(n.) Father; -- a word sometimes used by children.
Example Sentences:
(1) To many he was a rockstar, to me he was simply 'Dad', and I loved him hugely.
(2) The reason I liked them was because they were a band, and my dad had a band.
(3) My dad had just died, and he was born on the very same day, in the very same year.
(4) Prince was named after his father's own stage persona, and when his parents split up he became determined to better his dad on piano.
(5) If he was a cartoon character, he’d be … On looks alone, American Dad’s Stan Smith .
(6) It will make entering the market more difficult still for new buyers, further highlighting the importance of the right timing, advice, support and financial planning; and not just having a mum and dad who bought a house, but a grandparent, too.” Average UK house price reaches £288,000 Read more The average property price in the UK, currently £283,565, is expected to double by 2030, breaking through the £500,000 mark to £557,444.
(7) I saw my dad sitting in the audience, looking at me like, “Yes, he really is crazy.” Having listened to thousands of people, I realised we had a narrow view of what the environment is.
(8) He is Taurus and I'm Pisces; my dad was Pisces and my mum was Taurus.
(9) DADs may reach a magnitude in which extrinsic interventions may not adequately terminate sustained triggered activity.
(10) Flaviu, a two-year-old male about the size of a cocker spaniel, arrived at the zoo from a park in Kent after being separated from his mum and dad for the first time.
(11) Multivariate techniques for LC-DAD data are shown to suffer from inherent limitations of sensitivity for the minor components.
(12) When we reached our summit, or whatever spot was deemed by my father to be of adequately punishing distance from the car to deserve lunch, Dad would invariably find he had forgotten his Swiss army knife (looking back, I begin to doubt he ever had one) and instead would cut cheese into slices with the edge of his credit card.
(13) Not just going to a live show, but that kind of live show, with that kind of audience, the kind where mums and dads either have to tag along or turn up at the end to pick their children up.
(14) "It's made him more real, more of a person for me, whereas when I was a little girl I would say to my friends 'My dad died in the war' but it didn't mean anything to me because I never knew him.
(15) I cook, I save money, I do my own thing.’ Photograph: Antonio Olmos Laura: 'I couldn't live at home with my dad any longer.
(16) There they are, drinking again.’” Harper is a loner – a suburban boy who went trainspotting with his dad; whose asthma stopped him playing ice hockey That scorn appears to have interrupted the clever student’s journey to the top of the class.
(17) "But my dad ran a furniture business, which he lost at the time of the Great Recession before dying of a brain haemorrhage," he says.
(18) The road to gaining nearly 1.2 billion monthly active users has seen the mums, dads, aunts and uncles of the generation who pioneered Facebook join it too, spamming their walls with inspirational quotes and images of cute animals, and (shock, horror) commenting on their kids' photos.
(19) Throughout his life, Dad observed the rule that profanity – effing and blinding as he called it – should be confined to workplaces and other all-male venues where men gathered outside the earshot of women and children.
(20) In his V-neck sweater, dad jeans and white New Balance sneakers, Michael Lewis doesn’t look like a troublemaker.
Dade
Definition:
(v. t.) To hold up by leading strings or by the hand, as a child while he toddles.
(v. i.) To walk unsteadily, as a child in leading strings, or just learning to walk; to move slowly.
Example Sentences:
(1) 127 determinations of prothrombin time and INR with 2 different thromboplastin reagents (Thromboplastin C Dade and Owren reagent) have been performed in 73 patients.
(2) Linearity between clotting time and heparin concentration was observed with WBCT and APTT, determined with Hyland partial thromboplastin (kaolin-activated) and Dade ("Improved" Activated Cephaloplastin and Actin) reagents.
(3) The reaction-rate (Dade) and clot-density (Sherwood) methods for determining plasma fibrinogen were compared.
(4) The port of Miami is the right place because it will create a great stadium, it will energize downtown, it will create jobs and economic value.” The task now facing Beckham, his investors and advisors, who have pledged to privately fund the building of the stadium and its ancillary elements, is to convince Miami-Dade county to let out (or perhaps just hand over) a significant plot of some of the most valuable real estate in the United States in aid of a sport that has already failed once in the city , while also providing tax breaks that would somewhat offset any rent income.
(5) Three activated partial thromboplastin time (APTT) reagent test systems, General Diagnostics Automated APTT, American Dade Actin FS, and Pacific Hemostasis (Thromboscreen KAPTT) reagent, containing different activators for the APTT assay, were evaluated for their precision and sensitivity to factor deficiencies in the intrinsic coagulation system.
(6) After tissue heart valve replacement 108 patients were randomised to standard anticoagulant control with rabbit brain thromboplastin (Dade C reagent, therapeutic range 18-24 s; international normalised ratio 2.5-40) and 102 to a less intensive regimen controlled with human brain thromboplastin (Manchester Comparative Reagent, therapeutic range 26-30 s; INR 2.0-2.25).
(7) A study of deaths due to organophosphate and related "cholinesterase-inhibiting" pesticides was performed on the case files of the office of the Medical Examiner in Metropolitan Dade County in Miami, Florida, USA.
(8) Suicide among nonwhites was studied using the case files of the office of the Medical Examiner of Metropolitan Dade County in Miami, Florida.
(9) In Dade County, with a growing population of approximately 1.7 million people that includes large migrant and illegal alien populations, fire-related deaths decreased from 26 in 1985 and 27 in 1986 to 17 in 1987.
(10) The Dade method had the advantages of being less affected by high concentrations of heparin, being applicable to either citrated or oxalated plasma, requiring considerably less time (especially for certain abnormal plasmas), and requiring less technical sophistication.
(11) Whatever the result in Florida the election was chaotic, with huge lines forming in Miami-Dade, which were blamed by some on Republican machinations to discourage Democrats from voting.
(12) This assay was compared with the Dade Protopath fluorometric assay.
(13) Willie Sams, 21, died on 5 February after a confrontation with officers from the Miami-Dade police department, a separate agency.
(14) During the decade of 1972 to 1982, Dade County Fire Rescue handled 265,060 incidents; 16 claims were filed with the Risk Management Division of Dade County.
(15) In Dade County (which includes incorporated Miami), Florida (1990 population: 1.9 million), the average daily number of persons who are homeless is estimated to be 6000; during a 1-year period, approximately 10,000 persons are homeless at some time (Dr. Andrew Cherry, Barry University, Miami, personal communication, 1991).
(16) In a previous work, we have shown that 3,3'-diallyldiethylstilbestrol (DADES), a synthetic estrogen which is a blocker of the glucose transporter, also inhibits the hydrosmotic response to ADH in the bladder.
(17) We evaluated four new nonisotopic immunoassays of free thyroxin (FT4)--Amerlite FT4 (Amersham International), Magic Lite FT4 (Ciba Corning Diagnostics), Stratus FT4 (Dade--Baxter Travenol), and FT4 Enzelsa (Compagnie ORIS Industrie)--by comparison with two FT4 radioimmunoassays: Amerlex and Sclavo.
(18) In this study, the frequency of suicide pacts was found to be greatest for Japan; lover pacts were found to be typical for Japan; spouse pacts were typical for Dade County and England; and friend pact frequency was greatest for Bangalore City.
(19) An extensive outbreak of waterborne typhoid fever occurred in 1973 at a migrant labor camp in Dade County, Florida.
(20) Dade County, Florida (greater Miami), with a population of 1.7 million, currently is served by 339 certified paramedics.