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delimit.also
delimitate,
delimited,
delimiting,
delimits.transitive
verbs
to fix or define
the limits of
delimitation.noun
to establish the limits or boundaries
of; demarcate
delimitative.adjective
delineate,
delineated,
delineating,
delineates.transitive
verbs
describe;
represent;
whatever you choose in life shows forth what you are in your heart; if
you delineate a border,
you say exactly where it is going to be; to make the borders between two
areas very clear (the boundaries of the construction area was clearly delineated;
the document delineates your rights
and your obligations); to separate;
to divide to draw or trace
the outline
of; sketch
out; to represent pictorially;
depict;
to depict
in words or gestures;
dichotomize
(why does the grass on the other side of the fence look different in texture
and health?)
delineation.noun.plural.delineations
delineator.noun.plural.delineator
delineative.adjective
delude,
deluded,
deluding,
deludes.transitive
verbs
to fool someone so completely, that he accepts
what is false as true; to mislead,
to be mislead; beguiled;
deceived;
to deceive the mind or judgment of (fraudulent
ads that delude consumers into sending in money)
delusive.adjective
tending
to delude; misleading;
having the nature
of a delusion; false (a delusive faith in 'wonder drugs' such as Thalidomide
and Vioxx)
delusively, deludingly.adverbs
deluder.noun.plural.deluders
delusiveness.noun.plural.delusivenesses
delusory.adjective
tending
to deceive;
delusive; misleading
delusion.noun.plural.delusions
the act
or process
of deluding; the state
of being deluded; a false belief
or opinion
(labored under the delusion that evolution was not a fraud);
a false belief strongly held in
spite of.invalidating.evidence,
especially as a symptom of mental
illness (delusions of persecution)
delusional.adjective
delve,
delved,
delving,
delves.intransitive
verbs
to search deeply and laboriously
(delved into the court records)
delver.noun.plural.delver
demeanor.noun,.plural.demeanors
outward behavior;
conduct;
bearing;
the way in which a person behaves; deportment;
to humble oneself
demean, demeaned,
demeaning,
demeans.transitive
verbs
to conduct or behave oneself in a particular.manner.(demeaned
themselves well in a group)
demean, demeaned,
demeaning,
demeans.transitive
verbs
to lower in status
or character; degrade;
to debase, as in dignity
or social.standing
(professionals who feel demeaned by unskilled
work; people of the dark side
out to sabotage the good
and honest.reputations
of others)
demeaningly.adverb
demise.noun,.plural.demises
to dismiss;
to put away; decease, death; the demise of something or someone is their
end
demise, demised,
demising,
demises.verbs
transitive verb use.in
law,
demise means to transfer an estate by will or lease or to transfer sovereignty
by abdication or will
intransitive verb use.in
law,
to be transferred by will or descent:
to die; from Middle
English 'transfer of property' and from
Old
French 'dimis' past
participle of 'demettre' meaning to release
demisable.adjective
demographics.noun.(used
with a.plural.verb)
the characteristics
of human populations and population segments,
especially when used to identify consumer markets (the demographics of
the Southwest indicate a growing population of older consumers)
demographic
also
demographical.adjective
of or relating to demography
demographically.adverb
demography.noun
the study of the characteristics of human populations,
such as size, growth, density, distribution and vital
statistics
demographer.noun,.plural.demographers
one who works with demographic statistics and
trends
demure,
demurer,
demurest.adjectives
modest
at heart;
sedate; shy
demurely.adverb
demureness.noun.(words
ending in 'ess'
are usually without pluralization - adding an 'es'
making '...esses'
is clumsy)
demiurge.noun,.plural.demiurges.(pronounced
dem e urge)
the Holy Spirit;
a powerful creative force or personality
demiurgeous or demiurgic
or demiurgical.adjective
demiurgically.adverb
dendrite.noun,.plural.dendrites
welcome to English,
also spelt.dendron,
dendrons.(go
figure) and more examples
a dendrite is a branched protoplasmic
extension of a nerve cell that conducts
electrical (electrochemical)
impulses inward toward the cell body; a single nerve may possess many dendrites,
