Tad
noun
A small amount or degree.
Your shirt is a tad too small.
Often appears as...
- a tad bit
- a tad too
Usage tips
Informal
Colloquial
noun
A small boy.
He's a handsome tad.
Usage tips
Informal
Colloquial
noun
A small amount or degree.
Your shirt is a tad too small.
Often appears as...
- a tad bit
- a tad too
Usage tips
Informal
Colloquial
noun
A small boy.
He's a handsome tad.
Usage tips
Informal
Colloquial
Definition 1 of 2
Pro Tip 1/3Slight Exaggeration
Used to suggest a subtle exaggeration when something is just slightly more or less than stated.
I'll be ready in a tad, just give me two more minutes.
Pro Tip 2/3Informal Usage
Appropriate for casual conversations but might be too colloquial for formal writing.
Could you move a tad to the left?
Pro Tip 3/3Understated Tone
Implies a downplayed or minimized sense of the amount or degree being described.
This spice makes the curry a tad spicy, but not too much.
Pro Tip 1/3Slight Exaggeration
Used to suggest a subtle exaggeration when something is just slightly more or less than stated.
I'll be ready in a tad, just give me two more minutes.
Pro Tip 2/3Informal Usage
Appropriate for casual conversations but might be too colloquial for formal writing.
Could you move a tad to the left?
Pro Tip 3/3Understated Tone
Implies a downplayed or minimized sense of the amount or degree being described.
This spice makes the curry a tad spicy, but not too much.
Pro Tip 1/3Slight Exaggeration
Used to suggest a subtle exaggeration when something is just slightly more or less than stated.
I'll be ready in a tad, just give me two more minutes.
Pro Tip 2/3Informal Usage
Appropriate for casual conversations but might be too colloquial for formal writing.
Could you move a tad to the left?
Pro Tip 3/3Understated Tone
Implies a downplayed or minimized sense of the amount or degree being described.
This spice makes the curry a tad spicy, but not too much.
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Reel Talk Ep. 5 - Go...
you know do you know what time it's not you know you're not steaming out there into the rough weather it's like you're out there it's coming as the storm approaches you know you're trying to squeeze out that last tide change and then you know you got a head for the beach I mean we're not doing anything irrational we're just you know we're being smart about it and pushing the envelope just a tad bit I want to stay one other little parts of this season
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TED2014 in review PIPE...
people sometimes like you know like I I people tell me they have this with me a little bit but I see people and I think I know them but I don't know them like they're famous so I'm like oh like that and when you're a tad that's how it is over and over again I love this community and I hope that I'm coming for
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Safari Live - Day 65 PIPE...
the mix of rotting Buffalo that is in the water at the moment maybe they're trying to warm it up a tad before going deeper it really looks like someone who doesn't like the cold who's trying to ease their way into into a swimming cold swimming pool
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Safari Live - Day 121 PIPE...
elephants at green tad so he's been kicked out now living a life of solitary swatting that tail keeping away all the biting flies I even have a quarry branch in the car today the insects have been particularly bad be nice if he gave that
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Lucy in the Sky with...
really really fast and collide with an asteroid in such a way just give it a slight nudge that nudge would alter the asteroid's orbit just a tad if you do that early enough you know maybe in maybe a hundred years ahead of time
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Safari Live - Day 129 PIPE...
says sorry I'm told me to go back to the Moines that okay a little bit back ci wants me to go back just a tad just a tad there we go and anymore so pretty I would say that maurices birthday would have to be on my
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3 ways to be a more...
And I should be thinking about ways to help them partner with us and invest in a more meaningful way. I know this sounds a tad mercenary. I'm not confused about how it sounds. But here's what I want to tell you,
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Meet the Shark Men:...
all-around bad sorry well you can see what we're talking about now this one's a tad bit angrier always prepared gotta have a backup for the backup he uses his years of experience to advance science
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Listening to shame -...
mean I hear vulnerability tad I turn around I go hi she's right here and she said you're the shame researcher who had the breakdown at this point parents are
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Safari Live - Day 222 PIPE...
it bounded away unscathed even the Lions seemed a tad confused about how on earth they missed that one honestly to this day I'm still not
Video examples
Reel Talk Ep. 5 - Go...
you know do you know what time it's not you know you're not steaming out there into the rough weather it's like you're out there it's coming as the storm approaches you know you're trying to squeeze out that last tide change and then you know you got a head for the beach I mean we're not doing anything irrational we're just you know we're being smart about it and pushing the envelope just a tad bit I want to stay one other little parts of this season
Video examples
TED2014 in review PIPE...
people sometimes like you know like I I people tell me they have this with me a little bit but I see people and I think I know them but I don't know them like they're famous so I'm like oh like that and when you're a tad that's how it is over and over again I love this community and I hope that I'm coming for
Video examples
Safari Live - Day 65 PIPE...
