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Definition: Cad |
CadNoun1. Someone who is morally reprehensible; "you dirty dog". 2. Software used in art and architecture and engineering and manufacturing to assist in precision drawing. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "cad" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1814. (references) |
Note: Cad \Cad\, noun. [Abbreviation from cadet.]. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Computing | CAD Computer Aided Design. Source: The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing. |
Literature | Cad A low, vulgar fellow; an omnibus conductor. Either from cadet, or a contraction of cadger (a packman). The etymology of cad, a cadendo, is only a pun. N.B.- The Scotch cadie or cawdic (a little servant, or errand-boy, or carrier of a sedan-chair), without the diminutive, offers a plausible suggestion. "All Edinburgh men and boys know that when sedan-chairs were discontinued, the old cadies sank into ruinous poverty, and became synonymous with roughs. The word was brought to London by James Hannay, who frequently used it."- M. Pringle. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
Multilingual Slang | Dutch (hufter ). (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
The acronym CAD stands for computer-aided design today, and the term encompasses a wide range of computer-based tools that assist engineers in their design activities.
Earlier, an alternative reading "computer-assisted drafting" was in use. A related acronym, CADD, stands for "computer-assisted drafting and design". It refers to the designing and technical drawing of various engineering or architectural projects on a computer rather than a traditional drawing board.
Since early days of computers they were used to perform calculations for designers. It is argued that a turning point was the development of SKETCHPAD system in MIT in 1963 by Ivan Sutherland. The distinctive feature of SKETCHPAD was that it allowed the designer to interact with computer graphically: the design can be fed into the computer by drawing on a CRT monitor with a light pen.
Effectively, it was a prototype of graphical user interface, an indispensable feature of modern CAD.
First commercial applications of CAD were in large companies in automotive and aerospace industry, as well as in electronics. As computers started being more affordable, the application area gradually expanded.
CAD implementations have evolved dramatically since then. When the field was initially established it was typically limited to producing drawings similar to hand drafted drawings. Advances in computer technology have allowed more skillful application of computers in design activities. Today CAD is not limited to drafting and rendering, and it ventures into more "intellectual" areas of designer's expertise.
The capabilities of modern CAD systems include
CAD: (1) Computer Software
Development in CAD resulted in the following tools and methods:See also
CAD: (2) Currency
CAD is the ISO 4217-code for the Canadian Dollar''CAD: (3) Medical
CAD an acronym used for Computer Assisted Dispatch.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "CAD."
| 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 |
CAD | Dutch | Ontwerpen met behulp van een computer | Electrical Engineering |
CAD | English | Coronary Artery Disease | N/A |
CAD | French | Comité d'aide au développement | Business, Economics |
CAD | German | Computergestützter Entwurf | Computing, Mechanical Engineering |
CAD | Greek | σχεδιασμός με τη βοήθεια υπολογιστή | Computing, Mechanical Engineering |
CAD | Italian | Progettazione assistita dal calcolatore | Computing, Mechanical Engineering |
CAD | Swedish | Datorstödd konstruktion | Computing, Mechanical Engineering |
| CAVE | English | CAD for VLSI in Europe | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
Synonyms: CadSynonyms: blackguard (n), bounder (n), computer-aided design (n), dog (n), heel (n), hound (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Commonalty | Peasant, countryman, boor, carle, churl; villain, villein; terrae filius; serf, kern, tyke, tike, chuff, ryot, fellah; longshoreman; swain, clown, hind; clod, clodhopper; hobnail, yokel, bog-trotter, bumpkin; plowman, plowboy; rustic, hayseed, lunkhead, chaw-bacon, tiller of the soil; hewers of wood and drawers of water, groundling; gaffer, loon, put, cub, Tony Lumpkin, looby, rube, lout, underling; gamin; rough; pot-wallopper, slubberdegullion; vulgar fellow, low fellow; cad, curmudgeon. |
