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jagged

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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
mid-15c., from verb jaggen (c.1400) "to pierce, slash, cut; to notch or nick; cut or tear unevenly," Scottish and northern English, of unknown origin. Originally of garments with regular "toothed" edges; meaning "with the edge irregularly cut" is from 1570s. ...

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
jagged \jag"ged\ (j[a^]g"g[e^]d), a. Having jags; having rough, sharp notches, protuberances, or teeth; cleft; laciniate; divided; as, jagged rocks. `` Jagged vine leaves' shade.'' --Trench. -- Jag"ged*ly , adv. -- Jag"ged*ness , n.

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
adj. having a sharply uneven surface or outline; "the jagged outline of the crags"; "scraggy cliffs" [syn: jaggy , scraggy ] having an irregularly notched or toothed margin as though gnawed [syn: erose , jaggy , notched , toothed ]

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
Jagged is the eighteenth studio album by the musician Gary Numan , his first original album in over five years, following Pure in 2000. Stylistically Jagged was a development of its predecessor's chorus-driven, anthemic industrial sound, utilising heavier ...

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
1 unevenly cut; having the texture of something so cut. 2 Having a rough quality. 3 (context computing English) Of an array, having a different cardinality in each dimension, such that a representation on paper would appear uneven. v (en-pastjag)

Usage examples of jagged.

The cuts and bruises I had received from the jagged sides of the rock shaft were paining me woefully, their soreness enhanced to a stinging or burning acuteness by some pungent quality in the faint draft, and the mere act of rolling over was enough to set my whole frame throbbing with untold agony.

Spilled coals were scattered across the paving slabs and atop the rumpled velvet, burning holes in the rich pile, and the glass alembic was now a jagged splash of greenish shards.

March Walvis stirred restlessly inside the rear of the stretch Mercedes which was speeding along the autobahn carrying them to the castle in the mountains whose jagged peaks loomed ahead.

The remains of their aviso, now in two sections, thudding down either side of the ship, careered into them, the jagged edges of wood cutting flesh and the sheer force of the impact breaking bones.

Big jagged hunks of azurite and turquoise decorating the floor erupted through the white stone ocean like fangs tearing through flesh.

The ivory was stained and scaling, its edges jagged with the stumps of baleen combs.

Clutching the bauble, Taran bent and thrust his way past the jagged arch.

West and south stretched a rolling plain, thinly begrown with shrubs not like Terrestrial sagebrush in appearance: low, wiry, silvery-leaved, Due north rose the sheer black wall of Kusulongo the Mountain, jagged against the Milky Way.

Another jagged, cicatrix seamed the left cheek, tugging the corner of the mouth upward in a crooked smile.

He touched the jagged cicatrix that seamed his cheek from eye to mouth on the right side of his lean face.

Blow a dozen jagged holes in it while the props eat hardware, and you will see a coleopter go bonkers.

When the Shark moved toward Cubby with its jagged teeth exposed, he pounced on it.

Drear shadows drooped and thickened above the Pass of Dariel,--that terrific gorge which like a mere thread seems to hang between the toppling frost-bound heights above and the black abysmal depths below,--clouds, fringed ominously with lurid green and white, drifted heavily yet swiftly across the jagged peaks where, looming largely out of the mist, the snow-capped crest of Mount Kazbek rose coldly white against the darkness of the threatening sky.

Taking control, Dex began to flip a series of buttons, causing a jagged signal to appear on another oscilloscope display.

Instead of a staircase he can climb, the escalator is now a series of shattered shards showing jagged metal and twisted glass for as far as he can see.