TAT (tatted, tatting)

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Irregular inflected forms: tatted    , tatting   

 Dictionary entry overview: What does TAT mean? 

• TAT (noun)
  The noun TAT has 2 senses:

1. tastelessness by virtue of being cheap and vulgar

2. a projective technique using black-and-white pictures; subjects tell a story about each picture

  Familiarity information: TAT used as a noun is rare.

• TAT (verb)
  The verb TAT has 1 sense:

1. make lacework by knotting or looping

  Familiarity information: TAT used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• TAT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Tastelessness by virtue of being cheap and vulgar

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

cheapness; sleaze; tackiness; tat

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

tastelessness (inelegance indicated by a lack of good taste)

Derivation:

tatty (tastelessly showy)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A projective technique using black-and-white pictures; subjects tell a story about each picture

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

TAT; Thematic Apperception Test

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

projective device; projective technique; projective test (any personality test designed to yield information about someone's personality on the basis of their unrestricted response to ambiguous objects or situations)

• TAT (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Make lacework by knotting or looping

Classified under:

Verbs of sewing, baking, painting, performing

Synonyms:

intertwine; tat

Hypernyms (to "tat" is one way to...):

create from raw material; create from raw stuff (make from scratch)

"Tat" entails doing...:

knot (make into knots; make knots out of)

Domain category:

handicraft (a craft that requires skillful hands)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s something

Derivation:

tatting (the act or art of making handmade lace)

 Context examples 

Again and much louder came the rat-tat-tat.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

“RAT—tat-tat, RAT—tat-tat, RAT—tat-tat,” across the yard.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

On her left were two matrons, with massive foreheads and bonnets to match, discussing Women's Rights and making tatting.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

But, see here, Jim—tit for tat—you save Long John from swinging.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

My thoughts were back in Sussex, and I was dreaming of the kindly, simple ways of the country, when there came a rat-tat at the knocker, the ring of a hearty voice, and there, in the doorway, was the smiling, weather-beaten face, with the puckered eyelids and the light blue eyes.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Upon administration, lentivirus vector rHIV7-shI-TAR-CCR5RZ-transduced hematopoietic progenitor cells expressing the 3 species of RNAs display 3 seperate mechanims of action: the shRNA blocks the transcription of tat/rev, the TAR decoy binds to the TAT protein that is essential for HIV replication, and CCR5RZ catalyzes CCR5 which is needed for viral attachment and entry into the host cells.

(Lentivirus Vector rHIV7-shI-TAR-CCR5RZ-transduced Hematopoietic Progenitor Cells, NCI Thesaurus)

If there be anything behind this instinct it will be valuable to trace it afterwards accurately, so I had better commence to do so, therefore— R. M. Renfield, ætat 59. Sanguine temperament; great physical strength; morbidly excitable; periods of gloom, ending in some fixed idea which I cannot make out.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

At the same time there came from a workshop across a little yard outside the window, a regular sound of hammering that kept a kind of tune: RAT—tat-tat, RAT—tat-tat, RAT—tat-tat, without any variation.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

“It is just possible that—” His words were interrupted by a sharp rat-tat from the direction of the inner door.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The 3 RNA products produced by the lentilvirus are: a short hairpin RNA (shRNA) targeted to an exon of the HIV-1 genes tat/rev, designated as shI; a decoy for the HIV TAT reactive element, designated as TAR; a ribozyme targeting the host cells CCR5 chemokine receptor, designated as CCR5RZ.

(Lentivirus Vector rHIV7-shI-TAR-CCR5RZ-transduced Hematopoietic Progenitor Cells, NCI Thesaurus)