chad
See also: Chad
English
Etymology 1
Uncertain; possibly from the English slang term chat (“louse”). The word predates the Chadless punch, which therefore cannot be its origin,[1] and a derivation from Scots chad (“river gravel”) stated in some dictionaries is now thought to be nothing more than guesswork.[2]
Pronunciation
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Audio (AU): (file) - Rhymes: -æd
Noun
chad (countable and uncountable, plural chad or chads)[3]
- (uncountable) Small pieces of paper punched out from the edges of continuous stationery, or from ballot papers, paper tape, punched cards, etc.
- 2011 June 1, David P. Mikkelson, “Chad: Does the word ‘chad’ come from the Chadless keypunch, invented by a Mr. Chadless?”, in Snopes.com[2], retrieved 7 September 2016:
- The keypunch wasn't named after a Mr. Chadless; it was so named because, as expected, it punched tape while producing little or no chad.
- (countable) One of these pieces of paper.
- 1939 May 20, Ross A. Lake, Printing Perforating Telegraph Apparatus[3], number 2255794, US Patent [4]:
- Prior devices of the type according to the present invention have been arranged to cut out the perforations completely at a single movement, thereby producing chads or waste material which often present difficult problems of disposal.
- 1959, J[ohn] W[illiam] Freebody, Telegraphy, London: Isaac Pitman & Sons, →OCLC:
- The small hinged discs of paper, called ‘chad’, remain attached to the body of the tape.
- 2000 December 12, Supreme Court of the United States, per curiam, “Bush v. Gore”, in United States Reports, volume 531, page 98 at 105:
- Much of the controversy seems to revolve around ballot cards designed to be perforated by a stylus but which, either through error or deliberate omission, have not been perforated with sufficient precision for a machine to count them. In some cases a piece of the card—a chad—is hanging, say by two corners. In other cases there is no separation at all, just an indentation.
Derived terms
Translations
small pieces of paper punched out
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one of these pieces of paper
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See also
Etymology 2
From ch- + had, from ich + had.
Contraction
chad
- (West Country, obsolete) I had
- 1839, An Exmoor Scolding, London: John Russell Smith, page 11:
- Chad et in my meend, and zo chave still. Bet chawnt drow et out bevore tha begen'st agen, and than chell.
Etymology 3
Noun
chad (plural chads)
References
- ^ David P. Mikkelson (2011 June 1) “Chad: Does the word ‘chad’ come from the Chadless keypunch, invented by a Mr. Chadless?”, in Snopes.com[1], retrieved 7 September 2016.
- ^ William Safire (2004) The Right Word in the Right Place at the Right Time: Wit and Wisdom from the Popular “On Language” Column in The New York Times Magazine, New York, N.Y.: Simon & Schuster, →ISBN, page 43.
- ^ “chad” (US) / “chad” (UK) in Macmillan English Dictionary..
Middle English
Etymology
See ch-.
Verb
chad
- I had
Palauan
Etymology
From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *qaRta (“outsiders, alien people”). Cognate with Laboya ata, Cebuano agta, Tagalog agta.
Pronunciation
Noun
chad
Welsh
Pronunciation
Noun
chad
- Aspirate mutation of cad.
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