nat

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nat

  1. (international standards) ISO 639-3 language code for Hungworo.

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English

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Etymology 1

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Borrowing from Burmese နတ် (nat).

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nat (plural nats)

  1. A spirit in Burmese mythology, whose cult is followed alongside Buddhism.
    • 1936, Rollo Ahmed, The Black Art, London: Long, page 175:
      They greatly dread evil "Nats" or spirits, to whom they attribute every possible misfortune or illness.

Etymology 2

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Reduced form of naught.

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nat (not comparable)

  1. (obsolete) Not. [14th–17th c.]
    • 1614, William Browne, The Shepheard's Pipe:
      And he a pistle rowned in her eare, / Nat what I want, for I ne came nat there.

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Abbreviation of natural logarithm.

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nat (plural nats)

  1. A logarithmic unit of information or entropy, based on natural logarithms.
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nat (plural nats)

  1. (colloquial, US) Clipping of natatorium.

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    Clipping of natural.

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    nat (not comparable)

    1. (roleplaying games, dice games, slang) Clipping of natural (pertaining to a dice roll before bonuses or penalties have been applied to the result).
      After rolling a Strength check to move a heavy cabinet, I got a nat 1 and the cabinet fell on me.
      • 1992 October 5, Jordan M. Wolbrum, “Critical Hits”, in rec.games.frp.dnd[1] (Usenet):
        in the Dark Sun campaign I'm playing in, the DM handles crits/fumbles this way: Natural 20: an excellent attack, player gets a bonus attack, if he gets another Nat. 20, he gets a 3rd attack, and so on.
      • 1995 September 21, Deanna Hatter, “How to roll d16 in level distribution?”, in rec.games.frp.dnd[2] (Usenet):
        Almost killed my cleric mage when she was juggling with another bard...missed the juggling check, rolled a nat 20 on the to-hit roll, and rolled maximum damage...and said cleric-mage was already wounded, and recuperating...8P
      • 2022, Shelly Mazzanoble, Welcome to Dragon Talk: Inspiring Conversations About Dungeons & Dragons and the People Who Love to Play It, Iowa City, I.A.: University of Iowa Press, →ISBN, page 56:
        But she continued. "I do a Survival check to see if there are any worm people in these puddles... and roll a nat twenty!"

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    Aromanian

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    Etymology

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    From Latin nātus (born). Compare Romanian nat (personal, individual).

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    nat m

    1. child
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    Catalan

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    Etymology

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    Inherited from Old Catalan nat, from Latin nātus, from earlier gnātus, from Proto-Italic *gnātos, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵn̥h₁tós (begotten, produced), derived from the root *ǵenh₁- (to beget, give birth).

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    nat (feminine nada, masculine plural nats, feminine plural nades)

    1. born
      Synonym: nascut

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    Danish

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    Etymology

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    From Old Danish nat, from Old Norse nátt, nótt, from Proto-Germanic *nahts, from Proto-Indo-European *nókʷts.

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    nat c (singular definite natten, plural indefinite nætter)

    1. night (period between sunset and sunrise)

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    Dutch

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    Etymology

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    From Middle Dutch nat, from Old Dutch nat, from Proto-West Germanic *nat, from Proto-Germanic *nataz.

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    • IPA(key): /nɑt/
    • Audio:(file)
    • Hyphenation: nat
    • Rhymes: -ɑt

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    nat (comparative natter, superlative natst)

    1. wet
      Na de regen was het gras nat en modderig.
      After the rain, the grass was wet and muddy.
      Trek een jas aan, anders word je nat in de regen.
      Put on a coat, or you'll get wet in the rain.
      De hond kwam terug van zijn wandeling met natte poten.
      The dog came back from his walk with wet paws.
      We moesten schuilen voor de natte sneeuw.
      We had to take shelter from the wet snow.
      De kinderen kwamen binnen met natte kleren na het spelen in de regen.
      The children came inside with wet clothes after playing in the rain.

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    Declension of nat
    uninflected nat
    inflected natte
    comparative natter
    positive comparative superlative
    predicative/adverbial nat natter het natst
    het natste
    indefinite m./f. sing. natte nattere natste
    n. sing. nat natter natste
    plural natte nattere natste
    definite natte nattere natste
    partitive nats natters

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    Descendants

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    • Berbice Creole Dutch: nati
    • Negerhollands: nat
    • Skepi Creole Dutch: nat
    • Aukan: nati

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    nat n (uncountable)

    1. moisture

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    Jingpho

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    nat

    1. to burn

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    Inherited from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *na-(n/t) (ill; evil spirit).

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    nat

    1. ghost; god; spirit

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    • Xu, Xijian (徐悉艰), Xiao, Jiacheng (肖家成), Yue, Xiangkun (岳相昆), Dai, Qingxia (戴庆厦) (1983 December) “nat”, in 景汉辞典 [Jingpho-Chinese Dictionary], Kunming: Yunnan Nationalities Publishing House, page 557

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    nat

    1. third-person singular present active indicative of

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    Noun

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    nat

    1. rain

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    nat

    1. Alternative form of not
      • 13??, Geoffrey Chaucer, Boethius and Troilus
        And at the laste, yif that any wight wene a thing to ben other weyes thanne it is, it is nat only unscience, but it is deceivable opinioun ful diverse and fer fro the sothe of science.

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    nat

    1. Alternative form of not

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    nāt

    1. first/third-person singular present indicative of nytan
    2. first/third-person singular present indicative of nitan

    Old Swedish

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    From Old Norse nátt, from Proto-Germanic *nahts.

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    nāt f

    1. night

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    Romanian

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    Etymology

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    Inherited from Latin nātus, from earlier gnātus, from Proto-Italic *gnātos, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵn̥h₁tós (begotten, produced), derived from the root *ǵenh₁- (to beget, give birth). The meaning in Romanian developed from that of "offspring" or "progeny" in relation to the parent. Compare Aromanian nat (child), also Occitan nada (girl).

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    nat m (plural nați)

    1. (uncommon, popular) person, individual
      Synonyms: om, persoană, individ, ins
    2. (uncommon, popular) kinsman, relative
      Synonyms: rudă, rudenie

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    Singpho

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    From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *na-(n/t).

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    nat

    1. spirit

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    Tzotzil

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    nat

    1. deep
      ti nat uk'umethe deep stream
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    Etymology

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    From Middle English nat.

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    nat

    1. not
      • 1867, “ABOUT AN OLD SOW GOING TO BE KILLED”, in SONGS, ETC. IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, number 2, page 106:
        Gooude var nat oan dhing, niether treesh ar thraame;
        Good for not one thing; neither for the trace, nor the car.

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    • nad (had not)

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    • Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 58