SPAD

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See also: spad, spád, späd, spað, and spáð

English

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a three-aspect railway signal at danger

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Phrase

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SPAD

  1. (rail transport, UK) Initialism of signal passed at danger.
    Coordinate term: SPAR

Noun

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SPAD (plural SPADs)

  1. (rail transport, UK) An instance of a signal passed at danger.
  2. (UK politics, informal) Alternative form of spad (special advisor in government)
  3. (plant science) A relative measurement of the amount of chlorophyll present in a leaf, based on measurements with a SPAD meter produced by Minolta.
  4. (military) Initialism of self-propelled air defense; a self-propelled anti-aircraft vehicle.

Verb

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SPAD (third-person singular simple present SPADs, present participle SPADing, simple past and past participle SPADed)

  1. (rail transport, UK) To pass a signal at danger.
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Malay

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Proper noun

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SPAD

  1. (transport) Acronym of Suruhanjaya Pengangkutan Awam Darat (Land Public Transport Commission), a public transport regulatory agency in Malaysia