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

  • abbreviation active duty
  • abbreviation air-dried
  • abbreviation anno Domini
  • abbreviation analog/digital
  • abbreviation athletic director

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  • noun The ISO 3166-1 two-letter (alpha-2) code for Andorra.
  • initialism Latin anno Domini, in the year of our Lord, used to specify numbered years counting from the once estimated birth of Christ in year 1. Usually placed before years (but see notes), and always placed after centuries. Often written in small caps. This year is AD 2013.
  • initialism assistant director.
  • initialism military air defence or air defense
  • initialism antidepressant
  • initialism US, Navy Auxiliary Destroyer - a naval tender, a destroyer tender that tends to destroyers

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  • Ducanruriafnquaelibet rtda FG p. arallela ad AD, Scper - jpiai; n intelligatur firan&e plaimmparallelttm circulo A D*

    Opera geometrica Torricelli, Evangelista, 1608-1647 1644

  • They’d already spectacularly mismanaged a TV ad campaign for 2000 AD before I arrived on the scene.

    28 Days of 2000 AD #12: Diggle Unleashed DAVID BISHOP 2007

  • This AD is awful as she is not attacking McCain but her own party ….

    Clinton hits Obama directly in new ad 2008

  • Later in the series of interviews, Rochefort told Commander Kitchen that in 1941 he and his staff were assigned “a basic responsibility of solving the Japanese naval system which we called AD” see ROH, p.

    DAY OF DECEIT ROBERT B. STINNETT 2001

  • Later in the series of interviews, Rochefort told Commander Kitchen that in 1941 he and his staff were assigned “a basic responsibility of solving the Japanese naval system which we called AD” see ROH, p.

    DAY OF DECEIT ROBERT B. STINNETT 2001

  • Later in the series of interviews, Rochefort told Commander Kitchen that in 1941 he and his staff were assigned “a basic responsibility of solving the Japanese naval system which we called AD” see ROH, p.

    DAY OF DECEIT ROBERT B. STINNETT 2001

  • Later in the series of interviews, Rochefort told Commander Kitchen that in 1941 he and his staff were assigned “a basic responsibility of solving the Japanese naval system which we called AD” see ROH, p.

    DAY OF DECEIT ROBERT B. STINNETT 2001

  • With this blog post I want to start the series which I call "AD RMS Under the Hood" where I'm going to explain you how AD RMS really works behind the scene.

    Site Home Jim Groves 2011

  • AD is very helpful because it reduces the likelihood that an author will react heatedly when he gets tough advice.

    Superhero Nation: how to write superhero novels and comic books » Please help me complete a glossary of writer’s terms! 2009

  • I can just see the same post being written in AD 300 about dividing the Ostrogoths, Visigoths and Vandals.

    Matthew Yglesias » Gulf Stability and the New Iraq 2009

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