in this sense also called dendron) which is a neuron.(impulse
conducting cells that constitute
the brain, spinal column and nerves, consisting of a nucleated
cell body with one or more dendrites and a single axon;
an integral.component
of the synaptic process; dendrochronology
denounce,
denounced,
denouncing,
denounces.transitive
verbs
to condemn
someone as being reprehensible,
guilty, evil or has other traits
that keep others at
bay;
criticize; to
accuse formally; to give formal announcement
of the ending of a treaty
denouncement.noun,.plural.denouncements
denouncer.noun,.plural.denouncers
denunciation.noun,.plural.denunciations
the act or an instance of denouncing;
a personal or public condemnation
or censure
(people who get depressed are often self-censuring)
denunciative or denunciatory.adjective
density.noun,.plural.densities
thick; compact; crowded; the density we all have,
along with the other bodies.(when
it speaks of 3rd density body, 4th density, 5th density and on up, it's
referring to spiritual knowledge which with experience becomes denser as
one grows into higher and higher
densities:.Ephesians
4:20; 2Peter 3:18.and
this occurs through contemplation
of whatever spiritual thoughts you may now have, for example, 'I love God',
the words 'kindness, compassion, helfulness', the words 'Holy Spirit, Christ,
God the Father of all love', that sort of thing
dense, denser,
densest.adjectives
spiritual density has various
levels (thoughts not spread out widely but higher
conscious thoughts having relatively high density,
leave little to no room for frivolous
thoughts:.1John
4:1-3); crowded closely together; compact (a dense jungle); hard to
penetrate;
thick; permitting little light
to pass through, because of compactness of matter where particles are close
together (dense glass; a dense fog); also compare
dimensions,
how is this different to density?.if
something is dense it can be opaque,
with good
contrast between light
and dark areas; difficult to comprehend because of complexity
or obscurity (a dense novel requires
more effort to apprehend mentally;
thickheaded and stupid apply to the brainwashed
who can't analyze and think, one
reason why; ask God to help you think
and analyze; always talk to
God about everything you may feel you need to)
densely.adverb
denseness.noun,.plural.densenesses
disfranchise,
disfranchised,
disfranchising,
disfranchises.transitive
verbs
also disenfranchise means same; to
deprive
of a right (was not allowed to vote); deprived of a privilege or an immunity
disfranchisement.noun,.plural.disfranchisements
disfranchiser.noun,.plural.disfranchisers
deny,
denied,
denying,
denies.transitive
verbs
to separate
from something, such as in this scripture:.Matthew
16:24; to restrain
oneself from gratification
of desires
that may corrupt
oneself and/or lead one astray;
to reject;
to refuse
to accept
the effect,
existence, truth or validity
of something; to declare
untrue; to refuse
to accept
as true
or valid; to disclaim
connection with or responsibility
for; disavow;
to give a negative
answer to; to refuse to grant;
to
gainsay; to contradict;
to
contravene
denyingly.adverb
deny implies
a firm refusal to accept as true, to grant or concede
or to acknowledge the existence or claims of (denied the charges)
deniable.adjective
possible to contradict
or declare untrue (deniable accusations); being such that plausible
disavowal or disclaimer is possible (the covert
action was deniable)
deniably.adverb
deniability.noun,.plural.deniabilities
denial.noun,.plural.denials
avoiding a state of denial is believing things
will improve if we do something and the main
thing to do involves oneself;
denial is also a refusal
to comply
with or satisfy
an unreasonable
or reasonable
request; a refusal to accept
or believe something, such as a doctrine
or belief
Psychology:.an
unconscious defense mechanism characterized
by refusal to acknowledge painful realities,
thoughts or feelings; the act
of disowning
or disavowing;
repudiation;
abstinence;
self-denial
dominion.noun,.plural.dominions
a dominion is an area of land in which slaves,
the dominated.minions,
reside under those controlling them, while they stupidly think they are
in freeness and this because
they have been brainwashed
(the previously, but no more, dominated
minions in India and elsewhere by the British
Empire); an area of control (the land a controlling government uses)
