DDT

English

Etymology 1

Noun

DDT (usually uncountable, plural DDTs)

1. (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

Various theories; see DDT (professional wrestling).

Noun

DDT (plural DDTs)

1. (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

• DTD, TDD

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /de.de.te/

• Audio (Paris):

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Noun

DDT m (uncountable)

1. Abbreviation of dichlorodiphényltrichloroéthane.

Spanish

Noun

DDT m (uncountable)

1. DDT (chemical compound)

Further reading

• “DDT”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), 23rd edition, Royal Spanish Academy, 2014 October 16