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dak

ˈdiˈeɪˈkeɪ
WordNet
  1. (n) dak
    East Indian tree bearing a profusion of intense vermilion velvet-textured blooms and yielding a yellow dye
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
  1. Dak
    Post; mail; also, the mail or postal arrangements; -- spelt also dawk, and dauk.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  1. (n) dak
    In the East Indies, the post; a relay of men, as for carrying letters, despatches, etc., or travelers in palanquins. The route is divided into stages, and each bearer or set of bearers serves only for a single stage. In some places there are horse-daks, or mounted runners.
  2. (n) dak
    An abbreviation of Dakota.
Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary
  1. (n) Dak
    däk in India, the mail-post: travelling in palanquins carried by relays of bearers.
Etymology

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary Hind. ḍāk,

Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary Hind. dāk, a relay of men.

Usage in the news

Wahpeton-based Minn- Dak Farmers Cooperative has been fined by the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency. therepublic.com

Minnesota regulators say Minn- Dak took numerous actions to address the problem. therepublic.com

On 15 April, 14 teams competed in the ISA District 6 Student Competition hosted at the Mitchell Technical Institute in Mitchell, N.Dak. isa.org

DAK Americas Increases PSF Product Prices. textileworld.com

DAK Americas Announces PSF Products Price Increase. textileworld.com

Soudan Underground Mine State Park finished second, behind Oak Park in Minot, N Dak. nmtradio.com

DAK Americas LLC, Charlotte, NC, will increase the price for all polyester staple fiber (PSF) products $0.03 per pound effective September 1, 2012. nonwovens-industry.com

Last month GeekMom Dak reviewed Touring Plans, a website and app that helps you plan your Disney vacation and knock hours off queuing times at the theme parks. ired.com

THR and Samsung Galaxy's 'Twilight' Screening: Ashley Greene, Kellan Lutz and Dak. hollywoodreporter.com

NEW WILMINGTON, Pa. Juniors Dak Britt and Tyler Banks combined for 581 total yards and guided the Westminster College football team to a 45-28 victory against Bethany on Saturday at Harold Burry Stadium. theintelligencer.net

(AP) — Minn-Dak Farmers Cooperative says its payments to shareholders at the end of the fiscal year were down 14 percent from the previous year's gross revenue. marshallindependent.com

Wahpeton-based Minn-Dak Farmers Cooperative has been fined by the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency. therepublic.com

Minnesota regulators say Minn-Dak took numerous actions to address the problem. therepublic.com

DAK Americas Announces PSF Products Price Increase . textileworld.com

Soudan Underground Mine State Park finished second, behind Oak Park in Minot, N Dak. nmtradio.com

Usage in scientific papers

In the expression for the individual dAk i,j , the lower indices i and j denote the two initial momenta and k denotes the generated momentum, respectively.
AMEGIC++ 1.0, A Matrix Element Generator In C++

The expression for Dak can be written most compactly in terms of position vectors.
Many-body Hamiltonians in implicitly defined frames

As N → ∞, the recurrence equation that is satisfied by the eigenvector’s elements leads to dAk+1 = Ak+2 + (d − 1)Ak where Ak is the sum of the probabilities on the nodes that are at distance k from the root node.
Return probabilities and hitting times of random walks on sparse Erdos-Renyi graphs

So if aj dak ∈ ΩR/dR, then g aj dg ak = aj dak for all g ∈ G.
Universal central extensions of twisted forms of split simple Lie algebras over rings

Let A, B ∈ L be two linear maps such that rank DAk < rank DB k .
Symplectically harmonic cohomology of nilmanifolds

Usage in literature

At Myothit we camped in the dak bungalow, an unfurnished cottage kept for the use of travellers. "An Australian in China" by George Ernest Morrison

The Bishop went on from Madras, travelling by dak, and encamping during the heat of the day. "Pioneers and Founders or, Recent Workers in the Mission field" by Charlotte Mary Yonge

Dak., Penn., Wash. and Wyo. "The Handy Cyclopedia of Things Worth Knowing" by Joseph Triemens

Belle Fourche, S. Dak. "The Bird Study Book" by Thomas Gilbert Pearson

B. Chalfant, Lebanon, S. Dak. "American Missionary - Volume 50, No. 2, February, 1896" by Various

So you travel day in day out, spending nights in Dak bungalows with nothing to eat but tins. "From Edinburgh to India & Burmah" by William G. Burn Murdoch

None of the details of this battle of the Ron-Daks were ever known in Lo-Tan. "The Airlords of Han" by Philip Francis Nowlan

Ya seems to be rarely preserved: I E pak cook, Skt papakaya parch; Dak papakhya parch; I E agh say, Lat ajo for aghya say; Dak eya say. "The Dakotan Languages, and Their Relations to Other Languages" by Andrew Woods Williamson

Went to Deadwood S. Dak. "Black Beaver" by James Campbell Lewis

Dak returned one day in high excitement, stumbling across the ledge from a long day's journey. "The Beginning" by Henry Hasse

Usage in poetry
Old is the song that I sing —
Old as my unpaid bills —
Old as the chicken that kitmutgars bring
Men at dak-bungalows — old as the Hills.
Answer, sombre beast and dreary,
Where is Brown, the young, the cheery,
Smith, the pride of all his friends and half the Force?
You were at that last dread dak
We must cover at a walk,
Bring them back to me, O Undertaker's Horse!