Nat
adj, adv, name, noun, slang ·Common ·High school level
Definitions
- 1 Initialism of nucleic acid test. abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable
- 2 A member or supporter of the Australian National Party. Australian, informal, slang
- 3 A spirit in Burmese mythology, whose cult is followed alongside Buddhism.
"They greatly dread evil "Nats" or spirits, to whom they attribute every possible misfortune or illness."
- 4 A logarithmic unit of information or entropy, based on natural logarithms.
- 5 Clipping of natatorium. US, abbreviation, alt-of, clipping, colloquial
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- 6 Acronym of network address translation (“network address rewriting”). abbreviation, acronym, alt-of, countable, uncountable
- 7 A member or supporter of the New Zealand National Party. New-Zealand, informal, slang
- 8 Acronym of network address translator (“device that implements that network function; a NAT firewall”). abbreviation, acronym, alt-of, countable, uncountable
- 9 A member or supporter of the Scottish National Party. UK, informal, slang
- 10 Negative automatic thoughts. countable, uncountable
- 11 A member or supporter of the National Party of South Africa. South-African, dated, informal, slang
- 1 Clipping of natural (“pertaining to a dice roll before bonuses or penalties have been applied to the result”). abbreviation, alt-of, clipping, not-comparable, slang
"After rolling a Strength check to move a heavy cabinet, I got a nat 1 and the cabinet fell on me."
- 1 Not. not-comparable, obsolete
"And he a pistle rowned in her eare, / Nat what I want, for I ne came nat there."
- 1 Abbreviation of National Party. abbreviation, alt-of
- 2 A unisex given name.; A diminutive of the male given name Nathanael, Nathaniel, Nathan. countable, uncountable
"Nathan was one of the tiniest, tottering along, holding on to the hand of a much older girl. Nat. Small like a gnat."
- 3 Abbreviation of North Atlantic Tracks. abbreviation, alt-of
- 4 A unisex given name.; A diminutive of the female given name Natasha, Natalie, Natalia. countable, uncountable
- 5 Initialism of National Achievement Test. Philippines, abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
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- 6 A surname countable, uncountable
Example
More examples"Andre thought Nat would always be on the down low and never come out."
Etymology
Borrowing from Burmese နတ် (nat).
Reduced form of naught.
Abbreviation of natural logarithm.
Clipping of natural.
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