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Definition: Tat |
TatNoun1. Tastelessness by virtue of being cheap and vulgar. 2. A projective technique using black-and-white pictures; subjects tell a story about each picture. Verb1. Make lacework by knotting or looping. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "tat" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1814. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Slang in 1811 | TAT. Tit for tat; an equivalent. Source: 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| 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 |
TAT | Dutch | Transactivatorproteïne | Medicine |
TAT | English | Tuned aperiodic tuned | N/A |
TAT | Finnish | Projektiivinen persoonallisuustesti | Medicine |
TAT | French | Test d'aperception thématique | Medicine |
TAT | German | Thematischer Apperzeptions-Test | Medicine |
TAT | Greek | δοκιμασία της θεματικής αντίληψης | Medicine |
TAT | Italian | Thematic Apperception Test | Medicine |
tat | Spanish | Gen tat | Medicine |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
Synonyms: TatSynonyms: cheapness (n), sleaze (n), tackiness (n), intertwine (v). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Crossing | Twine, entwine, weave, inweave, twist, wreathe; anastomose, inosculate, dovetail, splice, link; lace, tat. |
Interchange | Barter; tit for tat; (retaliation); cross fire,barter; tit for tat; (retaliation); cross fire, battledore and shuttlecock; quid pro quo. |
Junction | Attach, fix, affix, saddle on, fasten, bind, secure, clinch, twist, make fast; Adjective: tie, pinion, string, strap, sew, lace, tat, tack, knit, button, buckle, hitch, lash, truss, bandage, braid, splice, swathe, gird, tether, moor, picket, harness, chain; fetter; (restrain); lock, latch, belay, brace, hook, grapple, leash, couple, accouple, link, yoke, bracket; marry; (wed); bridge over, span. |
Retaliation | Give and take, blow for blow, quid pro quo, a Roland for an Oliver, measure for measure, diamond cut diamond, the biter bit, a game at which two can play; reproof valiant, retort courteous. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Tat |
| Specialty definitions using "tat": Beans ♦ Gene Products, tat, Genes, tat ♦ Roland ♦ TAT MONGER, TIT FOR TAT. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Tat" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. German (accomplishment, achievement, act, action, crime, deed, did, feat, feats), Hungarian (aft end, poop, stern, sternward), Romansch (grandfather), Turkish (Flavor, flavour, gustatory, relish, sapidity, sauce, savor, savoriness, savour, savouriness, sweet, taste, zest), Yucatec (father, grandfather). |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | I tawt I taw a damn Yankee tat. (The Rebel Without Claws; writing credit: Friz Freleng) | |
Lyrics | When it comes the Brat tat tat tat (Funkdafied; performing artist: Da Brat) Wo er alles tat (Rock Me Amadeus; performing artist: Falco) With the rat, tat, tat, tat, tat, tat on the drums, hey (TURN THE BEAT AROUND; performing artist: Gloria Estefan) Tat on my neck (Just A Baby Boy; performing artist: Tyrese) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Der Fluch der bösen Tat (1962) Trip for Tat (1960) Die Tat des Anderen (1951) Putty Tat Trouble (1951) Bad Ol' Putty Tat (1949) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | Es gibt zwar Tater, aber keine Tat!. Credit: Library of Congress. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
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| "Tattoo" by Christie Ortiz Commentary: "This is the arm of one of the airbrushed girls in my office. It says "Sweden Forever" on the tat, as the name of one of our stores is Sweden Bookstore..." |
Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers. |
| "Tat" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 83.75% of the time. "Tat" is used about 80 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) | 83.75% | 67 | 40,952 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 8.75% | 7 | 133,076 |
| Noun (proper) | 5% | 4 | 175,879 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 2.5% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 80 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "tat" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Tat | Last name | 170 | 45,173 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
| Country | Name | Country | Name |
| Israel | TAT Technologies Limited | Turkey | Tat Konserve Sanayii A.S. |
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Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.
