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| Domain | Definition |
Shipping | Abbreviation for "Completely Knocked Down." Parts and subassemblies being transported to an assembly plant. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
CKD | English | Completely Knocked Down | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
| Domain | Title |
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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Business | The goal is to enhance efficiency and to achieve an economy of scale so as to remove the need to build its auto industry on only assembling imported CKD or SKD vehicles. (references) | |
Economic History | Malaysia | Imported vans also attract higher tariff rates (5% to 40% on CKD and 42% to 140% on CBU). (references) |
Malaysia | Likewise, tariffs on imported four-wheel drives and multi-purpose vehicles (MPVs) are also high (10% to 40% for CKD and 60% to 200% on CBU). (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "CKD" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 85.71% of the time. "CKD" is used about 7 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (proper) | 85.71% | 6 | 143,867 |
| Noun (singular) | 14.29% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 7 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Country | Name | Country | Name |
| Czech Republic | CKD Praha Holding a.s. | Japan | CKD Corporation |
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Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
ckd | 75 |
ckd forum | 12 |
ckd diet | 8 |
ckd tutorial | 7 |
ckd valve | 5 |
ckd corporation | 4 |
ckd cylinder | 3 |
ckd filter | 2 |
ckd galbraith | 2 |
ckd tatra | 2 |
ckd pneumatics | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Derivations | |
Words containing "CKD": backdate, backdated, backdates, backdating, backdoor, backdrop, backdropped, backdropping, backdrops, backdropt, crackdown, crackdowns, jackdaw, jackdaws, knockdown, knockdowns, lockdown, lockdowns, sockdolager, sockdolagers, sockdologer, sockdologers. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words containing the letters "c-d-k" | |
+1 letter: deck, dick, dock, duck. | |
+2 letters: caked, coked, decks, dicks, dicky, docks, dreck, ducks, ducky. | |
+3 letters: arcked, backed, becked, bedeck, bucked, calked, carked, casked, choked, cocked, conked, cooked, corked, dacker, decked, deckel, decker, deckle, detick, dicked, dicker, dickey, dickie, dickys, docked, docker, docket, drecks, drecky, ducked, ducker, duckie, fucked, gecked, hacked, hocked, jacked, kecked, kicked, lacked, licked, locked, lucked, medick, mocked, mucked, necked, nicked, nocked, packed, pecked, picked, pocked, racked, recked, redock, ricked, rocked, rucked, sacked, sicked, socked, sucked, tacked, ticked, tucked, undock, wicked, yacked, yocked, yucked. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)43 4B 44 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-.-. -.- -.. |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000011 01001011 01000100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)C K D |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0043 004B 0044 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)374538 |
| 1. Definition 2. Usage: Commercial 3. Quotations: Non-fiction 4. Usage Frequency | 5. Names: Company Usage 6. Expressions: Internet 7. Abbreviations 8. Acronyms | 9. Derivations 10. Anagrams 11. Orthography 12. Bibliography |
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