GAD
\ɡˈad], \ɡˈad], \ɡ_ˈa_d]\
Definitions of GAD
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
- 1790 - A Complete Dictionary of the English Language
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an anxiety disorder characterized by chronic free-floating anxiety and such symptoms as tension or sweating or trembling of light-headedness or irritability etc that has lasted for more than six months
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wander aimlessly in search of pleasure
By Princeton University
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an anxiety disorder characterized by chronic free-floating anxiety and such symptoms as tension or sweating or trembling of light-headedness or irritability etc that has lasted for more than six months
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wander aimlessly in search of pleasure
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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The point of a spear, or an arrowhead.
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A pointed or wedge-shaped instrument of metal, as a steel wedge used in mining, etc.
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A sharp-pointed rod; a goad.
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A spike on a gauntlet; a gadling.
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A wedge-shaped billet of iron or steel.
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A rod or stick, as a fishing rod, a measuring rod, or a rod used to drive cattle with.
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To walk about; to rove or go about, without purpose; hence, to run wild; to be uncontrolled.
By Oddity Software
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The point of a spear, or an arrowhead.
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A pointed or wedge-shaped instrument of metal, as a steel wedge used in mining, etc.
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A sharp-pointed rod; a goad.
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A spike on a gauntlet; a gadling.
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A wedge-shaped billet of iron or steel.
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A rod or stick, as a fishing rod, a measuring rod, or a rod used to drive cattle with.
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To walk about; to rove or go about, without purpose; hence, to run wild; to be uncontrolled.
By Noah Webster.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
By James Champlin Fernald
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A wedge of steel: a graver: a rod or stick: in old Scotch prisons a round bar of iron crossing the condemned cell horizontally at the height of about 6 inches from the floor, and strongly built into the wall at either end. The ankles of the prisoner sentenced to death were secured within shackles which were connected, by a chain about 4 feet long, with a large iron ring which travelled on the gad.
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To rove about restlessly, like cattle stung by the gadfly:-pr.p. gadding; pa.p. gadded.
By Daniel Lyons
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
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