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, different fabric types, etc. At first, the word "textiles" only referred to woven fabrics. However, weaving is not the ...

* Rags, tattered

clothes Clothing (also known as clothes, apparel, and attire) are items worn on the body. Typically, clothing is made of fabrics or textiles, but over time it has included garments made from animal skin and other thin sheets of materials and natural ...

Rag (newspaper) Tabloid journalism is a popular style of largely sensationalist journalism (usually dramatized and sometimes unverifiable or even blatantly false), which takes its name from the tabloid newspaper format: a small-sized newspaper also known as ...

, 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 * Rag (newspaper), a publication engaging in tabloid journalism * Rag paper, or cotton paper Arts and entertainment Film * ''Rags'' (1915 ...

, 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 flourished from the 1890s to 1910s. Its cardinal trait is its syncopated or "ragged" rhythm. Ragtime was popularized during the early 20th century by composers such as Scott ...

music * ''Rags'' (musical), a 1986 Broadway musical *

Ruhrpott AG Ruhrpott AG or RAG was a German hip hop group from Bochum. The band was active from 1996 to 2003 and reunited briefly in 2018 for an anniversary concert. History RAG first found recognition in the German hip hop scene in 1998, with the album ' ...

, a German hip hop group * Rags, a former name of the band Tin Huey * ''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 semi-fictionalized version of the New York City mayor' ...

Businesses and organisations

RAG AG RAG AG, formerly Ruhrkohle AG, is the largest German coal mining corporation. The company headquarters are in Essen in the Ruhr area. The company was founded on 27 November 1968, consolidating several coalmining corporations into the Ruhrkohle ...

, 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 Messiah Foundation International ( ur, مہدی فاونڈیشن انٹرنیشنل) (or MFI) is a spiritual organisation formally established in 2002 to promote the ''Goharian Philosophy of Divine Love''. MFI is the successor of RAGS Internation ...

, later Messiah Foundation International, a spiritual organisation

People

Rags (nickname) Rags is a nickname for: People * Rags Faircloth (1892–1953), Major League Baseball pitcher * John Kelly (rugby union, born 1974) (born 1974), Irish retired rugby union footballer * Rags Matthews (1905–1999), All-American football player *Rags M ...

, 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 2000 and 2008. He was born in Ventspils Ventspils (; ger ...

(born 1975), a Latvian javelin thrower

Places

* Rag Island, in the Seal Islands group, Australia *

Rag River The Rag River is a river in County Cavan, Ireland. It rises in Mullaghdoo Lough, in the townland of Aghnacreevy, parish of Kildallan, and flows in a north-easterly direction through the lakes of Clonty Lough, Togher Lough, Lough Rud, Aghavoher L ...

, in County Cavan, Ireland

Other uses

Royal Galician Academy The Royal Galician Academy ( gl, Real Academia Galega, 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 la ...

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

The Rag ''The Rag'' was an 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 sexual revolution, gay l ...

'', 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 ...

*''Ragioniere'' or ''rag.'', an Italian honorific for a school graduate in business economics *

Rags (dog) Rags (c. 1916 – 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 ...

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

The Rag (club) The Army and Navy Club in London is a private members club founded in 1837, also known informally as The Rag.Rag and Bone (disambiguation) A rag-and-bone man or ragpicker (UK English) or ragman, old-clothesman, junkman, or junk dealer (US English), also called a bone-grubber, bone-picker, chiffonnier, rag-gatherer, bag board, or totter, collects unwanted household items and sells t ...

Rag doll (disambiguation) A rag doll is a toy. Rag doll or Ragdoll may also refer to: Music * "Rag Doll" (Aerosmith song) * "Rag Doll" (The Four Seasons song) * "Ragdoll", a song by Maroon 5 from ''Songs About Jane'' * "Ragdoll", a song by Ashlee Simpson from ''Bitte ...

Raga A ''raga'' or ''raag'' (; also ''raaga'' or ''ragam''; ) is a melodic framework for improvisation in Indian classical music akin to a melodic mode. The ''rāga'' is a unique and central feature of the classical Indian music tradition, and as a ...

or raag, a melodic framework for improvisation in Indian classical music *

Ragga Raggamuffin music, usually abbreviated as ragga, is a subgenre of dancehall and reggae music. The instrumentals primarily consist of electronic music. Similar to hip hop, sampling often serves a prominent role in raggamuffin music. Wayne Smi ...

, a subgenre of dancehall and reggae music *

Ragging Ragging is the term used for the so-called " initiation ritual" practiced in higher education institutions in the Indian subcontinent, including India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, and Sri Lanka. The practise is similar to hazing in North America, in Fr ...

, initiation rituals in higher education institutions in the Indian subcontinent *

Rags to riches (disambiguation) Rags to riches refers to a rise from poverty to wealth. It may also refer to: * ''Rags to Riches'' (video game), a 1985 computer game for the Commodore 64 * Rags to Riches (horse), a thoroughbred race horse * "Rags to Riches" (1953 song), a 1953 ...

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 Ce ...

, a tributary of the River Lea in England *

Ragulator-Rag complex The Ragulator-Rag complex is a regulator of lysosomal signalling and trafficking in eukaryotic cells, which plays an important role in regulating cell metabolism and growth in response to nutrient availability in the cell. The Ragulator-Rag Compl ...

, in cell biology *

On the rag On, on, or ON may refer to: Arts and entertainment Music * On (band), a solo project of Ken Andrews * On (EP), ''On'' (EP), a 1993 EP by Aphex Twin * On (Echobelly album), ''On'' (Echobelly album), 1995 * On (Gary Glitter album), ''On'' (Gary Glit ...

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