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    deg.
    abbreviation
    degree; degrees.
  • deg
    deg
    verb
    to water (a plant, etc)

deg.

American  

abbreviation

  1. degree; degrees.


deg. 1 British  

abbreviation

  1. degree

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

deg 2 British  
/ dɛɡ /

verb

  1. dialect to water (a plant, etc)

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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Caution: jaywalking some sts punishable $5 fine; Avge mean temp: 80 deg. summer, 45 deg. winter.

From Time Magazine Archive

Temperature of developer should not vary much below 65 deg. nor above 75 deg.

From Photogravure by Blaney, Henry R.

First there is that dead white of the map now changed to a dead black—I mean that darkest region of earth confined between east longitude 25 deg. and east longitude 29 deg.

From Stanley's Adventures in the Wilds of Africa A Graphic Account of the Several Expeditions of Henry M. Stanley into the Heart of the Dark Continent by Headley, Joel Tyler

It is a vast and populated country, situate in the third climate; longitude 90 deg., latitude 30 deg.

From Les Parsis by Vakil, Ratanbai Ardeshir

We think your trouble is not so much the temperature of the fat, which should be about 350 deg. to 375 deg.

From American Cookery November, 1921 by Hill, Janet McKenzie

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