Pronunciations (2)
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/pɹɒɡ/
Pronunciation notes
- Received-Pronunciation
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/pɹɑɡ/
Pronunciation notes
- General-American
Noun
Progressive rock.
Usage- Informal
- Uncountable
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He listens to a lot of prog.
A program.
Usage- Countable
- Informal
- Uncountable
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[…] is there some way to connect to my new comp so I can transfer some of the software progs […]
"Yoda", How do I get progs to run when linux 7.1 starts up?
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I've looked around if I can get the prog to start a backup itself, but it still requires some manual commands.
Programming.
Usage- Informal
- Uncountable
A television program.
Usage- Countable
- Informal
- Uncountable
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It's only him that can make TV progs worth watching, he's saying.
A proctor.
Usage- UK usage
- Countable
- Dated
- Uncountable
A progressive.
Usage- Countable
- Informal
- Uncountable
Progesterone.
Usage- Uncountable
Verb
To programme.
To prognosticate; to forecast.
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The thermodynamics of this system are progged to be similar to the "surprise" epic Oct 2006 Buffalo, NY lake effect snow event.
Noun
Provisions, food and supplies, particularly for a journey.
Usage- Countable
- Obsolete
- Slang
- Uncountable
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O nephew! your grief is but folly; / In town you may find better prog
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Let's see what prog we have for supper; the kettle has boiled long enough; my stomach cries cupboard; and I'll warrant our guest is in no mood to dally with his trencher.
So long as he picked from the filth his prog.
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The glutton castaway, the drunkard in the desert, the lecher in prison, they are the happy ones. To hunger, thirst, lust, every day afresh and every day in vain, after the old prog, the old booze, the old whores, that's the nearest we'll ever get to felicity, the new porch and the very latest garden.
Plunder; booty.
Usage- Countable
- Obsolete
- Uncountable
A vagrant beggar; a tramp.
Usage- Countable
- Obsolete
- Slang
- Uncountable
A pointed instrument.
Usage- Countable
- dialectal
- Uncountable
Verb
To feed and care for oneself, as opposed to being fed and cared for by someone (like a domesticated animal).
Usage- Obsolete
- usually
- of an animal
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To be wise about affares of this life (these fleeting, these empty, these deceitful shadows) is a sorry wisdom; to be wise in purveying for the flesh, is the wisdom of a beast, which is wise enough to prog for its sustenance;
An old Fox thinks he has given his young Cubs Portion enough, when he has taught them to shift in the World: At first he provides Lambs and Chickens for them; but when once they come to be at the age of discretion, he thinks it enough that he has begot them wit and parts, and leave them to prog for themselves .
Or was it my duty to keep and maintain them, after they were of fufficient bigness to prog for themselves? The birds and beasts take care of their young no longer than till they are able to care for themselves ; and why should man be confin'd to more severe laws in that point than his vassal-creatures?
The most hardy and best qualified to prog for for themselves, are the Chinese; a cross with which breed upon almost any other, may under most circumstances, be prudently recommended; let the breed be what it may, a well-proportioned stock to every farm will most abundantly requite the car, and repay the expence of the necessary food, provided for them.
To seek food and wealth as opposed to pursuing spiritual goals.
Usage- Obsolete
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They abuse what light of Reason they have, rendring it a slave to those brutish powers of life (it ought to direct and rule over ) so as to prog about and fetch in provisions for them.
For God knows that is too apt to provide for itself, and to prog and purvey for the satisfaction of its vile desires.
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And when it is so apparent that the main of our Design is to prog for our Flesh , and make a comfortable Provision for a few Years Ease and Luxury, who would think that we believed ourselves to be immortal Spirits that must live for ever in an inconceivable Happiness or Misery?
First of all let me admonish you , not to be too hasty to prog for Riches. For Solomon sayth': He that hastenth to be rich, shall not be innocent , but Poverty Poverty shall come upon him.
To seek food, goods, or money by low arts, such as begging, trickery, or abuse of power.
Usage- Obsolete
- Slang
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a perfect artist in progging for money
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And yet this most mild, though withal dreadful and inviolable Prerogative of Christs Diadem, Excommunication servs for nothing with them, but to prog and pander for Fees, or to display their Pride, and sharpen their Revenge, debarring Men the protection of the Law; and I remember not whether in some Cases it breave not Men all right to their worldly Goods and Inheritances, besides the denial of Christian burial.
they shut me up in a by Place of their Appartment, and, as they us'd to prog for themselves, I us'd also to watch the Opportunity of their Bathing, or any other Business that call'd 'em both side; then I fed like a Farmer, mightily pleas'd, that now I was come to a Diet that suited naturally to my Appetite.
That whatever Zeal be endeavour'd to shew, for the King, his Joy terminated in himself; may too justly be retorted upon himself, and that whatever Zeal he may pretend in Broaching Arbitrary Maxims, and in Slandering some Persons of the first Rank, his only Aim is thereby to prog for an Offal of the King's Bounty.
I have been endeavouring to prog for you.
To steal; to rob; to filch.
Usage- Obsolete
- Slang
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And hence we may take it for granted, there will always be some lavish People in every Prince's Court, where a Royal Table is kept, to waste and confound; to prog for themselyes, and regale their Friends, and to destroy more in one Day, by their clandestine Tricks, than would ine half the CROWN'D HEADS in Europe. But imbeziling of Belly-Timber, they think is no such extraordinary Offence in a Palace, tithout any Regard all the While to Conscience and Honour, or the King they cheat.
Their Servants have their Meat reach'd them by their Masters, which they eat behind their Backs. They bring twice as much WIne as their Masters need, and drink the Remainder themselves. They seize on what is left after Dinner. And their Ladies each of them carry a Napkin to prog for dry'd Sweet-meats or Fruits.
What less than fool is man to prog and plot, And lavish out the cream of all his care, To gain poor seeming goods, which, being got, Make firm possession but a thoroughfare;
To prick; to goad; to progue.
Usage- Scotland
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An' on his royal paunches thole A dwarf to prog him wi' a pole; While he wad shaw his fangs, an' rage Wi' bootless wrangling in his cage.