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UK
/tˈæd/
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[ US /ˈtæd/ ]
[ US /ˈtæd/ ]
NOUN
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a slight amount or degree of difference
the new model is a shade better than the old one
not a tad of difference
a tad too expensive
How To Use tad In A Sentence
- Who is willing to believe that Alexandria is exactly 5000 stadia from Syene, whatever the value of the stadium?
- Once you got into the stadium, there were no seats, only grassy banks.
- Owing to different structures of cotton fiber and chitin fiber, they have differentadsorbability to reactive dyestuffs.
- More particularly, in the hoodedness of her eyes, she reminded me of Malvina Schalkova, the Prague-born artist posthumously famous for the sketches and watercolors she made in Theresienstadt, and whose self-portrait, mirroring an infinity of sorrow, I first became familiar with when I visited Theresienstadt with Zoë. Kalooki Nights
- Relations are more neighbourly now, stadium:mk offering 22,000 seats, 7,000 more than the requirement for a Heineken Cup quarter-final. Northampton and Ulster bring authentic rugby to plastic surrounds | Eddie Butler
- The cells divide and change until they have a head and short tail, like tadpoles.
- You might well feel a tad suspicious of this literary agent's good fortune. Times, Sunday Times
- Some of the jokes were rude, others corny, and some a tad funny.
- Looking at Yankee Stadium (home of the world champion Yankees) it appears you can buy a ticket for one of the nosebleed seats, and then after the game starts pick any seat you want from about row 10 up.
- There has been a huge controversy over where to put the city's new sports stadium and who should build it.