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Cad

//kæd// noun, slang

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Noun
  1. 1
    Acronym of computer-aided design. abbreviation, acronym, alt-of, countable, uncountable

    "I'll wager a Dogic that before TwistyPuzzles.com turns 10 we'll be posting 3D CAD files that we can individually upload to FedExKinkos.com to have fabricated and have the resulting puzzle overnighted to us by 8am the next day."

  2. 2
    A low-bred, presuming person; a mean, vulgar fellow, especially one that cannot be trusted with a lady.

    "The most rapid and most seductive transition in all human nature is that which attends the palliation of a ravenous appetite.[…]Can those harmless but refined fellow-diners be the selfish cads whose gluttony and personal appearance so raised your contemptuous wrath on your arrival?"

  3. 3
    software used in art and architecture and engineering and manufacturing to assist in precision drawing wordnet
  4. 4
    Initialism of computer-aided drafting. abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable
  5. 5
    A person who stands at the door of an omnibus to open and shut it, and to receive fares; a bus conductor. archaic

    "We will back the machine in which we make our daily peregrination from the top of Oxford-street to the city, against any buss on the road, whether it be for the gaudiness of its exterior, the perfect simplicity of its interior, or the native coolness of its cad."

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  1. 6
    someone who is morally reprehensible wordnet
  2. 7
    Initialism of control alt delete. abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable
  3. 8
    An idle hanger-on about innyards. Ireland, UK, obsolete, slang
  4. 9
    Initialism of cash against documents, an arrangement where the purchaser must pay the total price in cash in order to get shipping papers from the seller or (usually) a third party. abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable
  5. 10
    Initialism of coronary artery disease. abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable
  6. 11
    Initialism of computer-aided diagnosis. abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable

    "2017, Sunjoo Bang et al, "Quad-phased data mining modeling for dementia diagnosis" in BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making, 17(Supp1):60, at Abstract>Background. Therefore, there are various researches to improve a dementia diagnosis process in the field of computer-aided diagnosis (CAD) technology."

  7. 12
    Initialism of cold agglutinin disease. abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable
  8. 13
    Initialism of computer-aided dispatch. abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable
  9. 14
    Initialism of caspase-activated DNase. abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable

Etymology

Short for caddie, from Scots, from French cadet, from dialectal capdet (“chief, captain”), from Latin capitellum, diminutive of caput (“head”).

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