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Look up: RAG

  1. Rag
    Slang for the House Curtain.
    Found on http://www.dramatic.com.au/glossary/glos

  2. rag
    [n] - (British) a week at British universities during which side-shows and processions of floats are organized to raise money for charities 2. [n] - a small piece of cloth 3. [n] - (British) a boisterous practical joke (especially by college students) 4. [v] - play in ragtime, as of a musical piece 5. [v] - break into lumps before sorting, as of ore
    Found on http://www.webdictionary.co.uk/definitio

  3. rag
    [n] - (British) a week at British universities during which side-shows and processions of floats are organized to raise money for charities 2. [n] - a small piece of cloth 3. [n] - (British) a boisterous practical joke (especially by college students) 4. [v] - play in ragtime, as of a musical piece 5. [v] - break into lumps before sorting, as of ore
    Found on http://www.webdictionary.co.uk/definitio

  4. RAG
    Row Address Generator
    Found on http://www.geocities.com/ikind_babel/bab

  5. RAG
    Risk Advisory Group.
    Found on http://www.astrazeneca.com/ncm.aspx?node

  6. Rag
    Rag (răg) transitive verb [ Confer Icelandic rægja to calumniate, Old High German ruogen to accuse, German rügen to censure, Anglo-Saxon wrēgan , Goth. wrōhjan to accuse.] To scold or rail at; to rate; to tease; to torment; to banter. [ Prov. Eng.] Pegge.
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/R/5

  7. Rag
    Rag noun [ Middle English ragge , probably of Scand. origin; confer Icelandic rögg a tuft, shagginess, Swedish ragg rough hair. Confer Rug , noun ] 1. A piece of cloth torn off; a tattered piece of cloth; a shred; a tatter; a fragment. « Cowls, hoods, and habits, with their wearers, tossed. And fluttered into rags .» < …
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/R/5

  8. Rag
    Rag (răg) intransitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Ragged (răgd); present participle & verbal noun Ragging (-gĭng).] To become tattered. [ Obsolete]
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/R/5

  9. Rag
    Rag transitive verb 1. To break (ore) into lumps for sorting. 2. To cut or dress roughly, as a grindstone.
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/R/5

  10. Rag
    Rag transitive verb 1. (Music) To play or compose (a piece, melody, etc.) in syncopated time. [ Colloq.] 2. To dance to ragtime music, esp. in some manner considered indecorous. [ Colloq. or Slang]
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/R/5

  11. rag
    1. A piece of cloth torn off; a tattered piece of cloth; a shred; a tatter; a fragment. "Cowls, hoods, and habits, with their wearers, tossed, And fluttered into rags." (Milton) "Not having otherwise any rag of legality to cover the shame of their cruelty." (Fuller) ... 2. Hence, mean or tattered attire; worn-out dress. "And virtue, though in rags, …
    Found on http://cancerweb.ncl.ac.uk/cgi-bin/omd?r

  12. rag
    shred noun a small piece of cloth or paper
    Found on http://wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?

  13. rag
    rag week noun a week at British universities during which side-shows and processions of floats are organized to raise money for charities
    Found on http://wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?

  14. rag
    bedevil verb treat cruelly; `The children tormented the stuttering teacher`
    Found on http://wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?

  15. RAG
    `RAG` may refer to: *University RAG society — Student-run charitable fundraising organisations that are widespread in the United Kingdom (and elsewhere). *Real Academia Galega *RAG Rating for issues or status reports, based on the `R`ed `A`mber `G`reen colors in traffic lights. *Repertorium Academicum Germanicum *Replacement Air Group, an outdated term for a Naval Aviation squadron that trains replacement pilots in fleet aircraft and tact...
    Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAG

  16. Rag
    • (v. t.) To dance to ragtime music, esp. in some manner considered indecorous. • (v. t.) To play or compose (a piece, melody, etc.) in syncopated time. • (n.) A coarse kind of rock, somewhat cellular in texture. • (n.) A ragged edge. • (n.) A shabby, beggarly fellow; a ragamuffin. • (n.) A sail, or any piece of canvas...
    Found on http://thinkexist.com/dictionary/meaning

  17. rag
    (from the article `papermaking`) Cotton and linen fibres, derived from textile and garment mill cuttings; cotton linters (the short fibres recovered from the processing of cottonseed ...
    Found on http://www.britannica.com/eb/a-z/r/5

  18. rag
    1. a small piece of cloth
    2. (British) a week at British universities during which side-shows and processions of floats are organized to raise money for charities
    3. music with a syncopated melody (usually for the piano)
    4. newspaper with half-size pages
    5. (British) a boisterous practical joke (especially by college students)

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8 January 2009

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Rationing began on 8 January 1940. Each person was allowed a specific mount of basic foods. In July 1940 a complete ban was put on the making or selling of iced cakes, and in September the manufacture of `candied peel` or `crystallised cherries` meant the death knell for the traditional wedding cake. On 1st December 1941 the Ministry of Food introduced the points rationing scheme for items such as canned meat, fish and vegetables at first. Everyone was given 16 points a month, later raised to twenty, to spend as wished at any shop that had the items wanted. read more

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