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acyl anhydrides |
acyl group |
acyl halide |
acylation |
acylglycerol |
ad
| ad agency
| ad blitz
| ad campaign
| ad captandum
| ad hoc
ad
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun ad has 1 sense
- ad(n = noun.communication) advert, advertisement, advertising, advertizement, advertizing - a public promotion of some product or service; Array has particulars: direct mail, preview, prevue, trailer, advertorial, mailer, newspaper ad, newspaper advertisement, commercial, commercial message, bill, broadsheet, broadside, circular, flier, flyer, handbill, throwaway, teaser, top billing
is a kind of packaging, promotion, promotional material, publicity
Adverbial ad has 1 sense
- ad(r = adv.all) a.d., anno domini - in the Christian era; used before dates after the supposed year Christ was born; "in AD 200"
OXFORD DICTIONARY
ad, abbr. (of a date) of the Christian era.
Usage
Strictly, AD should precede a date (e.g. AD 410), but uses such as the tenth century AD are well established.
Etymology
Anno Domini, 'in the year of the Lord'
ad, n. colloq. an advertisement.
Etymology
abbr.
ROGET THESAURUS
ad
Publication
N publication, public announcement, promulgation, propagation, proclamation, pronunziamento, circulation, indiction, edition, hue and cry, publicity, notoriety, currency, flagrancy, cry, bruit, hype, vox populi, report, the Press, public press, newspaper, journal, gazette, daily, telegraphy, publisher, imprint, circular, circular letter, manifesto, advertisement, ad, placard, bill, affiche, broadside, poster, notice, published, current, in circulation, public, notorious, flagrant, arrant, open, trumpet-tongued, encyclical, encyclic, promulgatory, exoteric, publicly, in open court, with open doors, Int, Oyez!, O yes!, notice!, notice is hereby given, this is to give, these are to give notice, nomina stultorum parietibus haerent, semel emissum volat irrevocabile verbum.
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