dichotomize,
dichotomized,
dichotomizing,
dichotomizes.verbs
transitive
verb use.to separate into two parts
or classifications
intransitive
verb use.to be or become divided into
parts or branches; fork; delineate
dichotomist.noun
dichotomization.noun
dexterous also dextrous.adjective
skillful in the use of the hands; having mental
skill or adroitness; done with
dexterity
dexterously.adverb
dexterousness.noun
dexterity.noun
skill and grace in physical movement, especially
in the use of the hands; adroitness;
mental skill or adroitness; cleverness
Dostoyevsky.or.Dostoevsky.or.Dostoevski,
Feodor
Mikhailovich 1821-1881
Russian writer whose works combine religious mysticism
with profound.psychological.insight.
His four great novels are Crime and Punishment 1866, The Idiot
1868-1869, The Possessed 1871 and The Brothers Karamazov
1879-1880.
declare,
declared,
declaring,
declares.verbs
transitive verb use.to
make known by whatever means; to awaken one to; announce;
to state.emphatically;
affirm;
to reveal or make manifest; to;
to tell; preach; show; to herald;
publish; to make a full statement
of (dutiable goods, for example); in games, to designate (a trump suit
or no trump) with the final bid of a hand in the game of bridge
intransitive verb use.to
make a declaration; to proclaim
one's support, choice, opinion or resolution;
assert;
to state one's intent; to make clear
declarable.adjective
declarer.noun,.plural.declarers
declaration.noun,.plural.declarations
an explicit,
formal.announcement,
either oral or written; the act
or process
of declaring; a statement
of taxable goods or of properties subject to duty
Law: formal statement
by a plaintiff
specifying the facts and circumstances.constituting
his or her cause
of action; an unsworn statement of facts
that is admissible
as evidence
Declaration of Independence.American
History
the
fundamental document establishing the United States as a nation, adopted
on July 4, 1776. The declaration was ordered and approved by the Continental
Congress and written largely by Thomas
Jefferson. It declared the Thirteen Colonies represented in the Continental
Congress independent from Great Britain, offered reasons for the separation
and laid out the principles for which the Revolutionary War was fought.
The signers included John
Adams, Benjamin
Franklin, John Hancock and Thomas Jefferson.
The Declaration
of Independence was adopted in final form on July 4, 1776. It can be divided
into three parts: a statement of principle
concerning the rights of man and the legitimacy
of revolution, a list of specific grievances against England's King George
III and a formal claim of independence.
The declaration begins (capitalization
and punctuation are modernized): When, in
the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve
the political bands which have connected them with another and to assume,
among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which
the
laws of nature and of nature's God entitle them,
a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare
the causes which impel them to the separation. We
hold these truths to be
self-evident: that all men are created
equal; that they are endowed by their creator with certain unalienable.rights;
that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness; that,
to secure these rights, governments
are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of
the governed; that whenever any form of government becomes destructive
of these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it
and to institute new government, laying its foundation on such principles
and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely
to effect their safety and happiness."
