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Definition: GAD |
GADNoun1. An anxiety disorder characterized by chronic free-floating anxiety and such symptoms as tension or sweating or trembling of light-headedness or irritability etc that has lasted for more than six months. 2. A sharp prod fixed to a rider's heel and used to urge a horse onward; "cowboys know not to squat with their spurs on". Verb1. Wander aimlessly in search of pleasure. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
"GAD" is a name that signifies or is derived from: "a band", "a troop", "a fortune". |
Date "GAD" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1380. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Bible | Gad fortune; luck. (1.) Jacob's seventh son, by Zilpah, Leah's handmaid, and the brother of Asher (Gen. 30:11-13; 46:16, 18). In the Authorized Version of 30:11 the words, "A troop cometh: and she called," etc., should rather be rendered, "In fortune [R.V., 'Fortunate']: and she called," etc., or "Fortune cometh," etc. The tribe of Gad during the march through the wilderness had their place with Simeon and Reuben on the south side of the tabernacle (Num. 2:14). The tribes of Reuben and Gad continued all through their history to follow the pastoral pursuits of the patriarchs (Num. 32:1-5). The portion allotted to the tribe of Gad was on the east of Jordan, and comprehended the half of Gilead, a region of great beauty and fertility (Deut. 3:12), bounded on the east by the Arabian desert, on the west by the Jordan (Josh. 13:27), and on the north by the river Jabbok. It thus included the whole of the Jordan valley as far north as to the Sea of Galilee, where it narrowed almost to a point. This tribe was fierce and warlike; they were "strong men of might, men of war for the battle, that could handle shield and buckler, their faces the faces of lions, and like roes upon the mountains for swiftness" (1 Chr. 12:8; 5:19-22). Barzillai (2 Sam. 17:27) and Elijah (1 Kings 17:1) were of this tribe. It was carried into captivity at the same time as the other tribes of the northern kingdom by Tiglath-pileser (1 Chr. 5:26), and in the time of Jeremiah (49:1) their cities were inhabited by the Ammonites. (2.) A prophet who joined David in the "hold," and at whose advice he quitted it for the forest of Hareth (1 Chr. 29:29; 2 Chr. 29:25; 1 Sam. 22:5). Many years after we find mention made of him in connection with the punishment inflicted for numbering the people (2 Sam. 24:11-19; 1 Chr. 21:9-19). He wrote a book called the "Acts of David" (1 Chr. 29:29), and assisted in the arrangements for the musical services of the "house of God" (2 Chr. 29:25). He bore the title of "the king's seer" (2 Sam. 24:11, 13; 1 Chr. 21:9). Source: Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary. |
Literature | Gad (g hard). Gadding from place to place. Wandering from pillar to post without any profitable purpose. "Give water no passage, neither a wicked woman liberty to gad abroad." - Ecclesiasticus xxv. 25. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
Mining | A heavy steel wedge, 6 in or 8 in (15.2 cm or 20.3 cm) long, with a narrow chisel point for cutting samples or breaking out pieces of loose rock. (references) |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
The Tribe of Gad is one of the Hebrew tribes, founded by Gad son of Jacob.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Tribe of Gad."
| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
GAD | English | Generalised anxiety disorders | N/A |
GAD | French | Glutamate décarboxylase | Medicine |
GAD | Italian | Glutammato-decarbossilasi | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
Synonyms: GADSynonyms: anxiety reaction (n), generalized anxiety disorder (n), spur (n), gallivant (v), jazz around (v). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Journey | Flit, take wing; migrate, emigrate; trek; rove, prowl, roam, range, patrol, pace up and down, traverse; scour the country, traverse the country; peragrate; circumambulate, perambulate; nomadize, wander, ramble, stroll, saunter, hover, go one's rounds, straggle; gad, gad about; expatiate. |
