English-Thai Dictionary

fad

ABBR แฟชั่น สมัยนิยม  craze fashion crank fea-fan-sa-mai-ni-yom

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

FAD

Fad, n. Etym: [Cf. Faddle. ]

 

Defn: A hobby; freak; whim. -- Fad "dist, n. It is your favorite fad to draw plans. G. Eliot.

 

New American Oxford Dictionary

FAD

FAD ▶abbreviation Biochemistry flavin adenine dinucleotide, a coenzyme derived from riboflavin and important in various metabolic reactions.

 

fad

fad |fad fæd | ▶noun an intense and widely shared enthusiasm for something, esp. one that is short-lived and without basis in the object's qualities; a craze: prairie restoration is the latest gardening fad in the Midwest. DERIVATIVES fad dish adjective, fad dish ly adverb, fad dish ness noun, fad dism |-ˌizəm |noun, fad dist |-ist |noun ORIGIN mid 19th cent. (originally dialect ): probably the second element of fidfad, contraction of fiddle-faddle .

 

Oxford Dictionary

FAD

FAD ▶abbreviation Biochemistry flavin adenine dinucleotide, a coenzyme derived from riboflavin and important in various metabolic reactions.

 

fad

fad |fad | ▶noun an intense and widely shared enthusiasm for something, especially one that is short-lived; a craze: some regard green politics as no more than the latest fad. • an arbitrary like or dislike: his fads about the type of coffee he must have. DERIVATIVES faddish adjective, faddishly adverb, faddishness noun, faddism noun, faddist noun ORIGIN mid 19th cent. (originally dialect ): probably the second element of fidfad, contraction of fiddle-faddle. Compare with faddy .

 

American Oxford Thesaurus

fad

fad noun when I was a kid, no fad was more apparent than the coonskin cap: craze, vogue, trend, fashion, mode, enthusiasm, passion, obsession, mania, rage, compulsion, fixation, fetish, fancy, whim, fascination; informal thing.

 

Oxford Thesaurus

fad

fad noun there is a general fad for see-through products: craze, vogue, trend, fashion, mode, enthusiasm, passion, infatuation, love, obsession, mania, rage, compulsion, fixation, fetish, weakness, fancy, taste, novelty, whim, fascination, preoccupation; informal thing, latest.

 

Sanseido Dictionary

FAD

FAD 〖 flavin adenine dinucleotide 〗補酵素の一 。活性型ビタミン B 2 とも呼ばれ ，生体内で数多くの酸化還元反応に関与している 。フラビン -アデニン -ジヌクレオチド 。

 

Sanseido Wisdom Dictionary

fad

fad /fæd /名詞 C 一時的なブーム ; 気まぐれ ; 気むずかしさ .