FAD

abbr.

flavin adenine dinucleotide

fad

(făd)

A fashion that is taken up with great enthusiasm for a brief period of time; a craze.

[Possibly from fidfad, fussy person, fussy, from fiddle-faddle.]

fad′dism n.

fad′dist n.

fad′dy adj.

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fad

(fæd)

1. an intense but short-lived fashion; craze

2. a personal idiosyncrasy or whim

[C19: of uncertain origin]

ˈfaddish adj

ˈfaddishness n

ˈfaddism n

ˈfaddist n

FAD

(Biochemistry) biochem flavin adenine dinucleotide: an ester of riboflavin with ADP that acts as the prosthetic group for many flavoproteins. See also FMN

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fad

(fæd)

n.

a temporary fashion, manner of conduct, etc., esp. one followed enthusiastically by a group.

[1825–35]

fad′dish, adj.

fad′dish•ness, n.

fad′dism, n.

fad′dist, n.

fad′like`, adj.

ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:

Noun

fad - an interest followed with exaggerated zeal; "he always follows the latest fads"; "it was all the rage that season"

craze, furor, furore, cult, rage

fashion - the latest and most admired style in clothes and cosmetics and behavior

fad

noun craze, fashion, trend, fancy, rage, mode, vogue, whim, mania, affectation He does not believe that environmental concern is a passing fad.

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fad

noun

The current custom:

craze, fashion, furor, mode, rage, style, trend, vogue.

Informal: thing.

Idioms: the in thing, the last word, the latest thing.

Translations

بِدْعَه، موضَه، هَوَس

bláznivý nápadmódamódní výstřelek

dillemodefænomen

letzte Schrei in etwas

λόξα

divathóbort

capriccio dieta di moda mania

įnoringasįnoringumasmados sekimas

modeuntums

mani mote

moda

módny hit

geçici tutkumoda

一时流行的狂热一时的爱好时尚

fad

[fæd] N (= fashion) → moda f
a passing fad → una moda pasajera
it's just a fad → es la novedad nada más, es una moda pasajera
the fad for Italian clothes → la moda de la ropa italiana
he has his fads → tiene sus caprichos

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fad

[ˈfæd] n (= craze) → engouement m
a passing fad → un engouement passager
a fad for sth → un engouement pour qch
to begin a fad for sth → lancer la mode de qch

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fad

n → Fimmel m, → Tick m (inf); (= fashion) → Masche f (inf); it’s just a fad → das ist nur ein momentaner Fimmel (inf) → or Tick (inf); that’s the latest fashion fad → das ist die neuste Modemasche (inf); her latest food fad → ihr neuester Fimmel in puncto Ernährung (inf); her fad for caviar → ihr Kaviarfimmel (inf); his fad for wearing an earring → sein Tick or Fimmel, einen Ohrring zu tragen (inf)

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fad

[fæd] n (fashion) → moda, mania; (personal) → capriccio, mania, fisima

fad

(fad) noun

a temporary fashion; a craze, interest or activity that (some) people follow enthusiastically, but lasts for a short period of time. What's the latest fad in dieting?; a health-food fad.

faddish adjective

faddishness noun

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She was disposed rather to accuse the intolerable narrowness and the purblind conscience of the society around her: and Celia was no longer the eternal cherub, but a thorn in her spirit, a pink-and-white nullifidian, worse than any discouraging presence in the "Pilgrim's Progress." The fad of drawing plans!

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The war with Spain, many years' generous mint and watermelon crops, a few long-shot winners at the New Orleans race-track, and the brilliant banquets given by the Indiana and Kansas citizens who compose the North Carolina Society have made the South rather a "fad" in Manhattan.

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The unusual salary, the curious conditions, the light duties, all pointed to something abnormal, though whether a fad or a plot, or whether the man were a philanthropist or a villain, it was quite beyond my powers to determine.

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He was the fad of the hour, the adventurer who had stormed Parnassus while the gods nodded.

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On the contrary, he's as poor as a rat for his position, and apparently without the least ambition to be anything else; certainly he won't enrich himself by making a public fad of what all sensible people are agreed upon as it is.

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He was quite willing to satisfy our curiosity, and in a few minutes we learned that the Streak had come in after dark from San Francisco; that this was what might be called the trial trip; and that she was the property of Silas Tate, a young mining millionaire of California, whose fad was high-speed yachts.

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The zest for lyric poetry somewhat artificially inaugurated at Court by Wyatt and Surrey seems to have largely subsided, like any other fad, after some years, but it vigorously revived, in much more genuine fashion, with the taste for other imaginative forms of literature, in the last two decades of Elizabeth's reign.

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"It's a sort of fad of his to eat nothing but fish, and he's very proud of catching his own.

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Esther is really a dear girl, but she is rather given to fads. The trouble is that she hasn't enough imagination and HAS a tendency to indigestion.

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His officers affected a superiority over the rest of us, but the boredom of their souls appeared in their manner of dreary submission to the fads of their commander.

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My muscles were small and soft, like a woman's, or so the doctors had said time and again in the course of their attempts to persuade me to go in for physical-culture fads. But I had preferred to use my head rather than my body; and here I was, in no fit condition for the rough life in prospect.

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The layman is full of fads, and he doesn't like his doctor to have anything the matter with him."

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