Servant | Attendant, squire, usher, page, donzel, footboy; train bearer, cup bearer; waiter, lapster, butler, livery servant, lackey, footman, flunky, flunkey, valet, valet de chambre; equerry, groom; jockey, hostler, ostler, tiger, orderly, messenger, cad, gillie, herdsman, swineherd; barkeeper, bartender; bell boy, boots, boy, counterjumper; khansamah, khansaman; khitmutgar; yardman. |
Vulgarity | Rough diamond, tomboy, hoyden, cub, unlicked cub; clown; (commonalty); Goth, Vandal, Boeotian; snob, cad, gent; parvenu; frump, dowdy; slattern. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Cad |
| Specialty definitions using "cad": 3D printing ♦ ACIS, American Society of Mechanical Engineers, Apollo Computer, AutoCAD, Autodesk, Inc., Autolisp ♦ B-LINE ♦ Cash Against Documents, Computer Aided Design ♦ DESIGN TECHNICIAN, COMPUTER-AIDED, Documents Upon Payment, DRAFTER, ELECTRICAL, Drawing eXchange Format ♦ field-programmable gate array ♦ gamma correction, graphic workstation, graybar land ♦ IGES, initial graphics exchange specification ♦ LPG ♦ MicroStation ♦ Non-Uniform Rational B Spline ♦ pointing device, product design, Professional Graphics Adapter ♦ Standard d'Echange et de Transfert, Standard for the exchange of product model data ♦ three dimensional printing, TLAs, tracker ball ♦ U'niversity ♦ Variational Graphics eXtended. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Cad" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. Czech (cad), Irish (what, what is), Welsh (army, battle, host). |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | What a hopeless cad I've been (All Dogs Go to Heaven; writing credit: Don Bluth; Ken Cromar) | |
Clever | You are an engineer if you use a CAD package to design your son's Pine Wood Derby car. (references; author: unknown) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Cad and Caddy (1947) An Honorable Cad (1919) The Cad (1916) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | Cad Coles. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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Business | Additionally, there are several suppliers of CAD software for specific industries and engineering specialties, such as construction, architecture and internal installations such as air-conditioning, heating, ventilation, water supply and wastewater. (references) | |
Economic History | Australia | As domestic demand has slowed and exports improved over 2000, Australia's CAD fell to its current sustainable level. (references) |
Australia | Over 1998 and 1999, however, a combination of lower exports to Asia and strong domestic demand for imports generated a major increase in the CAD. (references) | |
Netherlands | Linux' market share is estimated at 5-10 percent with limited growth forecast during 2001. UNIX is the most commonly used operating system for servers in the Netherlands, although it is expected that further growth in the UNIX segment will primarily come from the more technical and CAD markets. (references) | |
Trade | Israel | A combination of L/C and CAD issued for the same Bill of Lading is also acceptable to most local banks. (references) |
India | Documents on Acceptance: As in the CAD method of payment, negotiable documents are sent through a bank to the buyer. (references) | |
India | In cases where the payment terms are other than a L/C, such as cash against documents (CAD) or document against acceptance (DA), the exporter will be paid only after the payment is received from the buyer. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Cad" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 83.15% of the time. "Cad" is used about 178 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 (singular) | 83.15% | 148 | 25,903 |
| Noun (proper) | 15.17% | 27 | 66,962 |
| Noun (common) | 1.69% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Total | 100.00% | 178 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Country | Name |
| Italy | CAD IT S.p.A. |
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Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.
Expressions using "cad": behavioural CAD ♦ Cad Framework Initiative ♦ CAD N/C tapes. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "cad": cad-cam, cad-generated, cad-vile, CAD-ympäristöjen. | |
Ending with "cad": ni-cad, non-cad, P-CAD. | |
| 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 |
auto cad | 5,034 | cad viewer | 127 |
cad | 2,438 | cad drawing | 125 |
cad software | 886 | auto cad drawing | 117 |
2004 auto cad | 653 | auto cad free download | 116 |
auto cad 2000 | 592 | auto cad job | 113 |
cad cam | 525 | auto cad 14 | 110 |
auto cad 2002 | 499 | cad dallas | 104 |
cad design | 296 | auto block cad free | 92 |
auto cad download | 227 | 3d cad | 92 |
auto cad lt | 226 | block cad | 90 |
