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| Domain | Definition |
Computing | EDF earliest deadline first. (1995-11-12). Source: The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing. |
Agriculture | Environmental Defense Fund. (references) |
Census | (Edited Detail File) See HEDF (100-Percent Edited Detail File) and SEDF (Sample Edited Detail File) for description. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
EDF | Dutch | Europese Democratische Fractie | N/A |
EDF | English | Erythroblast differentiation factor | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
Crosswords: EDF |
| Specialty definitions using "EDF": earliest deadline first, EDF. (references) |
| "EDF" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 50.00% of the time. "EDF" is used about 10 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 50% | 5 | 157,705 |
| Noun (common) | 40% | 4 | 175,879 |
| Noun (proper) | 10% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 10 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "EDF": Scan-EDF. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
edf | 148 |
edf gdf | 55 |
edf mann | 6 |
edf sailing | 5 |
edf man | 4 |
edf recrutement | 3 |
edf file | 3 |
50 edf gws | 3 |
edf france | 2 |
edf trading | 2 |
edf renovation | 2 |
edf jet | 2 |
aide climatisation edf | 2 |
cgt edf | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "EDF"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||
Chinese | 欧洲开发基金. (various references) | ||||
Pig Latin | edfay | ||||
Derivations | |
Words containing "EDF": bedfast, bedfellow, bedfellows, bedframe, bedframes, heedful, heedfully, heedfulness, heedfulnesses, hundredfold, medflies, medfly, needful, needfully, needfulness, needfulnesses, needfuls, piedfort, piedforts, redfin, redfins, redfish, redfishes, stedfast. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: fed. | |
| Words within the letters "d-e-f" | |
-1 letter: de, ed, ef. | |
| Words containing the letters "d-e-f" | |
+1 letter: deaf, defi, deft, defy, delf, fade, feds, feed, fend, feod, feud, fled. | |
+2 letters: decaf, defat, defer, defis, defog, deify, delfs, delft, edify, faced, faded, fader, fades, fadge, faked, famed, fared, fated, faxed, fayed, fazed, feeds, felid, fends, feods, feted, fetid, feuds, feued, fidge, field, fiend, fifed, filed, fined, fired, fixed, fjeld, flied, flued, foxed, freed, fremd, fried, fudge, fumed, fused, fuzed, offed, refed, unfed, wifed. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)45 44 46 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references). -.. ..-. |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000101 01000100 01000110 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)E D F |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0045 0044 0046 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)393840 |
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