ADJECTIVE | all | cd, four hundred, 400 | being one hundred more than three hundred |
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NOUN | substance | Cd, cadmium, atomic number 48 | a soft bluish-white ductile malleable toxic bivalent metallic element |
quantity | cd, candle, candela, standard candle | the basic unit of luminous intensity adopted under the Systeme International d'Unites | |
possession | CD, certificate of deposit | a debt instrument issued by a bank | |
artifact | CD, compact disk, compact disc | a digitally encoded recording on an optical disk that is smaller than a phonograph record |
Sounds | siy'diy' | |
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Rhymes | already ... yesterday: 132 rhymes with diy... |
Meaning | One hundred more than three hundred. | |
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Synonyms | four hundred, 400 | |
Broader | cardinal | Being or denoting a numerical quantity but not order |
Meaning | A soft bluish-white ductile malleable toxic bivalent metallic element; occurs in association with zinc ores. | |
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Synonyms | cadmium, atomic number 48 | |
Broader | metallic element, metal | Any of several chemical elements that are usually shiny solids that conduct heat or electricity and can be formed into sheets etc. |
Substance of | hemimorphite, calamine | A white mineral |
Spanish | cadmio, número atómico 48 | |
Catalan | cadmi, Cd, número atòmic 48 |
Meaning | The basic unit of luminous intensity adopted under the Systeme International d'Unites; equal to 1/60 of the luminous intensity per square centimeter of a black body radiating at the temperature of 2,046 degrees Kelvin. | |
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Synonyms | candle, candela, standard candle | |
Broader | luminous intensity unit, candlepower unit | A measure of luminous intensity |
Spanish | candela, cd | |
Catalan | candela, cd |
Meaning | A debt instrument issued by a bank; usually pays interest. | |
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Synonym | certificate of deposit | |
Narrower | time deposit | A certificate of deposit from which withdrawals can be made only after advance notice or at a specified future date |
Broader | debt instrument, obligation, certificate of indebtedness | A written promise to repay a debt |
Spanish | certificado de depósito | |
Catalan | CD |
Meaning | A digitally encoded recording on an optical disk that is smaller than a phonograph record; played back by a laser. | |
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Synonyms | compact disk, compact disc | |
Narrower | CD-R, compact disc recordable, CD-WO, compact disc write-once | A compact disc on which you can write only once and thereafter is read-only memory |
CD-ROM, compact disc read-only memory | A compact disk that is used with a computer (rather than with an audio system) | |
audio CD, audio compact disc | compact discs used to reproduce sound (voice and music) | |
Broader | optical disk, optical disc | A disk coated with plastic that can store digital data as tiny pits etched in the surface |
recording | A storage device on which information (sounds or images) have been recorded | |
Spanish | CD, compact disc, compacto, disco compacto | |
Catalan | CD, compact disc, disc compacte |
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