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 ("diplomaticcorps").
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Abbreviation of various terms and phrases.
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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.
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.
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.
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.
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