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damn

Noun CEFR A1 Common
dæm

Definitions

  1. To condemn
  2. Abbreviation of diaminomaleonitrile.
  3. The word "damn" employed as a curse.
  4. To condemn; to declare guilty; to doom; to adjudge to punishment
  5. Acronym of distributed architecture for mobile navigation.
  6. A small, negligible quantity, being of little value; a whit or jot.
  7. To put out of favor; to ruin; to label negatively
  8. The smallest amount of concern or consideration.
  9. To condemn as unfit, harmful, invalid, immoral or illegal
  10. To curse; put a curse upon

Equivalents

41 more languages
العربيةاللعنةلعن
Euskaramadarikatu
हिन्दीकोसना
Հայերենանիծել
ქართულიჯანდაბა
Lietuviųvelnias
Bahasa Melayuhampas
Slovenščinapreklet
Shqipmallkoj
தமிழ்அடடாசபி
Türkçelanetlemek

Examples

“He said a few damns and left.”
The new hires aren't worth a damn.”
“I don't give a damn.”
Several nitrogen heterocycles, including imidazoles,¹⁻³ pyrazines,⁴ and diazepines,^(1, 3) have been prepared from diaminomaleonitrile (DAMN, 1), the tetramer of hydrogen cyanide.”
Diaminomaleonitrile (DAMN), a stable tetramer of HCN, has long been renowned as a precursor for the formation of nucleobases.”
The Distributed Architecture for Mobile Navigation (DAMN) has been successfully used to integrate various independently developed subsystems, providing systems that perform road following, cross-country navigation, or teleoperation while avoiding obstacles and meeting mission objectives.”
“In each robot, a path planning algorithm, an obstacle avoidance routine, a slope assessment algorithm, and a task execution unit have all been integrated into a single behavior-based architecture. Navigation is implemented using the DAMN architecture to combine the competing outputs of each behavior module.”

CEFR level

A1
Beginner
This word is part of the CEFR A1 vocabulary — beginner level.
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