Definition, Meaning, Synonyms & Anagrams | English word DOG

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Definitions of DOG

1. One of the cones used to divide up a racetrack when training horses.
2. The eleventh of the 12-year cycle of animals which appear in the Chinese zodiac related to the Chinese calendar.
3. Initialism of digital on-screen graphic.
4. Initialism of digitally originated graphic.
5. (pokerslang) An underdog.
6. (slang, mostlyin the plural) Foot.
7. (firearms, archaic) A cock, as of a gun.
8. (preceded by definite article) A dance having a brief vogue in the 1960s in which the actions of a dog were mimicked.
9. (transitive, slang) To criticize.
10. A mammal of the family Canidae:
11. (uncountable) The meat of this animal, eaten as food.
12. A person:
13. A mechanical device or support:
14. (cartomancy) The eighteenth Lenormand card.
15. A hot dog: a frankfurter, wiener, or similar sausage; or a sandwich made from this.
16. (Cockney rhyming slang) (from "dog and bone") Phone or mobile phone.
17. (informal) Something that performs poorly.
18. (transitive) To pursue with the intent to catch.
19. (transitive) To follow in an annoying or harassing way.
20. (transitive, nautical) To fasten a hatch securely.
21. (intransitive, emerging usage inBritish) To watch, or participate, in sexual activity in a public place.
22. (intransitive, transitive) To intentionally restrict one's productivity as employee; to work at the slowest rate that goes unpunished.
23. (transitive, military) To divide (a watch) with a comrade.
24. (slang) Of inferior quality; dogshit.
25. (World War II era, joint US/RAF) radiotelephony clear-code word for the letter D.
26. (humorous) The language supposedly spoken by dogs
27. (Geordie, slang) Newcastle Brown Ale

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Examples of Using DOG in a Sentence

• Possessing a great sense of smell and superior tracking instincts, the beagle is the primary breed used as a detection dog for prohibited agricultural imports and foodstuffs in quarantine around the world.
• Basenjis come into estrus only once annually similar to dingoes, New Guinea singing dogs and Tibetan Mastiffs, when compared with other dog breeds which may have two or more breeding seasons each year.
• Its name is Latin for "greater dog" in contrast to Canis Minor, the "lesser dog"; both figures are commonly represented as following the constellation of Orion the hunter through the sky.
• Its name is Latin for "lesser dog", in contrast to Canis Major, the "greater dog"; both figures are commonly represented as following the constellation of Orion the hunter.
• He was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his performance as Leon Shermer in Dog Day Afternoon (1975).
• She became known in the 1970s and 1980s in films such as Dog Day Afternoon (1975), Annie Hall (1977), When a Stranger Calls (1979), The Princess Bride (1987), Scrooged (1988) and Flashback (1990).
• Dog tag is an informal but common term for a specific type of identification tag worn by military personnel.
• A research article on dog genomics published in Science/AAAS defines modern dog breeds as "a recent invention defined by conformation to a physical ideal and purity of lineage".
• He also wrote stories and radio broadcasts such as A Child's Christmas in Wales and Portrait of the Artist as a Young Dog.
• Leary began taking roles in film and television starting in the 1990s, including substantial roles in the films Judgment Night (1993), Gunmen (1994), Operation Dumbo Drop (1995) and Wag the Dog (1997).
• For example, the English word dog and the Mbabaram word dog have exactly the same meaning and very similar pronunciations, but by complete coincidence.
• Historically the major means of transportation has been by boat around the coast in summer and by dog sled in winter, particularly in the north and east.
• The English Greyhound, or simply the Greyhound, is a breed of dog, a sighthound which has been bred for coursing, greyhound racing and hunting.
• Originally published locally as Jon in 1976 (later changed to Garfield in 1977), then in nationwide syndication from 1978, it chronicles the life of the title character Garfield the cat, Odie the dog, and their owner Jon Arbuckle.
• Some of his best-known works include the 1967 Star Trek episode "The City on the Edge of Forever", considered by some to be the single greatest episode of the Star Trek franchise (he subsequently wrote a book about the experience that includes his original teleplay), his A Boy and His Dog cycle (which was made into a film), and his short stories "I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream" and "'Repent, Harlequin!' Said the Ticktockman".
• Foxcliffe Hickory Wind or Hickory, a dog named Best in Show at the Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show in 2011.
• One of the largest of all breeds of dog, the breed is used by coursing hunters who have prized it for its ability to dispatch game caught by other, swifter sighthounds.
• "Dog days" are considered to begin in early July in the Northern Hemisphere, when the hot sultry weather of summer usually starts.
• He has been called the "father of Eskimology" (now often known as Inuit Studies or Greenlandic and Arctic Studies) and was the first European to cross the Northwest Passage via dog sled.
• The Keeshond was previously known as the Dutch Barge Dog, as it was frequently seen on barges traveling the canals and rivers of the Netherlands.

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