dag vs squib

dag

noun
  • One who dresses unfashionably or without apparent care about appearance; someone who is not cool; a dweeb or nerd. 

  • A dangling lock of sheep’s wool matted with dung. 

  • 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 skewer. 

  • A misty shower; dew. 

  • A spit, a sharpened rod used for roasting food over a fire. 

  • The unbranched antler of a young deer. 

  • A directed acyclic graph; an ordered pair (V,E) such that E is a subset of some partial ordering relation on V. 

verb
  • To be misty; to drizzle. 

  • To shear the hindquarters of a sheep in order to remove dags or prevent their formation. 

  • To cut or slash the edge of a garment into dags 

  • To skewer food, for roasting over a fire 

intj
  • Expressing shock, awe or surprise; used as a general intensifier. 

squib

noun
  • An unimportant, paltry, or mean-spirited person. 

  • A sketched concept or visual solution, usually very quick and not too detailed. 

  • A malfunction in which the fired projectile does not have enough force behind it to exit the barrel, and thus becomes stuck. 

  • In special effects, a small explosive used to replicate a bullet hitting a surface. 

  • A short article, often published in journals, that introduces theoretically problematic empirical data or discusses an overlooked theoretical problem. In contrast to a typical article, a squib need not answer the questions that it poses. 

  • Any small firecracker sold to the general public, usually in special clusters designed to explode in series after a single master fuse is lit. 

  • A similar device used to ignite an explosive or launch a rocket, etc. 

  • The heating element used to set off the sodium azide pellets in a vehicle's airbag. 

  • A kind of slow match or safety fuse. 

  • A small firework that is intended to spew sparks rather than explode. 

  • In a legal casebook, a short summary of a legal action placed between more extensively quoted cases. 

verb
  • To make a sound like a small explosion. 

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