Tad

Tad

It can also refer to:
* A Tad : A small amount. a small child [origin perhaps from tadpole]
* TAD, a Seattle band.
* TAD, an acronym for Telephone Answering Device
* TAD, an acronym for Technology Aware Design
* The pen name of American cartoonist Thomas A. Dorgan.
* Tax Allocation District.
* A masculine human given name.
* The internet shorthand for "Thanks, all done."
* Tadcaster, a town in the United Kingdom.
* TAD, the acronym for the Transportation Aging Disposal canister for nuclear waste that is planned to be shipped to the Yucca Mountain Project in Nevada.
* The Asian Dynasties, a second expansion pack to the popular RTS game, Age of Empires 3 and set between the late 15th century and the mid 19th century.
* A medical acronym for thoracic aortic dissection.
* Former UK scuba divers' slang for "tadpole" (type of cylinder)
* TAD, an acronym for Technical Audio Devices, a brand of high-end professional speakers by Pioneer

* TAD can stand for The Architect's Desktop by AutoDesk, and also a so-called Open Source software from India (for which no source-code is available since 1994.


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  • tad — /tad/, n. Informal. 1. a small child, esp. a boy. 2. a very small amount or degree; bit: Please shift your chair a tad to the right. The frosting could use a tad more vanilla. [1875 80, Amer., for def. 1; 1935 40, Amer., for def. 2; perh.… …   Universalium

  • tad — ☆ tad [tad ] n. [prob. < TADPOLE] 1. a little child, esp. a boy 2. a small amount, degree, extent, etc.: often used with a and having adverbial force [a tad tired] …   English World dictionary

  • tad — (n.) 1877, young or small child, probably a shortened form of TADPOLE (Cf. tadpole), which is said to be the source of Tad as the nickname of U.S. President Lincoln s son Thomas (1853–1871). The extended meaning small amount is first recorded… …   Etymology dictionary

  • tad — informal ► ADVERB (a tad) ▪ to a minor extent; somewhat. ► NOUN ▪ a small amount. ORIGIN originally denoting a small child: perhaps related to TADPOLE(Cf. ↑tadpole) …   English terms dictionary

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