dag

IPA: dˈæg

noun

  • A hanging end or shred, in particular a long pointed strip of cloth at the edge of a piece of clothing, or one of a row of decorative strips of cloth that may ornament a tent, booth or fairground.
  • A dangling lock of sheep’s wool matted with dung.
  • A skewer.
  • A spit, a sharpened rod used for roasting food over a fire.
  • (obsolete) A dagger; a poniard.
  • (obsolete) A kind of large pistol.
  • The unbranched antler of a young deer.
  • (Australia slang, derogatory) One who dresses unfashionably or without apparent care about appearance; someone who is not cool; a dweeb or nerd.
  • (Australia slang, New Zealand, obsolete) An odd or eccentric person; someone who is a bit strange but amusingly so.
  • (graph theory) A directed acyclic graph; an ordered pair (V,E) such that E is a subset of some partial ordering relation on V.
  • A misty shower; dew.
  • (chiefly Ireland) Pronunciation spelling of dog. [A mammal of the family Canidae:]
  • Initialism of deputy attorney general.
  • (computer science, mathematics) Initialism of directed acyclic graph. [(graph theory, computer science) A finite directed graph that contains no directed cycles.]
  • (US, law) Initialism of Defense Acquisition Guide.
  • (biochemistry) Initialism of diacylglycerol. [(organic chemistry) diglyceride]

verb

  • To shear the hindquarters of a sheep in order to remove dags or prevent their formation.
  • (obsolete, or dialectal) To sully; to make dirty; to bemire.
  • (transitive) To skewer food, for roasting over a fire
  • (transitive) To cut or slash the edge of a garment into dags
  • (UK, dialect) To be misty; to drizzle.
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Examples of "dag" in Sentences

  • DAG and the utterance/discourse DAG.
  • Dag style isn't necessarily slovenly.
  • Dag style isn't by necessity slovenly.
  • DAG may also be converted to PA by DAG kinase.
  • I thought so --- then leave a comment, dag nab it!
  • By dag in Everything Else on Nov 5, 2009 at 7: 30 am
  • The term dag can be a compliment from one dag to another.
  • "I'm a dreadful ` 80s kind of dag, a child of that era," she said.
  • A dag with an empty domain is often called an empty dag or variable.
  • Definition 4.1 Let x be a dag feature structure, and s a dag format.
  • An atomic dag neither subsumes nor is subsumed by any different atomic dag.
  • The area of the country with the heaviest precipitation is the Kopet Dag Range.
  • Frank and Dean, in an improvisational routine, started calling each other 'dag'.
  • When Kerry isn't being a total dag, his meta view of Australian cricket is very insightful.
  • ‘Altai, ’ Galsan Tschinag has written, comes from ‘ala, ’ multi-coloured, and ‘dag, ’ mountain.
  • This is accomplished by encapsulating a particular DAG's copy environment in each of the active nodes of that DAG.
  • (Frank used to call his buddies of Italian-American heritage the nickname 'dag', 4 shortened version of 'dago', which to Frank meant paisano.)
  • I felt like a bit of a dag but then the lovely Ryan from the George Eastman House said it was also a title he'd wanted to use and that made me feel better.
  • And if you were Benji's age, you'll remember the party at the roller rink, the Apple II+, the Tears for Fears video and the way everybody said "dag," a word expressive of such complex emotion that you couldn't possibly articulate its meaning.
  • Even though Frank had used the phrase 'dag' for years as a short version of 'dago' when he was bonding with fellow Italian Americans, Joey -- who had recently been lauded for his defence of Italian Americans on The Jack Paar Show -- became offended and left.

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