Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A large number or amount.
- noun Any of several carangid fishes chiefly of the genus Decapterus, especially D. punctatus of the western Atlantic.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A fish, probably the shad.
- noun A carangoid fish, formerly
Caranx trachurus , now Trachurus saurus, also called saurel, skipjack, and horse-mackerel, of a fusiform shape, with vertical plates arming the entire lateral line from the shoulder to the caudal fin. - noun The ray, Raia alba.
- noun A dialectal form of scald.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Scot., Scot. A small carangoid fish (
Trachurus saurus ) abundant on the European coast, and less common on the American. The name is applied also to several allied species. - noun Scot., Scot. The goggler; -- called also
big-eyed scad . Seegoggler . - noun Scot. The friar skate.
- noun The cigar fish, or round robin.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun any of several
fish , of thefamily Carangidae, from the westernAtlantic - noun a large
number orquantity (usually used in the plural)
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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'Then I'll have to trouble you for a few scad until —'
Local Color 2010
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Check the AABC's webpage for tips on how to avoid getting scammed by a scad.
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This experimental video was created as a final project for my procedural animation class at Savannah College of Art and Design. scad.edu It was inspired by demoscene and sub-atomic particle collision images.
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It might have been the Japanese frame of mind we were in, but we settled on the slow-cooked Japanese style salmon, which Hugh assured us could be prepared with whole mackerel, trout, sea bass, or scad as well.
Archive 2009-04-01 Annemarie 2009
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It might have been the Japanese frame of mind we were in, but we settled on the slow-cooked Japanese style salmon, which Hugh assured us could be prepared with whole mackerel, trout, sea bass, or scad as well.
Japanese Style Slow-Cooked Fish Annemarie 2009
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WFMU's Beware of the Blog has posted a scad of ghost stories by the likes of Vincent Price and Arch Oboler.
Scary Audio for Halloween eddvick 2006
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Tomorrow I have to grade a slightly smaller scad of papers, finish prepping one of my classes for Monday, and chip away at three work reports that are due on Friday.
Archive 2008-03-01 Susan Palwick 2008
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So it helps that the producers have managed to snag a scad of swinging neo-surf bands, including the Pyronauts and the Hypnotic IV.
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For annual fluctuations in catches of anchovy, round herring, yellowtail, mackerel, scad and common squid, from 1950 to 1990, see Terazaki, 1999.
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Other species harvested include scad, mackerel, yellowtail, and the common Japanese squid.
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She had suffered a spontaneous coronary artery dissection (SCAD) that resulted in a heart attack, and then she had a pulmonary embolism.
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bilby commented on the word scad
"The New York Times has gone whole hog at 'The New Team' section of its website, where there are scads of little bios of appointees, as well as prospective appointees -- including what each individual will 'bring to the job,' how each is 'linked to Mr. Obama,' and what negatives each carries as 'baggage.' Think of it as a scorecard for transition junkies."
- Tom Engelhardt, 'The Imperial Transition', tomdispatch.com, 7 Dec 2008.
December 8, 2008