Expressions using "tat": give tit for tat ♦ tit for tat. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "tat": tat-eared, tat-like. | |
Ending with "tat": tit-for-tat. | |
Containing "tat": rat-tat-tat!, rat-tat-tats, Rat-tat-tat-ta, rat-tat-tatted, tit-tat-toe. | |
| 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. |
| Language | Translations for "tat"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | thur dantella. (various references) | |
Arabic | ملابس رثة (cast offs), سقط المتاع (junk, lumber, offal, raffle, rubbish, stuff, trash, write off), خرم (perforate, pierce, punch, tap). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | грубо платно, зебло (bagging, gunny, sackcloth, sacking), плета дантела със совалка. (various references) | |
Chinese | 針鋒相對 (tit for tat). (various references) | |
Czech | oko za oko (tit for tat), odplatit komu stejným (give tit for tat). (various references) | |
Dutch | trans-activatorgen (tat gene, transactivator gene), tat-gen (tat gene, transactivator gene). (various references) | |
Finnish | sana sanasta (tit for tat). (various references) | |
French | friperie, faire de la frivolité, camelote. (various references) | |
German | trans-Aktivator-Gen (tat gene, transactivator gene), tat-Gen (tat gene, transactivator gene), wie du mir (tit for tat), so ich dir (tit for tat). (various references) | |
Greek | πλέκω δαντέλαν. (various references) | |
Hebrew | אריג גס, בד מרופט. (various references) | |
Hungarian | tata (guv, guvnor), apuci. (various references) | |
Italian | fare il chiacchierino. (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 買い言葉 (tit for tat), 竹箆返し (retaliating, returning tit for tat), 仕返し (being even with, reprisal, retaliation, revenge, tit for tat). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | しっぺいがえし (retaliating, returning tit for tat), しかえし (being even with, reprisal, retaliation, revenge, tit for tat), かいことば (tit for tat). (various references) | |
Manx | tattal (tatting). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | attay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | trabalhar em espiguilha, fazer renda de bilros, fazer espiguilha. (various references) | |
Romanian | ochi pentru ochi. (various references) | |
Russian | плести кружево, плести кружева/ тат. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | heklati (crochet), gruba indijska tkanina. (various references) | |
Spanish | ropa vieja, objetos viejos, hacer encaje, basura (catlap, dirt, draff, dregs, dust, dustbin, garbage, junk, leak, litter, mullock, refuse, rubbish, scourings, trash, waste). (various references) | |
Swedish | krimskrams (frills, kitsch, knick-knacks, white elephant). (various references) | |
Thai | ตี เตะ ตบ หรือทุบเบาๆ. (various references) | |
Turkish | kısasa kısas (eye for an eye, tit for tat), dişe diş (retaliation, tit for tat), aynen karşılık (tit for tat). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | груба парусина з джуту, гральні кості (bone, dice), плести мереживо. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "tat": tatami, tatamis, tatar, tatars, tate, tater, taters, tates, tatouay, tatouays, tats, tatted, tatter, tatterdemalion, tatterdemalions, tattered, tattering, tatters, tattersall, tattersalls, tattie, tattier, tatties, tattiest, tattily, tattiness, tattinesses, tatting, tattings, tattle, tattled, tattler, tattlers, tattles, tattletale, tattletales, tattling, tattoo, tattooed, tattooer, tattooers, tattooing, tattooist, tattooists, tattoos, tatty. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "tat": aerostat, antistat, appestat, bacteriostat, cryostat, diktat, gyrostat, habitat, heliostat, hemostat, humidistat, microhabitat, photostat, pyrostat, ratatat, rheostat, stat, thermostat. (additional references) | |
Words containing "tat": acceptation, acceptations, accreditation, accreditations, acetate, acetated, acetates, adaptation, adaptational, adaptationally, adaptations, aerostatics, aerostats, affectation, affectations, afforestation, afforestations, agitate, agitated, agitatedly, agitates, agitating, agitation, agitational, agitations, agitative, agitato, agitator, agitators, alimentation, alimentations, amputate, amputated, amputates, amputating, amputation, amputations, annotate, annotated, annotates, annotating, annotation, annotations, annotative, annotator, annotators, antistate, antistatic, apostate, apostates, apostatise. (additional references) | |
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"Tat" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Atat, atnt, Attf, Attu, Btat, Ctta, etat, Gtatc, itat, itet, taat, tabt, taet, taf, tagt, taht, taj, takt, talt, tamt, tapt, taq, tash, tast, tata, tatb, tati, Tatu, taty, tav, tawt, taxt, tct, terat, Teti, tett, tewt, tft, tht, tiat, titi, titt, titu, tity, tlt, tott, trat, tt, tta, tti, ttm, ttr, ttt, ttx, tty, tuat, Tuath, tutt. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "tat" (pronounced ta"t) |
| 3 | t a" t | stat. |
| 2 | -a" t | at, bat, batt, begat, brat, cat, chat, fat, flat, Gat, gnat, hat, Kat, mat, Matt, matte, nonfat, Pat, rat, sat, scat, slat, spat, splat, that, vat. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: att. | |
| Words within the letters "a-t-t" | |
-1 letter: at, ta. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-t-t" | |
+1 letter: batt, matt, stat, tact, tart, tate, tats, taut, teat, that, watt. | |
+2 letters: atilt, attar, attic, batts, battu, batty, betta, catty, cotta, datto, fatty, gutta, latte, lytta, matte, matts, natty, ottar, patty, ratty, scatt, start, state, stats, stoat, sutta, tacet, tacit, tacts, taint, tanto, tarot, tarts, tarty, taste, tasty, tatar, tater, tates, tatty, taunt, tauts, teats, tecta, testa, tetra, theta, titan, toast, total, tract, trait, trapt, treat, vitta, watts. | |
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