Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A gene in the AIDS virus that stimulates the host cell to replicate genetic components of the virus.
  • noun The protein encoded by this gene that is a potent transactivator of viral replication.
  • intransitive & transitive verb To do tatting or produce (something) by tatting.
  • noun A mark or design made on the skin; a tattoo.
  • transitive verb To tattoo.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • To entangle.
  • To make (trimming) by tatting.
  • To work at or make tatting.
  • noun Dad; father.
  • To gather rags.
  • noun In India, cloth or matting made from different fibers; especially, gunny-cloth.
  • noun A rag.
  • noun A pony.
  • To touch gently.
  • A dialectal variant of that.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun (Zoöl.), India A pony.
  • noun India Gunny cloth made from the fiber of the Corchorus olitorius, or jute.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun India, dated A pony.
  • noun cheap and vulgar tastelessness; sleaze
  • noun cheap, tasteless, useless goods; trinkets
  • noun a form of looped and knotted lace needlework made from a single thread; often used to refer to academic or liturgical dress
  • noun slang A tattoo
  • verb transitive, intransitive To make (something by) tatting.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun tastelessness by virtue of being cheap and vulgar
  • verb make lacework by knotting or looping
  • noun a projective technique using black-and-white pictures; subjects tell a story about each picture

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[t(rans)a(c)t(ivator) (gene).]

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[Probably back-formation from tatting.]

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

Hindi

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  • I know tat when I see it and have a devil of a time articulating. Any takers? (No points for quoting a dictionary).

    June 16, 2009