DAT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does DAT mean? 

• DAT (noun)
  The noun DAT has 1 sense:

1. a digital tape recording of sound

  Familiarity information: DAT used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DAT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A digital tape recording of sound

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

DAT; digital audiotape

Hypernyms ("DAT" is a kind of...):

audiotape (a tape recording of sound)

 Context examples 

“Nevaire such a dog as dat Buck!” he cried.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

“Es ist vollendet—dat is, I have it at last thoroughly done.”

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Indeed, formation of protofibrils or aggregates and Lewy bodies (LBs) diminishes the availability of the physiological forms of alpha-synuclein, favoring an increase in TH (tyrosine hydroxylase) and DAT (dopamine transporter), but diminishes formation of vesicles and neuronal plasticity.

(Parkinson's Disease Pathway KEGG, NCI Thesaurus/KEGG)

"He say, 'Maria, you are da greata fool. I showa you how to washa da wools,' an' he shows me, too. Ten minutes he maka da machine—one barrel, one wheel-hub, two poles, justa like dat."

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Also a basket hung over the back of a chair, in which he vainly tried to hoist his too confiding sister, who, with feminine devotion, allowed her little head to be bumped till rescued, when the young inventor indignantly remarked, Why, Marmar, dat's my lellywaiter, and me's trying to pull her up.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

It is de affair of de Prince dat I speak of.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

“An’ dat Buck fight lak two hells,” was François’s answer.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

Dat is one little vol-au-vent dat is worth one hundred tousand pound.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

“Look at dat Buck. Heem keel dat Spitz, heem t’ink to take de job.”

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

“One devil, dat Spitz,” remarked Perrault.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)