ad

noun, prep — 3 senses

ad

noun

/æd/

Etymology Clipping of advantage.

1

Hobbies, Lifestyle, Sports, Tennis Advantage; also, designating the left-hand side, from the player's point of view, of their half of the court, where the advantage point following a deuce is always played.

  • [S]uddenly Agassi hits a hard heavy cross-court back hand that pulls Federer way out to his ad (= his left) side, and Federer gets to it but slices the stretch backhand short, a couple feet past the service line […].2006, David Foster Wallace, “Federer Both Flesh And Not”, in Both Flesh And Not, Penguin, published 2013, page 5:
2

Advantage

  • ads and disads
Derived terms
ad in, ad out

ad

prep

Etymology Borrowed from Latin ad (“to, on”).

1

to, toward

Related terms
76 termsab ovo usque ad mala, ad absurdum, ad arbitrium, ad astra, ad baculum, ad captandum, ad coelum, ad damnum, ad eundem, ad extremum, ad feminam, ad fontes, ad gloriam, ad hoc, ad hominem, ad idem, ad infinitum, ad int., ad interim, ad kalendas Graecas, ad lib., ad lib, ad libitum, ad litem, ad litteram, ad loc., ad loc, ad majorem Dei gloriam, ad modum, ad modum Donders, ad nauseam, ad orientem, ad personam, ad quod damnum, ad referendum, ad rem, ad seriatum, ad unguem, ad val, ad valorem, ad valorem tax, ad verbum, ad verecundiam, ad vitam aut culpam, ad vivum, a maximis ad minima, amicus usque ad aras, argumentum ad baculum, argumentum ad consequentiam, argumentum ad crumenam, argumentum ad dictionarium, argumentum ad feminam, argumentum ad fidem, argumentum ad hominem, argumentum ad ignorantiam, argumentum ad invidiam, argumentum ad judicium, argumentum ad lapidem, argumentum ad Lazarum, argumentum ad nauseam, argumentum ad numerum, argumentum ad passiones, argumentum ad populum, argumentum ad verecundiam, consensus ad idem, constructio ad sensum, de die ad diem, guardian ad litem, habeas corpus ad subjiciendum, per angusta ad augusta, reductio ad absurdum, reductio ad Hitlerum, retrad, sic itur ad astra, subpoena ad testificandum, terminus ad quem

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