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Definition: Fad |
FadNoun1. An interest followed with exaggerated zeal: "he always follows the latest fads"; "it was all the rage that season". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "fad" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1781. (references) |
Note: Fad \Fad\, noun. [Compare to Faddle.]. (Websters 1913) |
| Domain | Definitions |
Computing | FAD ["FAD, A Simple and Powerful Database Language", F. Bancilon et al, Proc 13th Intl Conf on VLDB, Brighton, England, Sep 1987]. Source: The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing. |
Literature | Fad (A). A hobby, a temporary fancy, a whim. A contraction of faddle in "fiddle-faddle." "Among the fads that Charley had taken up for a time was that of collecting old prints." - Eggleston: Faith Doctor, chap. iii. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
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 |
FAD | Danish | Flavinadenindinukleotid | Medicine |
FAD | English | Flavinadenine Dinucleotide | Chemistry |
FAD | French | Fonds d'assurance pour le développement | N/A |
FAD | Italian | Flavina adenin-dinucleotide | Medicine |
FAD | Spanish | Flavina adenina dinucleótido | Medicine |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
Synonyms: FadSynonyms: craze (n), cult (n), furor (n), furore (n), rage (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Caprice | Noun: caprice, fancy, humor; whim, whimsy, whimsey, whimwham; crotchet, capriccio, quirk, freak, maggot, fad, vagary, prank, fit, flimflam, escapade, boutade, wild-goose chase; capriciousness; Adjective: kink. |
Fashion | Custom; mode, vogue, go; rage; (desire); prevailing taste; fad, trend, bandwagon, furore, thing, in thing, craze, chic, last word. |
Misjudgment | Bias, bigotry, warp, twist; hobby, fad, quirk, crotchet, partiality, infatuation, blind side, mote in the eye. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Fad |
| English words defined with "fad": fad diet ♦ trendy ♦ voguish. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "fad": Dihydroorotate Oxidase ♦ KNIGHT ♦ Succinate Cytochrome c Oxidoreductase ♦ TLAs ♦ Xanthine Oxidase. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Fad" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. Danish (course, dish, plate, platter), German (insipid, stalely, undistinctive, undynamic, vapid, vapidly), Irish (extent, extent, length), Romanian (mawkish, musty, tasteless, vapid), Scottish (during the whole, length). |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | Only Quinn could turn having brains into a fad. (Daria; writing credit: Glenn Eichler; Peggy Nicoll) Aw, talking pictures, it's just a fad. (Footlight Parade; writing credit: Manuel Seff; James Seymour) A passing fad if I ever heard one. (Life with Louie; writing credit: Martin Miehe-Renard; Mette Andersen Ottesen) | |
Lyrics | In a world of postmodern fad ("Intuition"; performing artist: JEWEL) It's just like any fad it retracts before impact ("WALKIN' ON THE SUN"; performing artist: Smash Mouth) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Dr. Fad (1990) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | In FAD, several members of the same generation in a family are often affected. (references) | |
Familial AD (FAD) is a rare form of AD, affecting less than 10 percent of AD patients. (references) | ||
It is associated with gene mutations on chromosomes 1, 14, and 21. FAD is the result of a certain inheritance pattern called autosomal dominant. (references) | ||
Business | As such, FAD is an excellent source of information on Danish market competition. (references) | |
FAD (The Defense and Aerospace Industries Association in Denmark) is established under the umbrella of the Confederation of Danish Industries, the central organization for Danish manufacturing industry. (references) | ||
