ADL

See also: adl

Translingual

Symbol

ADL

1. (international standards, aviation) IATA airport code for Adelaide Airport, which serves Adelaide, South Australia, Australia.

English

Noun

ADL (plural ADLs)

1. (healthcare) Initialism of activities of daily living, a set of activities such as bathing, feeding, or relieving oneself.
   • 2009, Marfan Syndrome and Schizophrenia: A Case Report and Literature Review, by Mary Lemberg, MD and Alexander W. Thompson, MD, MBA:

     She presented the second time unable to perform her ADLs with latent and perseverative speech, thought blocking, disorganized thought processes and behavior, delusions of being poisoned, and was preoccupied with bizarre physical symptoms.

2. (programming) Initialism of argument-dependent lookup, a feature of C++ in which the compiler chooses a function based on its arguments.

Proper noun

ADL

1. Initialism of Anti-Defamation League: an international Jewish non-governmental organization based in the United States specializing in civil rights law.
   • 2022 November 19, Clarence Page, “Sometimes offensive comedy is just lazy laughs”, in Chicago Tribune‎^[1]:

     The Anti-Defamation League reported a dramatic increase in antisemitic incidents in 2021 in this country, with a total of 2,717 incidents of assault, harassment and vandalism reported to ADL, the highest number on record since the organization began tracking antisemitic incidents in 1979.

   • 2023 September 18, “Israel’s prime minister urges Elon Musk to curb antisemitism on his platform, X”, in The Guardian‎^[2], →ISSN:

     Musk has said on X that he is “pro-free speech, but against antisemitism of any kind”. But he has threatened to sue ADL for defamation, accusing the group of trying to “kill” the platform by “falsely accusing it and me of being antisemitic”.

2. Initialism of Animal Defense League.

Anagrams

• DAL, DLA, Dal, LAD, LDA, dal, lad