Crossword clues for pat
pat
- Inventor's award
- First lady before Betty
- Word before or after "down"
- Small butter portion
- Word that is its own synonym when spelled backward
- Boston footballer, for short
- Reassuring touch
- Back stroke?
- The sound made by a gentle blow
- A light touch or stroke
- A way to stand
- Actor Hingle
- Approving tap
- A daughter of Rose Kennedy
- Oversimplified
- Touch lightly
- Sajak or Boone
- Butter measure
- Betty followed her
- ___-a-cake
- TV host Sajak
- Actor ___ O'Brien
- Vanna's partner
- Timely
- Pend.'s pal
- A Nixon or Buchanan
- Singer Boone
- Like some alibis
- To a science
- Actor Harrington
- Poker stand
- Touch of approval
- Londonderry lad
- Light blow
- Exactly
- Butter unit
- Gentle tap
- Dab
- Boone or O'Brien
- Paulsen from South Bend, Wash.
- Summerall
- Modern descendant of Daniel Boone
- Stroke lightly
- One of the Kennedys
- A Boone
- Lad from Limerick
- Ready
- Square of butter
- Fido's reward
- Mike's friend
- Tap gently
- Like some poker hands
- Hingle or O'Brien
- Stand ___
- Brown or O'Brien
- Exactly suitable
- Friendly touch
- Boone or Harrington
- Piece of butter
- Boone or Nixon
- Caress
- Exactly right
- Well-rehearsed
- Dollop
- Show appreciation for
- How some stand
- Bit of butter
- Congratulate in a way
- Frisk, with "down"
- Mastered perfectly
- Congratulations, of a sort
- Bit of encouragement
- One way to stand
- Mrs. Nixon
- To the point
- Show of support
- One way to get things down
- You can stand this!
- Way of standing
- Overly smooth
- Butter portion
- Way to stand
- To a tee
- Irishman, informally
- Like some answers
- Game show host Sajak
- Butter serving
- Learned perfectly
- Gesture of affection
- Excessively glib
- Massage part
- Too simple
- Early 70's White House name
- Rehearsed
- Too rehearsed
- Stroke
- Kind of hand
- Reward, as a dog
- Motion while saying "Good dog!"
- Butter square
- Soft touch
- Overly glib
- Overly rehearsed
- One way to get something down
- Butter slice
- Too 3-Down
- Unisex name
- You might not be able to stand this
- Bit of congratulations
- Nonverbal congratulations
- Nice touch
- Perfectly
- Single serving of butter
- Congratulate nonverbally
- Bit of consolation
- Square for a roll
- Congratulations indicator
- Too smooth
- Opportune
- Word that, spelled backward, can be a clue for itself
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Pat \Pat\, adv. In a pat manner.
I foresaw then 't would come in pat hereafter.
--Sterne.
Pat \Pat\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Patted; p. pr. & vb. n. Patting.] [Cf. G. patschen, Prov. G. patzen, to strike, tap.] To strike gently with the fingers or hand; to stroke lightly; to tap; as, to pat a dog.
Gay pats my shoulder, and you vanish quite.
--Pope.
Pat \Pat\, n.
A light, quik blow or stroke with the fingers or hand; a tap.
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A small mass, as of butter, shaped by pats.
It looked like a tessellated work of pats of butter.
--Dickens.
Pat \Pat\, a. [Cf. pat a light blow, D. te pas convenient, pat,
where pas is fr. F. passer to pass.]
Exactly suitable; fit; convenient; timely. ``Pat allusion.''
--Barrow.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
as a fem. proper name, short for Patricia. As a masc. proper name, short for Patrick; hence a nickname for any Irishman.
c.1400, "a blow, stroke," perhaps originally imitative of the sound of patting. Meaning "light tap with hand" is from c.1804. Sense of "that which is formed by patting" (as in pat of butter) is 1754, probably from the verb. Pat on the back in the figurative sense attested by 1804.
"aptly, suitably, at the right time," 1570s, perhaps from pat (adj.) in sense of "that which hits the mark," a special use from pat (n.) in sense of "a hitting" of the mark. The modern adjective is 1630s, from the adverb.
