| Part of Speech | Definition | |
| Verb | 1. Present participle conjugation of the verb dirk.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
| Verb Base (dirk) | 1. To stab with a dirk.[Websters]. 2. To darken.[Websters]. 3. Base verb from the following inflections: dirking, dirked, dirks, dirker, dirkers, dirkingly and dirkedly.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
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Date "DIRKING" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1886. (references) |
Specialty Definition: dirk
| Domain | Definition | ||
| Noah Webster | 1: [Noun] Durk. A kind of dagger or poniard.. | 2: [Adjective] Durk. Dark.. | 3: [Verb] durk.. | 4: [Verb] To darken.. Source: Webster's 1828 American Dictionary. |
| Military & Defense | A long, straight-bladed dagger, formerly carried by the Scottish Highlanders. Source: European Union. (references) | ||
| Wikipedic | Dirk is a Scots word for a long dagger; sometimes a cut-down sword blade mounted on a dagger handle, rather than a knife blade. Its blade length and style varied but it is generally 6-12 inches. may be derived from the longer knife of a set of hunting knives. The dirk was worn in plain view suspended from a belt at the waist. Another shorter dagger tucked into a coat sleeve or stocking as part of Highland dress is known as a Sgian Dubh, derived from the arm pit dagger or sgian achlias. To this day, a real or false dirk is sometimes worn as a part of traditional scottish costume. (references) | ||
| Wiktionary | 1: [Noun] A long Scottish dagger with a straight blade. 1883: Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island In half a minute he had reached the port scuppers, and picked, out of a coil of rope, a long knife, or rather a short dirk, discolored to the hilt with blood. (references) | 2: [Proper noun] A male given name of German and Dutch origin, cognate to Derek. (references) | 3: [Verb] To stab with a dirk. (references) |
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Common Expressions: dirk
| Expressions | Definition | ||
| Dirk Adorf | Dirk Adorf is a race car driver born in Altenkirchen, Germany on the 10th of July 1969. He won the German Endurance Trophy in 1992, 1996 and 1997, also driving in German Supertouring Cars during 1995. He would return to German Supertouring Cars in 1999, this time with Opel, and after three seasons there he moved to German V8Star in 2002. (references) | ||
| Dirk Award | The Dirk Award is named after its inaugural recipient, Dirk Slater, the rider who received the award not only for his accomplishments as a rider but also in response to an impassioned speech at a Circuit Rider Round-Up. During this speech, Dirk urged the riders to organize themselves into a powerful and supportive community. (references) | ||
| Dirk Bikkembergs | Dirk Bikkembergs (born January 2, 1959 in Cologne, Germany) is a Belgian fashion designer. (references) | ||
| Dirk Bouts | Dirk Bouts or Dieric Bouts (d. 1475) was a Dutch painter. (references) | ||
| Dirk Brouwer | Dirk Brouwer (September 1 1902 - January 31 1966) was a Dutch-American astronomer. (references) | ||
| Dirk Coster | Dirk Coster was a Dutch physicist. He held the post of Professor of Physics and Metrology at Copenhagen University. In 1923 he discovered Hafnium (Hf) (element 72) along with George Charles von Hevesey, by means of X-ray spectroscopic analysis of zirconium ore. The discovery took place in Copenhagen, Denmark. (references) | ||
| Dirk dance | A Scottish dance recorded by J. F. & T. M. Flett in their book, Traditional Step-Dancing in Scotland, taught to them by Mary Isdale Mac Nab of Vancouver. It is a solo dance performed in unison by two or more dancers brandishing dirks. The dance is quite different in style from the better known Highland dances and in many ways imitates the use of a dirk in fighting. Research suggests that the dance may, in fact, have originated as a series of moves for training in the use of the dirk. (references) | ||
| Dirk diggla | The preferred alias of R. Dirk Vander Ploeg II, a hip-hop producer and DJ from Austin, Texas (ATX). (references) | ||
| Dirk Geeraerts | Dirk Geeraerts (born 1955, PhD 1981) holds the chair of theoretical linguistics at the University of Leuven, Belgium. He is the head of the research unit Quantitative Lexicology and Variational Linguistics. (references) | ||
| Dirk Gently | Dirk Gently is a fictional character created by Douglas Adams and featured in the books Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency and The Long Dark Teatime of the Soul. Adams was working on a third Gently novel, The Salmon of Doubt, at the time of his death. (references) | ||
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