Wonder | Interjection: lo, lo and behold! O! heyday! halloo! what! indeed! really! surely! humph! hem! good lack, good heavens, gad so! welladay! dear me! only think! lackadaisy! my stars, my goodness! gracious goodness! goodness gracious! mercy on us! heavens and earth! God bless me! bless us, bless my heart! odzookens! O gemini! adzooks! hoity-toity! strong! Heaven save the mark, bless the mark! can such things be! zounds! 'sdeath! what on earth, what in the world! who would have thought it!; (inexpectation); you don't say so! You're kidding!. No kidding? what do you say to that! nous verrons! how now! where am I? |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: GAD |
| English words defined with "GAD": Gadded, Gadding, Gaddish, Gadling, Gadsman ♦ To roll about, To spin street yarn ♦ Upon the gad. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "GAD": Gad-fly, Gad-steel ♦ Halhul ♦ Ramath-mizpeh, River of Gad ♦ Shophan ♦ Zilpah. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "GAD" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. Manx (withe, withy), Romany (shirt), Scottish (a withe, switch, twisted twig, withe). |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | By Gad, sir, you are a character (The Maltese Falcon; writing credit: John Huston) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Emma og Urban Gad i hjemmet (1913) We leab we gad we hob Dehk (1993) | |
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Books | |
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| "GAD" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 50.00% of the time. "GAD" is used about 22 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (proper) | 50% | 11 | 106,044 |
| Noun (singular) | 50% | 11 | 106,044 |
| Total | 100.00% | 22 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| "GAD" is a name that signifies or is derived from: "a band", "a troop", "a fortune". | |||
| The following table summarizes names related to "GAD." | |||
| Name | Gender | Language | Related Name |
| Gad | N/A | Biblical | N/A |
| Gad | Male | Biblical | N/A |
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Expressions using "GAD": gad about ♦ gad around ♦ on the gad ♦ river of Gad ♦ Russian gad fly ♦ upon the gad. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "GAD": gad-fly. | |
Ending with "GAD": Baal-gad, Dibon-gad, Migdal-gad. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
gad | 153 | gad lavy | 3 |
gad guard | 32 | gad gadu | 3 |
elmaleh gad | 22 | gad landau | 3 |
gad tribe | 7 | gad fly | 3 |
gad symptom | 7 | compnet.comp.state.md.us gad | 3 |
anxiety gad | 7 | antibody gad | 3 |
gad treatment | 5 | gad guard wallpaper | 3 |
gad medication | 5 | gad wid | 2 |
company.comp.state.md.us gad | 5 | gad mri | 2 |
anime gad guard | 5 | colorado gad michele | 2 |
gad zuks | 4 | almaliah gad | 2 |
elmaleh gad photo | 3 | gad tour | 2 |
from gad wid | 3 | gad zooks | 2 |
el gad maleh | 3 | gad guard review | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "GAD"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | shtizë (javelin, lance, Pike, pole, shaft, spear, staff), hosten (goad), bredhje (divagation, ramble, roam, rove, saunter, vagrancy, wandering). (various references) | |
Arabic | تسكع (gad about, hang about, hang around, idling, linger, loaf, loiter, lounge, meander, mess around, mooch, mosey, muck about, perambulate, perambulation, potter, putter, range, roam, slop, slouch, traipse, tramp), النعرة ذبابة الماشية (gad-fly), شخص يزعج من ثبات عميق (gad-fly). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | секач (chisel, puncheon, woodcutter, woodman), къртя с клин, връх (acme, apex, cap, consummation, cope-stone, cusp, extremity, full, head, height, heyday, loop, meridian, peak, perfection, pink, pinnacle, point, summit, tip, tiptop, top, topping, vertex), остен (goad, prick, prod), пълзя (crawl, grovel, ramble, ramp, run). (various references) | |
Chinese | 蜚 (clam, gad-fly). (various references) | |
Czech | špice (pick, picker, prong, tine). (various references) | |
Danish | bremse (brake, gadfly, gad-fly, horsefly, horse-fly). (various references) | |
Dutch | steelbeitel (picker, wedge). (various references) | |
Esperanto | tabano (gadfly, gad-fly, horsefly, horse-fly). (various references) | |
Farsi | میله زدن به , میله (Axle, Bar, Beam, Filament, Lever, Pivot, Rod, Shaft, Slat, Spike, Stem, Stilt, Style), هرزه گردی کردن (Traipse), نیزه (Dart, Gaff, Gig, Harpoon, Lance, Shaft, Spear), گوه (Cleat, Slice, Sprag), ترابخدا, سیخک (Gaff, Goad, Steeve), سیخ (Broach, Erect, Goad, Grid, Ramrod, Spur, Stiff, Wooden), سنان (Spear), اندازه گیری طول , شلاق سیخی , دیلم (Auger, Crow, Crowbar, Jimmy, Lever, Pry), بخدا (Gar, Od, Odd), بامیله بستن , بامیخ محکم کردن . (various references) | |
French | pointerolle, pointe. (various references) | |
