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Ind

1 American  
[ind] / ɪnd /

noun

  1. Literary. India.

  2. Obsolete. the Indies.


IND 2 American  

abbreviation

Pharmacology.
  1. investigative new drug.


ind- 3 American  
  1. variant of indo- before a vowel.

    indamine.


ind. 4 American  

abbreviation

  1. independence.

  2. independent.

  3. index.

  4. indicated.

  5. indicative.

  6. indigo.

  7. indirect.

  8. industrial.

  9. industry.


Ind. 5 American  

abbreviation

  1. India.

  2. Indian. Also Ind

  3. Indiana.

  4. Indies.


I.N.D. 6 American  

abbreviation

  1. in the name of God.


Ind. 1 British  

abbreviation

  1. Independent

  2. India

  3. Indian

  4. Indiana

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

Ind 2 British  
/ ɪnd /

noun

  1. a poetic name for India

  2. an obsolete name for the Indies

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

IND 3 British  

abbreviation

  1. Also: IDN. in nomine Dei

  2. India (international car registration)

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

Etymology

Origin of Ind1

1175–1225; Middle English Inde < Old French Inde < Latin India India

Origin of I.N.D.6

From Latin in nōmine Deī


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It also touted a “direct employment presence in more than 20 states,” including a facility in Red Oak, Texas, and another in Los Angeles, plus plans for a new facility in Fort Wayne, Ind.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 8, 2026

FX released on Tuesday a surprise flashback episode of ‘The Bear,’ written by Jon Bernthal and Ebon Moss-Bachrach, who star as cousins Mikey and Richie on a road trip to Gary, Ind.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 29, 2026

That venture raised $5.7 billion in a sale of junk bonds, with proceeds going toward buying land and developing a 430 megawatt data-center complex in New Lebanon, Ind.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 1, 2026

"A second visit to Eps Ind Ab with JWST: new photometry confirms ammonia and suggests thick clouds in the exoplanet atmosphere of the closest super-Jupiter" in the Astrophysical Journal Letters.

From Science Daily ● Apr. 22, 2026

He might have added, "by every reasoning being from prince to peasant, from Mullah to Badawi, between Marocco and Outer Ind."

From Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 7 by Charles Dudley Warner

The stockpile also contains millions of doses of another vaccine, called ACAM2000, which is approved for smallpox and available for monkeypox under an IND.

From Scientific American ● Aug. 17, 2022

Dubbing itself Saving IND, an alumni-led group obtained hundreds of signatures on an online petition supporting efforts to keep the school open.

From Washington Times ● Jun. 11, 2020

Are there ways for companies to deal with the difficulty to gain IND approvals in China?

From Forbes ● Apr. 29, 2015

The agency decided, for the time being, not to enforce the IND requirement for recurrent C. difficile infections.

From Nature ● Feb. 19, 2014

No doubt one should prefix L to IND.

From Roman Britain in 1914 by F. (Francis) Haverfield

From same as No. 22; pres. ind. 1st plur. act.,

From Greek in a Nutshell by James Strong

This word was used in Middle English as a noun, and regularly as the 3d pers. sing. pres. ind. of the verb "uprise."

From Coleridge's Ancient Mariner and Select Poems by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Has, haz, 3d pers. sing. pres. ind. of have.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 2 of 4: E-M) by Various

Pres. part. in ind. ge of past part. turned into i or y. 3d plural in en.

From A Brief History of the English Language and Literature, Vol. 2 by John Miller Dow Meiklejohn

The several types of conjugation represented in Irish have become obscured, traces remaining only in the endings of the third sing. of the pres. ind., the pret. ind.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 5 "Cat" to "Celt" by Various

Vanessa Perez figured she had a $50 balance on a Sephora birthday gift card before heading to a store in Merrillville, Ind., near her home to buy makeup.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 29, 2026

For Rachel Labi, a 23-year-old Purdue University graduate doing a United Nations internship in West Lafayette, Ind., affordable housing is her top political concern.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 28, 2026

Debs was born in 1855 in Terre Haute, Ind., to French immigrant parents who read to him from Victor Hugo and cherished the ideals of the French Revolution.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026

Federal inspectors detailed multiple instances of mammalian hair found in drugs produced at a Catalent plant in Bloomington, Ind., used in part to manufacture semaglutide.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 5, 2026

Write to a friend in Lafayette, Ind., who you think will be interested, proposing the plan.

From Business English A Practice Book by Rose Buhlig

Six weeks later, in July, 2013, the F.D.A. declared an exception for doctors treating recurrent C. difficile: they would be allowed to perform fecal transplants without an I.N.D.

From The New Yorker ● Nov. 24, 2014

In order to offer it to patients, doctors would need to file an investigational new-drug application, or I.N.D., and obtain the agency’s permission.

From The New Yorker ● Nov. 24, 2014

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