Pat

Noun

 * 1) The sound of a light slap or tap with a soft flat object, especially of a footstep
 * 2) A light tap or slap, especially with the hands
 * 3) A flattish lump of soft matter, especially butter or dung.

Verb

 * 1) To (gently) tap the flat of one's hand on a person or thing.
 * To show affection, he decided he would pat the boy on the head.
 * 1) To hit lightly and repeatedly with the flat of the hand to make smooth or flat
 * I patted the cookie dough into shape.
 * 1) To gently rain.

Adjective

 * 1) trite, being superficially complete, lacking originality
 * Your manager is not going to be satisfied with your pat ideas for the new project.
 * 1) * 2010, New York Times, Editorial: Jobs and the Class of 2010, May 23.
 * The pat answer is that college students should consider graduate school as a way to delay a job search until things turn around, and that more high school students should go to college to improve their prospects. ''
 * 1) timely and suitable

Adverb

 * 1)  opportunely, in a timely or suitable way.
 * 2) * c. 1600, William Shakespeare, Hamlet III.iii
 * Now might I do it pat
 * 1) Perfectly.
 * He has the routine down pat.

Noun

 * 1) patent

Adverbs for Pat
reassuringly; benignly; affectionately; cornfortingly; approvingly; awkwardly; mechanically; caressingly; paternally.

Thesaurus
a propos, ad rem, adamant, adamantine, adapted, applicable, apposite, appreciated, apprehended, appropriate, apropos, apt, artful endearments, ascertained, at a standstill, batch, beak, becoming, befitting, blandishments, block, brush, bulk, bump, bunt, caress, chink, chuck, chunk, click, clink, clod, clop, clump, clunk, cocker, coddle, comprehended, conceived, cosset, crump, dab, dandle, discerned, dovetailing, down pat, dull thud, endearment, felicitous, fillip, firm, fit, fitted, fitting, flick, flip, flirt, flump, fondle, frozen, geared, gob, grasped, graze, happy, honeyed words, hunk, immobile, immotile, immotive, immovable, inflexible, irremovable, just right, known, likely, loaf, lump, mass, meshing, nugget, on the button, opportune, pad, patter, peck, perceived, pet, pick, pitapat, pitter-patter, plump, plunk, pop, prehended, qualified, quantity, rap, realized, recognized, relevant, right, rigid, seasonable, seized, snap, soft words, sortable, standpat, stationary, suitable, suited, suiting, sweet nothings, sweet talk, tailored, tap, thud, thump, tick, tickle, tinkle, tip, to the point, to the purpose, touch, tunk, understood, unmovable, unmoving, unyielding, wad, whisk

Etymology 1
Originally probably imitative.

Etymology 2
Abbreviation.

Noun

 * Finnish: taputus


 * Finnish:


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Verb

 * Finnish: taputtaa


 * Scottish Gaelic: slìog


 * Finnish: taputtaa, taputella


 * Finnish: lopottaa




 * : తట్టు (taTTu)
 * : తట్టు (taTTu)

Adverb

 * Finnish: sopivasti, sattuvasti, oikein

Anagrams

 * APT, ap't, apt, apt., ATP, PTA, TAP, tap

Noun

 * 1) stalemate

Noun

 * 1) stalemate (chess)

Noun
(a shorter form of empat)


 * 1) four

Etymology
From.

Noun

 * 1) eight

Verb

 * 1) to know somebody; to recognize
 * 2) to be familiar with

Synonyms

 * rènshi to know somebody

Alternative forms

 * bat to know somebody

Noun

 * 1) stalemate

Noun

 * 1) bed

Etymology
Often thought to be from πάτος:, but also possibly from  pactum ("fastened, fixed, planted"), with the loss of the p in the normal result, *papt.

Related terms

 * pătură

Noun

 * pat, paty
 * pat stem
 * patu gensg


 * 1) a stalemate in a game of chess

Derived terms

 * patový -á -é

Noun
pat


 * 1) particularity

Etymology
French particularité