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Cd   /sˈidˈi/   Listen
noun
Cd  n.  
1.
The chemical suymbol for cadmium, a metallic element of atomic number 48.
Synonyms: cadmium.
2.
The abbreviation for the candela, the basic unit of luminous intensity adopted under the System International d'Unites. (abbr.)
Synonyms: candle, candela, standard candle.



CD  n.  
1.
An acronym for compact disk, a disk-shaped recording of binary data that is smaller than a phonograph record, and is recorded and played back by a compact disk player, an electronic device containing a laser. The term is also used generically to refer to the medium as a data storage medium.
Synonyms: compact disc, compact disk.
2.
A compact disk player. (informal)
3.
An acronym for certificate of deposit, a debt instrument issued by a bank for a fixed time period, usually paying interest.
Synonyms: certificate of deposit.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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... reply) is derived by [Symbol: Aleph]CD from the twin place in St. Matthew (ix. 35) which in all the MSS. begins [Greek: kai periegen ho is]. So familiar had this order of the words become, that the scribe of [Symbol: Aleph], (a circumstance by the way of which Tischendorf takes no notice,) has even introduced the expression into ...
— The Causes of the Corruption of the Traditional Text of the Holy Gospels • John Burgon

... which stood right into the wind, but he soon afterwards completely distanced a Billy- boy, which put us in Spirits again. I am very contented (in my way) pottering about here alone, or with my Crew of two, and I believe cd bundle on for a Month in such a way. But I shall soon be home. I have thought of you To-day when your Sale is going on, at the same time as my Sail. Pretty ...
— Two Suffolk Friends • Francis Hindes Groome

... Berlin presses with cruel weight on the labouring classes, the general trend of the prices of the necessaries of life in Germany has been downwards, in spite of all the protectionist duties. The evidence compiled in the British official Blue-book on "British and Foreign Trade and Industry" (1903. Cd. 1761, p. 226) yields the following results. By comparing the necessary expenditure on food of a workman's family of the same size and living under the same conditions, it appears that if we take that expenditure for the period 1897-1901 ...
— The Development of the European Nations, 1870-1914 (5th ed.) • John Holland Rose

... provided for by the present Treaty shall be regulated by subsequent agreements, which Germany hereby undertakes to observe" (Art. 432). The actual Agreement under which the occupied areas are to be administered for the present has been published as a White Paper [Cd. 222]. The supreme authority is to be in the hands of an Inter-Allied Rhineland Commission, consisting of a Belgian, a French, a British, and an American member. The articles of this Agreement are very fairly ...
— The Economic Consequences of the Peace • John Maynard Keynes

... Foreign Office and the Diplomatic Service, see the fifth Report of the Royal Commission on the Civil Service (Cd. 7748), just published ...
— The War and Democracy • R.W. Seton-Watson, J. Dover Wilson, Alfred E. Zimmern,



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