Dad is a synonym for

father A father is the male parent of a child. Besides the paternal bonds of a father to his children, the father may have a parental, legal, and social relationship with the child that carries with it certain rights and obligations. An adoptive fathe ...

in English. Dad, DAD, or Dads may also refer to:

Places

* Dad, Hungary, a village * Dad, Wyoming, a ghost town

People

* Dad (nickname), a list of people *

Sameer Dad Mohammad Sameer Dad (born 25 November 1978 in Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh) is a former field hockey forward who played for India. International appearances Dad made his international senior debut for the Indian Men's National Team in January 1998, ...

(born 1978), Indian field hockey player * Sher Mian Dad (born 1968), a Pakistani singer * Dad Mohammad Khan (1???–2009), Member of Parliament in the National Assembly of Afghanistan

Acronyms

Computer science

* ''

Dictionary of Algorithms and Data Structures The NIST ''Dictionary of Algorithms and Data Structures'' is a reference work maintained by the U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology. It defines a large number of terms relating to algorithms and data structures. For algorithms and ...

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Disciplined agile delivery Disciplined agile delivery (DAD) is the software development portion of the Disciplined Agile Toolkit. DAD enables teams to make simplified process decisions around incremental and iterative solution delivery. DAD builds on the many practices esp ...

, a decision-making framework for large-scale Agile software development projects *

Drag-and-drop In computer graphical user interfaces, drag and drop is a pointing device gesture in which the user selects a virtual object by "grabbing" it and dragging it to a different location or onto another virtual object. In general, it can be used to ...

, or DaD * Duplicate Address Detection, a component of the IPv6 electronic communications protocol

Medicine

* Delayed Afterdepolarization, a type of cardiac dysrhythmia * Diffuse alveolar damage, a histological pattern of lung disease seen in Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome and Acute Interstitial Pneumonia * Disinhibited attachment disorder, a psychological disorder in the ICD-10

Chemistry

Diallyl disulfide Diallyl disulfide (DADS or 4,5-dithia-1,7-octadiene) is an organosulfur compound derived from garlic and a few other genus ''Allium'' plants. Along with diallyl trisulfide and diallyl tetrasulfide, it is one of the principal components of the dist ...

, a constituent of garlic oil * 1,4-Diazabutadiene, a class of diimines

Other

* '' Dilbilim Araştırmaları'', a linguistic journal published in Turkey * Diode array detector, a type of detector in chromatographic methods *

Texas Department of Aging and Disability Services Texas Department of Aging and Disability Services (DADS) was a state agency that supported the state's elderly and disabled population. The agency maintained its headquarters in the John H. Winters Human Services Center at 701 West 51st Street in ...

(DADS) * '' Deutscher Aufbaudienst''

Film and television

* ''Dad'' (1989 film), a 1989 comedy-drama starring Jack Lemmon and Ted Danson * ''Dad'' (2005 film), a British television film * ''Dad'' (TV series), a former British television sitcom * ''Dads'' (1986 TV series), an ABC series * ''Dads'' (2013 TV series), a Fox Broadcasting Company series * "Dad" (''Angel''), a 2001 episode of the American television series ''Angel'' * "Dad" (''Red Dwarf''), an unmade episode of the British television series ''Red Dwarf'' *''Dad'', a shortened title of the American web series ''

Dad Feels Nathan James Barnatt (born February 2, 1981) is an American actor, comedian, dancer, YouTuber, singer, and filmmaker. He is best known for his famous comic characters Keith Apicary and "Dad". Career Barnatt appeared on Comedy Central's ''The ...

'' * Abbreviation for ''

Die Another Day ''Die Another Day'' is a 2002 spy film and the twentieth film in the ''James Bond'' series produced by Eon Productions. It was produced by Michael G. Wilson and Barbara Broccoli, and directed by Lee Tamahori. The fourth and final film st ...

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Music

D-A-D D-A-D is a Danish rock band. They were originally named Disneyland After Dark, but changed their name to avoid a lawsuit from The Walt Disney Company. History In the early 1980s in Copenhagen, D-A-D started playing together under their orig ...

, a Danish rock band formerly known as "Disneyland After Dark" * Dads (band), an American indie rock/math rock/emo band * ''Dad'' (A Band Called Bud album) (1989) * ''Dad'' (Breakfast with Amy album) (1991) * "Dad", by Meghan Trainor from the album ''

Meghan Trainor Meghan Elizabeth Trainor (born December 22, 1993) is an American singer-songwriter and television personality. She rose to prominence after signing with Epic Records in 2014 and releasing her debut single "All About That Bass", which reached ...

Brands

* Dad, a Beanie Baby teddy bear made by Ty, Inc. in 2004 * Dad's Root Beer, an American root beer

Codes

* DAD, IATA airport code for

Da Nang International Airport Da Nang International Airport is located in Da Nang, the largest city in central Vietnam. It is the third international airport in the country, besides Noi Bai International Airport (Hanoi) and Tan Son Nhat International Airport (Ho Chi Minh ...

* dad, ISO 639-3 code for the Marik language, spoken in Papua New Guinea

Other uses

Ḍād (), is one of the six letters the Arabic alphabet added to the twenty-two inherited from the Phoenician alphabet (the others being , , , , ). In name and shape, it is a variant of . Its numerical value is 800 (see Abjad numerals). In Modern Stan ...

(ﺽ), a letter of the Arabic alphabet * ''Dad'' (novel), a novel by William Wharton and the basis for the 1989 film of the same name