the mix of rotting Buffalo that is in the water at the moment maybe they're trying to warm it up a tad before going deeper it really looks like someone who doesn't like the cold who's trying to ease their way into into a swimming cold swimming pool
Video examples
Safari Live - Day 121 PIPE...
elephants at green tad so he's been kicked out now living a life of solitary swatting that tail keeping away all the biting flies I even have a quarry branch in the car today the insects have been particularly bad be nice if he gave that
Video examples
Lucy in the Sky with...
really really fast and collide with an asteroid in such a way just give it a slight nudge that nudge would alter the asteroid's orbit just a tad if you do that early enough you know maybe in maybe a hundred years ahead of time
Video examples
Safari Live - Day 129 PIPE...
says sorry I'm told me to go back to the Moines that okay a little bit back ci wants me to go back just a tad just a tad there we go and anymore so pretty I would say that maurices birthday would have to be on my
Video examples
3 ways to be a more...
And I should be thinking about ways to help them partner with us and invest in a more meaningful way. I know this sounds a tad mercenary. I'm not confused about how it sounds. But here's what I want to tell you,
Video examples
Meet the Shark Men:...
all-around bad sorry well you can see what we're talking about now this one's a tad bit angrier always prepared gotta have a backup for the backup he uses his years of experience to advance science
Video examples
Listening to shame -...
mean I hear vulnerability tad I turn around I go hi she's right here and she said you're the shame researcher who had the breakdown at this point parents are
Video examples
Safari Live - Day 222 PIPE...
it bounded away unscathed even the Lions seemed a tad confused about how on earth they missed that one honestly to this day I'm still not
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Cassie Ventura
American Musician
I did musical theater, and I did dancing for what it was at the performing arts high school that I went to. I went to a school where I was there on a scholarship. So I think when you're on a scholarship, you always work a tad harder, or you want to work a tad harder than the next person.
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Freddie Gibbs
American Musician
I have a respect for Young Jeezy. But the reason things didn't work out for me and Young Jeezy was because our approach to the industry... My approach to the industry was a tad bit different than his. I wanted to approach my career a different way; he wanted to go a different way.
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Eddie Redmayne
English Actor
I'm quite ignorant about fashion and I'm colourblind, so it's all a tad tricky. My only knowledge of that world comes through Christopher Bailey, whom I first met in 2008 when I did a campaign for Burberry that featured musicians, artists, actors and sportsmen.
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Torrey DeVitto
American Actress
I was worried for a while that it was some sort of reflection of me that all I seemed to be getting were these characters that were a tad bit loony. But I love it. Those are the most fun characters to play!
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Vijay Sethupathi
Indian Actor
I prepare my style of biriyani by sauting sliced onion, tomato, green chilli, ginger garlic and add required water and rice. If I end up adding a tad too much of salt, I used to add curd to balance it.
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Black Thought
American Musician
We don't try to please everyone. Those older fans who expect something from The Roots are a tad more important to me than getting new fans.
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India Eisley
American Actress
It's a tad embarrassing, but there's this show called 'The Dead Files' on the Travel Channel, and I'm completely obsessed with it!
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Aesop Rock
American Musician
New York can be a tad stressful.
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Cassie Ventura
American Musician
I did musical theater, and I did dancing for what it was at the performing arts high school that I went to. I went to a school where I was there on a scholarship. So I think when you're on a scholarship, you always work a tad harder, or you want to work a tad harder than the next person.
Quote examples
Freddie Gibbs
American Musician
I have a respect for Young Jeezy. But the reason things didn't work out for me and Young Jeezy was because our approach to the industry... My approach to the industry was a tad bit different than his. I wanted to approach my career a different way; he wanted to go a different way.
Quote examples
Eddie Redmayne
English Actor
I'm quite ignorant about fashion and I'm colourblind, so it's all a tad tricky. My only knowledge of that world comes through Christopher Bailey, whom I first met in 2008 when I did a campaign for Burberry that featured musicians, artists, actors and sportsmen.
Quote examples
Torrey DeVitto
American Actress
I was worried for a while that it was some sort of reflection of me that all I seemed to be getting were these characters that were a tad bit loony. But I love it. Those are the most fun characters to play!
Quote examples
Vijay Sethupathi
Indian Actor
I prepare my style of biriyani by sauting sliced onion, tomato, green chilli, ginger garlic and add required water and rice. If I end up adding a tad too much of salt, I used to add curd to balance it.
Quote examples
Black Thought
American Musician
We don't try to please everyone. Those older fans who expect something from The Roots are a tad more important to me than getting new fans.
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India Eisley
American Actress
It's a tad embarrassing, but there's this show called 'The Dead Files' on the Travel Channel, and I'm completely obsessed with it!
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Aesop Rock
American Musician
New York can be a tad stressful.
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