CD

CD

1. The ISO 3166-1 two-letter (alpha-2) code for Democratic Republic of the Congo.

CD

1. Corps Diplomatique, diplomatic corps (collective body of foreign diplomats accredited to a particular country or body)

Abbreviation of various terms and phrases.

• IPA^(key): /ˌsiːˈdiː/

CD (countable and uncountable, plural CDs)

1. (now rare) The corps diplomatique, or diplomatic corps of a particular country.
   • 1955, Graham Greene, The Quiet American:

     Along the route to Tanyin flowed a fast stream of staff and C.D. cars.

   • 1978, Kingsley Amis, Jake's Thing, Vintage 2007, p. 8:

     Jake lengthened his stride and crossed the road in front of a double-parked car, large, black and with CD plates.

2. Compact disc; a form of digital media that is based on the use of a laser to read from a plastic disc in a reader device.
3. Certificate of deposit (from a financial institutions).
4. Creative director: head of the creative department (for example of an advertising agency).
5. Corporate design: specific design features of a company, corporate identity CI. (Can we clean up⁽⁺⁾ this sense?)
6. Collision detection (used by an Ethernet network to detect when two computers are sending frames at the same time, and also to deal with such collisions when they happen).
7. Circular dichroism.
8. chart datum
9. cross-dresser
10. (biochemistry) Initialism of cluster of differentiation.

CD (third-person singular simple present CDs, present participle CDing, simple past and past participle CDed)

1. To cross-dress.
   • 1993 January 5, "Tierney Dhewitrei" (username), about me, is it familiar?, in alt.transgendered, Usenet:

     By now I did not feel right without a bra and panties whenever I CD'ed.

• D&C, D.C., DC, Dc, d/c, dc

CD m (plural CDs)

1. CD, compact disc

• disc compacte

From English CD.

CD

1. CD, compact disk (Classifier: 張／张 m)

• IPA^(key): /ˈseːˌdeː/, [ˈs̠e̞ːˌde̞ː]

CD

1. CD, compact disc

• IPA^(key): /se.de/

• Audio

  (file)

• Homophone: céder

CD m (plural CD)

1. CD (compact disk)

From English CD.

• IPA^(key): /tseˈdeː/

• Audio

  (file)

CD f (genitive CD, plural CDs or CD's or CD)

1. CD (compact disc)

From English CD.

• IPA^(key): [ˈt͡seːdeː]

• Audio

  (file)

CD (plural CD-k)

1. CD (compact disc)

• cédé

• CD-lejátszó

Initialism of ceirnín dlúth (“compact disc”), but simultaneously a borrowing from English CD.

CD m

1. CD, compact disc

From English CD.

• (Tokyo) シーディ​ー [shìídíꜜì] (Nakadaka – [3])
• IPA^(key): [ɕiːdʲiː]

CD (katakana シーディー, rōmaji shīdī)

1. Abbreviation of コンパクトディスク (konpakuto disuku, “compact disc”); a CD

   それはヘビメタのCD (シーディー)です。

   Sore wa hebimeta no shīdī desu.

   That is a heavy metal CD.

2. Abbreviation of キャッシュディスペンサー (kyasshu disupensā, “cash dispenser”); an ATM, cash machine

   コンビニのCD (シーディー)からお金 (かね)を引 (ひ)き出 (だ)しました。

   Konbini no shīdī kara okane o hikidashimashita.

   I withdrew money from a CD at a convenience store.

• CD-ROM

• cd

From English CD

• IPA^(key): /ˈseːˈdeː/
• (Standard Eastern) IPA^(key): [ˈsêːˈděː]

CD m (definite singular CD-en, indefinite plural CD-er, definite plural CD-ene)

1. a CD (compact disc)

• kompaktplate

• “CD” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

• cd

From English CD

CD m (definite singular CD-en, indefinite plural CD-ar, definite plural CD-ane)

1. a CD (compact disc)

• kompaktplate

• “CD” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

• cedê (uncommon)

Borrowed from English CD.

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˌse.ˈde/

CD m (plural CDs)

1. CD (compact-disc: a type optical data storage disc)

Borrowed from English CD.

• IPA^(key): /siˈdi/

CD n (plural CD-uri)

1. CD, compact disc

CD m (plural CDs)

1. CD, compact disc

• disco compacto, compacto

CD (definite accusative CD'yi, plural CD'ler)

1. CD, compact disc