DNF

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Verb

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DNF

  1. (sports) Initialism of did not finish.
    Coordinate terms: DNS, DNQ
  2. (geocaching) Initialism of did not find.
  3. (Internet slang, social media) Initialism of do not follow.

Verb

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DNF (third-person singular simple present DNFs, present participle DNFing, simple past and past participle DNFed or DNF'ed)

  1. To fail to finish, as a sporting event or a piece of media.
    While I used to love them, now I keep DNFing superhero movies.
    • 2014, Phil Gaimon, Pro Cycling on $10 a Day: From Fat Kid to Euro Pro[1], VeloPress, →ISBN:
      He'd DNFed and could have gone home an hour earlier, but he wanted to see me win.
    • 2021 August 10, Danika Ellis, “I'm Breaking Up With 3-Star Reads”, in Book Riot[2], archived from the original on August 16, 2021:
      Others refuse to ever DNF, slowly slogging through even the worst of books. I fall somewhere in the middle. I'll DNF a book early on if I realize I'm unlikely to enjoy it.

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Noun

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DNF (plural DNFs)

  1. (mathematics) Initialism of disjunctive normal form.

Proper noun

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DNF

  1. (British, cartography) Initialism of Digital National Framework.

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