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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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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

She stars as a commercial cleaner in her latest film project, “We Strangers,” an observation on assimilation, code switching and belonging in Gary, Ind.

From New York Times Jun. 1, 2024

All those companies except Subaru have plants in states represented by the governors who issued the statement; Subaru’s only U.S. plant is in Lafayette, Ind.

From Los Angeles Times Apr. 22, 2024

Who was in the gallery and made a heroic but unsuccessful attempt to save her brother, Walter Bissinger, the Boy Poet of Illinois, and her cousin, Jack Pottlitzer, of Lafayette, Ind.

From Chicago's Awful Theater Horror by Various

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

So I explain to her about the Indian arrowheads, and we get out the classified phone book and look at the subway map, which shows there’s an IND train that goes right to it.

From It’s like this, cat by Neville, Emily

Hast, hast, 2d pers. sing. pres. ind. of have.

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

Wolford, Frank, colonel 1st Kentucky Cavalry,   famous command "Huddle on the hill, boys";   pursues Morgan raiders;   commands ind. cavalry brigade;   defeated near Loudon.

From Military Reminiscences of the Civil War, Volume 2 November 1863-June 1865 by Cox, Jacob Dolson

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

From Greek in a Nutshell by Strong, James

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 Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

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 Meiklejohn, John Miller Dow

Likewise, Mamas’ Pizza and Gelato, in Milltown, Ind., has thrown out all its lettuce and other greens, and it’s only serving spinach cooked.

From MarketWatch Jul. 18, 2026

At the company’s factory in Warsaw, Ind., which sits on the campus of a former printing press, a robotic system will weld together the body and frame rather than use a metal stamper.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 24, 2026

But the wind-up alarm clock won’t disappear entirely, says Bill Stoddard, who repairs and sells clocks at his shop in Flora, Ind. After all, he points out, “the Amish people buy clocks.”

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 11, 2026

Gas prices are part of the reason John Raisor, who lives in Madison, Ind., a small town about an hour outside Louisville, Ky., stopped using dating apps.

From MarketWatch Jun. 3, 2026

Leaflets ovate-oblong, pointed, cut-serrate; stipules small, awl-shaped, entire.—Rich woods, N. Y. to N. J. and Ga., west to Mich., Ind., and Mo. 2.

From The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee by Gray, Asa

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

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

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