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | KNIGHT, n. Once a warrior gentle of birth, Then a person of civic worth, Now a fellow to move our mirth. Warrior, person, and fellow -- no more: We must knight our dogs to get any lower. Brave Knights Kennelers then shall be, Noble Knights of the Golden Flea, Knights of the Order of St. Steboy, Knights of St. Gorge and Sir Knights Jawy. God speed the day when this knighting fad Shall go to the dogs and the dogs go mad. |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Fad" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Fad" is used about 98 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) | 100% | 98 | 33,072 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "fad": fad diet. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "fad": fad-head. | |
Ending with "fad": mini-fad. | |
| 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 |
fad diet | 769 |
fad | 67 |
fad gadget | 46 |
fad jj | 38 |
diets.com fad | 11 |
j.j fad | 10 |
fad jj lyrics | 10 |
fad diet free | 10 |
fad dieting | 8 |
fad jj lyrics supersonic | 8 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "fad"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | trill (caprice, crotchet, device, deviltry, fancy, fantasy, freak, kink, phantasy, vagary, wantonness, whim, whimsy), modë (fashion, look, mode, rage, style, twig, vogue). (various references) | |
Arabic | موضة عابرة, هواية (avocation, fancy, hobby), ولد مهووس, زي (costume, fashion, garb, guise, style, twig, vogue), بدعة (heresy, novelty). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | краткотрайна мода, каприз (caprice, crank, fancy, fit, freak, maggot, megrim, quirk, vagary, vagrancy, whimsy, whim-wham), мания (craze, mania, obsession, rage), прищявка (caprice, crotchet, fizgig, kink, maggot, megrim, vagary, whim, whimsy, whim-wham). (various references) | |
Chinese | 风尚. (various references) | |
Czech | bláznivý nápad. (various references) | |
Finnish | keppihevonen (hobby-horse). (various references) | |
French | marotte. (various references) | |
German | fimmel (craze, mania, wedge), tick (kink, minimum price change, minimum price fluctuation, minimum quotation spread, point, quirk, tic, tick), mode (apparel, fashion, fashionwear, mode, taste, vogue), masche (craze, dodge, hole, ladder, link, loop, mesh, pitch, ploy, run, stitch, trick), marotte (crank, foible, quirk). (various references) | |
Greek | φαντασιοπληξία (vagary, whim). (various references) | |
Hebrew | תחביב (hobby, hobbyhorse), אפ " חולפת. (various references) | |
Hungarian | hóbort (caprice, craze, eccentricity, vagary, whim, whimsy). (various references) | |
Indonesian | mode (mode, vogue), kesukaan (fondness, like, predilection), kelaziman (custom, the fashion, usage), demam (ague, aguish, cold, fever, feverish), anutan (adherence, conviction belief). (various references) | |
Italian | mania (addiction, craze, crotchet, mania, obession, rage, searches, trick, wedge), capriccio (caprice, device, fancy, freak, kink, maggot, mood, sulkiness, vagary, whim, whimsy). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 時好 (fashion), 流行り (fashionable, in vogue, prevailing), 流行 (fashionable, in vogue, prevailing). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | りゅう"う (fashionable, in vogue, prevailing), じ"う (automobile industry, earhole, earwax, facts, fashion, imperial tutor, inside the ear, item, matter, season, statute of limitations, time of the year), はやり (fashionable, in vogue, prevailing). (various references) | |
Korean | 일시 행. (various references) | |
Manx | teihys (choiceness), teaym (attack, bout, bout of sickness, caprice, fit, mood, notion, seizure, spasm, swoon, vagary, whim), flustyrnee (footle, niggle, potter, pottering). (various references) | |
Norwegian | kjepphest, innfall (impulse, quirk). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | adfay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | novidade (innovation, newness, news, novelty, vintage), mania (crank, craze, crotchet, furore, furred, habit, hang up, kink, mania), aptidão (ability, acquirement, aptitude, capability, fitness, incline, knack). (various references) | |
Romanian | moft (caprice, crotchet, trifle), marotã (bauble, fancy), manie (crank, craze, failing, foible, hobby, mania, monomania), capriciu (caprice, crotchet, fancy, freak, notion, quirk, whim, whimsy). (various references) | |
Russian | пунктик, причуда (antics, caprice, crank, foible, freak, kink, maggot, vagary, whimsy). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | privremena moda (furor, furore, rage). (various references) | |
