CD

See also: Cd, cD, cd, .cd, and C.D.

Translingual

Etymology 1

Symbol

CD

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

Etymology 2

Alternative forms

• (rare) cd

Number

CD

1. A Roman numeral representing four hundred (400).

See also

• Previous: CCCXCIX (three hundred and ninety-nine, 399)
• Next: CDI (four hundred and one, 401)

Etymology 3

Initialism

CD

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

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English

Etymology

Abbreviation of various terms and phrases.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌsiːˈdiː/

Noun

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.

Translations

abbreviations of compact-disc which are actually in use — See also translations at compact disc

• Arabic: سِي دِي‎‎ m (sī dī)
• Armenian: CD (CD)
• Bengali: সিডি (siḑi)
• Burmese: စီဒီ (cidi)
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: CD (si¹ di¹)

  Mandarin: CD (zh) (xīdì), 光盤 (zh), 光盘 (zh) (guāngpán), 光碟 (zh) (guāngdié)

• Dutch: cd (nl) m (lower case)
• Esperanto: KD
• Finnish: CD (fi)
• French: CD (fr) m
• Georgian: please add this translation if you can
• German: CD (de) f

• Greek: CD (el) n (CD)
• Hindi: सीडी (sīḍī)
• Japanese: シーディー (sīdī), CD (ja) (sīdī)
• Korean: 시디 (ko) (sidi)
• Macedonian: це-де n (ce-de)
• Malay: CD
• Persian: سی‌دی‎‎ (sidi)
• Portuguese: CD (pt) m
• Russian: CD (ru) m (CD), си-ди́ m (si-dí)
• Swedish: CD (sv) c
• Thai: ซีดี (sii-dii)
• Urdu: سی ڈی‎‎ (sīḍī)
• Vietnamese: please add this translation if you can

Verb

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.

Anagrams

• D&C, D.C., DC, Dc, dc

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Catalan

Noun

CD m (plural CDs)

1. CD, compact disc

Synonyms

• disc compacte

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Chinese

Etymology

From English CD.

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): xìdì

  (Zhuyin): ㄒㄧˋ ㄉㄧˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): si¹ di¹

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Pinyin: CD
    • Zhuyin: ㄒㄧˋ ㄉㄧˋ
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: shihdih
    • IPA ^(key): /ɕi⁵¹⁻⁵³ ti⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: si¹ di¹
    • Yale: sī dī
    • Cantonese Pinyin: si¹ di¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: xi¹ di¹
    • IPA ^(key): /siː⁵⁵ tiː⁵⁵/

Noun

CD

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

Derived terms

• CD播放器 (xìdì bōfàngqì)
• CD播放機／CD播放机 (xìdì bōfàngjī)

• CD機／CD机 (xìdìjī)

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French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /se.de/

• CD

  (file)

• Homophone: céder

Noun

CD m (plural CD)

1. CD (compact disk)

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German

CD

Etymology

From English CD.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tseˈdeː/

• Audio

  (file)

Noun

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

1. CD (compact disc)

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Hungarian

Etymology

From English CD.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈt͡seːdeː]

• Audio

  (file)

Noun

CD (plural CD-k)

1. CD (compact disc)

Declension

Inflection (stem in long/high vowel, front unrounded harmony)
	singular	plural
nominative	CD	CD-k
accusative	CD-t	CD-ket
dative	CD-nek	CD-knek
instrumental	CD-vel	CD-kkel
causal-final	CD-ért	CD-kért
translative	CD-vé	CD-kké
terminative	CD-ig	CD-kig
essive-formal	CD-ként	CD-kként
essive-modal	—	—
inessive	CD-ben	CD-kben
superessive	CD-n	CD-ken
adessive	CD-nél	CD-knél
illative	CD-be	CD-kbe
sublative	CD-re	CD-kre
allative	CD-hez	CD-khez
elative	CD-ből	CD-kből
delative	CD-ről	CD-kről
ablative	CD-től	CD-ktől

Possessive forms of CD
possessor	single possession	multiple possessions
1st person sing.	CD-m	CD-im
2nd person sing.	CD-d	CD-id
3rd person sing.	CD-je	CD-i
1st person plural	CD-nk	CD-ink
2nd person plural	CD-tek	CD-itek
3rd person plural	CD-jük	CD-ik

Synonyms

• cédé

Derived terms

• CD-lejátszó

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Irish

Etymology

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

Noun

CD m

1. CD, compact disc

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Japanese

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ɕiːdʲiː]

Noun

CD (katakana シーディー, rōmaji shīdī)

1. compact disk

   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. cash dispenser; an automatic cash machine for withdrawing.

   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 convenient store.

Synonyms

• (compact disk): コンパクトディスク (konpakuto disuku)
• (cash dispenser): 自動現金支払機 (じどうげんきんしはらいき) (jidō genkin shiharaiki)

See also

• (cash dispenser): ATM, 自動現金預払機 (じどうげんきんよはらいき) (jidō genkin yoharaiki)

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Norwegian Bokmål

Alternative forms

• cd

Etymology

From English CD

Pronunciation

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

Noun

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

1. a CD (compact disc)

Synonyms

• kompaktplate

References

• “CD” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

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Norwegian Nynorsk

Alternative forms

• cd

Etymology

From English CD

Noun

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

1. a CD (compact disc)

Synonyms

• kompaktplate

References

• “CD” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

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Portuguese

Alternative forms

• cedê (uncommon)

Etymology

Borrowed from English CD.

Pronunciation

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˌse.ˈde/

Noun

CD m (plural CDs)

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

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Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from English CD.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /siˈdi/

Noun

CD n (plural CD-uri)

1. CD, compact disc

Declension

declension of CD

	singular		plural
	indefinite articulation	definite articulation	indefinite articulation	definite articulation
nominative/accusative	(un) CD	CD-ul	(niște) CD-uri	CD-urile
genitive/dative	(unui) CD	CD-ului	(unor) CD-uri	CD-urilor
vocative	CD-ule		CD-urilor

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Spanish

Noun

CD m (plural CDs)

1. CD, compact disc

Synonyms

• disco compacto, compacto

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Turkish

Noun

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

1. CD, compact disc

Declension

    declension of CD

	singular	plural
nominative	CD	CDler / CD'ler
accusative	CD'yi	CDleri / CD'leri
dative	CD'ye	CDlere / CD'lere
locative	CD'de	CDlerde / CD'lerde
ablative	CD'den	CDlerden / CD'lerden
genitive	CD'nin	CDlerin / CD'lerin

    possessive of CD

	singular	plural
benim (my)	CD'm	CDlerim / CD'lerim
senin (your)	CD'n	CDlerin / CD'lerin
onun (his/her/its)	CD'si	CDleri / CD'leri
bizim (our)	CD'miz	CDlerimiz / CD'lerimiz
sizin (your)'	CD'niz	CDleriniz / CD'leriniz
onların (their)	CD'si / CDleri / CD'leri	CDleri / CD'leri