dragon 音标拼音: [dr'ægən]
n . 龙,凶暴的人
龙,凶暴的人
dragon n 1 :
a creature of Teutonic mythology ;
usually represented as breathing fire and having a reptilian body and sometimes wings [
synonym : {
dragon }, {
firedrake }]
2 :
a fiercely vigilant and unpleasant woman [
synonym : {
dragon },
{
tartar }]
3 :
a faint constellation twisting around the north celestial pole and lying between Ursa Major and Cepheus [
synonym : {
Draco },
{
Dragon }]
4 :
any of several small tropical Asian lizards capable of gliding by spreading winglike membranes on each side of the body [
synonym : {
dragon }, {
flying dragon }, {
flying lizard }]
dragon \
drag "
on \ (
dr [
a ^]
g "[
u ^]
n ),
n . [
F .
dragon ,
L .
draco ,
fr .
Gr .
dra `
kwn ,
prob .
fr .
de `
rkesqai ,
dra `
kein ,
to look (
akin to Skr .
dar [,
c ]
to see ),
and so called from its terrible eyes .
Cf . {
Drake }
a dragon , {
Dragoon }.]
1 . (
Myth .)
A fabulous animal ,
generally represented as a monstrous winged serpent or lizard ,
with a crested head and enormous claws ,
and regarded as very powerful and ferocious .
[
1913 Webster ]
The dragons which appear in early paintings and sculptures are invariably representations of a winged crocodile . --
Fairholt .
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1913 Webster ]
Note :
In Scripture the term dragon refers to any great monster ,
whether of the land or sea ,
usually to some kind of serpent or reptile ,
sometimes to land serpents of a powerful and deadly kind .
It is also applied metaphorically to Satan .
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1913 Webster ]
Thou breakest the heads of the dragons in the waters . --
Ps .
lxxiv .
13 .
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1913 Webster ]
Thou shalt tread upon the lion and adder ;
the young lion and the dragon shalt thou trample under feet . --
Ps .
xci .
13 .
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1913 Webster ]
He laid hold on the dragon ,
that old serpent ,
which is the Devil and Satan ,
and bound him a thousand years . --
Rev .
xx .
2 .
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1913 Webster ]
2 .
A fierce ,
violent person ,
esp .
a woman . --
Johnson .
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1913 Webster ]
3 . (
Astron .)
A constellation of the northern hemisphere figured as a dragon ;
Draco .
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1913 Webster ]
4 .
A luminous exhalation from marshy grounds ,
seeming to move through the air as a winged serpent .
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1913 Webster ]
5 . (
Mil .
Antiq .)
A short musket hooked to a swivel attached to a soldier '
s belt ; --
so called from a representation of a dragon '
s head at the muzzle . --
Fairholt .
[
1913 Webster ]
6 . (
Zool .)
A small arboreal lizard of the genus Draco ,
of several species ,
found in the East Indies and Southern Asia .
Five or six of the hind ribs ,
on each side ,
are prolonged and covered with weblike skin ,
forming a sort of wing .
These prolongations aid them in making long leaps from tree to tree .
Called also {
flying lizard }.
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1913 Webster ]
7 . (
Zool .)
A variety of carrier pigeon .
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1913 Webster ]
8 . (
Her .)
A fabulous winged creature ,
sometimes borne as a charge in a coat of arms .
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1913 Webster ]
Note :
Dragon is often used adjectively ,
or in combination ,
in the sense of relating to ,
resembling ,
or characteristic of ,
a dragon .
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1913 Webster ]
{
Dragon arum } (
Bot .),
the name of several species of {
Aris [
ae ]
ma },
a genus of plants having a spathe and spadix .
See {
Dragon root }(
below ).
{
Dragon fish } (
Zool .),
the dragonet .
{
Dragon fly } (
Zool .),
any insect of the family {
Libellulid [
ae ]}.
They have finely formed ,
large and strongly reticulated wings ,
a large head with enormous eyes ,
and a long body ; --
called also {
mosquito hawks }.
Their larv [
ae ]
are aquatic and insectivorous .
{
Dragon root } (
Bot .),
an American aroid plant ({
Aris [
ae ]
ma Dracontium });
green dragon .
{
Dragon '
s blood },
a resinous substance obtained from the fruit of several species of {
Calamus },
esp .
from {
Calamus Rotang }
and {
Calamus Draco },
growing in the East Indies .
A substance known as dragon '
s blood is obtained by exudation from {
Drac [
ae ]
na Draco };
also from {
Pterocarpus Draco },
a tree of the West Indies and South America .
The color is red ,
or a dark brownish red ,
and it is used chiefly for coloring varnishes ,
marbles ,
etc .
Called also {
Cinnabar Gr [
ae ]
corum }.
{
Dragon '
s head }.
(
a ) (
Bot .)
A plant of several species of the genus {
Dracocephalum }.
They are perennial herbs closely allied to the common catnip .
(
b ) (
Astron .)
The ascending node of a planet ,
indicated ,
chiefly in almanacs ,
by the symbol ?.
The deviation from the ecliptic made by a planet in passing from one node to the other seems ,
according to the fancy of some ,
to make a figure like that of a dragon ,
whose belly is where there is the greatest latitude ;
the intersections representing the head and tail ; --
from which resemblance the denomination arises . --
Encyc .
Brit .
{
Dragon shell } (
Zool .),
a species of limpet .
{
Dragon '
s skin },
fossil stems whose leaf scars somewhat resemble the scales of reptiles ; --
a name used by miners and quarrymen . --
Stormonth .
{
Dragon '
s tail } (
Astron .),
the descending node of a planet ,
indicated by the symbol ?.