Spanish | novedad (development, newness, news, novelty, originality, recency, release, strangeness), moda (fashion, look, mode, style, trend, vogue), manía (craze, foible, hobby horse, kink, mania, obsession, oddity, rage, thing, trick), ley (act, fineness, grade, law, statute, tenor). (various references) | |
Swedish | mani (craze, craziness, mania). (various references) | |
Turkish | tuhaflık (antics, Dido, grotesqueness, novelty, queerness, singularity, strangeness), moda (craze, fancy, fashion, fashionable, go, in, in the fashion, mode, rage, style, the done thing, ton, trendy, vogue, with it), merak (anxiety, avocation, bug, care, concern, crotchet, curiosity, disquiet, disquietude, fancy, hobby, interest, sensation, whim, wonderment, worry), heves (alacrity, ambition, anxiety, Ardor, ardour, brio, cult, desire, eagerness, enthusiasm, fancy, fit, freak, furor, furore, grace, inclination, itch, keenness, maggot, nine days' wonder, notion, relish, stomach, studiousness, whim, whimsey, whimsy, zeal), gariplik (crankiness, drollery, fantasticality, grotesqueness, oddity, oddness, singularity, strangeness, whimsicality, whimsicalness), çılgınlık (craze, craziness, delirium, distraction, escapade, foolhardiness, frenzy, fury, lunacy, madness, nuts, rabidness, rave, raving, ravings, vagary, wildness). (various references) | |
Ukranian | примха (buzz, caprice, fancy, fantasy, freak, maggot, megrim, vagary, wantonness, whim, whimsey, whimsy). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | sự thích thú kỳ cục, sự thích thú dở hơi, điều thích thú kỳ cục, điều thích thú dở hơi mốt nhất thời. (various references) | |
Welsh | mympwy (caprice, whim). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "fad": fadable, faddier, faddiest, faddish, faddishness, faddishnesses, faddism, faddisms, faddist, faddists, faddy, fade, fadeaway, fadeaways, faded, fadedly, fadein, fadeins, fadeless, fadeout, fadeouts, fader, faders, fades, fadge, fadged, fadges, fadging, fading, fadings, fado, fados, fads. (additional references) | |
Words containing "fad": nonfading, prefade, prefaded, prefades, prefading, sulfadiazine, sulfadiazines, unfaded, unfading, unfadingly. (additional references) | |
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"Fad" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: af, afad, afc, afd, afv, Dfda, efad, faa, faak, faav, faaw, facd, fada, Fadd, Fadda, Fadh, fadi, fadl, fado, fadz, faf, fah, fahd, fai, faid, faj, fak, fald, faldi, fam, fas, fau, faud, Faudi, fav, faw, faxd, faz, fca, fd, fda, Fdu, fead, feadz, fedd, Fedi, fedo, fedx, Fga, fha, fiad, Fidc, Fidh, fidi, fidj, fidl, fido, fidw, flad, Fma, Foad, fod, fodd, Fpda, frd, fsa, fsd, ftd, fuad, fudd, fudo, Fwa, ifid, kfa, Mfid, nfha, pfad, sfda, vad. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "fad" (pronounced fa"d) |
| 2 | -a" d | ad, add, bad, Brad, cad, Chad, clad, dad, forbad, gad, glad, grad, had, lad, mad, pad, plaid, rad, sad, Scad, shad, tad. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-d-f" | |
-1 letter: ad, fa. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-d-f" | |
+1 letter: daff, daft, deaf, fade, fado, fads, fard. | |
+2 letters: daffs, daffy, decaf, defat, draff, draft, dwarf, faced, faddy, faded, fader, fades, fadge, fados, faked, famed, farad, fards, fared, fated, fauld, faxed, fayed, fazed, fraud. | |
+3 letters: adrift, afeard, afford, afield, afraid, aidful, baffed, barfed, chafed, daffed, dafter, daftly, dayfly, deafen, deafer, deafly, decafs, deface, defame, defang, defats, defeat, deflea, defoam, defray, draffs, draffy, drafts, drafty, dwarfs, fabled, facade, fadein, faders, fadged, fadges, fading, fagged, failed, faired, fandom, fanged, fanned, fantod, farads, farced, farded, fardel, farmed, farted, fashed, fasted, fatted, faulds, fawned, feared, feased, feazed, fedora, feudal, flaked, flamed, flared, flawed, flayed, foaled, foamed, forbad, framed, frauds, frayed, gadfly, gaffed, hafted, leafed, loafed, malfed, rafted, shaduf, waffed, wafted, waifed, yaffed. | |
