Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • abbreviation certificate of deposit
  • abbreviation civil defense
  • abbreviation cluster of differentiation antigen
  • abbreviation compact disc
  • abbreviation French corps diplomatique (diplomatic corps)

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  • noun The ISO 3166-1 two-letter (alpha-2) code for Democratic Republic of the Congo.
  • noun A Roman numeral representing four hundred (400).
  • noun Compact disc; a form of digital media that is based on the use of a laser to read from a plastic disc in a reader device.
  • noun Certificate of deposit (from a financial institutions).
  • noun Creative director: head of the creative department (for example of an advertising agency).
  • noun Corporate design: specific design features of a company, corporate identity CI. (Can we clean up(+) this sense?)
  • noun Collision detection (used by an Ethernet network to detect when two computers are sending frames at the same time, and also to deal with such collisions when they happen).
  • noun Circular Dichroism.
  • verb To cross-dress.
  • preposition An abbreviation found on decals of automobiles, indicating that they are used by diplomats. From the French phrase corps diplomatique ("diplomatic corps").

Etymologies

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Abbreviation of various terms and phrases.

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Examples

  • You also realize that you used to hear the term CD and think compact disc rather than Creative Director and you almost miss those days where you felt invincible until life humbled you with the death of someone you thought would live forever.

    Why Advertising Sucks 2008

  • What we hear on this CD is a simple and pious longing for some kind of integration between what was and what is.

    What is going on at Mount St. Mary's? 2009

  • Hitchcock says the CD is about saying goodbye to cycles of negativity, moving out of the "smoke age" of cigarettes and gasoline, and about hope and change.

    Robyn Hitchcock & the Venus 3: Goodnight Oslo Lou Anders 2009

  • Anyway, the theoretical maximum realisable value of a CD is about $700,000 (on average).

    Labels’ back catalogues already belong to us! 2009

  • Well buying a CD is almost like an act of philanthropy: a way to support a band you liked after a show.

    Matthew Yglesias » The Futile Struggle Against Free Content 2010

  • Hitchcock says the CD is about saying goodbye to cycles of negativity, moving out of the "smoke age" of cigarettes and gasoline, and about hope and change.

    Archive 2009-02-01 Lou Anders 2009

  • Well buying a CD is almost like an act of philanthropy: a way to support a band you liked after a show.

    Matthew Yglesias » The Futile Struggle Against Free Content 2010

  • No such reversals of fate await the protagonist of novelist Kurt Vonnegut's freshly conceived 1993 text for "L'Histoire" -- retitled "An American Soldier's Tale" and receiving its first recording on a Summit label CD (DCD 532) -- which tells the true, World War II-era story of Pvt. Eddie Slovik, the first American soldier executed for desertion since the Civil War.

    On CD: Another view of "L'Histoire" 2010

  • I commend you all for speaking up and I hope your CD is able to stand her ground and continue to defend the autonomy of Peace Corps.

    Outrage at Ambassador Retzer's Decision jen 2007

  • This CD is a compilation of the jazz music mentioned in the Bosch novels and was given away to his readers on Michael's 2003 book tour.

    Michael Connelly biography 2006

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