auto cad viewer | 206 | cad free ware | 84 |
auto cad block | 178 | 2004 auto cad lt | 77 |
auto cad tutorial | 167 | auto cad symbol | 72 |
cad program | 157 | auto cad lisp | 69 |
auto cad training | 152 | auto cad lite | 68 |
cad job | 148 | 3d auto cad | 65 |
free auto cad | 147 | turbo cad | 62 |
free cad software | 144 | auto cad lt 2002 | 60 |
free cad | 132 | cad services | 60 |
auto cad software | 131 | auto bloques cad | 59 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "cad"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | kopuk (bad character, blackguard, knave, miscreant, rapscallion, rascal, reprobate, ruffian, scamp, scapegrace, varmint, villain), horr (knave, rat, reprobate, rough neck, ruffian, scoundrel, villain). (various references) | |
Arabic | نذل (ragamuffin, rascally, scoundrel, scoundrelly, villainous), وغد (miscreant, rascal, rogue, scoundrel, tear away), إبن المدينة. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | гражданин (citizen, national, oppidan, subject, townee, townsman), мръсник (bugger, cuntface, heel, sod, stinkard), простак (bounder, buffoon, fellow, hog, lout, oaf, outsider, philistine, savage, schmo, schnook, slob, spoon, twerp, vulgarian). (various references) | |
Chinese | "脑制图. (various references) | |
Czech | cad, nevychovanec (bounder, lout). (various references) | |
Danish | CAD numerisk kontrolbånd (CAD N/C tapes), adfærdsmæssigt konstruktionshjælpemiddel (behavioural CAD, behavioural design aid). (various references) | |
Dutch | CAD N/C-diskettes (CAD N/C tapes), ondersteuning bij het ontwerpen van het gedrag van basiscomponenten (behavioural CAD, behavioural design aid). (various references) | |
Farsi | پست وبدون مبادی اداب بودن , ادم بی تربیت (Boor). (various references) | |
Finnish | toiminnallinen tietokoneavusteinen suunnittelu (behavioural CAD, behavioural design aid), numeeriset CAD-ohjausnauhat (CAD N/C tapes). (various references) | |
French | ignoble. (various references) | |
German | Schuft (blackguard, cheat, crook, cur, heel, meanie, rascal, rogue, scamp, scoundrel, villain, wretch), Prolet (pleb, prole). (various references) | |
Greek | παλιοτόμαρο (scallywag, scoundrel), παληάνθρωποσ (varlet, villain). (various references) | |
Hebrew | בז" (contemptible, despicable, despised, mean, mean-spirited, measly, nasty, ornery, scamp, shameful, sordid, villain, worm, wretched). (various references) | |
Hungarian | csirkefogó (badmash, gouge, knave, rapscallion, rascal, rogue, rowdy, scamp, scampish, scoundrel), csibész (badmash, bratty, gutter-snipe, knave, rascally, scoundrel, scoundrelly, urchin, wide boy), jellemtelen fráter, gazfickó (caitiff, knave, miscreant, rogue), fajankó (boob, booby, bumpkin, duffer, dummy, dunce, goof, goofy, goose, hawbuck, hick, juggins, lob, loon, lout, lummox, lunkhead, numb-skull, numskull, oaf, pumpkin-head, simple sammy), durva ember (ape, boor, pig, savage). (various references) | |
Indonesian | tak tahu diri, orang yang tahu diri, orang biadab (barbarian). (various references) | |
Italian | mascalzone (blackguard, rascal, rogue, rotter, scalawag, scallywag, scoundrel, villain, yahoo), maleducato (boor, boorish, bounder, caddish, ill bred, ill mannered, impolite, mannerless, rude, underbred). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | コン"ューター援"設計 (computer-aided design). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | コン"ューターえ"ようせっけい (computer-aided design). (various references) | |
Manx | rag-rannee (crook, good-for-nothing, rascal, reprobate, rogue, tough), dolteen (whippersnapper). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | adcay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | criado (attendant, boy, dependant, dependent, domestic, footman, go-soon, groom, jackal, menial, minion, servant, servitor, valent, waiter), condutor de ônibus, reles (bush-league, caddish, cheap, hard-fisted, paltry, picayune), pessoa sem educação, mulherengo (dangler, do-naught, good-for-nothing, laggard, womanizer), indivíduo grosseiro (chaw-bacon, lout, mucker), gigolô (gigolo), auxiliar (accessorial, accomodate, adjunct, adjuvant, aid, ancillary, assist, assistant, auxilary, auxiliary, avail, back, candle-holder, favor, favour, friend, hand, handy man, help, helper, lend a hand, minister, ministerial, patronize, preventer, protect, relieve, second, secondary, subsidiary, succor, succour, support). (various references) | |
