(n.) A short weapon used for stabbing. This is the general term: cf. Poniard, Stiletto, Bowie knife, Dirk, Misericorde, Anlace.
(n.) A mark of reference in the form of a dagger [/]. It is the second in order when more than one reference occurs on a page; -- called also obelisk.
(v. t.) To pierce with a dagger; to stab.
(n.) A timber placed diagonally in a ship's frame.
Example Sentences:
(1) His children will get used to a father who wears pants, without a dagger, and who does not pick out their nits in public.
(2) Fear of the war between Blairites and Brownites breaking into open riot led to cabinet paralysis, while leadership ambitions warned that he who wields the dagger never wears the crown.
(3) Some daggers have already been drawn – François Rebsamen , said the revelations showed the entire idea of "première dame", was obsolete, adding that scrapping of the office of the first lady would be progress for democracy.
(4) Ennis had hit a jumper just moments before that cut the Flyers' lead down to one and, as everyone on both sides certainly remembered, hit a dagger of a game-winner against Pittsburgh just last month .
(5) The magnificent bronze Beaune Dirk is a princely dagger, but could not have been intended for practical use: the blade was never sharpened, nor the end drilled to attach a wooden hilt.
(6) Joey's slap in the face to his parents is certainly transgressive, "a stunning act of sedition and a dagger to Patty's heart".
(7) Zhang, who directed House of Flying Daggers and Hero, admitted on Sunday to having had three children with his wife.
(8) The pressure dependence of these coefficients shows that the volume of the system decreases upon complex formation and that there is an expansion upon formation of the activated complex (DeltaVdouble dagger is positive).
(9) From the values of the slopes of the Arrhenius plots, the energy of activation (E(a)) for each isoenzyme and isoenzyme variant was determined, and the following thermodynamic activation parameters were calculated at 55 degrees C: the free energy of activation (DeltaG(double dagger)), the activation enthalpy (DeltaH(double dagger)) and the activation entropy (DeltaS(double dagger)).
(10) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Shakespeare Solos: Daniel Mays as Macbeth – ‘Is this a dagger which I see before me?’ “All those shows definitely have a place, but there are a lot of public school actors and writers about at the moment.
(11) Last year she narrowly escaped with her life when a female assassin tried to stab her with a traditional dagger known as a jambiya.
(12) They ranged from tiny dagger size to elaborate, candelabra-esque weapons with multiple ports.
(13) It’s time to wind down cloak-and-dagger efforts to undermine the Cuban regime and try a new approach, the pundits now suggest , presumably as incentive for the Cuban government to loosen its grip on its people.
(14) He's part of a Brooklyn film-making collective, Waverley (heraldic crest: dagger, beer, skull and crossbones, neon green background), with whom he has made shorts and TV shows.
(15) This month the Dagger Awards, run by the Crime Writers Association, celebrated the work of two French writers at its gala awards event.
(16) Both subject groups have difficulties in retrieving words that specify a property relationship to a late acquired stimulus word, as in 'desert-sand', while words that specify an 'is a' relationship with the stimulus word, as in 'dagger-knife', are easily retrieved.
(17) The blade of this dagger can be fixed at right angles to the knife-handle, ready for use just as an "American San Francisco Push-Dagger" or an Indian "katar", obviously very dangerous weapons.
(18) I just wait until I’ve got a character and I think, why would anybody do that, what is it in their background, what is it in their lives makes them do it?” Rendell won prizes including the Crime Writers’ Association Cartier Diamond Dagger for “sustained excellence in crime writing”, and, as a Labour life peer, helped pass a law preventing girls being sent abroad for female genital mutilation.
(19) • This article was amended on 10 February 2016 to clarify ownership of Lawrence’s dagger and robes.
(20) He points out his primary school, his father's church, the house where he was brought up, the hospice where he and Sarah worked unpublicised in the summer of 2009, when the country was in recession and would-be assassins in the Labour party were agonising about whether to unsheathe their daggers.
Lagger
Definition:
(n.) A laggard.
Example Sentences:
(1) The mortality of 3000 male factory workers, 1400 laggers, and 700 women factory workers in east London has been studied.
(2) Laggers were employed on contract in increasing numbers in later years.
(3) A sub-group of 39 men, who were working as asbestos laggers or sprayers before 1957, was identified.
(4) The prevalence of pleural fibrosis ranged from 28% in continuously exposed workers to 1.9% in those with least exposure.Most cases of pulmonary fibrosis occurred in laggers and sprayers who had been continuously exposed for between 15 and 20 years.
(5) Grassroots organisers for the GMB and Unite unions were inundated with calls from members who wanted to join the industrial action erupting at the Lindsey oil refinery near Grimsby, where hundreds of welders, engineers, pipe-fitters and laggers had launched the biggest protest yet at the employment of foreign workers on energy construction projects.
(6) The campaign group described P&G as both a “market leader and a lagger”, for failing to drive change in the industry.
(7) A follow-up study of 162 men already working as insulators (laggers) in 1940 has been extended from 1965 to 1975.
(8) Mesothelioma was found to cluster in laggers, electricians, and shipyard workers, and nasal carcinoma in woodworkers.