The day of the adoption of the Declaration of Independence
is now commemorated as the Fourth day of July or Independence Day
dissect,
dissected,
dissecting,
dissects.transitive
verbs
to cut apart or separate tissue,
especially for anatomical
study; to examine, analyze or criticize.in
minute
detail (dissected the plan afterward to learn why it had failed)
dissectible.adjective
dissector.noun,.plural.dissectors
dissected.adjective
Botany:.divided
into many deep, narrow segments
(dissected leaves)
dissection.noun,.plural.dissections
a detailed examination or analysis; the act or
an instance of dissecting; something that has
been dissected, such as a tissue specimen
under study
distrust.noun
lack of trust or confidence
distrust, distrusted,
distrusting,
distrusts.transitive
verbs
to have no confidence in
distrustful.adjective
feeling or showing doubt
distrustfully.adverb
distrustfulness.noun
dandle,
dandled,
dandling,
dandles.transitive
verbs
to move a small child up and down on the knees
or in the arms in a playful way; to pamper or pet
dandle,
dandler.nouns
demonstrate, demonstrated,
demonstrating,
demonstrates.verbs
transitive verb use.to
show clearly and deliberately;
manifest
(demonstrated her skill as a gymnast; demonstrate affection by hugging);
to show to be true
by reasoning
or adducing.evidence;
prove (demonstrate a proposition;
the salesperson plugged in and demonstrated the vacuum cleaner)
intransitive verb use.to
give a demonstration (described the dance step, then took a partner and
demonstrated); to participate in a public display of opinion (demonstrated
for clean energy)
demonstrative.adjective
serving
to manifest
or prove; involving
or characterized
by demonstration; given to or marked
by the open expression of emotion (an affectionate and demonstrative family)
demonstrable.adjective
capable
of being demonstrated or proved
(the demonstrable truths of the existence of
God); obvious
or apparent
(it is demonstrable to the open-minded and apparent to those who may come
across it)
demonstrability.or.demonstrableness.noun
demonstrably.adverb
demonstrative.noun
demonstratively.adverb
demonstrativeness.noun
demonstration.noun,.plural.demonstrations
the act of showing or making evident;
an illustration or explanation,
as of a theory or product, by exemplification
or practical application; a manifestation, as of one's feelings; a public
display of group opinion,
as by a rally or march
(peace demonstrations)
Grammar:.specifying
or singling out the person
or thing referred
to (the demonstrative pronouns 'these', 'this' and 'that')
demon.noun,.plural.demons
an evil.supernatural.being;
a devil; a persistently.tormentingentity,
force
or passion
(the demon of or behind various addictions);
also daemon or daimon
demoniac, also demoniacal.adjective
possessed, produced or influenced by a demon (demoniac
creatures)
demoniacally.adverb
distress,
distressed,
distressing,
distresses.transitive
verbs
to cause strain, anxiety
or suffering to; trouble; worry
distress.noun,.plural.distresses
anxiety or mental suffering; severe strain resulting
from exhaustion or an accident; acute
physical discomfort; the condition of being in need of immediate assistance
(a motorist in distress; she was under many distresses, what with her divorce
and caring for her children)
distressingly.adverb
distressful.adjective
causing or experiencing distress
distressfully.adverb
distressfulness.noun
dog.noun,.plural.dogs
a dog is a very common four-legged domesticated.carnivorous.animal
related to the foxes and wolves and raised in a wide variety
of breeds,
that is often kept by people as a pet or to guard or hunt; there are many
different breeds of dog; you use dog to refer
to a male dog or to the male of some related.species
such as wolves or foxes (is this a dog or a bitch?);
if problems or injuries dog you, they are with you all the time; if someone
calls someone a dog, they strongly disapprove of him; people use 'dog'
to refer to something that they consider unsatisfactory or of poor quality
(the used vehicle proved to be a dog, always in the garage to fix something
or other); a person regarded as unattractive or uninteresting; a person
regarded as contemptible;
a hopelessly inferior product or creation (the words were ok but the presentation
he gave was a dog); a person (you won, you lucky dog)
dog.adverb
totally; completely (she's dog-tired today after
the late night party)
dog, dogged,
dogging,
dogs.transitive
verbs
to track or trail persistently
(her life was dogged with negatives
until she found the answer); if you describe someone's actions as dogged,
you mean that they are determined to continue with something even if it
becomes difficult or dangerous (they have gained respect through sheer
dogged determination);
resolute;
persistent
dogged.adjective
stubbornly.persevering;
tenacious;
obstinate
doggedly.adverb
doggedness.noun
(most of his accomplishments came as the result
of sheer doggedness; she would fight doggedly for her rights as the children's
mother)
put on the dog
