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Meanings of rag in English
Portuguese
tabloide Spanish
periódico sensacionalista Synonyms
Examples for "devil"
Examples for "devil"
1
Inwardly in the former is the devil, in the latter the Lord.
2
And Mr. Wesley also believed in the actual existence of the devil.
3
Belief in the devil is the reverse side of faith in God.
4
The devil saw it; and entered into the heart of Thomas Thurnall.
5
When the devil was gone and the man spoke; the people wondered.
1
It's the increasing number of extreme weather events that directly bother pets.
2
They probably won't even bother to question her, she's so far gone.
3
The emissary didn't bother to wait for an answer to his question.
4
Strictly speaking, I should not have used the word 'bother', should I?
5
I'm sorry to bother you, but I need to ask you something.
1
The voids in the sand grit and gravel were 27 per cent.
2
I followed a gravel driveway along the left side of the building.
3
There; you can hear the wheels of his gig on the gravel.
4
Oh, and the gravel strip under the windows is a good idea.
5
I can feel it, Alick had said, his voice gravel-donot appear.
1
In the world of open source software, bug reports are useful information.
2
Little is known about the second bug used to gain root access.
3
The bug has claimed a couple of victims recently, including one editor.
4
But for some, bug hunting can actually bring in a good wage.
5
Why would Darpa care about changes in this particular bug, you ask?
1
The sight of us standing in the doorway appeared to annoy him.
2
He said it again because he knew it would annoy the press.
3
If it doesn't annoy people then it probably won't be any good.
4
The bloc could also annoy the United States, Switzerland and Asian countries.
5
It is nothing that will annoy you; at least I think not.
1
Just to vex him, I had made a list of essential characteristics.
2
I have no doubt he is deliberately setting out to vex us.
3
They vex the ear a little, but they never reach the mind.
4
It seemed this body was determined to vex ID at every turn.
5
And now let us not vex ourselves any further with these conundrums.
1
However, this has only served to irritate the local Islamic State cell.
2
The delay of the train did not irritate me in the least.
3
But the changes in his native land are beginning to irritate him.
4
Now be a good boy and run along and irritate someone else.
5
It was useless to make inquiries; they only seemed to irritate him.
1
Others hope a new generation of leaders could yet grasp the nettle.
2
Now the time had come, Mr Quinn declared, to grasp the nettle.
3
The same treatment may be used in nettle rash or prickly heat.
4
So out of the nettle danger we may pluck the flower safety.
5
From the nettle Change I have tried to pluck the flower Security.
1
Many Uighurs chafe at Chinese government controls on their culture and religion.
2
Nonentities are never slandered; they chafe because they are left in peace.
3
The strings crossed, and the upper began to chafe the lower savagely.
4
His terrible headache made him chafe at any prolonging of the scene.
5
But perhaps inevitably, the bonds between the team eventually start to chafe.
1
Even at his current level, that brush with success will rile him.
2
And of course papers publish things to rile readers or as comment-bait.
3
He suggested relatively uncontroversial measures that do not rile gun rights advocates.
4
It takes a lot to rile people in this decidedly courteous nation.
5
A vote to compete under a Taiwan banner would further rile Beijing.
1
A study has shown people love to nark on their workmates.
2
My men have orders to nark first and subspeck afterward.
3
The resultant indiscipline may nark some investors.
4
You're a nark for that fellow Crewe.
5
Rotten, copper's nark! And then he died.
1
Hektor just needed to figure out a way to get at it.
2
Why can't Chief Holland get at them that way, without involving me?'
3
They must get at the truth; they must crush out the insurrection.
4
Xavier would take all the help he could get at this point.
5
The ones you get at Target don't work anywhere near as well.
1
The migrants hope to get to wealthy western Europe and find work.
2
When many aid workers hear about a problem, they get to work.
3
Working together was a good way to get to know people better.
4
Soon, he said, he would get to work on the second floor.
5
I hope we can get to that point as quickly as possible.
Usage of rag in English
1
She dropped the rag when raised voices sounded from the main house.
2
Number Nine, voiced by Elijah Woods, leads the rag dolls to survival.
3
Over the past 20 years the rag-and-bone trade has had a makeover.
4
Funny really, seeing as the rest of us was in rag order.
5
He pushed aside the rag, stared to the south for a moment.
6
That's a good idea, Gwen said, stomach tightening like a wrung rag.
7
And an American, a veteran of the rag-trade battlefields of New York.
8
It was exceptionally beautiful, silver ink embossed on thick handmade rag paper.
9
Others simply had tissue or bits of rag stuffed up their noses.
10
The man snatched the rag and began again to scrub the floor.
11
Emmet quickly called in five more operatives to monitor their rag-tag arrival.
12
Don't let your standards slip to the mediocrity of a regional rag.
13
Grease it well with a piece of butter tied in a rag.
14
The ship immediately felt the effect of even this rag of canvass.
15
The one is a red flag, the other is a fled rag.
16
The rest of her body remained like a rag on the rug.
About this term
Translations for rag
Portuguese
Catalan
Spanish
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Rag through the time
Rag across language varieties
United States of America
Common
United Kingdom
Common
Ireland
Less common