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(idea) by eluyten (8.3 y) (print) ? I like it! Sat Dec 11 1999 at 6:34:54

Dao. Mostly associated in the West with Daoism and the DaoDeJing, it is a Chinese word with many meanings. Originally, the basic meanings are "road" and "woof" (as is the warp and the woof, or weft), signifying the horizontal lines of a fabric or a system of roads and paths. In contrast to "jing". Dao has come to mean many things, including road, way, path, morals, origin, line, journey, way or method, course, or doctrine. Used by the Daoists to indicate that which is common to all things. Similar in some ways to Zen, although very different in their linguistic roots (Zen is a bastardization of the Sankrit "Dhyana", by way of the Chinese word "Chan", all of which refer originally to deep meditative absorption, but have come to refer, in English to some peculiar quality that is difficult to name. In the DaoDeJing, it is referred to as the source of all things, mother of the universe, so large that it contains all, and yet so small that nothing is not permeated by it. The classic analogy, used also in Zen circles, is that of a the fish who does not know what water is because it is all pervading, and yet it is precisely that which gives life. (spelt Tao in the Wade-Giles system)

(idea) by sensei (6.4 y) (print) ? I like it! Sun Mar 26 2000 at 16:51:25

Pinyin transliteration. Wade-Giles is "Tao". Japanese romanji is "Do". A term ubiqitous in Chinese culture. The kanji emerged from pictographs of a walking foot. It means "way" in the sense of "how to do" or "way of doing'.

(person) by alienhuman (5.4 y) (print) ? I like it! Mon Jan 29 2001 at 0:44:29

"Older Brother" in Nepali. A general form of address for any male older than the speaker, or in a position of authority. Pronounced DAO.

(idea) by Rancid_Pickle (3.6 mon) (print) ? I like it! Sun Jul 22 2001 at 7:38:39

DAO is an acronym for Disk At Once, a method of recording to a CD-R/RW. When recording tracks, such as when you record audio CDs, the laser is turned off between the songs, creating a two-second gap. If you have a live CD, it gets annoying to have the audience making lots of noise, then two seconds of silence, then the audience making noise again. DAO records the entire CD in one shot, never turning off the laser.

(idea) by karfung (5.6 y) (print) ? I like it! Sat Sep 21 2002 at 2:19:44

DAO is short for double action only, a type of firearm mechanism which can only be fired from an uncocked state.

Hence all trigger pulls are in double action.

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Tao	The X that can be Y is not the true X	Being stoic, Daoist, and at one with the universe is NO FUN	Wu Wei
Taoist	So I was balls deep in the guy's ass that night when he turns to me and asks for a kiss. Damn. What a fag.	Maximum play time of a CD	double action
Achingly beautiful	Wade-Giles	Where are all the stupid Americans?	DLL Hell
woof	Rujing	darn dao	Using Dao Yin as a martial arts warm up
Sao	jing	Falun Gong	I believe in nothing
Guan Dao	Hellas Planitia	Kwan Dao	Trekking in Nepal: Jiri to Namche Bazaar

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