German | herumtreiben (prowl, rove about, to gad), eisen (chill, ferric, ice, iron), bergeisen (picker, wedge). (various references) | |
Greek | βουκέντρο (goad), μεταλλευτική σφήνα (picker, wedge), μά την πίστη μου, περιφέρομαι (ambulate, hang about, ramble, range, saunter, wander). (various references) | |
Hebrew | מוט (bar, boom, pole, rod, roost, shaft, staff, stake, yoke), מסמר (nail, peg, pin, rivet, stud), תעי" (erring, going astray, straying, wandering about), שוטטות (vagrancy). (various references) | |
Hungarian | nyílhegy (arrowhead, arrow-head, elf-bolt). (various references) | |
Indonesian | sungguh (heartily, quite), mengembara (rove, vagabond, vagabondize, wander), berkeluyuran, berkeliaran (prowl). (various references) | |
Italian | vagare, vagabondare, essere in giro. (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 浮れ歩く (to gad around). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | うかれあるく (to gad around). (various references) | |
Manx | kibbin (dibble, linchpin, peg, spike, stake, wooden pin). (various references) | |
Norwegian | farte omkring (gad about). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | adgay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | vara com ferrão na ponta, vagueação, vagabundear (gallivant, hang around, loaf, roam, trapes, wander), talhadeira (chisel, hardy, splitter), sair procura de divertimento, estilete (bodkin, stiletto, stylet, stylus). (various references) | |
Romanian | strãmutare, se întinde şi creşte stufos, rangã (crowbar, crow-bar, pinch bar), nu mai spune (lax, well, what a story, yah, you don't mean it, you don't say so), hoinãri (dally, linger, loaf, loiter, loll about, meander, ramble, roam, rove, saunter, scour about, stand about, stroll, wander), ei (ahoy, attaboy, come, eh, halloo, hei, heigh, her, hers, hey, hoy, I say, its, now, now then, phew, tell it to the marines, they, well), bãţ (bat, club, rod, stick, switch). (various references) | |
Russian | шляться (gad about, gallivant), копье (glaive, shaft, spear), зубило (chisel), бодец (goad, pricker). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | pijuk (hack, mattock, peep, pickax). (various references) | |
Spanish | cáspita. (various references) | |
Swedish | driva omkring (drift, gad about, gad around, gallivant, hang about, hang around, loiter). (various references) | |
Thai | เที่ยวเตร็"เตร่, ร่อนเร่ไปไม่มีจุ"หมาย, คนเร่ร่อน. (various references) | |
Turkish | yemin ederim (by gad, upon my oath, upon my word), serserilik yapmak (gad about, vagabond, vagabondize), sürtmek (chafe, gad about, gall, hang out, horse around, loiter, muck about, range, rub, tramp, wander idly), eğlence peşinde koşmak (gad about, gallivant). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | тинятися (dangle, expatiate, fool about, go about, hack around, knock about, knock around, maroon, muck about, putter, roam, scamp, sling about, slouch about, slouch along, slouch around, traipse, wait about, wait around), вештатися (gad about, hang about, hover, knock about, knock around), о боже, бог мій. (various references) | |
Vietnamese | mũi nhọn (spearhead). (various references) | |
Welsh | gwibio (flash, flit, rove, wander). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | ambula, ambulabam, ambulabant, ambulabas, ambulabat, ambulabimus, ambulabis, ambulabit, ambulabo, ambulabunt, ambulamus, ambulando, ambulans, ambulant, ambulante, ambulantem, ambulantes, ambulantibus, ambulantis, ambulare, ambularemus, ambularent, ambulares, ambularet, ambularetis, ambulas, ambulasses, ambulasti, ambulastis, ambulat, ambulate, ambulatis, ambulaverat, ambulaverim, ambulaverint, ambulaveris, ambulaverit, ambulaveritis, ambulavero, ambulaverunt, ambulaveruntque, ambulavi, ambulavimus, ambulavit, ambulavitque, ambulem, ambulemus, ambulent, ambules, ambulet, ambuletis, ambulo. (various references) |
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| Language | Date | Source | Genesis Chapter 49, Verse 19 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | Gad peirathrion peirateusei auton autoV de peirateusei autwn kata podaV |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Gad accinctus proeliabitur ante eum et ipse accingetur retrorsum |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | Gad gird shal feiyt bifore hym, and he shal be gird bihynde. |
