dud

　 　

WordNet

1. failing to detonate; especially not charged with an active explosive; "he stepped on a dud mine"
2. a conservative who is old-fashioned or dull in attitude or appearance; "you may accuse me of being and old fuddy-duddy trying to stop young people having fun"
3. a feeling of intense indignation (now used only in the phrase `in high dudgeon' (同)high dudgeon
4. Islamic laws stating the limits ordained by Allah and including the deterrent punishments for serious crimes (同)hudood
5. a holiday resort offering ranch activities (riding and camping)

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1. 不発弾 / 《俗》だめな人(物) / 《複数形で》《俗》=clothes
2. 時代遅れの人,古くさい人
3. 憤り
4. めかし屋,気どり屋;(西部に来る東部の)都会人
5. (おもに人称代名詞・固有名詞(人名),thereの後で)had, wouldの短縮形 / (疑問文でwhere,what,whenの後で)didの短縮形;Where'd he go?=Where did he go?

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For the Dunedin airport with the IATA airport code DUD, see Dunedin International Airport.

British dud during World War I.

A dud is an ammunition round or explosive that fails to fire or detonate, respectively, on time or on command. Poorly designed devices (for example, improvised explosive devices (IEDs)), and small devices, have higher chances of being duds.

Duds are still dangerous, and can explode if handled. They have to be deactivated and disposed of carefully. In wartorn areas, many curious children have been injured or killed from tampering with such devices.

The term descends from the Middle English dudde, meaning "ragged clothing", and had been in usage as a general pejorative for something worn-out or useless for several centuries prior to the widespread adoption of the fused explosive artillery shell.

The variation absolute dud describes a nuclear weapon that fails to explode. (A nuclear weapon which does explode, but does not achieve its expected power, is termed a fizzle).

By extension, "dud" has become a slang word for anything that does not work or is defective. There is also a candy called Milk Duds, so named because it was impossible to get them perfectly round.

Other meanings

Generally your duds are "your last possessions", what you are wearing and carrying, so nice duds is ironic and possibly an oxymoron. Other meanings of 'dud' are:

• Duds - 16th century term for "clothes".
• Dud - 17th century term for "worthless". Then 17th Century term for "old clothes" and "rags".
• Duddery - 17th-19th century term for a "clothier's booth", trading in old cloth and rags.
• To sweat your duds - 19th century term to "pawn one's clothes"
• Dudman - "Scarecrow!", possibly from Dutch Dood/dode man (dead man), or from the old clothes used to clothe a scarecrow.
• 'Dud' is also used to describe a person who failed to meet standards in relationships.

See also

• Bomb disposal
• Unexploded ordnance
• Firearm malfunction

References

English Journal

• Protein structure prediction provides comparable performance to crystallographic structures in docking-based virtual screening.

• Du H1, Brender JR2, Zhang J2, Zhang Y3.
• Methods (San Diego, Calif.).Methods.2015 Jan;71:77-84. doi: 10.1016/j.ymeth.2014.08.017. Epub 2014 Sep 8.
• Structure based virtual screening has largely been limited to protein targets for which either an experimental structure is available or a strongly homologous template exists so that a high-resolution model can be constructed. The performance of state of the art protein structure predictions in virt
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• Genetic Relationship Between the Addiction Diagnosis in Adults and Their Childhood Measure of Addiction Liability.

• Vanyukov M1, Kim K, Irons D, Kirisci L, Neale M, Ridenour T, Hicks B, Tarter R, Reynolds M, Kirillova G, McGue M, Iacono W.
• Behavior genetics.Behav Genet.2014 Dec 11. [Epub ahead of print]
• Transmissible liability index (TLI), developed employing a high-risk design and item response theory, enables quantification of the latent trait of liability to drug use disorders (DUD) in children. TLI has been shown to have high heritability and predict DUD in young adulthood. This study extends p
• PMID 25502189

• Docking ligands into flexible and solvated macromolecules. 7. Impact of protein flexibility and water molecules on docking-based virtual screening accuracy.

• Therrien E1, Weill N, Tomberg A, Corbeil CR, Lee D, Moitessier N.
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Japanese Journal

• 北朝鮮の核実験は「失敗」なのか--爆縮型核実験の技術的困難さ

• 竹内 俊隆
• アジア太平洋論叢 (16), 139-157[含 英語文要旨], 2006
• NAID 40015324877

• An Experiment to Determine the Effective Time of Fertilizer Application for 'Kyoho' Grapes

• 岡本 五郎,Omutere Ester E.,吉田 輝倫,島村 和夫
• 岡山大学農学部学術報告 63(1), 1-7, 1983
• … Applying fertilizer in autumn increased the N content of root and cane even during winter and resulted in earlier and more dud bursting and better development of flower cluster. …
• NAID 120002304083

• Ultrasonic Studies in Aqueous Solutions of Formates, Acetates and Propionates of Sodium and Calcium

• PANCHOLY M.,SINGAL S. P.
• Journal of the Physical Society of Japan 18(4), 582-587, 1963-04-05
• … It is found that in the case of calcium salts the contribution of chemical relaxation to absorption is comparable to that dud to other causes such as viscosity whereas in the case of sodium salts most of the absorption is due to causes other than relaxation. …
• NAID 110001951445

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• Dud - definition of dud by The Free Dictionary

dud (dŭd) n. 1. A bomb, shell, or explosive round that fails to detonate. 2. Informal One that is disappointingly ineffective or unsuccessful. 3. duds Informal a. Clothing. b. Personal belongings. [Middle English dudde, a cloak.] dud (dʌd

• Dud | Definition of Dud by Merriam-Webster

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