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Definition: Draco |
DracoNoun1. Athenian lawmaker whose code of laws prescribed death for almost every offense (circa 7th century BC). 2. A faint constellation twisting around the north celestial pole and lying between Ursa Major and Cepheus. 3. Flying dagons. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
"Draco" is a name that signifies or is derived from: "a dragon", "a serpent". |
Date "Draco" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1550. (references) |
Etymology: Draco \Dra"co\, noun. [Latin expression See Dragon.]. (Websters 1913) |
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Computing | Draco A blend of Pascal, C and ALGOL 68 developed by Chris Gray in 1987. It has been implemented for CP/M-80 and Amiga. (1994-11-04). Source: The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing. |
Aerospace | See constellation.Abbreviation Dra, Drac. (references) |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Draco was the first lawgiver of ancient Athens. His laws were particularly harsh, as the death penalty was the punishment for even minor offenses. Hence phraseology such as "draconian punishment" or "draconian laws".
Draco's code of laws was superseded by that of Solon in the early 6th century BC.
Draco was also a shareware programming language for CP/M and the Amiga, created by Chris Gray in the early 1980s, and discontinued sometime around 1990. Draco was a strongly typed language most notable for its ability to produce small, optimized executables, and for the compiler's ability to work in very limited memory spaces. Gray himself used Draco for the Amiga to create a port of Peter Langston's Empire game, called Amiga Empire.
Draco is a genus of small tropical agamas (about 20 cm including the tail), capable of gliding by using a gliding skin that is bound to their long ribs.
Draco is a dragon in the film Dragonheart, voiced by Sean Connery.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Draco."
| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
DRACO | English | Driver and accident co-ordinated observer | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
Synonym: DracoSynonym: genus Draco (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Director | Statesman, strategist, legislator, lawgiver, politician, statist, statemonger; Minos, Draco; arbiter; (judge); boss, political dictator. |
Severity | Tyrant, disciplinarian, precisian, martinet, stickler, bashaw, despot, hard master, Draco, oppressor, inquisitor, extortioner, harpy, vulture; accipitres, birds of prey, raptorials, raptors. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Draco |
| English words defined with "Draco": Cygnus ♦ Draconian, Draconian code, Draconian laws, Draconic, Dragon tree, Dragon's blood ♦ Lyra ♦ Mexican lac ♦ Stingbull. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "Draco": Dra, Drac. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "Draco": Draconin, Dracontic, Dracontine, Dracunculus. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Draco" is also a word in the following language with English translations in parentheses. Latin (dragon, snake). |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Hic est draco caudum suam devorans. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Draco and Ursa Minor / Sidy. Hall, sculpt. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| "Draco" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 95.24% of the time. "Draco" is used about 21 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (proper) | 95.24% | 20 | 78,262 |
| Noun (singular) | 4.76% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 21 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "Draco": C Draco ♦ Calamus Draco ♦ Croton Draco ♦ Dracaena Draco ♦ genus Draco ♦ Pterocarpus Draco ♦ Trachinus draco. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "Draco"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | Dragoi. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | Ð"ракон, Ð'ид Малко Хвърчащо Ð"ущерче. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Drache (dragon). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | Drákó. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | acodray dragão (dragon, dragoon). (various references) Летучий Ð"ракон, Ð"ракон. (various references) Ejderha Takım Yıldızı. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Date | Source | Daniel Chapter 14, Verse 22 |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Et erat draco magnus in loco illo et colebant eum Babylonii |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | And a grete dragoun was in that place, and men of Babyloyne wirshipiden hym. |
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| Language | Daniel Chapter 14, Verse 22 |
| Croatian | Kralj ih dade pogubiti, a Bela predade Danielu, koji razori njega i njegov hram. |
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Derivations | |
Words beginning with "Draco": draconian, draconic. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "Draco" (pronounced 'Dra"co'): Alco, Alfresco, Bajocco, Banco, Barocco, Bejuco, Bronco, Calamanco, Catafalco, Chebacco, Chico, Cisco, fiasco, Fico, guanaco, junco, Macaco, Macauco, Macco, Mameluco, Matico, Maucaco, Melluco, Mico, Moco, Morocco, Nero-antico, Poco, Puerco, Ronco, Saltimbanco, Secco, Squacco, Tabacco, tobacco, Ulluco, Zacco. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-d-o-r" | |
-1 letter: arco, card, coda, cord, orad, orca, road. | |
-2 letters: ado, arc, cad, car, cod, cor, doc, dor, oar, oca, ora, orc, rad, roc, rod. | |
-3 letters: ad, ar, do, od, or. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-d-o-r" | |
+1 letter: accord, candor, chador, coward. | |
+2 letters: acaroid, accords, brocade, caldron, candors, candour, cardoon, carload, caroled, caromed, carotid, chadors, chordal, collard, comrade, cordage, cordate, cordial, cordoba, corrade, corrida, costard, cowards, croaked, crusado, cruzado, czardom, dogcart, orchard, parodic, picador, pochard, redcoat, roached, sarcoid. | |
+3 letters: abductor, accorded, accorder, acrodont, adductor, aeroduct, anchored, backdoor, backdrop, becoward, braconid, broached, brocaded, brocades, caldrons, cancroid, candours, carboyed, cardamom, cardamon, cardioid, cardoons, carloads, carolled, carotids, caroused, carromed, cartload, cartoned, cauldron, cavorted, ceratoid, chaldron, chlordan, chordate, clamored, clochard, coadmire, coalyard, colander, coleader, collards, collared, colorado, compadre, compared, comrades, condylar, conelrad, copyread, coracoid, cordages, cordials, cordobas, cordovan, cordwain, corraded, corrades, corridas, costards, cowardly, crayoned, cropland, crunodal, crusados, cruzados, cupboard, czardoms, deaconry, decorate, democrat, dicrotal, dictator, dioramic, dockyard, doctoral, dogcarts, dormancy, draconic, drammock, educator, endocarp, endosarc, factored, fricando, hadronic, hardcore, hyracoid, idocrase, ironclad, mordancy, obduracy, orchards, ordnance, ostracod, outraced, picadors, pochards, podagric, podocarp, postcard, racemoid, rancored, recoaled, redactor, redcoats, romanced, sarcoids, sardonic, scorepad, sporadic, tornadic. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)44 72 61 63 6F |
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-.. .-. .- -.-. --- |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000100 01110010 01100001 01100011 01101111 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)D r a c o |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0044 0072 0061 0063 006F |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)3884676981 |
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