dan

noun

1. (obsolete)A title of honour or respect similar to "master" or "Sir", used of historical and legendary figures of the past.

   “Dan Phoebus, he with many a low'ring look / Had her beheld in yore in angry wise.”

   “Old Dan Geoffrey, in whose gentle spright / The pure well-head of Poesy did dwell.”

   “This senior-junior, giant-dwarf, dan Cupid.”

   “The patriarchal age, / What time Dan Abraham left the Chaldee land.”

   “He did—and in a moment press'd / The place—in Paradise the best, / As by Dan Moses said.”

2. A small truck or sledge used in coal mines.
3. A rank of black belt in martial arts.
4. Someone who has achieved a level of black belt.
5. Synonym of picul: a traditional unit of weight and mass, chiefly used as a dry measure of grains.
6. A traditional unit of equivalent volume, now officially equal to 100 liters.
7. A dan buoy.

   “Carrying away of 25 great-lines, 3 dans, buoys, &c., of steam liner 'Star of the East'[…]”

   “Dumping dans. Dan buoys laid to mark a dumping ground. They are fitted with a topmark in the shape of a St. Andrews cross formed by battens 2 feet in length. Live dan. Dan buoy for which a[…]”

8. (alt-of, alternative)Alternative form of dan (title of honour).
9. (abbreviation, acronym, alt-of, uncountable)Acronym of deadenylating nuclease, a protein that binds the 5' cap of mRNA and begins degradation in the 3' to 5' direction.
10. (abbreviation, acronym, alt-of, uncountable)Acronym of Dynamic Albedo of Neutrons, a scientific instrument of the Mars Science Laboratory onboard the Curiosity rover at Mars.

prep

1. (alt-of, pronunciation-spelling)Pronunciation spelling of than.

   “It's easy. It's nothin'. It's less dan nothin'.”

name

1. A male given name from Hebrew.

   “A widely shared local television video of last week's news conference, which was posted on YouTube, reached more than 5 million views and was amplified by Elon Musk and Fox News, where Dr. Dan Erickson and Dr. Artin Massihi appeared on primetime shows two nights in a row.”

2. A diminutive of the male given name Daniel.

   “In Welland, a blue-collar burg between Buffalo and Toronto, [Daniel] Paille’s and [Dan] Girardi’s friends, relatives and fans will tune in to the latest installment of what some have labeled the Battle of Welland or the Battle of the Dans.”

3. A diminutive of the female given name Danielle.

   “[…] the director of Wallace Shawn's Aunt Dan and Lemon replaces the characters' intellectual and verbal energy with "transparent rationalizations for the personal hang-ups of the characters […]”

4. A surname.
5. The fifth son of Jacob and Bilhah (who was Rachel's handmaid).
6. One of the Israelite tribes, descended from Dan.
7. A former city occupied by this tribe.
8. A Mande ethnic group from northwestern Ivory Coast and neighboring Liberia.
9. The language of this people, belonging to the Southern Mande branch.
10. (abbreviation, acronym, alt-of)Acronym of Divers Alert Network.