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Nat

//næt// adj, adv, name, noun, slang

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 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."

Adverb
  1. 1
    Not. not-comparable, obsolete

    "And he a pistle rowned in her eare, / Nat what I want, for I ne came nat there."

Proper Noun
  1. 1
    Abbreviation of National Party. abbreviation, alt-of
  2. 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. 3
    Abbreviation of North Atlantic Tracks. abbreviation, alt-of
  4. 4
    A unisex given name.; A diminutive of the female given name Natasha, Natalie, Natalia. countable, uncountable
  5. 5
    Initialism of National Achievement Test. Philippines, abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
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  1. 6
    A surname countable, uncountable
Noun
  1. 1
    Initialism of nucleic acid test. abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable
  2. 2
    A member or supporter of the Australian National Party. Australian, informal, slang
  3. 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. 4
    A logarithmic unit of information or entropy, based on natural logarithms.
  5. 5
    Clipping of natatorium. US, abbreviation, alt-of, clipping, colloquial
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  1. 6
    Acronym of network address translation (“network address rewriting”). abbreviation, acronym, alt-of, countable, uncountable
  2. 7
    A member or supporter of the New Zealand National Party. New-Zealand, informal, slang
  3. 8
    Acronym of network address translator (“device that implements that network function; a NAT firewall”). abbreviation, acronym, alt-of, countable, uncountable
  4. 9
    A member or supporter of the Scottish National Party. UK, informal, slang
  5. 10
    Negative automatic thoughts. countable, uncountable
  6. 11
    A member or supporter of the National Party of South Africa. South-African, dated, informal, slang

Etymology

Etymology 1

Borrowing from Burmese နတ် (nat).

Etymology 2

Reduced form of naught.

Etymology 3

Abbreviation of natural logarithm.

Etymology 4

Clipping of natural.

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