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JAG

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

Irregular inflected forms: jagged    , jagging   

 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

A bout of drinking or drug taking

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("jag" is a kind of...):

intemperance; intemperateness; self-indulgence (excess in action and immoderate indulgence of bodily appetites, especially in passion or indulgence)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A flap along the edge of a garment; used in medieval clothing

Synonyms:

dag; jag

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("jag" is a kind of...):

flap (any broad thin and limber covering attached at one edge; hangs loose or projects freely)

Holonyms ("jag" is a part of...):

garment (an article of clothing)

Derivation:

jag (cut teeth into; make a jagged cutting edge)

Sense 3

Meaning:

A slit in a garment that exposes material of a different color underneath; used in Renaissance clothing

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("jag" is a kind of...):

slit (a long narrow opening)

Holonyms ("jag" is a part of...):

garment (an article of clothing)

Derivation:

jag (cut teeth into; make a jagged cutting edge)

Sense 4

Meaning:

A sharp projection on an edge or surface

Example:

he clutched a jag of the rock

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)

Hypernyms ("jag" is a kind of...):

projection (any solid convex shape that juts out from something)

Derivation:

jag (cut teeth into; make a jagged cutting edge)

jaggy (having a sharply uneven surface or outline)

 II. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Cut teeth into; make a jagged cutting edge

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Hypernyms (to "jag" is one way to...):

cut (separate with or as if with an instrument)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "jag"):

serrate (make saw-toothed or jag the edge of)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something

Derivation:

jag (a flap along the edge of a garment; used in medieval clothing)

jag (a slit in a garment that exposes material of a different color underneath; used in Renaissance clothing)

jag (a sharp projection on an edge or surface)

Credits

 Context examples: 

The grey of the morning has passed, and the sun is high over the distant horizon, which seems jagged, whether with trees or hills I know not, for it is so far off that big things and little are mixed.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

It was a very wide ditch, and when they crept up to the edge and looked into it they could see it was also very deep, and there were many big, jagged rocks at the bottom.

(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)

The injury from which the unfortunate veteran was suffering was found to be a jagged cut some two inches long at the back part of his head, which had evidently been caused by a violent blow from a blunt weapon.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

It is a picture, and I can see it now,—the jagged edges of the hole in the side of the cabin, through which the grey fog swirled and eddied; the empty upholstered seats, littered with all the evidences of sudden flight, such as packages, hand satchels, umbrellas, and wraps; the stout gentleman who had been reading my essay, encased in cork and canvas, the magazine still in his hand, and asking me with monotonous insistence if I thought there was any danger; the red-faced man, stumping gallantly around on his artificial legs and buckling life-preservers on all comers; and finally, the screaming bedlam of women.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

There it fell with mighty splash, one jagged end peaking out above the surface, while the waters bubbled and foamed with far-circling eddy.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Suddenly, I became conscious of the fact that the driver was in the act of pulling up the horses in the courtyard of a vast ruined castle, from whose tall black windows came no ray of light, and whose broken battlements showed a jagged line against the moonlit sky.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

The shaft into which the river hurls itself is an immense chasm, lined by glistening coal-black rock, and narrowing into a creaming, boiling pit of incalculable depth, which brims over and shoots the stream onward over its jagged lip.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Inscribed upon it, in the jagged handwriting of Professor Challenger, were the words:—

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Far below the jagged points of the boulders bristled up, dark and menacing.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

To the west was a great valley, and then, rising far away, great jagged mountain fastnesses, rising peak on peak, the sheer rock studded with mountain ash and thorn, whose roots clung in cracks and crevices and crannies of the stone.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)