Frog (disambiguation)
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A frog
is an amphibian. Frog may also refer to:
Frog
Frogs are amphibians in the order Anura , formerly referred to as Salientia . Most frogs are characterized by a short body, webbed digits , protruding eyes and the absence of a tail...
is an amphibian. Frog may also refer to:
Media and entertainment
- Frog (Chrono Trigger), a video game character
- Frogs (film)Frogs (film)Frogs is a 1972 horror film directed by George McCowan. The film falls into the "eco-horror" category since it tells the story of an upper-class U.S. Southern family who are victimized by several different animal species, including snakes, birds, and lizards, as well as the occasional butterfly...
- Frogs (video game)Frogs (video game)Frogs is a single-player action / platform arcade game released by Sega-Gremlin in 1978. It is the first video game with a jumping character , which by some definitions could make it the first platform game...
- "Frogs" (song), by Alice in Chains
- The Frog, a 1937 film starring Noah Beery, Jack HawkinsJack HawkinsColonel John Edward "Jack" Hawkins CBE was an English actor of the 1950s, 1960s and early 1970s.-Career:Hawkins was born at Lyndhurst Road, Wood Green, Middlesex, the son of master builder Thomas George Hawkins and his wife, Phoebe née Goodman. The youngest of four children in a close-knit family,...
and Gordon HarkerGordon HarkerGordon Harker was an English film actor. He appeared in 68 films between 1921 and 1959, including three films directed by Alfred Hitchcock and a cameo appearance in Elstree Calling , a revue film co-directed by Hitchcock... - The Frogs (band)The Frogs (band)The Frogs are an American rock music band founded in 1980, in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, by brothers Jimmy and Dennis Flemion. The brothers mainly write and perform short, catchy pop songs, but they are also known for their improvised home recordings which are delivered in a comedic style, and often...
- The Frogs (club)The Frogs (club)-The Frogs, African American Theatrical Organization:At the beginning of the twentieth century theatrical clubs were formed to provide a sense of fraternity for members of the entertainment community in New York. This brotherhood was not inclusive. While there were black Broadway and vaudeville...
- The FrogsThe FrogsThe Frogs is a comedy written by the Ancient Greek playwright Aristophanes. It was performed at the Lenaia, one of the Festivals of Dionysus, in 405 BC, and received first place.-Plot:...
, a play by Aristophanes - The Frogs (musical)The Frogs (musical)The Frogs is a musical "freely adapted" by Stephen Sondheim and Burt Shevelove from The Frogs, an Ancient Greek comedy by Aristophanes, originally performed in Yale University's gymnasium's swimming pool in 1974....
, an adaptation of the play - Frog RecordsFrog RecordsFrog Records is a UK classic jazz reissue label founded by David French . The company has issued about three dozen CDs, many remastered by John R.T. Davies, including the complete recordings of Bessie Smith....
, a record label - Frog+Frog+CD 2...
, an album by Merzbow - F.R.O.G., a TV series starring Lani BillardLani BillardLani Billard is a Canadian actress who played Busy Ramone on the popular television series Ready or Not from 1993–1997. Before that she was on a show called F.R.O.G. on TVO. Since then Lani has only appeared in Owning Mahowny where she played Tori the Teller...
- Frogs, an alien species from German science-fiction series Space Patrol Orion
- Frog, the handle of Carrie (Smokey and the Bandit) Played by Sally FieldSally FieldSally Margaret Field is an American actress, singer, producer, director, and screenwriter. In each decade of her career, she has been known for major roles in American TV/film culture, including: in the 1960s, for Gidget or Sister Bertrille on The Flying Nun ; in the 1970s, for Sybil , Smokey and...
- FROGs, an elite group of female soldiers loyal to Ocelot in the game Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the PatriotsMetal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriotsis a video game developed by Kojima Productions for the PlayStation 3 console. The game was directed by Hideo Kojima and made its worldwide release on June 12, 2008, ten years after the release of Metal Gear Solid and twenty years after the North American release of Metal Gear.Guns of the Patriots...
- How to Boil a FrogHow to Boil a FrogHOW TO BOIL A FROG is an award winning eco-comedy that shows the consequences of overshoot: too many people using up too little planet. An everyman dad gives us the scoop on the imminent end of the world as we know it, and five surprising ways we can save civilization while making our own lives...
, a eco-comedy.
Underwater
- FrogmanFrogmanA frogman is someone who is trained to scuba diving or swim underwater in a military capacity which can include combat. Such personnel are also known by the more formal names of combat diver or combatant diver or combat swimmer....
, a type of scuba diver - FROGS (rebreather)FROGS (rebreather)FROGS is a make of rebreather for frogmen using oxygen, which has been used by the French Navy and the Commando Hubert since 15 October 2002. It is made by the diving gear manufacturers Aqualung....
, a type of frogman's rebreather
Tool parts
- An indentation in a brickBrickA brick is a block of ceramic material used in masonry construction, usually laid using various kinds of mortar. It has been regarded as one of the longest lasting and strongest building materials used throughout history.-History:...
- Part of a mouldboard ploughPloughThe plough or plow is a tool used in farming for initial cultivation of soil in preparation for sowing seed or planting. It has been a basic instrument for most of recorded history, and represents one of the major advances in agriculture...
