• Finnish: taputus

• Finnish: nokare

Verb

1. 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.

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

   I patted the cookie dough into shape.

3. To gently rain.

Translations

• Finnish: taputtaa
• French: tapoter
• Telugu: తట్టు (taTTu)

Adverb

pat

1. opportunely, in a timely or suitable way

   1600: Now might I do it pat — William Shakespeare, Hamlet III.iii

Translations

• Finnish: sopivasti, sattuvasti

See also

• strike
• hit
• feel
• name

Etymology 2

Abbreviation.

Noun

1. patent

Anagrams

• apt
• tap

Czech

Noun

pat

1. stalemate

French

Noun

fr-noun m

1. stalemate (chess)

Indonesian

Etymology

Common Oceanian

Noun

pat (a shorter form of empat)

1. four

Min Nan

Alternative spellings

• bat to know somebody

Pronunciation

• [ pat˩˩ ]

Noun

1. eight

Usage notes

• peh/poeh is used when referring to amounts, whereas pat is used for years and telephone numbers, bank account numbers etc.

Verb

1. to know somebody; to recognize
2. to be familiar with

See also

• rènshi to know somebody

Romanian

Etymology

From Greek

Noun

1. bed

Declension

Slovak

Noun

pat m, paty pl

pat stem

patu gensg

1. a stalemate in a game of chess

Derived terms

• patový -á -é

Volapük

vo-noun pat

Etymology

French particularité

Noun

pat

1. particularity

• Page Allocation Table
• Program Association Table, in MPEGs
• Pat (Saturday Night Live), a fictional character from Saturday Night Live
• PAT A.I., in Artificial Intelligence
• Port address translation (PAT), in computer terms
• Pat, Hungary, a village in Zala county, Hungary
• Process Analytical Technology, in the pharmaceutical industry
• The Port Authority Transit system of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
• Point After Touchdown (Extra point) in American football
• Portable Appliance Test, a UK electrical safety test
• A group of flamingoes
• Postman Pat, the children's TV character
• IATA code for Lok Nayak Jayaprakash Airport, Patna, India
• Pat Condell, comedian
• Pat Sajak, the host of the current US Wheel of Fortune
• Pat White (football player), American football player
• Pat McAfee, American football player
• Pitch Axis Theory, in music the theory that each mode has related chords over which it should be used
• *.PAT, the instrument patch file format for the Gravis Ultrasound sound card.

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