CAD
pronunciation
How to pronounce CAD in British English:
UK [kæd]
How to pronounce CAD in American English:
US
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- Noun:
- someone who is morally reprehensible
Word Origin
- cad
- cad: see cadet
- cad (n.)
- 1730, shortening of cadet (q.v.); originally used of servants, then (1831) of town boys by students at British universities and public schools (though at Cambridge it meant "snob"). Meaning "person lacking in finer feelings" is from 1838.A cad used to be a jumped-up member of the lower classes who was guilty of behaving as if he didn't know that his lowly origin made him unfit for having sexual relationships with well-bred women. [Anthony West, "H.G. Wells: Aspects of a Life," 1984]
Example
- 1. In that case you can take great pleasure in saying airily that you aren 't surprised : the father is a cad , too .
- 2. Another problem of plm implementation is cad file management .
- 3. The fundamentals of cad and design systems are files .
- 4. Cad has substantially increased the number of tumours identified .
- 5. The issue of vendor lock-in is well known in cad / plm world .