DDT
English
editEtymology 1
editNoun
editDDT (usually uncountable, plural DDTs)
- (organic chemistry) Abbreviation of dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane (“compound originally developed as an insecticide”)
- 2007 January 21, The Associated Press, “Adirondacks Are His Life, All 101 Years and Counting”, in The New York Times[1]:
- After working briefly for a federal entomologist to control the spruce budworm — and spraying DDT from the air — he returned to the Adirondacks in 1946 to be district ranger at Cranberry Lake for 11 years.
- 2007, Wallace Peters, Geoffrey Pasvol, Atlas of tropical medicine and parasitology, page 22:
- The use of DDT for disinfectation of louse-infested communities is a primary control measure in epidemic situations.
Etymology 2
editVarious theories; see DDT (professional wrestling).
Noun
editDDT (plural DDTs)
- (professional wrestling) a move where a wrestler puts another wrestler into a standing front face lock and then falls backwards, driving the recipient's head into the floor.
Anagrams
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editPronunciation
editNoun
editDDT m (uncountable)
Spanish
editNoun
editDDT m (uncountable)
- DDT (chemical compound)
Further reading
edit- “DDT”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10
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