Meaning of Ad | Babel Free

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1. Abbreviation of advertisement.
   abbreviation, alt-of
2. 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.
3. Initialism of assistant director.
   abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable
4. Abbreviation of adenovirus.
   abbreviation, alt-of
5. Initialism of Abu Dhabi.
   abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
6. An advertisement.
7. Abbreviation of advertising.
   abbreviation, alt-of
8. advantage
9. Initialism of air defence or air defense.
   abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable
10. Initialism of Andhra Pradesh.
    India, abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
11. An advantage in tennis.
12. Abbreviation of advertiser.
    abbreviation, alt-of
13. Initialism of antidepressant.
    abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable
14. advantage (def. 4).
15. Initialism of auxiliary destroyer (a naval tender, a destroyer tender that tends to destroyers).
    Navy, US, abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable
16. 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-.
17. Initialism of Alzheimer's disease.
    abbreviation, alt-of, initialism, uncountable
18. var. of -ade1: ballad; salad.
19. Initialism of airworthiness directive.
    abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable
20. a suffix used in anatomy to form adverbs from nouns signifying parts of the body, denoting a direction toward that part: ectad.
21. Abbreviation of audio description.
    abbreviation, alt-of, countable, uncountable
22. 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...
23. Initialism of after dark.
    Internet, abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable
24. short for advertisement. I'll put an ad in the newspaper.
25. active duty
26. air-dried

Equivalents

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”

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