abd

¹

1. abdomen.
2. abdominal.

ABD

²

or A.B.D.

abbreviation for

1. all but dissertation: applied to a person who has completed all requirements for a doctoral degree except for the writing of a dissertation.

abd.

³

abbreviation for

1. abdicated.
2. abdomen.
3. abdominal.

Word History and Origins

Origin of abd¹

First recorded in 1950–55

Example Sentences

But income was well down last year and this year will be even worse, says factory owner Abd al-Rahman Khalifa, as even fewer farmers are able to harvest their crop owing to attacks by settlers.

From BBC

Palestinian leaders to the left of Arafat, like George Habash, Nayef Hawatmeh and Yasser Abd Rabbo, were often Marxist revolutionaries who drew support from liberation movements in the developing world and sometimes from the Soviet Union or its allies.

From Salon

How they view the crimes of the man called Abd al-Hadi al-Iraqi could influence the length of his sentence, and whether they heed his lawyer’s request to recommend clemency.

From New York Times

The former commander, Abd al-Hadi al-Iraqi, led the 360-degree virtual tour of the site, Quiet Room 4, during a sentencing hearing at Guantánamo Bay that began last week.

From New York Times

"The strength of the Antibody-derived technology approach is that intracellular antibodies can selected to essentially any protein. In turn, their specific binding sites can be employed to select chemical compounds for drug discovery against hard to drug proteins. Mutant RAS was considered undruggable, but the Abd technology facilitated the development of the RAS-binding compounds used in the current study of cancer cell re-wiring. Abd technology will allow development of a new generation of drugs to hard-to-drug and intrinsically disordered proteins."

From Science Daily