DLF

The Development Loan Fund.

Proper noun

  1. The Development Loan Fund.
    • The DLF commitment followed by some months the presentation to the DLF of a list of projects well in excess of this amount and the DLF had decided on a preliminary basis on the projects it would finance . - 1960, United...
    • A large proportion of DLF assitance during the last year—17 loans totaling $279 million—went to South Asia, mainly to India and Pakistan. - 1960 September 5, “DLF Extends Operations to Assis Many Less Developed...
    • The DLF provided significant capital funds for the purchase of materials or equipment for individual projects. - 2018, David C. Engerman, The Price of Aid: The Economic Cold War in India, page ii:
  2. The Digital Library Federation
    • The range in orientation of DLF digital libraries is illustrated by data from the DLF survey. - 2002, Daniel I. Greenstein, Suzanne Elizabeth Thorin, The Digital Library: A Biography, page 2:
    • In contrast, the most succinct definition arising from the community of library practice is that set forth by the Digital Library Federation (DLF): "Digital Libraries are organization that provide the resources,...
    • From its beginning, the DLF has sought to "bring together—from across the nation and beyond—digitized materials that will be made accessible to students, scholars, and citzens everywhere, and that document the building...
  3. The Dhofar Liberation Front
    • Having initially been deployed to support Dhofar Force, the SAF gradually became drawn into counter-insurgency operations against the DLF. - 2024, Geraint Hughes, Britain and the Dhofar War in Oman, 1963–1976:
    • On 14 August 1964, an army jeep from the Sultan's Armed Forces ran over a land mine laid by the DLF killing the driver and wounding a passenger. - 2011, John Beasant, Oman: The True-Life Drama and Intrigue of an Arab...
    • The original statement denounced the Al Bu Said dynasty, but the movement's aims were not made clear, and the communique/ merely said that the DLF would fight until 'the flag of freedom flies high in the sky of our...

Origin

Initialism

Noun

  1. Initialism of dead last finish or "dead last finisher"; the act of completing a race but coming in last, the person who completed a race in last place.
  2. Initialism of direct lytic factor, a peptide found in cobra venom
    • This is a curiously weak effect by the DLF alone, but it is extremely magnified by phopholipase A ^([sic]) and even more by phospholipase A plus calcium ion. - 2001, John Joseph Fenton, Toxicology: A Case-Oriented...
    • Beides erythrocytes, DLF is able to attack platelets, mast cells and leukocytes. The mode of action of DLF is still open to question . - 2013, B. Damerau, R. Schroeterl, W. Vogt, “Studiess on Binding of the Direct Lytic...
    • The main venom factors involved in hemolysis are phospholipase A₂ (PLA₂) and the direct lytic factor (DLF). - 2016, E. Condrea, “Hemolytic Effects of Snake Venoms”, in D. Eaker, T. Wadström ·, editor, Natural Toxins,...
  3. Initialism of digitalis-like factor, a substance found to be elevated in the blood serum of hypertensive mammals with a digoxin-like immunoreactivity.
    • It was the opinion of first investigators that DLF originated in the brain [16], more precisely, in the hypothalamus [17–19] and adenohypophysis [20]. - 2012, František Kölbel, Vratislav Schreiber, “The endogenous...
    • DLF have been suggested to be steroid, lipid, or peptide, but the exact chemical nature of these subtances in healthy adults has not been established. - 2013, S. Vasdev, L. Longerich, E. Johnson, D. Brent, M. H. Gault,...
    • Too often investigators have ignored the fact that high concentrations were required for "DLF" activity in the assay systems, and that these high concentrations are never achieved in vivo. - 2013, Norman K. Hollenberg...

Forms

DLFs