary — intermediate level.
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