Sentence examples for adi from inspiring English sources
proper noun
A Tibeto-Burman language spoken in India and Tibet.
The late Adolf ("Adi") Dassler, founder of the Adidas sportsware company in Bavaria, is said to have come up with the modern football design with its 32 patches of pentagons and hexagons as a way of making the bulbous old leather ball more spherical.
The NOEL is generally divided by 100 to determine a maximum acceptable daily intake (ADI).
Among the most widely used Karnatak talas are adi, which is by far the most common (4 + 2 + 2); misra capu (3 + 4); and jhampa (7 + 1 + 2); among the most complex are ata (5 + 5 + 2 + 2) and druva (4 + 2 + 4 + 4).
Who is on top at any point "never stays the same", says Adi Godrej, the head of the Godrej group.
Adi Sasono, who heads ICMI's think-tank, scoffs at the idea that it is a hotbed of closet fundamentalists.
On January 27th, the Americans were close to the caves in the Adi Ghar mountains near the town of Spin Boldak in the south of the country, not far from the border with Pakistan, when they came under small-arms fire.
Sometimes a sixth deity is worshiped as the Adi-Buddha.
In order to counter any tendency toward polytheism suggested by the fivefold scheme, some sects elevated one of the five, usually Vairochana, to a position of an Adi-Buddha (first, or primal, buddha).
Tibetan Buddhists identify the Adi-Buddha as Vajradhara; some Buddhist sects of Nepal give this position to Vajrasattva.
The two German firms, based in Herzogenaurach in Bavaria, were founded by brothers, Adi Dassler (hence adidas's name) and the older Rudolf (Puma), who fell out.Nike's brash marketing is based on offering big cheques to star athletes to endorse its products.
One such minister, Adi Sasono, is in charge of a network of co-operatives, and wants them to play a role.
