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AD
Abbreviation
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AD is short for the Latin words anno Domini, which means in the year of our Lord. You use AD to refer to a date after the year in which Jesus Christ is believed to have been born.
The Romans started building the Colosseum in 70 AD.
ad
Noun
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A short way of saying advertisement.
I saw an ad in the newspaper for a job at the factory.
download
Verb
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If you download something, you transfer it from a remote computer to the one you are using with an internet connection.
Mark is downloading a large file and has to be patient.
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If something is downloading, it is transferring from one computer to another using an internet connection.
"This huge file is downloading too slowly" Mark complained.
download
Noun
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A download is the act of downloading a file or the file that is downloaded.
Mark was very happy when the download finally completed.