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Pard

//ˈpɑː(ɹ)d// noun, slang

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Noun
  1. 1
    A leopard; a panther. archaic, literary

    "Then a soldier, Full of strange oaths, and bearded like the pard, Jealous in honour, sudden and quick in quarrel …"

  2. 2
    Partner; fellow; Used as a friendly appellation colloquial

    "He had long believed, in secret, that his old pard, Tom Terror, was the leader of the Thugs that infested the famous pass; he was confident of it now, and it would be safe to say that, as he rode along, his neck did not itch as formerly."

  3. 3
    Acronym of periodic and random deviations, a form of electrical noise. abbreviation, acronym, alt-of, uncountable

    "This article describes a power supply conditioning circuit that can reduce Periodic And Random Deviations (PARD) on the output voltages of DC power supplies..."

Etymology

Etymology 1

From Middle English parde, from Old French, from Latin pardus, from Ancient Greek πάρδος (párdos), possibly of Iranian origin and related to other Sanskrit and Ancient Greek terms (see leopard).

Etymology 2

From pardner (“partner”), by shortening.

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