Noun: CD
Sample Sentences
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I misplaced the software installation CD.
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Called Compact Discs (CD for short) and expected to enter the market by 1983, they play an hour per side and are virtually indestructible. [1980 April 13, Allan Kozinn, “The Future is Digital”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:]
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Mariah Carey's new CD has some R'n'B influences.
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Along the route to Tanyin flowed a fast stream of staff and C.D. cars. [1955, Graham Greene, The Quiet American:]
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Jake lengthened his stride and crossed the road in front of a double-parked car, large, black and with CD plates. [1978, Kingsley Amis, Jake's Thing, Vintage, published 2007, page 8:]
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Banks may offer premium rates on C.D.s to attract deposits, but once they get those deposits, they end the offers. [2023 April 21, Ann Carrns, “Rates on C.D.s Are Soaring, but the High Rates May Not Last”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:]
Nouns inflected like CD
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
Abbreviation of various terms and phrases.
Verbs referencing "CD"
German Nouns
CD, Hungarian Nouns
CD, Italian Nouns
CD, Norwegian Bokmål Nouns
CD, Norwegian Nynorsk Nouns
CD, Romanian Nouns
CD, Swedish Nouns
CD, Danish Nouns
cd, Dutch Nouns
cd.