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Ads

noun

advertisement.

advertising: an ad agency.

Origin:
1835–45; by shortening

Can be confused: adds, ads, adz.

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When companies combine, one area they often look at to save money is in ad spending.

Pricing and banner sizes differ between the primary and secondary ad slots.

In the short term, what is good for advertisers is also good for ad sellers.

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When companies combine, one area they often look at to save money is in ad spending.

Pricing and banner sizes differ between the primary and secondary ad slots.

In the short term, what is good for advertisers is also good for ad sellers.

It began innocently enough-a painkiller ad targeted to aching moms.

Internet ad networks have been following you around the net, watching what you do to serve you targeted ads.

We've extended the ad deadline if you use our online order form.

Crucially, they can be configured so that clicking on an ad calls up the advertiser's website.

Most of the current ad hosting services are owned and run by convicted criminals.

The programmer cablecasting the game will almost certainly take an ad break.

Be sure to request to see the final copy of the job ad before it goes out.

They put snippets of programming in the middle of ad breaks.

The authors gave abundant reason not to engage in ad hominem attacks.

Following are illustrations showing standard ad sizes, along with their dimensions.

There is an empty ad on the right side that pops across much of the text and cannot be closed.

Dove is running an ad for body wash that seems to be turning a black woman from ugly and ashy to smooth and white.

There's a reason, as this ad implies, that there are age brackets for auto insurance premiums.

Your image ad could showcase the diversity of your students, faculty, or programs.

Natura propensi sumus ad diligendos homines quod fundamentum juris est.

First of all, each search committee can draft its own ad.

With that logic ad hominem attacks would be practically impossible in forums.

Interesting article but what a shame that the banner ad above is for infant formula.

The company's first quarterly ad growth in two years was seen as a positive sign for the television advertising market.

Amid this onslaught, there is no way a slightly richer ad campaign is going to make much difference.

But this ad showing the funky crossover utility vehicle saving a city from a weather.

As growth in online ad spending shrinks, ad-based start-ups are searching.

Perhaps you bought a certain brand of chocolate only because a television ad for it showed warm tropical beaches and palm trees.

To announce its arrival, the restaurant launched this neat ad campaign showing a baby about to rock.

The ad attacks the president over his economic leadership.

But their attempts to improve on these conventional metrics are ad hoc.

They also formed ad hoc alliances and fought and even killed in pursuit of their own interests.

Their ad tells the story of a romance helped along by a.

Unilever intends to step up its marketing efforts, although ad spending is supposed to remain at current levels.

They also defend the use of a tracking cookie calling it a standard practice of an ad network.

The ad will be broadcast on the same day the president will visit the state to discuss his plans for turning around the economy.

HR drones strike again: placing an ad saying they have positions in many fields, then listing only a handful on their website.

His ad campaign for the doubleTwist software promises.

Bing's success matters since search market share equals big ad dollars.

Any place that has a huge ad claiming they'll pay top dollar for old jewelry.

Tested systems for forging ad hoc high-speed wireless networks of mobile devices.

Smaller screens diminish ad visibility by definition and therefore the appeal of in-app advertising.

So, don't fire off an application the instant you read the ad.

INstead of launching ad hominem attacks against others and accusing them of doing that.

Penney must be pretty glad it picked the right planet to mock for its viral ad campaign this holiday.

Here are my conclusions, and they'll no doubt provoke another barrage of contentless ad hominem attacks.

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Dictionary.com Unabridged

noun Tennis.

advantage (def. 5).

ad in, the advantage being scored by the server.

ad out, the advantage being scored by the receiver.

Origin:
1945–50; by shortening

preposition

(in prescriptions) to; up to.

Origin:
< Latin

a prefix occurring in loanwords from Latin, where it meant “toward” and indicated direction, tendency, or addition: adjoin. Usually assimilated to the following consonant; see a-⁵, ac-, af-, ag-, al-, an-², ap-¹, ar-, as-, at-.

Origin:
< Latin ad, ad- (preposition and prefix) to, toward, at, about; cognate with at¹

a suffix occurring in loanwords from Greek denoting a group or unit comprising a certain number, sometimes of years: dyad; triad.

a suffix meaning “derived from,” “related to,” “concerned with,” “associated with” (oread), introduced in loanwords from Greek (Olympiad; oread), used sporadically in imitation of Greek models, as Dunciad, after Iliad.

Origin:
Greek -ad- (stem of -as), specialization of feminine adjective-forming suffix, often used substantively

variant of -ade¹: ballad.

