STD

English translation: Sexually Transmitted Disease

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English term or phrase:	STD
Selected answer:	Sexually Transmitted Disease
Entered by:	John Guzman

16:02 Jul 11, 2002

English language (monolingual) [Non-PRO]
/ Telecommunication, long-distance calls

English term or phrase: STD

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?

Jan Liebelt KudoZ activity Questions: 200 (1 open) (4 without valid answers) (15 closed without grading) Answers: 205 France
Local time: 22:28

Area Code

Explanation:
STD Sexually Transmited Disease
Area Code would be your STD

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John Guzman
Local time: 15:28

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4 +3

Area Code

John Guzman

4 +2

Subscriber Trunk Dialing

Mads Grøftehauge

STD - Subscriber Trunk Dialling

Hania Pietrzyk

STD

Michael Fitzpatrick

Answers

2 mins confidence:

peer agreement (net): +3

Area Code

Explanation:
STD Sexually Transmited Disease
Area Code would be your STD

John Guzman
Local time: 15:28
Native speaker of:

Spanish
PRO pts in pair: 8

21 mins confidence:

peer agreement (net): +2

Subscriber Trunk Dialing

Explanation:
...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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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).

Mads Grøftehauge
Local time: 22:28
Native speaker of:

Danish
PRO pts in pair: 16

26 mins confidence:

STD - Subscriber Trunk Dialling

Explanation:
IT and Telecommunications abbreviations and in ETSI and 3GPP Dictionary ;
also in French dictionary - it means code , "indicatif régional"

Hania Pietrzyk
France
Local time: 22:28
Native speaker of:

Polish

49 mins confidence:

STD

Explanation:
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"

Michael Fitzpatrick

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