1. имя существительное [военное дело] 1) драгун (военный некоторых частей кавалерии, первоначально предназначенных действовать как в конном, так и в пешем строю) 2) грубый и драчливый человек 3) драгун (порода голубей) 2. глагол 1) посылать карательную экспедицию Синоним(ы): persecute, subjugate, oppress 2) заставлять, принуждать; добиваться путем принуждения Например: It was easy in those days to dragoon the younger children into helping with the farm work. — В те дни можно было запросто заставить младших детей работать на ферме. Синоним(ы): coerce
I. noun Etymology: French dragon dragon, dragoon, from Middle French 1. a member of a European military unit formerly composed of heavily armed mounted troops 2. cavalryman II. transitive verb 1. to subjugate or persecute by harsh use of troops 2. to force into submission or compliance especially by violent measures
A distributed, concurrent, object-oriented Ada-based language developed in the Esprit DRAGON project by Colin Atkinson at Imperial College in 1989 (Now at University of Houston, Clear Lake). DRAGOON supports object-oriented programming for embeddable systems and is presently implemented as an Ada preprocessor.