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dana

Definitions, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for dana.

Editorial note

Woodman is GoPro CEO, Dana is GoPro employee #1 Woodman agreed to pay Dana 10% of stock back in college.

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Definitions4
Parts of speech1

Quick take

A female given name,

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of dana gathered in one view.

noun

A female given name,

noun

An American surname.

noun

A town in Indiana; named for Charles Dana, a railroad official.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for dana.

noun

A female given name,

noun

An American surname.

noun

A town in Indiana; named for Charles Dana, a railroad official.

noun

A village in Illinois; named for Thomas Dana, a railroad official.

Example sentences

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Woodman is GoPro CEO, Dana is GoPro employee #1 Woodman agreed to pay Dana 10% of stock back in college.

2

Woodman and Dana reportedly had a contract that Dana would receive 10% on sales of Woodman's stock, as first employee and head of sales, and Woodman is honoring the contract.

3

Were he so inclined, Woodman probably could have refused to give Dana the $230 million and gotten away with it.

4

The ship Dana was on, Pilgrim, spent time trading goods up and down the coast.

5

Is that the same Dana Simpson that was once the author of Ozy & Millie?

6

Woodman (through the company) gave Dana what amounts to just under $230 million.

7

Check out the Dana for a bigger screen and Palm apps (!).

8

Not only does Dana describe what California was like in the 1840s (very empty) and talks about the economy (based off of ranching and cow hides), but he writes a lot about ships and sailing.

9

* Dana Scott discovered the lattice based model of the λ-calculus while trying to prove that no set theoretic models exist.

10

Detail missing from this article (at least the article linked as I write this comment): Neil Dana was GoPro employee #1 and still works at the company.

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>>*Correction, April 21, 2015: This article originally >>misstated that a purchase of options on March 27 >>immediately followed a tweet by journalist Dana Mattioli.

12

I really doubt Dana and Woodman were thinking about it at the time, but this is a kind of a nice way to structure an equity compensation contract with early employees or investors.

Quote examples

1

Just this morning I was listening to the tale of woe regarding Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle on the Dana Gould podcast[1].

2

Some editions of the book include "Twenty-Four Years After." This is an epilogue written after Dana revisited many of the sites featured in the book.

3

And to add to this tangent: my friend Dana Simpson does a strip for Universal called "Phoebe and her Unicorn", about a girl whose best friend is...

4

From the article: '"The markets where instant coffee is most popular tend to be the ones without a strong tradition of coffee drinking," Dana LaMendola, and industry analyst at Euromonitor, said in an interview.

Proper noun examples

1

Dana was astonished by the change in his own lifetime (which spanned the gold-rush period).

2

I still use the 3000 sometimes, but the keyboard on the Dana/Neo is just awesome to type on.

3

And he should be starting at the tail end of Dana's list.

Frequently asked questions

Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.

How do you use dana in a sentence?

Woodman is GoPro CEO, Dana is GoPro employee #1 Woodman agreed to pay Dana 10% of stock back in college.

What does dana mean?

A female given name,

What part of speech is dana?

dana is commonly used as noun.