See {
Dragon '
s head } (
above ).
{
Dragon '
s wort } (
Bot .),
a plant of the genus {
Artemisia }
({
Artemisia dracunculus }).
{
Dragon tree } (
Bot .),
a West African liliaceous tree ({
Drac [
ae ]
na Draco }),
yielding one of the resins called dragon '
s blood .
See {
Drac [
ae ]
na }.
{
Dragon water },
a medicinal remedy very popular in the earlier half of the 17th century . "
Dragon water may do good upon him ." --
Randolph (
1640 ).
{
Flying dragon },
a large meteoric fireball ;
a bolide .
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1913 Webster ]
136 Moby Thesaurus words for "
dragon ":
Argus ,
Briareus ,
Cerberus ,
Charybdis ,
Cyclops ,
Echidna ,
Gila monster ,
Gorgon ,
Harpy ,
Hydra ,
Loch Ness monster ,
Mafioso ,
Medusa ,
Minotaur ,
Pegasus ,
Python ,
Scylla ,
Sphinx ,
Talos ,
Tartar ,
Typhon ,
Young Turk ,
agama ,
alligator ,
anole ,
bear ,
bearded lizard ,
beast ,
beldam ,
berserk ,
berserker ,
blindworm ,
bomber ,
box turtle ,
brute ,
butterfly agama ,
cayman ,
centaur ,
chameleon ,
chimera ,
cockatrice ,
crank ,
crocodile ,
crosspatch ,
demon ,
devil ,
diamondback ,
drake ,
false map turtle ,
feist ,
fiend ,
fire -
eater ,
firebrand ,
flying dragon ,
fury ,
gavial ,
gecko ,
girdle -
tailed lizard ,
glass snake ,
goon ,
gorilla ,
green turtle ,
griffin ,
grizzly bear ,
grouch ,
gunsel ,
hardnose ,
hawksbill ,
hawksbill turtle ,
hell -
raiser ,
hellcat ,
hellhound ,
hellion ,
hippocampus ,
holy terror ,
hood ,
hoodlum ,
hothead ,
hotspur ,
iguana ,
incendiary ,
killer ,
leatherback ,
lizard ,
mad dog ,
madcap ,
matamata ,
mermaid ,
merman ,
monitor ,
monster ,
mugger ,
nixie ,
ogre ,
ogress ,
rapist ,
revolutionary ,
roc ,
salamander ,
satyr ,
savage ,
sea horse ,
sea serpent ,
sea turtle ,
she -
wolf ,
siren ,
soft -
shelled turtle ,
sorehead ,
spitfire ,
stump tail ,
teju ,
termagant ,
terrapin ,
terror ,
terrorist ,
tiger ,
tigress ,
tortoise ,
tough ,
tough guy ,
troll ,
tuatara ,
turtle ,
ugly customer ,
unicorn ,
vampire ,
violent ,
virago ,
vixen ,
werewolf ,
wild beast ,
windigo ,
witch ,
wolf ,
xiphopagus ,
zombie [
MIT ]
A program similar to a {
daemon },
except that it is not
invoked at all ,
but is instead used by the system to perform
various secondary tasks .
A typical example would be an
accounting program ,
which keeps track of who is logged in ,
accumulates load -
average statistics ,
etc .
Under ITS ,
many
terminals displayed a list of people logged in ,
where they
were ,
what they were running ,
etc .,
along with some random
picture (
such as a unicorn ,
Snoopy or the Enterprise ),
which
was generated by the "
name dragon ".
Use is rare outside
{
MIT },
under {
Unix }
and most other {
operating systems }
this
would be called a "
background {
demon }"
or {
daemon }.
The
best -
known Unix example of a dragon is {
cron }.
At {
SAIL },
they called this sort of thing a "
phantom ".
[{
Jargon File }]
dragon :
n . [
MIT ]
A program similar to a daemon ,
except that it is not invoked at all ,
but is instead used by the system to perform various secondary tasks .
A typical example would be an accounting program ,
which keeps track of who is logged in ,
accumulates load -
average statistics ,
etc .
Under ITS ,
many terminals displayed a list of people logged in ,
where they were ,
what they were running ,
etc .,
along with some random picture (
such as a unicorn ,
Snoopy ,
or the Enterprise ),
which was generated by the ‘
name dragon ’.
Usage :
rare outside MIT —
under Unix and most other OSes this would be called a background demon or daemon .
The best -
known Unix example of a dragon is cron (
1 ).
At SAIL ,
they called this sort of thing a phantom .
Dragon (
1 .)
Heb .
tannim ,
plural of tan .
The name of some unknown creature inhabiting desert places and ruins (
Job 30 :
29 ;
Ps .
44 :
19 ;
Isa .
13 :
22 ;
34 :
13 ;
43 :
20 ;
Jer .
10 :
22 ;
Micah 1 :
8 ;
Mal .
1 :
3 );
probably ,
as translated in the Revised Version ,
the jackal (
q .
v .).
(
2 .)
Heb .
tannin .
Some great sea monster (
Jer .
51 :
34 ).
In Isa .
51 :
9 it may denote the crocodile .
In Gen .
1 :
21 (
Heb .
plural tanninim )
the Authorized Version renders "
whales ,"
and the Revised Version "
sea monsters ."
It is rendered "
serpent "
in Ex .
7 :
9 .
It is used figuratively in Ps .
74 :
13 ;
Ezek .
29 :
3 .
In the New Testament the word "
dragon "
is found only in Rev .
12 :
3 ,
4 ,
7 ,
9 ,
16 ,
17 ,
etc .,
and is there used metaphorically of "
Satan ." (
See {
WHALE }.)
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