1560s, "to hit, throw;" meaning "to tap or strike lightly" is from 1714; from pat (n.). Related: Patted; patting. The nursery rhyme phrase pat-a-cake is known from 1823. Alternative patty-cake (usually American English) is attested from 1794 (in "Mother Goose's Melody, or Sonnets for the Cradle," Worcester, Mass.).
Wiktionary
Etymology 1
1 timely, suitable, apt, opportune, ready for the occasion; especially of things spoken 2 trite, being superficially complete, lacking originality adv. 1 opportunely, in a timely or suitable way. 2 perfectly. n. 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. v
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1 To (gently) tap the flat of one's hand on a person or thing. 2 To hit lightly and repeatedly with the flat of the hand to make smooth or flat 3 (context Australia New Zealand English) To stroke or fondle (an animal). 4 To gently rain. Etymology 2
n. 1 patent 2 (context knitting English) pattern
WordNet
Wikipedia
Pat or PAT may refer to:
Pat is an androgynous fictional character created and performed by Julia Sweeney for the American sketch comedy show Saturday Night Live, and later featured in the film It's Pat. The central humorous aspect of sketches featuring Pat is the inability of others to determine the character's gender.
Pat is a fictional character in Lewis Carroll’s Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. He appears in the chapter "The Rabbit Sends in a Little Bill." He works for the White Rabbit like his friend Bill the Lizard. Carroll never gives any description of the character other than being a gardener, and his species has been widely debated, with evidence showing he is likely to be a monkey or a guinea pig.
When the White Rabbit mistakes Alice for his maid, Mary Ann, she drinks from a bottle that makes her grow. The Rabbit thinks she is a monster, so he asks Pat to climb down the chimney to get the monster out of his house. Pat refuses, so the Rabbit decides to send Bill the Lizard to climb down instead. When Bill climbs down the chimney, Alice kicks him, causing him to fly out of the chimney and back into the Rabbit’s garden.
PAT (Process Analysis Toolkit) is a self-contained framework for composing, simulating and reasoning of concurrent, real-time systems and other possible domains. It comes with user friendly interfaces, featured model editor and animated simulator. Most importantly, PAT implements various model checking techniques catering for different properties such as deadlock-freeness, divergence-freeness, reachability, LTL properties with fairness assumptions, refinement checking and probabilistic model checking. To achieve good performance, advanced optimization techniques are implemented in PAT, e.g. partial order reduction, symmetry reduction, process counter abstraction. So far, PAT has 1350 registered users from 302 organizations in 41 countries and regions.
Usage examples of "pat".
The mist became a light, steady rain, and as Ace rode along, a soft patter filled the stillness of aspen and pine.
I patted the pocket where my tiny set of gold acupuncture needles rested in their ivory case.
Serpent, that I have discovered a way to power vaster than anything Bel Adad, the pitiful Patter of Maqam Nifl and Borsippa, can wield!
After giving each of the nine members of the canine scout team a pat on the head or a scratch behind the ears, and an encouraging word or two, Ake helped secure them.
I started at the sight -- children and weapons was a mix I learned to avoid even when I was a child myself, learning to handle power weapons while our caravan rumbled its way across the Hyperion moors -- but Alem smiled and took the pistol from the boy, patting him on the back.
Patting his pockets, he found some antacid tablets and popped a couple into his mouth.
I once saw her gallop down a steep hill in the Arboretum to escape a dog, a German shepherd puppy that had trotted up to her, its tail wagging, for a head pat.
She replaced the receiver, picked up her capacious knitting bag, gave her hat brim a final pat in front of the mirror, and swung the wooden shed door to without noticing Asey standing outside.
Some mothers swear by the automatic swing, others by the Snugli, some stroll their babies to get them to nod off, some bounce and dance and pat their babies to sleep.
If anybody tries to prosecute Pat for bigamy at this late date, at least one of them will probably spill the beans.
There was a quick patter of feet, and Bock, growling, ran down the aisle.
And Boshy, after the manner of all victors, unsatiated with homage, troubled incessantly how to make Pat the Jew, Pat the Dry Sixpence, bow the knee.
But the bossa nova could not keep Tramm from a steady loud patter addressed, embarrassingly, to the three of us.
Maia pondered, patting Brod on the back and turning to go back to work.
Bettie pat her fit upon a sharp stane, and fell doon, and bruik baith her legs.