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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
jagged
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a craggy/jagged cliff (=with a lot of sharp rocks)
▪ This is an area of spectacular gorges and jagged cliffs.
a jagged peak (=with several sharp points)
▪ At first all I could see was the hazy black outline of a jagged peak.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
edge
▪ Flames leapt hundreds of feet high, illuminating the jagged edges of the blocks.
▪ There are too many jagged edges to the Clinton experience, too many highs and lows.
▪ At one corner, a large chunk had been knocked out completely, leaving a nasty, jagged edge.
▪ The shaman broke the bones with his bare hands, and used the jagged edges to scratch at his bark.
▪ When such trend lines are smoothed, the jagged edges are sawn off.
▪ Some of the major new features include TrueType, which can create type of varying sizes without any jagged edges.
▪ For the moment it may have smoothed or at least covered the jagged edges between the two sides.
▪ This one appear to have broken shortly after impact spinning the car on to its jagged edge.
rock
▪ The river banks changed from jagged rock with little vegetation to luscious green slopes covered with olive trees.
▪ It was a special method that allowed fishermen to avoid the jagged rocks that lay beneath the breaking waves.
▪ She regarded herself as having been battered by uncontrollable forces, washed up in hostile, foreign waters against jagged rocks.
▪ Multicolored volcanic ash flows, long since hardened to jagged rock, reach into the sea like fantastic taffy mountains.
▪ In one shot the 27-year-old beauty sits wantonly on a jagged rock, her legs splayed.
▪ Instead, hard peaks and jagged rocks thrust up from the ground like knives.
▪ Beneath us, the descents were toothed with jagged rock.
▪ They have just about sailed between the twin jagged rocks of Maastricht and recession.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ jagged mountain peaks
▪ Many ships have been torn apart on the jagged rocks that ring the shoreline.
▪ The window had gone, and the floor was covered with jagged pieces of glass.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Appalled by rusty, jagged equipment, she proposed replacing it in 1987.
▪ At one corner, a large chunk had been knocked out completely, leaving a nasty, jagged edge.
▪ Slabs irregularly cut with jagged lines where sections had dropped off.
▪ The knobby jagged clay cliff became as grand and exotic as the Grand Canyon to them.
▪ This is an area of spectacular gorges and jagged cliffs, beautiful unspoilt villages, with historic castles and mediaeval houses.
▪ With their stark, jagged profiles, the rocky peaks were an obvious treasure.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
jagged

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.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
jagged

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. Related: Jaggedly; jaggedness.

Wiktionary
jagged

  1. 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

  2. (en-pastjag)

WordNet
jagged

See jag

jag

  1. v. cut teeth into; make a jagged cutting edge

  2. [also: jagging, jagged]

jag

  1. n. a sharp projection on an edge or surface; "he clutched a jag of the rock"

  2. a slit in a garment that exposes material of a different color underneath; used in Renaissance clothing

  3. a flap along the edge of a garment; used in medieval clothing [syn: dag]

  4. a bout of drinking or drug taking

  5. [also: jagging, jagged]

jagged

  1. adj. having a sharply uneven surface or outline; "the jagged outline of the crags"; "scraggy cliffs" [syn: jaggy, scraggy]

  2. having an irregularly notched or toothed margin as though gnawed [syn: erose, jaggy, notched, toothed]

Wikipedia
Jagged

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 electronics and more prominent live drumming. Although reaction to the new record was predominantly positive, critical opinion was more heavily divided than had been the case with the almost universal praise enjoyed by Pure. Reaching number 59 in the UK album charts, Jagged charted no higher than the earlier release, some commentators and fans regarding the long time between albums as a missed opportunity for consolidation in the wake of Pure's reception and the number 13 UK chart position attained by Numan's 2003 single with Rico, "Crazier". Jagged was the first album issued on Numan's own Mortal Records label, licensed to Cooking Vinyl. The US release, on Metropolis Records, included an alternate mix of "Fold" as a bonus track. In April Numan embarked on a tour of the UK, Europe and North America to promote the album.

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.