automatic direction finder
noun
A navigational aid used in aircraft and ships which continuously and automatically displays the bearing of the nearest radio beacon; abbreviated ADF.
Origin
1930s; earliest use found in Science News.
- ligular
- ligulate
- ligule
- Liguria
- Ligurian
- Ligurian Sea
- ligustrum
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- like
- -like
- like a bat out of hell
- like a bear with a sore head
- likeability
- likeable
- likeableness
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- like a bull in a china shop
- like a cat on a hot tin roof (also on hot bricks)
- like a deer (or rabbit) in the headlights
- like a demon
- like a dog with two tails
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