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.