Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun   An abbreviation of Lord .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Chiefly British, abbr.  The abbreviation for limited , term appended to the name of a company that is organized to give its owners limited liability; also abbreviatedLtd. It corresponds toInc. in the United States.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun informal  A Roman numeral representing four hundred and fifty (450).
- noun computer science  binary logarithm ; logarithm to the base 2
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- noun a company that is organized to give its owners limited liability
Etymologies
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Examples
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								Hammarskjöld is the only person to have received the prize posthumously, a few months after his death in a plane crash in the Congo; the 
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								Clementina pursued, "I know that you have had all you wanted of the wo'ld" -- Ragged Lady — Complete William Dean Howells 1878 
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								i had fancied the thought that somewhere, some kid was memorizing every word i wrote or passing them off as his own, some girl was etching "for a good time, call 'ld' - 919-0479" into the stall door in a greasy tiled bathroom, some romancers were chasing lightning bugs and thinking of roses. why now do i feel like i'm in high school. but you're young and you must be livin 'previous - next foryourtime Diary Entry foryourtime 2003 
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								Is it a mark of my obsession with music that when I re-emvowelled the Hebrew Sumerian tablet, I first read "ld" as "loud"? 
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								Now I need to find out what "ld" means; p none / 0) The Young Turks 2008 
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								Anonymous said ... ld not even field a Football team. 
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								Fabrizio Costantini for The Wall Street Journal Last month, the bridge's owners quietly snapped up a key piece of property -- an o ld riverfront bait shop -- that stood in the way of their ambitions. 
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								Pretty much all computer search issues nowadays involve ch-ld pron. The Volokh Conspiracy » Does Georgia v. Randolph Apply to Computers? 2010 
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								For now, Egypt's head of state is Fie ld Marshal Mohammed Tantawi, leader of the Supreme Military Council and the defense minister under Mubarak. Egypt's generals try to quell strikes; talks with protest organizers begin Craig Whitlock 2011 
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								For now, Egypt's head of state is Fie ld Marshal Mohammed Tantawi, leader of the Supreme Military Council and the defense minister under Mubarak. Egypt's generals try to quell strikes; talks with protest organizers begin Craig Whitlock 2011 
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