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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (1)

1. a serious (often fatal) disease of the immune system transmitted through blood products especially by sexual contact or contaminated needles;
[syn: AIDS, acquired immune deficiency syndrome]


WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

AIDS n 1: a serious (often fatal) disease of the immune system transmitted through blood products especially by sexual contact or contaminated needles [syn: AIDS, acquired immune deficiency syndrome]
V.E.R.A. -- Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms (February 2016):

AIDS Automatic Installation and Diagnostic Service
The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (30 December 2018):

AIDS /aydz/ A* Infected Disk Syndrome ("A*" is a glob pattern that matches, but is not limited to, Apple Computer), this condition is quite often the result of practicing unsafe SEX. See virus, worm, Trojan horse, virgin. [Jargon File] (1995-04-13)
Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856):

AIDS, Engl. law. Formerly they were certain sums of money granted by the tenant to his lord in times of difficulty and distress, but, as usual in such cases, what was received as a gratuity by the rich and powerful from the weak and poor, was soon claimed as a matter of right; and aids became a species of tax to be paid by the tenant to his lord, in these cases: 1. To ransom the lord's person, when taken prisoner; 2. To make the lord's eldest son a knight; 3. To marry the lord's eldest daughter, by giving her a suitable portion. The first of these remained uncertain; the other two were fixed by act of parliament at twenty shillings each being the supposed twentieth part of a knight's fee, 2 Bl. Com. 64.