nat

name

1. (abbreviation, alt-of)Abbreviation of National Party.
2. (abbreviation, alt-of)Abbreviation of North Atlantic Tracks.
3. (Philippines, abbreviation, alt-of, initialism)Initialism of National Achievement Test.
4. (countable, uncountable)A unisex given name.

   “Nathan was one of the tiniest, tottering along, holding on to the hand of a much older girl. Nat. Small like a gnat.”

5. (countable, uncountable)A unisex given name.
6. (countable, uncountable)A unisex given name.
7. (countable, uncountable)A surname.

noun

1. (abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable)Initialism of nucleic acid test.
2. (abbreviation, acronym, alt-of, countable, uncountable)Acronym of network address translation (“network address rewriting”).
3. (abbreviation, acronym, alt-of, countable, uncountable)Acronym of network address translator (“device that implements that network function; a NAT firewall”).
4. (countable, uncountable)Negative automatic thoughts.
5. (Australian, informal, slang)A member or supporter of the Australian National Party.
6. (New-Zealand, informal, slang)A member or supporter of the New Zealand National Party.
7. (UK, informal, slang)A member or supporter of the Scottish National Party.
8. (South-African, dated, informal, slang)A member or supporter of the National Party of South Africa.
9. A spirit in Burmese mythology, whose cult is followed alongside Buddhism.

   “They greatly dread evil "Nats" or spirits, to whom they attribute every possible misfortune or illness.”

10. A logarithmic unit of information or entropy, based on natural logarithms.
11. (US, abbreviation, alt-of, clipping, colloquial)Clipping of natatorium.

adv

1. (not-comparable, obsolete)Not.

   “And he a pistle rowned in her eare, / Nat what I want, for I ne came nat there.”

adj

1. (abbreviation, alt-of, clipping, not-comparable, slang)Clipping of natural (“pertaining to a dice roll before bonuses or penalties have been applied to the result”).

   “After rolling a Strength check to move a heavy cabinet, I got a nat 1 and the cabinet fell on me.”

   “in the Dark Sun campaign I'm playing in, the DM handles crits/fumbles this way: Natural 20: an excellent attack, player gets a bonus attack, if he gets another Nat. 20, he gets a 3rd attack, and so on.”

   “Almost killed my cleric mage when she was juggling with another bard...missed the juggling check, rolled a nat 20 on the to-hit roll, and rolled maximum damage...and said cleric-mage was already wounded, and recuperating...8P”

   “But she continued. "I do a Survival check to see if there are any worm people in these puddles... and roll a nat twenty!"”