meaning of dragon
1. 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.
2. A fierce, violent person, esp. a woman.
3. A constellation of the northern hemisphere figured as a dragon; Draco.
4. A luminous exhalation from marshy grounds, seeming to move through the air as a winged serpent.
5. A short musket hooked to a swivel attached to a soldiers belt; -- so called from a representation of a dragons head at the muzzle.
6. 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.
7. A variety of carrier pigeon.
8. A fabulous winged creature, sometimes borne as a charge in a coat of arms.
9. DRAGON 1. An Esprit project aimed at providing effective support to reuse in real-time distributed Ada application programs. 2. An implementation language used by BTI Computer Systems. E-mail: Pat Helland
10. dragon [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 Book
11. any of several small tropical Asian lizards capable of gliding by spreading winglike membranes on each side of the body
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