Patname詞源 1/pæt/

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  A diminutive of the female given name Patricia.

• 2

  A diminutive of the male given name Patrick.

  • One Nation, a new 501(c)4 linked to the Karl-Rove-backed American Crossroads super PAC, is spending more than $1.9 million on print, radio and digital ads highlighting the efforts of Illinois Sen. Mark Kirk, North Carolina Sen. Richard Burr, New Hampshire Sen. Kelly Ayotte, Ohio Sen. Rob Portman and Pennsylvania Sen. Pat Toomey to pass the “doc fix” legislation that realigned payments to Medicare providers with inflation.

Patnoun詞源 1/pæt/

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  offensiveslangAn Irish person.

  • I'll do it, sir, by the honor of the Pats, just take your two good looking selves into the garden, […]
  • The stereotypes of the Irish were more negative. Irish men, the “Pats,” were seen as “always drunk, eternally fighting, lazy, and shiftless.”

Patname詞源 2

• 1

  A surname from Khmer or Yucatec Maya.

patnoun詞源 1/pæt/

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  The sound of a light slap or tap with a soft flat object, especially of a footstep.

  • We heard a pat on the door.
• 2

  A light tap or slap, especially with the hands.

  • Give Mary a pat on the shoulder to get her attention.
• 3

  A flattish lump of soft matter, especially butter or dung.

  • It looked like a tessellated work of pats of butter.

patverb詞源 2/pæt/

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  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.
  • He came round to each of us to pat and speak to us for the last time; his voice sounded very sad.
• 2

  To hit lightly and repeatedly with the flat of the hand to make smooth or flat

  • I patted the cookie dough into shape.
  • Before they went to see Glinda, however, they were taken to a room of the Castle, where Dorothy washed her face and combed her hair, and the Lion shook the dust out of his mane, and the Scarecrow patted himself into his best shape, and the Woodman polished his tin and oiled his joints.
• 3

  To stroke or fondle (an animal). Compare pet.

  • Do you want to pat the cat?
• 4

  To gently rain.

patadj詞源 2/pæt/

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  Exactly suitable, fitting, apt; timely, convenient, opportune, ready for the occasion; especially of things spoken.

  • a pat expression
  • Your scruples and arguments bring to my mind a story so pat, you may think it is coin’d, on purpose to answer you, out of my mint; but, I can assure you, I saw it in print.
• 2

  Trite, being superficially complete, lacking originality.

  • While most AIDS activists and researchers I spoke with agreed I shouldn't offer pat safe/unsafe categories, let me share some pretty widely accepted information.
  • 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.

patadv詞源 2/pæt/

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  Opportunely, in a timely or suitable way.

  • Now might I do it pat
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  Perfectly.

  • He has the routine down pat.
• 3

  Straight, right, exactly, precisely.

  • Wauwa Pease says of the strategic position of the Pirates in the dining room: “They have taken the table near the upper doorway so they can make a speedy exit in case their lair is raided.” Of course, the Wauwas stand pat in the middle of the dining room, having nothing to fear.
  • His nose sitteth flat on the face of him as it were a dab of clay, and I can see pat up his nostrils a summer day’s journey into his head.

patadj詞源 4/pæt/

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  slangUpper-class, nobby.

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