1. dao - Noun
2. Dao - Proper noun
dao (plural daos)
Any of various traditional Chinese swords with a curved, single-edged blade, primarily used for slashing and chopping.
dao
(Chinese philosophy) Alternative form of Tao: the way of nature and/or the ideal way to live one's life.
dao (usually uncountable, plural daos)
(historical) Synonym of circuit: various administrative divisions of imperial and early Republican China.
dao (plural daos)
Alternative form of dah (“Burmese knife or sword”)
dao (plural daos)
A sword and construction tool of the Naga people of India, which has a wooden hilt and grows wider from the narrow hilt to the wide, flat tip.
Dracontomelon dao; a large tree of the family Anacardiaceae; the argus pheasant tree.
The hard strong wood of the dao used for veneers and cabinetwork.
(chemistry) Initialism of De-asphalted oil, a crude oil refinery process stream.
(computing) Initialism of Disk-at-Once, an optical disk recording mode.
(software) Initialism of Data Access Object, a design pattern used in software engineering.
(firearms) Initialism of Double action only, a trigger mechanism for semi-automatic firearms.
(cryptocurrencies) Acronym of decentralized autonomous organization, an autonomous entity based on smart contracts on a blockchain.
(fandom slang) Initialism of Dragon Age: Origins.
Synonym: DA1
Dao
(Chinese philosophy) Alternative form of Tao (“the way of nature, or ideal way to live one's life”)
When the Great Dao (Tao, perfect order) prevails, the world is like a Commonwealth State shared by all, not a dictatorship. Confucius
Dāo tǣm din. Suwīriyāsān. 1994. p. 553. Thai Proverb
Canada main Mali established its embassy in Canada in 1978 at 50 avenue Golburn in Ottawa, with its 1st appointed ambassador Zana Ousmane Dao, L'Ambassadeur Mamadou Bandiougou Diawara, Welcome, Mali Embassy website. Source: Internet
As part of this process, many Chinese words introduced their rich semantic and philosophical associations into Buddhism, including the use of 'Dao' for central concepts and tenets of Buddhism. Source: Internet
Dao 道 graphically combines the chuo 辶 (or 辵) "go" radical and shou 首 "head" phonetic. Source: Internet
Asia China and Hong Kong The Book of Common Prayer is called 公禱書 main in Chinese ( pinyin :Gong Dao Shu, Jyutping : Gung Tou Sy). Source: Internet