Rag, rags, RAG or The Rag may refer to:

Common uses

* Rag, a piece of old

cloth Textile is an umbrella term that includes various fiber-based materials, including fibers, yarns, filaments, threads, and different types of fabric. At first, the word "textiles" only referred to woven fabrics. However, weaving is n ...

* Rags, tattered

clothes Clothing (also known as clothes, garments, dress, apparel, or attire) is any item worn on a human human body, body. Typically, clothing is made of fabrics or textiles, but over time it has included garments made from animal skin and other thin s ...

* Wash rag, a small cloth used for bathing * Rag (newspaper), a publication engaging in tabloid journalism *

Rag paper Rag, rags, RAG or The Rag may refer to: Common uses * Rag, a piece of old cloth * Rags, tattered clothes * Wash rag, a small cloth used for bathing * Rag (newspaper), a publication engaging in tabloid journalism * Rag paper, or cotton paper Ar ...

, or cotton paper

Arts and entertainment

Film

* ''Rags'' (1915 film), a silent film * ''Rags'' (2012 film), a modernization of the ''Cinderella'' fairy tale

Music

* Rag, a piece of

ragtime Ragtime, also spelled rag-time or rag time, is a musical style that had its peak from the 1890s to 1910s. Its cardinal trait is its Syncopation, syncopated or "ragged" rhythm. Ragtime was popularized during the early 20th century by composers ...

music * ''Rags'' (musical), a 1986 Broadway musical * Ruhrpott AG, a German hip hop group * Rags, a former name of the band

Tin Huey Tin Huey is an American experimental rock and new wave band from Akron, Ohio, United States, that formed in 1972 and disbanded in 1982. History Original lineups Initially named Rags, the band started with Mark Price (then known as Wesley the ...

* ''Rags'' (EP), by EarthGang, 2017

Other uses in arts and entertainment

* ''Rags'' (novel), a 2001 ''Doctor Who'' novel * Rags, a dog character in TV show ''

Spin City ''Spin City'' is an American sitcom television series that aired from September 17, 1996, to April 30, 2002, on ABC. Created by Gary David Goldberg and Bill Lawrence, the show is set in a fictionalized version of the New York City mayor's off ...

Businesses and organisations

* RAG AG, a German coal mining corporation *

RAG Austria AG RAG Austria AG (RAG) is the largest gas storage operator and thus energy storage company in Austria. The company focuses its business activities on the storage of natural gas and other gaseous energy and the development of green-gas technologies ( ...

, a gas storage operator in Austria * RAGS International, later Messiah Foundation International, a spiritual organisation

People

Rags (nickname) Rags is a nickname for: People * Ernest Brown (coach), American football player and coach * Rags Carter (1928–1993), American stock car racing driver * Rags Faircloth (1892–1953), Major League Baseball pitcher * John Kelly (rugby union, born 19 ...

, a list of people known as Rags *

Ēriks Rags Ēriks Rags (born 1 June 1975) is a Latvian javelin thrower. His personal best throw is 86.47 metres, achieved in July 2001 in London. He has competed at three Summer Olympics between Athletics at the 2000 Summer Olympics – Men's javelin thr ...

(born 1975), Latvian javelin thrower

Places

* Rag Island, in the Seal Islands group, Australia * Rag River, in County Cavan, Ireland

Other uses

Royal Galician Academy The Royal Galician Academy (, RAG) is an institution dedicated to the study of Galician culture and especially the Galician language; it promulgates norms of grammar, spelling, and vocabulary and works to promote the language. The Academy is bas ...

(Galician: ''Real Academia Galega''), A Coruña, Galicia, Spain *

Rags Brook Rags Brook is a tributary of the Small River Lea, which is a tributary of the River Lea. Rags Brook rises in the hills between Goffs Oak Cuffley in Hertfordshire, England. Brookfield Lane follows the course of the brook and the Brookfield C ...

, a tributary of the River Lea in England * ''

The Rag ''The Rag'' was an underground press, underground newspaper published in Austin, Texas from 1966–1977. The weekly paper covered political and cultural topics that the conventional press ignored, such as the growing antiwar movement, the sexu ...

'', an underground paper in Austin, Texas, 1966–1977 *

Rag (student society) Rags are student-run charitable fundraising organisations that are widespread in the United Kingdom and Ireland. Some are run as student societies whilst others sit with campaigns within their student unions. Most universities in the UK and Irela ...

, a student-run charitable fundraising group *

Rag (typography) In typesetting and page layout, alignment or range is the setting of text flow or image placement relative to a page, column (measure), table cell, or tab (and often to an image above it or under it). The type alignment setting is sometimes ref ...

, the ragged edge of a block of text *

Recombination-activating gene The recombination-activating genes (RAGs) encode parts of a protein complex that plays important roles in the rearrangement and recombination of the genes encoding immunoglobulin and T cell receptor molecules. There are two recombination-activa ...

, encoding enzymes RAG-1 and RAG-2 * RAG rating (Red, Amber, Green), a

traffic light rating system A traffic light rating system is a system for indicating the status of a variable using the red, amber or green of traffic lights. Product labelling Food and drink Food may be labelled with a traffic light label showing how much fat, saturat ...

Rags (dog) Rags ( – March 6, 1936) was a mixed breed terrier who became the U.S. 1st Infantry Division's dog-mascot in World War I. He was adopted into the 1st Division on July 14, 1918, in the Montmartre section of Paris, France. Rags remained its ma ...

(1916–1936), 1st Infantry Division (United States) mascot in World War I *

The Rag (club) The Army and Navy Club, commonly known as The Rag, is a private members' club in London that was founded in 1837 for officers of the British Army, the Royal Navy and the Royal Marines.Italian honorific for a school graduate in business economics *

Retrieval-augmented generation Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) is a technique that enables large language model, large language models (LLMs) to retrieve and incorporate new information. With RAG, LLMs do not respond to user queries until they refer to a specified set of d ...

, generative artificial intelligence with the addition of information retrieval capabilities