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name
Acronym of Screen Actors Guild.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: abbreviation, acronym, alt-of
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name
Alternative letter-case form of SAG (“Screen Actors Guild”).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: alt-of
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noun
The state of sinking or bending; a droop.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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noun
The difference in elevation of a wire, cable, chain or rope suspended between two consecutive points.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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noun
The difference in height or depth between the vertex and the rim of a curved surface, specifically used for optical elements such as a mirror or lens.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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noun
A place where the surface (of a seat, the earth, etc) sinks or droops, like a depression or a dip in a ridge.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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noun
Alternative form of saag.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: alt-of, alternative, uncountable, usually
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noun
Initialism of straight-acting gay.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
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noun
Clipping of Sagittarius.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: abbreviation, alt-of, clipping, informal
Topics: astrology, human-sciences, mysticism, philosophy, sciences
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Synonyms: Saggie, Saggy
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phrase
Initialism of Saint Anthony guide.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
Qualifier: on a letter
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verb
To sink, in the middle, by its weight or under applied pressure, below a horizontal line or plane.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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verb
To lean, give way, or settle from a vertical position.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: broadly
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verb
To lose firmness, elasticity, vigor, or a thriving state; to sink; to droop; to flag; to bend; to yield, as the mind or spirits, under the pressure of care, trouble, doubt, or the like; to be unsettled or unbalanced.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: figuratively
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verb
To loiter in walking; to idle along; to drag or droop heavily.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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verb
To cause to bend or give way; to load.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
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verb
To wear one's trousers so that their top is well below the waist.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: informal
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verb
To pull down someone else's pants as a prank.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Canada, informal
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noun
a shape that sags
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: droop
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Broader terms: depression, impression, imprint
verb
droop, sink, or settle from or as if from pressure or loss of tautness
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: droop, swag, flag
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Broader terms: sink, drop, drop down
Narrower terms: slump, slouch, bag
verb
cause to sag
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: sag down
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: sink, drop, drop down
History
From earlier sag, sagg, sack, from Middle English saggen, probably from Middle Low German sacken (“to sink, drift”), ultimately of North Germanic/Scandinavian/Old Norse origin, akin to Old Norse søkkva (“to sink”), from a denasalized derivative of Proto-Germanic *sinkwaną (“to sink”). Cognate with Scots seg (“to sink”), Danish sakke (“to lag behind”), Swedish sacka (“to lag”), Icelandic sakka (“to sink”), Faroese søkka (“to sink, drop down, descend, set”), Dutch zakken (“to fall, drop, sink”), German Low German sacken (“to sink”), and German sacken (“to sink”) (from Low German). Compare also Norwegian Nynorsk sagga (“to walk or move heavily and slowly”).
Across languages
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