ad

noun

1. 1

   Variant of advertisementClipping of advertisement.

   I have placed both of the ads in the newspaper as instructed.

   However, the ad that was seen as the most successful in 2000 reflected Chen Shui-bian's Taiwanese roots, that was the Kuantien Ad that showed the small town where he had grown up, his neighbours, relatives and people that had known him as a child.

   In the final few weeks before the vote, a rash of ads appeared on radio and TV claiming that Hillary Clinton was too frail, too liberal and too ethically compromised to become president. […] Not many people took Morris’s ad too seriously; most news outlets were pleased for a frothy story in an election that was short on light relief.

2. 2

   Variant of advertisingClipping of advertising.

3. 3

   Variant of advertiserClipping of advertiser.

noun

1. 1

   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 […].

2. 2

   Advantage

   ads and disads

preposition

1. 1

   to, toward

Forms

plural

ads