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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