释义 |
tat I. \ˈtat\ verb (tatted ; tatted ; tatting ; tats) Etymology: perhaps of imitative origin transitive verb chiefly dialect : to touch lightly intransitive verb chiefly dialect : pat < he stood, frowned, tatted at his moustache — Elizabeth Bowen > II. \ˈtät\ noun (-s) Etymology: Hindi ṭāṭ : a coarse fabric (as matting) especially as stretched on a frame and used for the withering of tea leaves III. \ˈtat\ noun (-s) Etymology: by shortening : tattoo V IV. verb also tatt \“\ (tatted ; tatted ; tatting ; tats also tatts) Etymology: back-formation from tatting intransitive verb : to work at tatting transitive verb : to make by tatting V. \ˈtät\ noun (-s) Usage: usually capitalized Etymology: Russian, from Turkish 1. a. : an agricultural people living in scattered groups throughout Transcaucasia and possibly allied to the Tajiks b. : a member of such people 2. : the Iranian language of the Tat people I. noun (-s) Etymology: from tat rag, perhaps back-formation from tatty (I) Britain : something that is tasteless or of inferior quality : junk : rubbish II. noun (-s) Etymology: trans-activating transcriptional regulation : a small protein produced by a lentivirus (as HIV) within infected cells that greatly increases the rate of viral transcription and replication and that is also secreted extracellularly where it plays a role in increasing viral replication in newly infected cells and enhancing the susceptibility of T cells to infection ; also : the viral gene that codes for tat |