Glossary entry (derived from question below)
English term or phrase:
STD
English answer:
Sexually Transmitted Disease
Added to glossary by
John Guzman
Jul 11, 2002 16:02
21 yrs ago
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English term
France
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STD
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Telecommunication, long-distance calls
All you Americans out there:
Does the term "STD" mean anything other than "sexually-transmitted disease" in your neck of the woods?
More precisely, do you know the expression "standard dialling code" (meaning the local and/or country code used when making long-distance telephone calls)?
E.G.: In BE, my STD would be "+44 171" or "+44 181" when living in London.
If not, what is the American equivalent?
Does the term "STD" mean anything other than "sexually-transmitted disease" in your neck of the woods?
More precisely, do you know the expression "standard dialling code" (meaning the local and/or country code used when making long-distance telephone calls)?
E.G.: In BE, my STD would be "+44 171" or "+44 181" when living in London.
If not, what is the American equivalent?
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John Guzman
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Area Code
STD Sexually Transmited Disease
Area Code would be your STD
Area Code would be your STD
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Mads Grøftehauge
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Subscriber Trunk Dialing
...as opposed to IDD = International Direct Dialing.
Example from Altavista search:
Abbreviations Used In The UK
... nurse. Staffs The county of Staffordshire.
STD Code Area code, in a telephone number. STD stands for subscriber trunk dialling.
STV Scottish Television. TA Territorial Army, part-time army reserves. ...
freespace.virgin.net/john.cletheroe/uk/lang.htm
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Note added at 2002-07-11 18:56:24 (GMT) Post-grading
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Whoops, I didn\'t read closely enoough what you were actually asking.
No, I don\'t know regular American usage in this instance, but my feeling is that you should only use the abbreviation STD when you want to specificy long distance national calls, as opposed to local or international calls (in countries that still omit area codes for local calls).
Example from Altavista search:
Abbreviations Used In The UK
... nurse. Staffs The county of Staffordshire.
STD Code Area code, in a telephone number. STD stands for subscriber trunk dialling.
STV Scottish Television. TA Territorial Army, part-time army reserves. ...
freespace.virgin.net/john.cletheroe/uk/lang.htm
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Note added at 2002-07-11 18:56:24 (GMT) Post-grading
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Whoops, I didn\'t read closely enoough what you were actually asking.
No, I don\'t know regular American usage in this instance, but my feeling is that you should only use the abbreviation STD when you want to specificy long distance national calls, as opposed to local or international calls (in countries that still omit area codes for local calls).
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Hania Pietrzyk
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Works in: French to Polish, Polish to French, English to Polish
STD - Subscriber Trunk Dialling
IT and Telecommunications abbreviations and in ETSI and 3GPP Dictionary ;
also in French dictionary - it means code , "indicatif régional"
also in French dictionary - it means code , "indicatif régional"
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STD
Don't use this term unless you're dialing a 1-900-SEXX number!
Seriously though, unless you are communicating exclusively inter-office within your county in England I would use an EU acronym or American equivalent "Area Code"
Seriously though, unless you are communicating exclusively inter-office within your county in England I would use an EU acronym or American equivalent "Area Code"
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