- Frog, part of a planePlane (tool)A hand plane is a tool for shaping wood. When powered by electricity, the tool may be called a planer. Planes are used to flatten, reduce the thickness of, and impart a smooth surface to a rough piece of lumber or timber. Planing is used to produce horizontal, vertical, or inclined flat surfaces on...
tool
Railroads
- common crossing, a part of a turnout where two rails cross
- Rerailer, a ramp device used to put a derailed piece of rolling stock back onto the railway track
Other
- Abbreviation for Federal Republic of Germany
- Common FrogCommon FrogThe Common Frog, Rana temporaria also known as the European Common Frog or European Common Brown Frog is found throughout much of Europe as far north as well north of the Arctic Circle in Scandinavia and as far east as the Urals, except for most of Iberia, southern Italy, and the southern Balkans...
, the most common frog species, for example, Chinese Edible Frog - Frog MobileFrog MobileFrog Mobile is a pre-paid mobile service, offered in Greece, Bulgaria and Romania by companies within the group of Greek mobile operator Cosmote....
, a pre-paid mobile service - Frog (fastening)Frog (fastening)A frog is an ornamental braiding for fastening the front of a garment that consists of a button and a loop through which it passes....
, an ornamental braiding for the front of a garment - Frog (horse)Frog (horse)The frog is a part of a horse's hoof, located on the underside, which should touch the ground if the horse is standing on soft footing. The frog is triangular in shape, and extends from the heels to mid-way toward the toe, covering around 25% of the bottom of the hoof...
, part of a horse's hoof - Frog (models)Frog (models)Frog was a well-known British brand of flying model aircraft and scale model construction kits from the 1930s to the 1970s.- History :Founded in 1931 by Charles Wilmot and Joe Mansour, International Model Aircraft Ltd...
, a brand of model aircraft - Frog CMSFrog CMSFrog CMS is an open source content management system originally developed by Philippe Archambault. The design decision taken from its start was to use PHP5 as the language for the software, along with a MySQL database backend, although it also has support for SQLite...
, a content management system - Frog Design Inc.Frog design inc.Frog is a global innovation firm founded in 1969 by industrial designer Hartmut Esslinger and partners Andreas Haug and Georg Spreng in Mutlangen, Germany as "Esslinger Design". Soon after it moved to Altensteig, Germany, and then to Palo Alto, California, and ultimately to its current...
, a design firm - Fast and Realistic OpenGL DisplayerFast and Realistic OpenGL DisplayerFROG is a generic framework dedicated to visualize events in a given geometry. It has been written in C++ and use OpenGL cross-platform libraries...
, a toolkit for physics' data visualisation - FROGFROGIn cryptography, FROG is a block cipher authored byGeorgoudis, Leroux and Chaves. The algorithm can work with any block size between 8 and 128 bytes, and supports key sizes between 5 and 125 bytes...
, a block cipher algorithm - FROG-7FROG-7The 9K52 Luna-M is a Soviet short-range ballistic missile complex. The 9M21 missiles are unguided and spin-stabilized. "9K52" is its GRAU designation. Its NATO reporting name is FROG-7....
, a rocket - Frog Picture BooksFrog Picture BooksFrog is a picture book character created by Max Velthuijs.The first Frog title was published in 1989, enititled Frog In Love, by Klaus Flugge at Andersen Press....
, a picture book character created by Max Velthuijs - Flame Resistant Organizational GearFlame Resistant Organizational GearFlame Resistant Organizational Gear or FROG is United States Marine Corps clothing designed to reduce the number of injuries resulting from fire and flash , due to the increased use of improvised explosive devices in the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.-Features:The FROG system consists of a...
, a U.S. Marine combat uniform - Frequency-resolved optical gatingFrequency-resolved optical gatingIn optics, frequency-resolved optical gating is a derivative of autocorrelation, but is far superior in its ability to measure ultrafast optical pulse shapes...
, a method for measuring ultra-fast laser pulses - Frog, a folding bicycle produced by Riese und MüllerRiese und MüllerRiese and Müller is a bicycle firm in Darmstadt, Germany founded by Markus Riese and Heiko Müller. It designs and makes suspended bicycles. Frames are produced by companies such as Pacific Cycles, Taiwan...
- An ethnic slur for French people
- Frog (knitting), the act of ripping out stitches
- Frog PortageFrog PortageFrog Portage or Portage du Traite was one of the most important portages on the voyageur route from eastern Canada to the Mackenzie River basin. It connects the Saskatchewan River and Churchill River basins...
, connects the Saskatchewan and Churchill Rivers - Bow (music)Bow (music)In music, a bow is moved across some part of a musical instrument, causing vibration which the instrument emits as sound. The vast majority of bows are used with string instruments, although some bows are used with musical saws and other bowed idiophones....
frog, the block which holds the hair at the grip end of a bow - Part of a sheathSheathSheath may refer to:* Scabbard, a sheath for holding a sword, knife, or other large blade, as well as guns, such as rifles.* The outer covering of a cable* Condom, a kind of contraception* Debye sheath, a layer of a plasma in physics...
or scabbardScabbardA scabbard is a sheath for holding a sword, knife, or other large blade. Scabbards have been made of many materials over the millennia, including leather, wood, and metals such as brass or steel.-Types of scabbards:...
for an edged tool or weapon, used to hang the sheath vertically from a belt - Frog, a part of a railroad turnout where two rails cross
- The Unauthorized Frog project, an open-source team developing the Database Deployment ManagerDatabase Deployment ManagerDatabase Deployment Manager is an open source, freeware, desktop oriented multi-platform database design tool that allows database administrators and/or programmers to create database structures and deploy them into an existing database. The tool allows creation of diagrams to identify basic...
- FROG, a driverless carDriverless carAn autonomous car, also known as robotic or informally as driverless, is an autonomous vehicle capable of fulfilling the human transportation capabilities of a traditional car. As an autonomous vehicle, it is capable of sensing its environment and navigating on its own...
system from the Netherlands