Romanian | ticãlos (a bad egg, base, canting, cur, dark, dirty, felon, foul, heel, hound, impious, kite, knave, knavish, knavishly, low-minded, mean, meanly, miscreant, paltry, perverse, picaroon, rapscallion, rascal, rascally, recreant, reprobate, ruffian, scab, scabby, scamp, scoundrel, scurvy, serpentine, shabby, skunk, sneak, sneaking, vile, villain, villainous, wretch, wretched), secãturã (good for nothing, ne'er do well, reprobate, rotter, scapegrace, trifles), nespãlat (caddish, dirty, unwashed), nemernic (base, caitiff, felon, foul, rascal, rascally, reprobate, scamp, scoundrel, sneak, sneaking, son of a gun, villain, wretch, wretched), mojic (boor, churl, cur, hawbuck), mitocan (boor, clown, mobbish, rustic), golan (good for nothing, hooligan, ragamuffin, ragged, rascal, ruffian, tramp, urchin, vagabond, wretch), bãdãran (bearish, boor, bumpkin, churl, churlish, clown, curmudgeon, hawbuck, hind, lout, oaf, peasant, rough, yokel). (various references) | |
Russian | сапр;хам, хам (lout, mucker, twerp, tyke), грубиян (boor, butch, chuff, churl, curmudgeon, mucker, tike, twerp, tyke), невежа. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | podlac (heel, knave, scoundrel), nitkov (blackguard, cur, scamp, scoundrel). (various references) | |
Spanish | sinvergüenza (blackguard, blighter, bounder, miscreant, rotter, scoundrel, shameless, shocker, you little beggar, you little perisher). (various references) | |
Swedish | lymmel (backguard, lout, rascal, scamp, scoundrel). (various references) | |
Turkish | kimse (anybody, anyone, no man, no one, nobody, one, person, somebody, someone, soul, thing, Wallah, Wight), kişi (head, individual, person, persona, poll, self, soul, Wallah, Wight), kaba adam (backwoodsman, bear, boor, caveman, churl, clown, lout, mucker, yahoo), ahlaksız kimse. (various references) | |
Ukrainian | хамло (yap), кондуктор диліжанса, грубіян (bearish, bucko, chuff, churl, cur, nowt, snapper, termagant, twerp, tyke, ugly customer), нечема (churl), негідник (blackguard, caitiff, cullion, gallows, miscreant, niddering, pimp, rascal, reprobate, scoundrel, skunk, thief, varlet, wretch), непорядна людина. (various references) | |
Vietnamese | đứa bé nhặt bóng, đ" vô lại (black sheep, losel, tike, tyke), đ" ti tiện, đ" đểu cáng. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "cad": cadaster, cadasters, cadastral, cadastrally, cadastre, cadastres, cadaver, cadaveric, cadaverine, cadaverines, cadaverous, cadaverously, cadavers, caddice, caddices, caddie, caddied, caddies, caddis, caddises, caddish, caddishly, caddishness, caddishnesses, caddisworm, caddisworms, caddy, caddying, cade, cadelle, cadelles, cadence, cadenced, cadences, cadencies, cadencing, cadency, cadent, cadential, cadenza, cadenzas, cades, cadet, cadets, cadetship, cadetships, cadge, cadged, cadger, cadgers, cadges. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "cad": cycad, nicad, scad. (additional references) | |
Words containing "cad": abracadabra, abracadabras, academe, academes, academia, academias, academic, academical, academically, academician, academicians, academicism, academicisms, academics, academies, academism, academisms, academy, alcade, alcades, ambuscade, ambuscaded, ambuscader, ambuscaders, ambuscades, ambuscading, antiacademic, antiacademics, aquacade, aquacades, arcade, arcaded, arcades, arcadia, arcadian, arcadians, arcadias, arcading, arcadings, autocade, autocades, avocado, avocadoes, avocados, barricade, barricaded, barricades, barricading, barricado, barricadoed, barricadoes. (additional references) | |
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"Cad" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: acd, acda, Bcda, caa, Caac, caad, Caade, caaf, cac, Cacdp, Cada, cadd, cadg, cado, Cadwa, caf, Cagd, Caid, caj, caldo, cand, capd, caq, casdn, cau, caud, cav, cawd, cax, cayd, cbd, Ccaod, ccd, cdd, cdp, cdt, cead, ced, Cedf, cedm, chaud, ciad, Cibd, cidd, Cidg, cjd, ckd, cld, coad, cpd, cqa, cqd, crad, crd, Csabd, csad, csd, ctd, cvd, cyd, dcda, ecad, Icad, kad, Ocadu, ssad. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "cad" (pronounced ka"d) |
| 3 | k a" d | Scad. |
| 2 | -a" d | ad, add, bad, Brad, Chad, clad, dad, lad, mad, fad, forbad, gad, glad, grad, had, pad, plaid, rad, sad, shad, tad. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-d" | |
-1 letter: ad. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-d" | |
+1 letter: aced, acid, cade, cadi, cads, caid, card, chad, clad, coda, dace, scad. | |
+2 letters: ached, acids, acidy, acned, acold, acred, acrid, acted, adunc, alcid, arced, asdic, caddy, cades, cadet, cadge, cadgy, cadis, cadre, caged, caids, caird, caked, candy, caned, canid, caped, cards, cared, cased, cauld, caved, cawed, cedar, chads, chard, clade, clads, codas, cycad, daces, dacha, dance, daric, decaf, decal, decay, dicta, ducal, ducat, faced, laced, maced, nicad, octad, paced, raced, scads, scald. | |
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