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Pat is a synonym of apposite.


As an adjective apposite is

appropriate, relevant, well-suited; fit.

As a noun apposite is

(rare) something that is.

pat

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) . For loss of ''l , compare (patch) for (platch); (pate) for (plate), etc. See (l).

Noun

(en noun)
  • The sound of a light slap or tap with a soft flat object, especially of a footstep
  • A light tap or slap, especially with the hands
  • A flattish lump of soft matter, especially butter or dung.
  • * Charles Dickens
    • It looked like a tessellated work of pats of butter.
    Derived terms
    * pat on the back (n.) * patter * pitter-pat: a diminutive of footfalls. "the pitter-pat of little feet running around the house."

    Verb

    (patt)
  • To (gently) tap the flat of one's hand on a person or thing.
    • To show affection, he decided he would pat the boy on the head.
  • * 1877 , (Anna Sewell), (Black Beauty) Chapter 22[http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Black_Beauty/22]
    • He came round to each of us to pat and speak to us for the last time; his voice sounded very sad.
  • To hit lightly and repeatedly with the flat of the hand to make smooth or flat
    • I patted the cookie dough into shape.
  • * 1900 , L. Frank Baum , The Wonderful Wizard of Oz Chapter 23
    • Before they went to see Glinda, however, they were taken to a room of the Castle, where Dorothy washed her face and combed her hair, and the Lion shook the dust out of his mane, and the Scarecrow patted himself into his best shape, and the Woodman polished his tin and oiled his joints.
  • (Australia, New Zealand) To stroke or fondle (an animal).
    • Do you want to pat the cat?
  • To gently rain.
    • Derived terms
    * pat down * pat on the back (v.)

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • timely, suitable, apt, opportune, ready for the occasion; especially of things spoken
    • a pat expression
  • * 1788, Cowper, Pity for Africans , p 18
    • A story so pat , you may think it is coined.
  • trite, being superficially complete, lacking originality
  • * 2010, New York Times , Editorial: Jobs and the Class of 2010, May 23.
    • The pat answer is that college students should consider graduate school as a way to delay a job search until things turn around, and that more high school students should go to college to improve their prospects. ''
    Derived terms
    * pat hand

    Adverb

    (en adverb)
  • opportunely, in a timely or suitable way.
  • * c''. 1600 , William Shakespeare, '' III.iii
    • Now might I do it pat
  • Perfectly.
    • He has the routine down pat .
    Derived terms
    * pat in the middle

    See also

    * strike * hit * feel * name

    Etymology 2

    Abbreviation.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • patent
  • (knitting) pattern
  • * 2012 , Kari Cornell, Knitting Sweaters from around the World (page 52)
    • Work in pat to next underarm marker, sm, place next st on holder

    Anagrams

    * ----

    apposite

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Appropriate, relevant, well-suited; fit.
  • * c.1833-1856 , Andrew Carrick, John Addington Symonds (editors), Medical Topography of Bristol'', in '' ,
    • Medical Topography would be the most apposite title, since it comprehends the principal objects of investigation;.
  • *
    • Flora, however, received the remark as if it had been of a most apposite and agreeable nature; approvingly observing aloud that Mr F.’s Aunt had a great deal of spirit.
  • * 1919 , , Chapter 15: The Expanding Vocabulary,
    • Rough-neck'' is a capital word; it is more apposite and savory than the English ''navvy , and it is over-whelmingly more American.
  • Positioned at rest in respect to another, be it side-to-side, front-to-front, back-to-back, or even three-dimensionally: in apposition.
  • * 1971 , University of London. School of Oriental and African Studies, Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London , Volume 34, page 262,
    • In other words, they are used to name, rather than to describe. They are apposite nouns and not adjectives.
  • Related, homologous.
  • * 2000 , David Skeele, "All That Monarchs Do": The Obscured Stages of Authority in Pericles'', in ''Pericles: Critical Essays ,
    • If the shift in theatrical setting and the shift in dramaturgy are at all related, they are apposite developments, independent yet homologous signs of a changing political and cultural climate.

    Related terms

    * apposition

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (rare) Something that is
  • * {{quote-book, year=1901, author=Charles L. Marson, title=Hugh, Bishop of Lincoln, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=Hugh gave the boy apples or other small apposites

    References

    See also

    * opposite ----