+4 letters: abfarad, acidify, afeared, affined, affixed, affords, baffled, bedfast, bedwarf, chaffed, crafted, daffier, daffily, daffing, daftest, damnify, dandify, dareful, deafens, deafest, deafish, defaced, defacer, defaces, defamed, defamer, defames, defangs, default, defeats, defiant, deflate, defleas, defoams, defraud, defrays, dewfall, distaff, dogface, drafted, draftee, drafter, dwarfed, dwarfer, effaced, endleaf, enfaced, facades, faceted, faciend, factoid, fadable, faddier, faddish, faddism, faddist, fadedly, fadeins, fadeout, fadging, fadings, fagoted, fainted, faithed, fancied, fandoms, fanfold, fantods, faraday, faradic, fardels, farding, farside, fatbird, fathead, fatidic, fatwood, faulted, favored, fazenda, feasted, fedayee, federal, fedoras, feedbag, fenland, feodary, feudary, fixated, flaccid, flacked, flagged, flailed, flammed, flanged, flanked, flapped, flashed, flatbed, flatted, floated, fluidal, fondant, footpad, foraged, forayed, forbade, forward, foulard, fracted, fragged, franked, frapped, freaked, froward, grafted, handful, handoff, indraft, leadoff, mudflap, mudflat, offhand, offload, piaffed, plafond, prefade, quaffed, raffled, redraft, refaced, sandfly, scarfed, seafood, shadfly, shadoof, shadufs, shafted, sheafed, snafued, staffed, strafed, unfaded, unfaked, unfazed, updraft, wafered, waffled, wharfed. | |
+5 letters: aardwolf, abfarads, aerified, affected, affirmed, afforded, affrayed, airfield, alderfly, argufied, basified, bedeafen, bedframe, bedwarfs, befleaed, birdfarm, boldface, canfield, casefied, daffiest, daffodil, daftness, dandriff, dandruff, dayflies, dayshift, deadfall, deadlift, deafened, deafness, dealfish, deathful, defacers, defacing, defamers, defaming, defanged, defatted, defaults, defeated, defeater, defecate, deferral, defiance, defilade, deflated, deflater, deflates, deflator, defleaed, defoamed, defoamer, defrauds, defrayal, defrayed, defrayer, deifical, denazify, dewfalls, diffract, disfavor, distaffs, dogfaces, downfall, draffier, draffish, draftees, drafters, draftier, draftily, drafting, dreadful, dreamful, driftage, dwarfest, dwarfing, dwarfish, dwarfism, enfilade, enflamed, enframed, facedown, facetted, faciends, factoids, factored, faddiest, faddisms, faddists, fadeaway, fadeless, fadeouts, faggoted, fahlband, fairlead, falcated, falderal, falderol, fallowed, faltered, famished, fandango, fanegada, fanfolds, faradaic, faradays, faradise, faradism, faradize, farmhand, farmland, farmyard, farrowed, farsides, fastened, fatbirds, fatheads, fathered, fathomed, fatigued, fattened, fatwoods, favoured, fazendas, featured, fedayeen, federacy, federals, federate, feedable, feedback, feedbags, feldspar, fellated, fenagled, fenlands, feudally, fiducial, filariid, filiated, filmcard, filmland, finagled, financed, findable, finialed, firedamp, flambeed, flancard, flatbeds, flathead, flatland, flaunted, flavored, flaxseed, floodway, fluidram, foldable, foldaway, foldboat, foliaged, foliated, fondants, foodways, footpads, forbidal, fordable, foredate, forehand, forehead, forelady, foreland, foresaid, foreyard, forrader, forwards, forzando, foulards, foveated, frazzled, freedman, freehand, freeload, fricando, fucoidal, furcated, furnaced, gadflies, gasified, gatefold, guffawed, handcuff, handfast, handfuls, handoffs, handsful, hayfield, headfish, holdfast, indrafts, inflamed, inflated, infrared, ladleful, ladyfish, landfall, landfill, landform, lapidify, leadoffs, leftward, manifold, manyfold, mudflaps, mudflats, nailfold, nazified, offguard, offloads, outfaced, pacified, panfried, pedalfer, plafonds, prefaced, prefaded, prefades, profaned, raftered, ramified, rarefied, rarified, ratified, redefeat, redrafts, reflated, reframed, safaried, safetied, salified, sandfish, scaffold, sclaffed, seafoods, selfward, semideaf, shadoofs, snaffled, softhead, spadeful, standoff, stedfast, sulfated, surfaced, tariffed, toadfish, toadflax, tradeoff, unafraid, unfading, unfeared, unframed, updrafts, upwafted, windfall, windflaw. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)46 61 64 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)..-. .- -.. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000110 01100001 01100100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)F a d |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0046 0061 0064 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)406770 |
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