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rag | American Dictionary

rag
noun[ C ]
us/ræɡ/
a piece of usually old, torn cloth:
I use these rags for cleaning.
They were dressed in rags (= in old, torn pieces of clothing).

Examples of rag

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The significance of the rags model comes from the explicit articulation of the distinct levels of representation and their form.
The result was a set of modules that could potentially be reused in other applications compatible with rags.
Indeed, the paper embodies the narrator himself and thus the capacity for narrative and emotional meaning where rags had only monetary value.
The later implementations will also serve as the basis for supporting ongoing development of new rags applications and resources.
What will become of her when the rags of our bodies fall away, and we too reach for the haven of lives not our own?
But the sea breezes often failed to move the banks of hammers; worse, prolonged calm turned vatfuls of rotting rags into waste.
It is to be hoped that various standard instantiations of the rags primitive types will become popular.
If one flies over it at low altitude, it looks ragged in similar ways.
The cemetery was still and clean, though the grass was ragged.
By preventing strong air currents and cleaning the room daily with a wet rag environmental contamination was controlled.
We summarise by discussing how one can use rags as it is now.
I am to suppose myself a bale of rags.
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