| Renaissance English | 1526 | Tyndale | Gad men of warre shall invade him. And he shall turne them to flyght. |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | Gad, a troop shall overcome him: but he shall overcome at the last. |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | Gad, a troop shall overcome him: but he shall overcome at the last. |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | Gad, an army will come against him, but he will come down on them in their flight. |
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| Language | Genesis Chapter 49, Verse 19 |
| Cebuano | Kang Gad ang kasundalohan nga langyaw magadusmog kaniya: Apan siya magadusmog sa ilang tikod. |
| Croatian | Gada æe pljaèkat razbojnici, pljaèkom æe im za petama biti. |
| Danish | Gad, på ham gør Krigerskarer Indhug, men han gør Indhug i Hælene på dem. |
| Dutch | Aangaande Gad, een bende zal hem aanvallen; maar hij zal haar aanvallen in het einde. |
| Finnish | Gaadia ahdistavat rosvojoukot, mutta hän itse ahdistaa heitä heidän kintereillään. |
| French | Gad sera assailli par des bandes armées, Mais il les assaillira et les poursuivra. |
| German | Gad wird gedrängt werden von Kriegshaufen, er aber drängt sie auf der Ferse. |
| Hungarian | Gád! had háborgatja; majd õ hág annak sarkába. |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | Gad, engkau akan diserang perampok, namun engkau akan balik merampok mereka. |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | Adapun Gad itu, maka ia akan ditempuh oleh suatu pasukan, tetapi kemudian kelak iapun akan menempuhinya. |
| Italian | Gad, assalito da un'orda, ne attacca la retroguardia. |
| Maori | Ko Kara, ka aki te ope ki runga ki a ia: otiia ka aki ia ki to ratou rekereke. |
| Norwegian | Gad - en fiendeflokk hugger inn på ham, men han hugger dem i hælene. |
| Portuguese | Quanto a Gade, guerrilheiros o acometerão; mas ele, por sua vez, os acometerá. |
| Rumanian | Peste Gad vor da iuruw cete knarmate, Dar wi el va da iuruw peste ele wi le va urmqri. |
| Russian | зБ", --ФПМ Б 'Х"ЕФ ФЕУОЙФШ ЕЗП, ОП ПО ПФФЕУОЙФ ЕЕ П СФБН. |
| Swedish | Gad skall trängas av skaror*, men själv skall han tränga dem på hälarna. |
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Derivations | |
Words beginning with "GAD": gadabout, gadabouts, gadarene, gadded, gadder, gadders, gaddi, gadding, gaddis, gadflies, gadfly, gadget, gadgeteer, gadgeteers, gadgetries, gadgetry, gadgets, gadgety, gadi, gadid, gadids, gadis, gadoid, gadoids, gadolinite, gadolinites, gadolinium, gadoliniums, gadroon, gadrooned, gadrooning, gadroonings, gadroons, gads, gadwall, gadwalls, gadzookeries, gadzookery, gadzooks. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "GAD": egad. (additional references) | |
Words containing "GAD": aggadic, braggadocio, braggadocios, brigade, brigaded, brigades, brigadier, brigadiers, brigading, egads, fanegada, fanegadas, hagadic, hagadist, hagadists, haggada, haggadah, haggadahs, haggadas, haggadic, haggadist, haggadistic, haggadists, haggadot, haggadoth, megadeal, megadeals, megadeath, megadeaths, megadose, megadoses, megadyne, megadynes, renegade, renegaded, renegades, renegading, renegado, renegadoes, renegados, rigadoon, rigadoons. (additional references) | |
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"GAD" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: agad, agj, agv, agw, gaat, gaav, gac, gada, gadd, gaddi, Gadfa, gadi, gado, Gadp, gadu, gadz, gaed, gaf, gah, gai, gaid, Gaida, gaj, gak, gald, gand, gaod, Gapdh, gaq, gav, gaw, gawd, Gawdy, gax, Gayda, gaz, gcd, gday, gdb, Gdi, gdp, Gdy, Gedi, gehd, gev, gfa, Ghada, ghade, giade, gic, Gid, gidi, giw, gix, gma, gmac, Gmax, gnac, gnad, gnade, Godd, Gozd, grd, gsd, gta, gtad, Gtdi, guad, gud, gudh, gudo, gwa, Gxa, gyd, igid, vad. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "GAD" (pronounced ga"d) |
| 2 | -a" d | ad, add, bad, Brad, cad, Chad, clad, dad, lad, mad, fad, forbad, glad, grad, had, pad, plaid, rad, sad, Scad, shad, tad. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: dag. | |
| Words within the letters "a-d-g" | |
-1 letter: ad, ag. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-d-g" | |
+1 letter: aged, dago, dags, dang, drag, egad, gadi, gads, gaed, gaud, glad, goad, grad. | |
+2 letters: adage, algid, badge, cadge, cadgy, caged, dagga, dagos, dangs, degas, dogma, donga, drags, egads, fadge, gaddi, gadid, gadis, gaged, gamed, gaped, gated, gauds, gaudy, gazed, glade, glads, glady, gland, goads, gonad, grade, grads, grand, guard, paged, pagod, raged, waged. | |
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