ad

plural ads

1. abbreviationclippingClipping of advertisement.

   I have placed both of the ads in the newspaper as instructed.

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   However, the ad that was seen as the most successful in 2000 reflected Chen Shui-bian's Taiwanese roots, that was the Kuantien Ad that showed the small town where he had grown up, his neighbours, relatives and people that had known him as a child.

   2005, Dafydd Fell, “Party change on the national identity issue”, in Party Politics in Taiwan: Party change and the democratic evolution of Taiwan, 1991–2004, Routledge, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 114

   In the final few weeks before the vote, a rash of ads appeared on radio and TV claiming that Hillary Clinton was too frail, too liberal and too ethically compromised to become president. […] Not many people took Morris’s ad too seriously; most news outlets were pleased for a frothy story in an election that was short on light relief.

   2019 July 28, Sam Wolfson, “Looking for Mr T: the politicisation of testosterone”, in The Guardian, archived from the original on 22 Aug 2024

   Synonyms: advert

2. abbreviationclippingClipping of advertising.
3. abbreviationclippingClipping of advertiser.

plural ads

1. hobbiesAdvantage; also, designating the left-hand side, from the player's point of view, of their half of the court, where the advantage point following a deuce is always played.

   [S]uddenly Agassi hits a hard heavy cross-court back hand that pulls Federer way out to his ad (= his left) side, and Federer gets to it but slices the stretch backhand short, a couple feet past the service line […].

   2006, David Foster Wallace, “Federer Both Flesh And Not”, in Both Flesh And Not, Penguin, published 2013, page 5

2. debatingAdvantage

   ads and disads

1. to, toward

alternative A.D. · alternative A. D.

1. abbreviationinitialismoften punctuatedInitialism of Anno Domini (borrowed from Latin); in the year of our Lord.

   Today is 28 October AD 2026.

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   They had a vibrant culture from the 3rd century BC to the 2nd century AD.

   Founded Aᴼ.Dᴵ. 1728 by Benj. Franklin

   1916 September 23, The Saturday Evening Post, volume 189, number 13, page 3

   There is a striving towards naturalism in agricultural scenes painted on bricks in tombs of the third century AD recently excavated at Chia-yü-kuan in Kansu Province which is reminiscent of later European illuminated manuscripts such as the English fifteenth-century Luttrell Psalter in the British Library.

   1979, Paul Hulton, Lawrence Smith, “Naturalism in Sung China”, in Flowers in Art from East and West, Jarrold and Sons, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 3

   But keep on the lookout for the 1st-century-a.d. stele on the right wall, with symbols of the deceased’s civic scribely duties (a scroll and codex), and the fresco remnants around to the left.

   2010, John Moretti, “Perugia, Assisi & Northern Umbria”, in Florence, Tuscany & Umbria (Frommer’s), 7th edition, Wiley Publishing, Inc., →ISBN, section 2 (Assisi: An Artistic Pilgrimage), page 393

   Synonyms: AC, A.C., anno Domini, Anno Domini, CE, Christian Era, in the year of our Lord

plural ADs · alternative A.D. · alternative A. D.

1. abbreviationcountableinitialismuncountablebroadcastingInitialism of assistant director.

   A few moments later, the A.D. reappears. "They need you," she says. "And could you stop by Wardrobe?" Shannen rolls her eyes. "O.K.!" she snaps.

   1993 November, Lynn Hirschberg, “Brat on a Hot Tin Roof”, in Vanity Fair

2. abbreviationcountableinitialismuncountablegovernmentInitialism of air defence or air defense.
3. abbreviationcountableinitialismuncountablemedicineInitialism of antidepressant.
4. NavyUSabbreviationcountableinitialismuncountableInitialism of auxiliary destroyer (a naval tender, a destroyer tender that tends to destroyers).
5. abbreviationinitialismuncountablemedicineInitialism of Alzheimer's disease.

   Many neurodegenerative diseases, including Alzheimer's disease (AD), involve pathological protein deposits.

   2015 December 28, Stéphane Larochelle, “STOMPing at the bits”, in Nature Methods, volume 12, number 12, →DOI, →ISSN, page 1114

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   What the person with AD chooses to enunciate, ‘may capture something important in the way the person makes sense of his or her life and also make meaning-based connections’ (Hydén and Örulv 2009: 206).

   2021, Pramod K. Nayar, Alzheimer's Disease Memoirs: Poetics of the Forgetting Self, Springer Nature, →ISBN, page 76

6. abbreviationcountableinitialismuncountablemedicineInitialism of atopic dermatitis.
7. abbreviationcountableinitialismuncountableaeronauticsInitialism of airworthiness directive.
8. abbreviationcountableuncountablebroadcastingAbbreviation of audio description.
9. InternetabbreviationcountableinitialismuncountableInitialism of after dark.

   AD account

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1. abbreviationinitialismnot comparablebusinessInitialism of antidumping.

alternative A.D. · alternative A. D.

1. abbreviationinitialismInitialism of Abu Dhabi.

plural Ads

1. abbreviationbiologyAbbreviation of adenovirus.