CAD
Meanings
noun
- Acronym of computer-aided design.
- Initialism of computer-aided drafting.
- Initialism of control alt delete.
- Initialism of cash against documents, an arrangement where the purchaser must pay the total price in cash in order to get shipping papers from the seller or (usually) a third party.
- Initialism of coronary artery disease.
- Initialism of computer-aided diagnosis.
- Initialism of cold agglutinin disease.
- Initialism of computer-aided dispatch.
- Initialism of caspase-activated DNase.
noun
- A low-bred, presuming person; a mean, vulgar fellow, especially one that cannot be trusted with a lady.
- A person who stands at the door of an omnibus to open and shut it, and to receive fares; a bus conductor.
- An idle hanger-on about innyards.
verb
- to mat or felt together
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Etymology
Short for caddie, from Scots, from French cadet, from dialectal capdet (“chief, captain”), from Latin capitellum, diminutive of caput (“head”).
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