ALL meanings of dragon
drag·on
D d - noun dragon mythical fire-breathing creature 1
- noun dragon difficult or formidable person 1
- noun dragon A mythical monster like a giant reptile. In European tradition the dragon is typically fire-breathing and tends to symbolize chaos or evil, whereas in East Asia it is usually a beneficent symbol of fertility, associated with water and the heavens. 1
- noun Definition of dragon in Technology 1. An Esprit project aimed at providing effective support to reuse in real-time distributed Ada application programs. 2. An implementation language used by BTI Computer Systems. E-mail: Pat Helland <[email protected]>. 1
- noun dragon a mythical monster generally represented as a huge, winged reptile with crested head and enormous claws and teeth, and often spouting fire. 1
- noun dragon Archaic. a huge serpent or snake. 1
- noun dragon Bible. a large animal, possibly a large snake or crocodile. 1
- noun dragon the dragon, Satan. 1
- noun dragon a fierce, violent person. 1
- noun dragon a very watchful and strict woman. 1
- noun dragon flying dragon. 1
- noun dragon Botany. any of several araceous plants, as Arisaema dracontium (green dragon or dragonroot) the flowers of which have a long, slender spadix and a green, shorter spathe. 1
- noun dragon a short musket carried by a mounted infantryman in the 16th and 17th centuries. 1
- noun dragon a soldier armed with such a musket. 1
- noun dragon (initial capital letter) Astronomy. the constellation Draco. 1
- noun Definition of dragon in Technology [MIT] A program similar to a daemon, except that it is not invoked at all, but is instead used by the system to perform various secondary tasks. A typical example would be an accounting program, which keeps track of who is logged in, accumulates load-average statistics, etc. Under ITS, many terminals displayed a list of people logged in, where they were, what they were running, etc., along with some random picture (such as a unicorn, Snoopy or the Enterprise), which was generated by the "name dragon". Use is rare outside MIT, under Unix and most other operating systems this would be called a "background demon" or daemon. The best-known Unix example of a dragon is cron. At SAIL, they called this sort of thing a "phantom". 1
- noun dragon A legendary serpentine or reptilian creature. 0
- noun dragon An animal of various species that resemble a dragon in appearance. 0
- noun dragon (astronomy, with definite article, often capitalized) The constellation Draco. 0
- noun dragon (pejorative) An unpleasant woman; a harridan. 0
- noun dragon (with definite article, often capitalized) The (historical) Chinese empire or the People's Republic of China. 0
- noun dragon (figuratively) Something very formidable or dangerous. 0
- noun dragon A luminous exhalation from marshy ground, seeming to move through the air like a winged serpent. 0
- noun dragon (military, historical) A short musket hooked to a swivel attached to a soldier's belt; so called from a representation of a dragon's head at the muzzle. 0
- noun dragon A variety of carrier pigeon. 0
- countable noun dragon In stories and legends, a dragon is an animal like a big lizard. It has wings and claws, and breathes out fire. 0
- countable noun dragon If someone calls a woman, especially an older woman, a dragon, they mean that she is fierce and unpleasant. 0
- noun dragon a mythical monster usually represented as breathing fire and having a scaly reptilian body, wings, claws, and a long tail 0
- noun dragon a fierce or intractable person, esp a woman 0
- noun dragon any of various very large lizards, esp the Komodo dragon 0
- noun dragon any of various North American aroid plants, esp the green dragon 0
- noun dragon a manifestation of Satan or an attendant devil 0
- noun dragon a yacht of the International Dragon Class, 8.88m long (29.2 feet), used in racing 0
- noun dragon a mythical monster, usually represented as a large reptile with wings and claws, breathing out fire and smoke 0
- noun dragon a fierce person; esp., a fiercely watchful female guardian or chaperon 0
- noun dragon a short musket carried hooked to a soldier's belt 0
- noun dragon a soldier armed with such a musket; dragoon 0
- noun dragon a large serpent or snake 0
- noun dragon a word used to translate several Hebrew words now understood to mean serpent, jackal, Old Serpent (Satan), etc. 0
- noun dragon any of a genus (Draco) of small tree lizards of Southeast Asia, with winglike membranes used in gliding from tree to tree 0