Dog vs. Sire

A mammal, Canis lupus familiaris, that has been domesticated for thousands of years, of highly variable appearance due to human breeding.

Example: ‘The dog barked all night long.’;

A male dog, wolf or fox, as opposed to a bitch (often attributive).

A dull, unattractive girl or woman.

Example: ‘She’s a real dog.’;

(slang) A man (derived from definition 2).

Example: ‘You lucky dog!’; ‘He's a silly dog.’;

A coward.

Example: ‘Come back and fight, you dogs!’;

(derogatory) Someone who is morally reprehensible.

Example: ‘You dirty dog.’;

(slang) A sexually aggressive man (cf. horny).

Any of various mechanical devices for holding, gripping, or fastening something, particularly with a tooth-like projection.

A click or pallet adapted to engage the teeth of a ratchet-wheel, to restrain the back action; a click or pawl. (See also: ratchet, windlass)

A metal support for logs in a fireplace.

Example: ‘The dogs were too hot to touch.’;

(cartomancy) The eighteenth Lenormand card.

A hot dog.

Underdog.

Foot.

(Cockney rhyming slang) (from "dog and bone") Phone or mobile phone.

One of the cones used to divide up a racetrack when training horses.

(transitive) To pursue with the intent to catch.

(transitive) To follow in an annoying or harassing way.

Example: ‘The woman cursed him so that trouble would dog his every step.’;

To fasten a hatch securely.

Example: ‘It is very important to dog down these hatches...’;

To watch, or participate, in sexual activity in a public place.

Example: ‘I admit that I like to dog at my local country park.’;

To intentionally restrict one's productivity as employee; to work at the slowest rate that goes unpunished.

Example: ‘A surprise inspection of the night shift found that some workers were dogging it.’;

A quadruped of the genus Canis, esp. the domestic dog (Canis familiaris).

A mean, worthless fellow; a wretch.

Example: ‘What is thy servant, which is but a dog, that he should do this great thing?’;

A fellow; - used humorously or contemptuously; as, a sly dog; a lazy dog.

One of the two constellations, Canis Major and Canis Minor, or the Greater Dog and the Lesser Dog. Canis Major contains the Dog Star (Sirius).

An iron for holding wood in a fireplace; a firedog; an andiron.

A grappling iron, with a claw or claws, for fastening into wood or other heavy articles, for the purpose of raising or moving them.

an ugly or crude person, especially an ugly woman.

a hot dog.

To hunt or track like a hound; to follow insidiously or indefatigably; to chase with a dog or dogs; to worry, as if by dogs; to hound with importunity.

Example: ‘I have been pursued, dogged, and waylaid.’; ‘Your sins will dog you, pursue you.’; ‘Eager ill-bred petitioners, who do not so properly supplicate as hunt the person whom they address to, dogging him from place to place, till they even extort an answer to their rude requests.’;

a member of the genus Canis (probably descended from the common wolf) that has been domesticated by man since prehistoric times; occurs in many breeds;

Example: ‘the dog barked all night’;

a dull unattractive unpleasant girl or woman;

Example: ‘she got a reputation as a frump’; ‘she's a real dog’;

informal term for a man;

Example: ‘you lucky dog’;

someone who is morally reprehensible;

Example: ‘you dirty dog’;

a smooth-textured sausage of minced beef or pork usually smoked; often served on a bread roll

a hinged catch that fits into a notch of a ratchet to move a wheel forward or prevent it from moving backward

metal supports for logs in a fireplace;

Example: ‘the andirons were too hot to touch’;

go after with the intent to catch;

Example: ‘The policeman chased the mugger down the alley’; ‘the dog chased the rabbit’;

The domestic dog (Canis familiaris or Canis lupus familiaris) is a domesticated descendant of the wolf. The dog derived from an ancient, extinct wolf, and the modern grey wolf is the dog's nearest living relative.

A lord, master, or other person in authority, most commonly used vocatively: formerly in speaking to elders and superiors, later only when addressing a sovereign.

A male animal; a stud, especially a horse or dog, that has fathered another.

(obsolete) A father; the head of a family; the husband.

(obsolete) A creator; a maker; an author; an originator.

to procreate; to father, beget, impregnate.

A lord, master, or other person in authority. See Sir.

Example: ‘Pain and distress, sickness and ire,And melancholy that angry sire,Be of her palace senators.’;

A tittle of respect formerly used in speaking to elders and superiors, but now only in addressing a sovereign.

A father; the head of a family; the husband.

Example: ‘Jankin thet was our sire [i.e., husband].’; ‘And raise his issue, like a loving sire.’;

A creator; a maker; an author; an originator.

Example: ‘[He] was the sire of an immortal strain.’;

The male parent of a beast; - applied especially to horses; as, the horse had a good sire.

To beget; to procreate; - used of beasts, and especially of stallions.

a title of address formerly used for a man of rank and authority

the founder of a family;

Example: ‘keep the faith of our forefathers’;

male parent of an animal especially a domestic animal such as a horse

make children;

Example: ‘Abraham begot Isaac’; ‘Men often father children but don't recognize them’;

the male parent of an animal, especially a stallion or bull kept for breeding

Example: ‘the sire is one of the country's top thoroughbred stallions’;

a respectful form of address for someone of high social status, especially a king.

a father or other male forebear.

be the male parent of (an animal)

Example: ‘Castor twice sired two champions in a litter’;

(of a person) be the father of

Example: ‘his father had just that measure of talent which so often sires a genius’;

Sire is a respectful form of address for reigning kings in Europe. It is used in Belgium, France, Italy, Germany, Sweden, Spain, and the United Kingdom.