PD

See also: Pd, P.D., P. D., and pꜣḏ

English

Noun

PD (countable and uncountable, plural PDs)

1. (law enforcement) Initialism of police department.
2. (electronics) Initialism of phase detector.
3. Initialism of public domain.
   • 1988, The Linguist: Journal of the Institute of Linguists, page 105:

     It is forbidden to market the software although PD libraries are entitled to charge for such supporting costs as administration, distribution etc.

4. Initialism of peritoneal dialysis.
5. Initialism of penile duplication.
6. (U.S. military) Abbreviation of period (full stop) punctuation mark, used in communication systems without punctuation (e.g., telegrams).
   • 1944, telegram to Gen. Carl Andrew Spaatz from Gen. Jimmy Doolittle; Edward Renehan, The Kennedys at War, 1937-1945 (2002), Doubleday, page 304:

     ... WILFORD J. WILLY CMA SR GRADE LIEUTENANT AND JOSEPH P. KENNEDY SR GRADE LIEUTENANT CMA BOTH USNR CMA WERE KILLED PD COMMANDER SMITH ...

7. Initialism of professional development.
8. (law) Initialism of public defender.
9. (pathology) Initialism of Parkinson’s disease.
10. (pathology) Initialism of panic disorder.
11. (pathology) Initialism of personality disorder.
    • 2005 April 18, Oliver James, “Is your boss a psychopath?”, in The Guardian‎^[1]:

      Board and Fritzon found that three of 11 personality disorders (PDs) were actually commoner in managers than in disturbed criminals. The first was histrionic PD, entailing superficial charm, insincerity, egocentricity and manipulativeness.

12. (ophthalmology) Initialism of pupillary distance.
13. Initialism of process deviation.
14. (electronics) Initialism of power delivery.
15. (electricity) Initialism of partial discharge.
16. Initialism of pole dance.
17. (sports) Initialism of performance director.
    • 2017 February 23, William Fotheringham, “Simon Jones to leave Team Sky for top Australian Cycling role”, in The Guardian‎^[2]:

      […] Simon Jones, the former British Cycling endurance coach who is now Sky head of performance support and innovation, is to take over as performance director of Australian Cycling from April. […] “It’s been my ambition for some time to be a PD of a cycling programme and there aren’t many of them. I’ve been in Australia before so it was a natural decision.”

18. (Ireland, politics, historical) Initialism of Progressive Democrat.
    • 2006 September 11, Owen Bowcott, “Outspoken justice minister to be Ireland's deputy leader”, in The Guardian‎^[3]:

      The Progressive Democrats (PDs) are the junior partner in the governing coalition led by Bertie Ahern and his Fianna Fail party. […] Mr McDowell, a formidable barrister with a reputation as a political hothead, was elected leader of the PDs unopposed […] .

19. Initialism of positive deviance.
    • 2008 December 12, Jon Gertner, “8th Annual Year in Ideas: Positive Deviance”, in The New York Times Magazine‎^[4]:

      The Sternins take an unorthodox approach to problem-solving known as positive deviance, or P.D., which builds on years of their health work in poor countries in Southeast Asia. / A P.D. program aims to identify individuals within small communities who have devised clever coping strategies to avoid problems afflicting their neighbors.

Proper noun

PD

1. (Ireland) Initialism of Progressive Democrats, a former political party disbanded in 2008.
2. (Malaysia) Initialism of Port Dickson, a town and district.
   • 2016, Salleh Mohd Radzi, Mohd Hafiz Mohd Hanafiah, Norzuwana Sumarjan, Heritage, Culture and Society, →ISBN:

     This qualitative approach was used in re-vitalising Port Dickson (PD) as a leading beach tourism destination for Malaysia. PD was a top beach resort tourism destination in her glory days of 1990s.

   • 2018 October 1, Eileen Ng, quoting Oh Ei Sun, “Who can dent Anwar Ibrahim’s armour in the Port Dickson by-election?”, in Today‎^[5], →OCLC:

     ""Isa has widespread grassroot support in his native Negeri Sembilan, among all the candidates, he is a local PD boy. The others all came out of nowhere,"

   • 2018 October 13, Hazlin Hassan, “Anwar Ibrahim storms to victory in Port Dickson by-election, wins 72% of vote”, in The Straits Times‎^[6], →OCLC:

     Ms Lau said she hoped "PD will be transformed as promised in so many ways", using the common moniker for the seaside town. "It is good  […] to develop PD. That is what everyone in PD wants,"

Phrase

PD

1. (cartography) Initialism of position doubtful.

   Coordinate term: ED

See also

• PLL
• PFD

Anagrams

• D/P, DP

French

Etymology

Homophone of pédé.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pe.de/

• Audio

  (file)

Noun

PD m (uncountable)

1. (vulgar, offensive) Alternative form of pédé

German

Noun

PD m (strong, genitive PDs or PD, plural PD, feminine PD'in)

1. Abbreviation of Privatdozent.
2. Abbreviation of Polizeidirektor.

Declension

Declension of PD [masculine, strong]

	singular			plural
	indef.	def.	noun	def.	noun
nominative	ein	der	PD	die	PD
genitive	eines	des	PDs, PD	der	PD
dative	einem	dem	PD	den	PD
accusative	einen	den	PD	die	PD

Indonesian

Noun

PD

1. Initialism of pakaian dinas.
2. Initialism of percaya diri.

Italian

Alternative forms

• Pd

Proper noun

PD m

1. Initialism of Partito Democratico.

Spanish

Noun

PD f (uncountable)

1. Alternative form of P. D.