Anatomy, Zoology. a suffix forming adverbs from nouns signifying parts of the body, denoting a direction toward that part: dextrad; dorsad; mediad.

Origin:
< Latin ad toward, anomalously suffixed to the noun; introduced as a suffix by Scottish anatomist John Barclay (1758–1826) in 1803

adverb.

advertisement.

active duty.

in the year of the Lord; since Christ was born: Charlemagne was born in a.d. 742. Origin:
< Latin annō Dominī

art director.

assembly district.

assistant director.

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athletic director.

average deviation.

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Usage note
Because anno Domini means “in the year of the Lord,” its abbreviation a.d. was originally placed before rather than after a date: The Roman conquest of Britain began in a.d. 43 (or began a.d. 43). In edited writing, it is still usually placed before the date. But, by analogy with the position of b.c. “before Christ,” which always appears after a date (Caesar was assassinated in 44 b.c.), a.d. is also frequently found after the date in all types of writing, including historical works: The Roman emperor Claudius I lived from 10 b.c. to 54 a.d. EXPANDDespite its literal meaning, a.d. is also used to designate centuries, being placed after the specified century: the second century a.d.

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after date.

before the day. Origin:
< Latin ante diem

autograph document.

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Collins

World English Dictionary

ad¹ (æd)

—n
	short for advertisement

ad² (æd)

—n
	short for advantage Brit equivalent: van

ad³

—*the internet domain name for*
	Andorra

AD

—*abbreviation for*
1.	Compare BC anno Domini: 70 ad
2.	military active duty
3.	military air defence
4.	Dame of the Order of Australia

usage In strict usage, ad is only employed with specific years: he died in 1621 ad, but he died in the 17th century (and not the 17th century ad). Formerly the practice was to write ad preceding the date (ad 1621), and it is also strictly correct to omit in when ad is used, since this is already contained in the meaning of the Latin anno Domini (in the year of Our Lord), but this is no longer general practice. bc is used with both specific dates and indications of the period: Heraclitus was born about 540 bc; the battle took place in the 4th century bc

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Word Origin & History

A.D.

1570s, from L. Anno Domini "Year of the Lord." First put forth by Dionysius Exiguus in 527 or 533 C.E., but at first used only for Church business. Introduced in Italy in 7c., France (partially) in 8c. In England, first found in a charter of 680 C.E. Ordained for all ecclesiastical documents in England

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by the Council of Chelsea, July 27, 816. The resistance to it may have been in part because Dionysius chose 754 A.U.C. as the birth year of Jesus, while many early Christians would have thought it was 750 A.U.C. [See John J. Bond, "Handy-Book of Rules and Tables for Verifying Dates With the Christian Era," 4th ed., London: George Bell & Sons, 1889]

ad-

prefix expressing direction toward or in addition to, from L. ad "to, toward," from PIE *ad- "to, near, at" (cognate with O.E. æt; see at). Simplified to a- before sc-, sp- and st-; modified to ac- before many consonants and then re-spelled af-, ag-, al- etc., in conformity

with the following consonant (e.g. affection, aggression). In O.Fr., reduced to a- in all cases, but written forms were refashioned after L. in 14c. in Fr., and 15c. in Eng. words picked up from O.Fr. In many cases pronunciation followed the shift.

-ad

suffix denoting collective numerals (cf. Olympiad), from Gk. -as (gen. -ados), a suffix forming fem. nouns; also used in fem. patronymics (Dryad, Naiad, also, in plural, Pleiades, Hyades).

1841, shortened form of advertisement. Long resisted by those in the trade, and denounced 1918 by the president of a national advertising association as "the language of bootblacks, ... beneath the dignity of men of the advertising profession."

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American Heritage

Medical Dictionary

AD abbr.
Latin auris dextra (right ear)

ad- pref.

or ac- or af- or ag- or al- or ap- or as- or at- Toward; to. Before c, f, g, k, l, p, q, s, and t, ad- is usually assimilated to ac-, af-, ag-, ac-, al-, ap-, ac-, as-, and at-, respectively: adductor, acclimation, agglutinant.
Near; at: adrenal.

-ad suff.
In the direction of; toward: cephalad.

American Heritage

Cultural Dictionary

A.D. definition

An abbreviation used with a date, indicating how many years have passed since the birth of Jesus. The abbreviation may appear before the date (a.d. 1988), or it may appear after the date (1988 a.d.). It stands for anno Domini, a Latin phrase meaning “in the year of our Lord.” (Compare b.c.)

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The country code for Andorra.
(1999-01-26)

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athletic director
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