Definitions for "Rag"
To scold or rail at; to rate; to tease; to torment; to banter.
A shabby, beggarly fellow; a ragamuffin.
To cut or dress roughly, as a grindstone.
A sail, or any piece of canvas.
To play or compose (a piece, melody, etc.) in syncopated time.
To dance to ragtime music, esp. in some manner considered indecorous.
A piece of cloth torn off; a tattered piece of cloth; a shred; a tatter; a fragment.
Hence, mean or tattered attire; worn-out dress.
To become tattered.
It is a card, usually a low one, that, when it appears, doesn't show any impact on the hand.- A flop of 7 4 2 is a rag flop - few playable hands match the flop well. If the table shows QJT9, all of spades, a 2h on the river is a rag.
A rag is typically a low card that doesn't appear to affect anyone's hand in a meaningful way. A player might say "the board was all rags" meaning that the community cards were uncoordinated and low.
Same as a blank.
Fiber from cotton material.
Formerly the principal raw material used in the making process; often meaning cotton rags. Rag content is rare today, and refers to the cotton content of some fine papers. Rag paper is more long lasting than most wood pulp paper. Linen used to be used in paper and is extremely strong and long lasting.
Indicates that a paper has been produced from cotton linters. The term 'rag content' describes the amount of cotton fibres relative to the total amount of material used in the pulp.
newspaper with half-size pages
A decorative painting technique where a glaze is tooled or manipulated with a rag.
Tick layers of wet newspapers folded to provide a cool safe pad for the glassworker to shape the hot molten glass.
a week at British universities during which side-shows and processions of floats are organized to raise money for charities
a boisterous practical joke (especially by college students)
Raise and Give, the charitable arm of the Students' Union. They raise money it lots of different fun and funky ways.
Red Algal Galactan. A type of biopolymer (a.k.a. vegetable gum or phycocolloid) produced by red seaweed (Rhodophyta) genera (e.g. Kappaphycus, Eucheuma, Gracilaria, Gelidium).
Red and gone
The ends of the lines of your text. So if you flush left then the rag is the jagged line on the right. The goal is to have the rag fairly even, no individual lines or blocks jutting out alone. The rag shouldn't be so uneven as to be distracting.
A rank outsider.
The outsider in the field, normally available at a big price.
The biggest outsider or unfancied runner who has the biggest odds of all. The longshot.
cause annoyance in; disturb, especially by minor irritations; "Mosquitoes buzzing in my ear really bothers me"; "It irritates me that she never closes the door after she leaves"
Handkerchief in gang's color.
A coarse kind of rock, somewhat cellular in texture.
Any of several kinds of hard coarse rock, mainly limestones, which break irregularly. Also known as ragstone.
regimental artillery group
a Recovery Action Group, is a group of people working on specific actions or projects under the umbrella of a national recovery team.
Regional Arbitration Group
Recombination-activating gene. Rag1 and Rag2 are closely linked genes that constitute the catalytic machinery for gene-segment recombination of antigen-receptor genes.
play in ragtime; "rag that old tune"
A tune or the series of five or more notes upon which it is based.
To break (ore) into lumps for sorting.
break into lumps before sorting; "rag ore"
Meat sauce for pasta; sometimes refers to other hearty sauces.
Tobacco that has been cut into fine strips for use in cigarettes. Also known as cut rag.
a publication, by the way, there is nothing inherently derogatory about the term itself
A ragged edge.
The irregularity along the left or right edge of a column of text.