to make an ostentatious
display of elegance, wealth or culture (he was putting 'on the dog' at
the wedding party)
defraud, defrauded,
defrauding,
defrauds.transitive
verbs
to take something from by fraud;
swindle.(corrupt
governments.defraud
citizens by evading.the
truth about resources people own by birthright)
defraudation.noun,.plural.defraudations
defrauder.noun,.plural.defrauders
drama.noun,.plural.dramas
a prose
or verse.composition
telling a serious story, that is intended
for representation by actors impersonating the characters and performing
the dialogue
and action
dramatic.adjective
characterized
by or expressive of the action or emotion associated with drama
or the theatre (a dramatic rescue at sea); of or relating to drama or the
theater; arresting or forceful in appearance or effect (a dramatic sunset)
dramatically.adverb
dialog.or.dialogue.noun,.plural.dialogs.or.dialogues
a conversation
between two or more people; conversation between
characters in a drama or narrative;
a literary work written in the
form of a conversation (the dialogues of Plato)
dialog, dialoged,
dialoging,
dialogs.verbs
transitive verb use.to
express as or in a dialog
intransitive verb use.to
converse in a dialog
dialoger.noun,.plural.dialogers
Devanagari.noun
the alphabet in which Sanskrit
and many modern Indian languages are written
deed.noun,.plural.deeds
something
that is carried
out; an act or action
having some planing to it; action or performance in general (deeds, not
words, matter
most)
Law:.a
document.sealed
as an instrument
of bond,
contract
or conveyance, especially relating
to property
deed, deeded,
deeding,
deeds.transitive
verbs
to transfer.by
means of a deed (deeded the property to the children in his will)
difficult.adjective
hard to do or accomplish; demanding considerable
effort or skill; arduous;
hard to endure;
trying
(fell upon difficult times); hard to comprehend
or solve (a difficult puzzle); hard to please, satisfy, or manage (a difficult
situation with two bosses having different ways to manage the office);
hard to persuade
or convince;
stubborn
difficultly.adverb
difficulty.noun,.plural.difficulties
the condition or quality of being difficult (the
difficulty of a task); something not easily done, accomplished, comprehended
or solved (I'm having difficulty comprehending this math problem); a struggle;
trouble (had difficulty walking against the strong wind; completed the
test with difficulty); a disagreement or dispute; reluctance
or an objection;
unwillingness
disburse, disbursed,
disbursing,
disburses.transitive
verbs
to pay out, as from a fund; expend;
to spend
disbursable.adjective
disburser.noun,.plural.disbursers
disbursement.noun,.plural.disbursements
the act or process of disbursing; money paid out;
expenditure
double agent.noun,.plural.double
agents
a person pretending
to work as a spy for one corporation
or government while actually working as a spy for another corporation or
government
double.adjective
twice as much in size, strength,
number or amount (a double dose); composed
of two like parts (double doors); composed of two unlike parts; dual (a
double meaning; a double role
for an actor); accommodating
or designed for two (a double bed; a double room); characterized
by duplicity; deceitful
(speak with a double tongue)
double.noun,.plural.doubles
something
increased twofold; one that closely
resembles another; a duplicate;
an actor who takes the place of another actor in scenes requiring special
skills or preparations (a stunt double; a body double)
double,
doubled,
doubling,
doubles.verbs
transitive verb use.to
make twice as great; to be twice as much as; to fold
in two
intransitive verb use.to
be increased twofold; to turn sharply or all the way around; reverse
one's course (had to double back to home to get his wallet); to serve in
an additional capacity (a frying pan that doubles as a pie tin; a conductor
who doubles as a pianist); to replace an actor in the actor's absence or
in a certain scene
double.adverb
to up the amount by two
times twice the amount or extent; two together; in pairs (sleeping double)
double up.phrasal
verb
to bend.suddenly,
as in laughter; to share accommodations
meant for one person
on the double.idiom
immediately
doubleness.noun
doubly.adverb
to a double degree;
twice (painted the house two times to make it doubly protected); made doubly
certain; in a twofold manner
decibel.noun,.plural.decibels
dB; a decibel is a unit
of measurement which is used to indicate how loud a sound is; continuous
exposure to sound above 80 decibels could be harmful; a decibel is a unit
used to express relative difference
in power or intensity, usually
between two acoustic or electric
signals, equal to ten times the common logarithm
of the ratio of the two levels, for
example a one decibel increase to 2 decibels has 10 times {dec = 10 and
Bel is sound measurement named after Alexander Graham Bell} the loudness
and so on; the amazing design of the ear
accomodates the loudness perfectly for all sounds encountered normally
in life