Meaning of Dan | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A Mande ethnic group from northwestern Ivory Coast and neighboring Liberia.
2. Acronym of deadenylating nuclease, a protein that binds the 5' cap of mRNA and begins degradation in the 3' to 5' direction.
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3. Acronym of Divers Alert Network.
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4. A title of honour or respect similar to "master" or "Sir", used of historical and legendary figures of the past.
   obsolete
5. A small truck or sledge used in coal mines.
6. A rank of black belt in martial arts.
7. Synonym of picul: a traditional unit of weight and mass, chiefly used as a dry measure of grains.
8. A dan buoy.
9. A male given name from Hebrew.
10. The language of this people, belonging to the Southern Mande branch.
11. Acronym of Dynamic Albedo of Neutrons, a scientific instrument of the Mars Science Laboratory onboard the Curiosity rover at Mars.
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12. Someone who has achieved a level of black belt.
13. A traditional unit of equivalent volume, now officially equal to 100 liters.
14. A diminutive of the male given name Daniel.
15. A diminutive of the female given name Danielle
16. A surname.
17. The fifth son of Jacob and Bilhah (who was Rachel's handmaid).
18. One of the Israelite tribes, descended from Dan.
19. A former city occupied by this tribe.

Equivalents

Examples

“Dan Phoebus, he with many a low'ring look / Had her beheld in yore in angry wise.”

“Old Dan Geoffrey, in whose gentle spright / The pure well-head of Poesy did dwell.”

“This senior-junior, giant-dwarf, dan Cupid.”

“The patriarchal age, / What time Dan Abraham left the Chaldee land.”

“He did—and in a moment press'd / The place—in Paradise the best, / As by Dan Moses said.”

“Dan Chaucer, the first warbler, whose sweet breath / Preluded those melodious bursts, that fill / The spacious times of great Elizabeth / With sounds that echo still.”

“Dan Neptune says that "ere a twelvemonth pass, / The Senate shall to Ireland go to grass."”

“Oh, me' name is Dan Homer, I'm blind, as the Jews, / And I travels around with my head full av news.”

“Carrying away of 25 great-lines, 3 dans, buoys, &c., of steam liner 'Star of the East'[…]”

“Dumping dans. Dan buoys laid to mark a dumping ground. They are fitted with a topmark in the shape of a St. Andrews cross formed by battens 2 feet in length. Live dan. Dan buoy for which a[…]”

“A widely shared local television video of last week's news conference, which was posted on YouTube, reached more than 5 million views and was amplified by Elon Musk and Fox News, where Dr. Dan Erickson and Dr. Artin Massihi appeared on primetime shows two nights in a row.”

“In Welland, a blue-collar burg between Buffalo and Toronto, [Daniel] Paille’s and [Dan] Girardi’s friends, relatives and fans will tune in to the latest installment of what some have labeled the Battle of Welland or the Battle of the Dans.”

“[…] the director of Wallace Shawn's Aunt Dan and Lemon replaces the characters' intellectual and verbal energy with "transparent rationalizations for the personal hang-ups of the characters […]”

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