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DNA

/ˌdiːɛnˈeɪ/ · noun

Meaning

  1. Did not attend.
  2. To place (someone) under a DNA (do not arm) order because of mental illness.
  3. Did not arrive (used when someone fails to keep an appointment).
  4. Alternative form of DNA.
  5. Does not apply.
  6. The fundamental nature or values of a person, or an organization or other thing, especially when considered as innate or immutable.
  7. Did not answer.
  8. Defense Nuclear Agency, an agency of the United States Department of Defense which existed from 1971 to 1996 and has since been reorganized as the Defense Threat Reduction Agency.
  9. Drugs 'n' alcohol.
  10. Initialism of deoxyribonucleic acid (“a nucleic acid found in all living things (and some non-living things such as certain viruses) which consists of two polynucleotide chains that coil around each other to form a double helix; encoded in its structure are genetic instructions for development, functioning, growth, and reproduction”).
  11. Do not arm (that is, do not provide with a firearm).
  12. To examine a sample of (someone's) deoxyribonucleic acid.
  13. Do not assume.
  14. The part of a living thing that carries genetic information.

Etymology / origin

The noun is an initialism of deoxyribonucleic acid. The verb is derived from the noun.

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