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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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The company’s headquarters are in Troy, Mich., and its vehicles will be produced in Warsaw, Ind.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 24, 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

While college basketball’s other superstars play musical chairs and top programs rebuild their entire rosters every offseason, he has decided again and again that the grass isn’t any greener away from West Lafayette, Ind.

From The Wall Street Journal Mar. 19, 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

At last a form separated itself from the bank of blackness on the left, and a voice said in a penetrating whisper: "Is this the 200th Ind?"

From Si Klegg, Book 6 (of 6) Si And Shorty, With Their Boy Recruits, Enter On The Atlanta Campaign by McElroy, John

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

One sixth part of the paradigm, thus recited, gives in general a fair sample of the whole: and, in class recitations, this mode of rehearsal will save much time: as, IND.

From The Grammar of English Grammars by Brown, Goold

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

From Greek in a Nutshell by Strong, James

On another plant of A. ind. variegata a perfect flower of A. ind. lateritia was produced; so that both gledstanesii and lateritia no doubt originally appeared as sporting branches of A. ind. variegata.

From The Variation of Animals and Plants under Domestication — Volume 1 by Darwin, Charles

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

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

The following are the forms of this peculiar word:— In Mœso-Gothic, 1 sing. pres. ind. v�it; 2. do.,

From A Handbook of the English Language by Latham, R. G. (Robert Gordon)

He shared a first name with his father, a Baptist minister and a leader of the Black community in Terre Haute, Ind. His older siblings were A students.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 2, 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

Once we’ve shaken hands on this unavoidable tension, we can wrestle with Antoine Fuqua’s “Michael,” an open-hearted biopic of Jackson, extending from his boyhood in Gary, Ind., to the late-’80s tour for “Bad.”

From Los Angeles Times Apr. 22, 2026

Not long since, there fell near Romney, Ind., an aërolite in a liquid, or molten state, which flew into fragments the moment it struck the earth's surface.

From Nature and Culture by Rice, Harvey

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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