Jag vs Depression - What's the difference?
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A sharp projection.
* Holland
A part broken off; a fragment.
(botany) A cleft or division.
(Scotland) A medical injection.
To cut unevenly.
(Pittsburgh) To tease.
A binge or period of overindulgence; a spree.
* 1939 , (Raymond Chandler), The Big Sleep , Penguin 2011, p. 88:
a one-horse cart load, or, in modern times, a truck load, of hay or wood.
(lb) An area that is lower in topography than its surroundings.
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*:It was not far from the house; but the ground sank into a depression there, and the ridge of it behind shut out everything except just the roof of the tallest hayrick. As one sat on the sward behind the elm, with the back turned on the rick and nothing in front but the tall elms and the oaks in the other hedge, it was quite easy to fancy it the verge of the prairie with the backwoods close by.
(lb) In psychotherapy and psychiatry, a state of mind producing serious, long-term lowering of enjoyment of life or inability to visualize a happy future.
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(lb) In psychotherapy and psychiatry, a period of unhappiness or low morale which lasts longer than several weeks and may include ideation of self-inflicted injury or suicide.
(lb) An area of lowered air pressure that generally brings moist weather, sometimes promoting hurricanes and tornadoes.
(lb) A period of major economic contraction.
Four consecutive quarters of negative, real GDP growth. See NBER.
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A lowering, in particular a reduction in a particular biological variable or the function of an organ, in contrast to elevation.
As nouns the difference between jag and depression
is that jag is a sharp projection while depression is an area that is lower in topography than its surroundings.As a verb jag
is to cut unevenly.As an acronym JAG
is judge Advocate General.jag
English
Etymology 1
The noun is from late (etyl) jagge, the verb is from jaggen.Noun
(en noun)- garments thus beset with long jags
- (Bishop Hacket)
Derived terms
* (l)Verb
Etymology 2
Circa 1597; originally "load of broom or furze", variant of British English dialectal , of unknown origin.Noun
(en noun)- ‘People who spend their money for second-hand sex jags are as nervous as dowagers who can't find the rest-room.’
