fad

[fad]
noun
a temporary fashion, notion, manner of conduct, etc., especially one followed enthusiastically by a group.

Origin:
1825–35; noun use of dial. fad to look after things, busy oneself with trifles, back formation from obsolete faddle to play with, fondle. See fiddle

fad·like, adjective


craze, vogue, rage.
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fad (fæd) [Click for IPA pronunciation guide]
 
n
1.  an intense but short-lived fashion; craze
2.  a personal idiosyncrasy or whim
 
[C19: of uncertain origin]
 
'faddish
 
adj
 
'faddishness
 
n
 
'faddism
 
n
 
'faddist
 
n

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a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
FAD
 
n
biochem See also FMN flavin adenine dinucleotide: an ester of riboflavin with ADP that acts as the prosthetic group for many flavoproteins

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Word Origin & History

fad
1834, "hobby, pet project;" 1881 as "fashion, craze," perhaps shortened from fiddle-faddle. Or perhaps from Fr. fadaise "trifle, nonsense," ult. from L. fatuus "stupid."
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Medical Dictionary

FAD abbr.
flavin adenine dinucleotide

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Computing Dictionary

FAD definition


["FAD, A Simple and Powerful Database Language", F. Bancilon et al, Proc 13th Intl Conf on VLDB, Brighton, England, Sep 1987].

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Abbreviations & Acronyms
FAD
  1. fish aggregating device

  2. flavin adenine dinucleotide

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Example sentences
Entire industries do not go under simply due to a fad or without doing their
  homework.
Throw in the retro fad and the push to go green and it makes perfect sense.
Optimists, however, argue there may be benefits from today's fad for currency
  fiddling.
Instead, you get voluminous amounts of recycled ideas rife with the latest buzz
  words and fad getting approved.
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