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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- abbreviation deciliter
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- noun metrology Symbol for the
deciliter (decilitre ), anSI unit offluid measure equal to 10−1liters (litres ). - initialism computing
download , Alternative form ofDL .
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COMODO = I got curious results using this firewall regarding a suspect file "dwmapi. dl" seems like many others did too if you google "dwmapi. dl" (notice the extension is .dl) anyway the problem disappeared as soon as I uninstalled COMODO.
Fileforum 2008
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- give it a try. donna - dl is a european measurement. it is 100ml. simply use an onlie converter to get the result you need. best * m
white wine soup myriam 2008
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If you run all these calculations for a blood sugar of 80 mg/dl, which is a much healthier blood sugar than the 99 mg/dl one that is knocking on the door of pre-diabetes, it turns out to be about 4/5 of a teaspoon.
A spoonful of sugar | The Blog of Michael R. Eades, M.D. 2005
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This time, they achieved an average blood glucose level of 164 mg/dl, which is slightly higher than the ADA's goal.
BusinessWeek.com -- 2010
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This time, they achieved an average blood glucose level of 164 mg/dl, which is slightly higher than the ADA's goal.
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Blood alcohol levels were categorised as 0.01 to 0.07 g/dl, which is below the legal drink drive limit in the US; 0.08 to 0. 14g/dl, which is at or above the legal drink drive limit; and
PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories PhysOrg Team 2010
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This time, they achieved an average blood glucose level of 164 mg/dl, which is slightly higher than the ADA's goal.
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This time, they achieved an average blood glucose level of 164 mg/dl, which is slightly higher than the ADA's goal.
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But if you eat a lot of meat, even red meat, accompanied by green and colorful vegetables and low-carb fruits, you should be rewarded with triglycerides that are almost always below the 150 mg/dl limit of what’s considered ‘normal,’ and you will more than likely find yourself with fasting triglycerides below 100 mg/dl, which is a very good place to have them.
High triglycerides driven by carbohydrate consumption | The Blog of Michael R. Eades, M.D. 2008
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My humble bark would gladly wait. "[dl]" Thou speakest sooth: thy skiff unmoor,
The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 3 George Gordon Byron Byron 1806
john commented on the word dl
Short for "down low", meaning secret or discrete.
Also slang for men who have sex with other men, but otherwise identify as straight, and keep their gay liasons secret:
"Many of the men at Flex tonight -- and many of the black men I met these past months in Cleveland, Atlanta, Florida, New York and Boston -- are on the Down Low, or on the DL, as they more often call it. Most date or marry women and engage sexually with men they meet only in anonymous settings like bathhouses and parks or through the Internet."
The New York Times, August 3, 2003
October 4, 2007