or under the exercise of control and authority;
a territory or sphere of influence
or control
deoxyribose.noun,.plural.deoxyribose
a pentose sugar (a sugar with 5 carbon atoms),
a derivative of ribose
and a part of nucleotides
depict,
depicture, depicted, depicting,
depicts.transitive
verbs
to picture in words; to show to be as we see it
(so-called modern art elicits.different.perceptions.for.consideration);
to depict someone or something means to describe
them or give an impression
of them in writing (children's books often depict farmyard animals as gentle,
lovable creatures);
to represent
in writing, pictures or sculpture
depiction.noun,.plural.depictions
a depicting or being depicted; description
divert,
diverted,
diverting,
diverts.verbs
transitive verb use.to
turn aside from a course or direction (traffic was diverted around the
parade); to distract (his attention
was diverted by the parade; diverted attention
for awhile by taking in some entertainment)
intransitive verb use.to
turn aside
divertingly.adverb
diverter.noun,.plural.diverters
Sir
Arthur Conan Doyle, 1859-1930
British writer known chiefly for a series of stories
featuring the brilliant detective Sherlock Holmes, including The Hound
of the Baskervilles, 1902. He also had comments
on the evolutionary theory
diversion.noun,.plural.diversions
the act or an instance of diverting
or turning aside; deviation;
something that distracts
the mind and relaxes
or entertains; a maneuver
that draws the attention of an opponent
away from a planned point of action
diversionary.adjective
deportment.noun,.plural.deportments
the manner in which one conducts oneself; behavior;
(deportment suggests actions or behavior as formed by breeding or training)
synonym-bearing
depose,
deposed,
deposing,
deposes.verbs
transitive verb use.to
remove from office or power; to dethrone; if a
ruler or political leader is deposed, they are forced to give up their
position; to put or lay down; to deposit;
in law, to state
or affirm
in a deposition or by affidavit;
to take a deposition from (investigators will be deposing witnesses and
taking depositions from all those involved)
intransitive verb use.in
law, to give a deposition; testify
deposable.adjective
deposition.noun,.plural.depositions
the act of deposing, as
from high office; the removal of Emmanuel
from the cross; also, the act of depositing,
especially the laying down of matter
by a natural process
(the Nile river in Egypt has its annualdeposition,
overflowing its banks and enriching
the soil surrounding it once
again); something deposited;
a deposit; in law,
testimony
under oath
that is written down or recorded for use in court at a later date
depositional.adjective
disgust,
disgusted,
disgusting,
disgusts.transitive
verbs
to excite nausea
or loathing in; sicken; to offend
the taste or moral sense of (he was disgusted to see such awful living
conditions); repel
disgustingly.adverb
disgust.noun,.plural.disgusts
profound aversion
or
repugnance excited by something
offensive
duress.noun.(normally
used without being pluralized)
constraint
by threat; coercion.(confessed
under duress to what he was not responsible for doing)
Law:.coercion
illegally applied; forcible.confinement
dispel,
dispelled,
dispelling,
dispels.transitive
verbs
to rid one's mind of (managed to dispel my doubts);
to drive away or off by or as if by scattering; scatter
duration.noun,.plural.durations
continuance or persistence in time; a period of
existence or persistence (sat quietly through the duration of the speech)
discipline, disciplined,
disciplining,
disciplines.transitive
verbs
to train oneself or to learn from another of greater
skill (discipline is making oneself do what he or she should do but doesn't
want to at the
time); by instruction and practice, especially to teach self-control
to; teach (taught the kids homeschooling);
discipline, discipline, discipline as you would be trained in
martial arts as gene Decode was and/or any of the world's Alliance
Special Forces are
discipline.noun,.plural.disciplines
a branch of knowledge or teaching; a set of guidelines,
as those regulating the practice of a church or monastic order; training
expected to produce a specific character or pattern of behavior, especially
training that produces moral or mental improvement; behavior that one is
able to control as a result of self discipline; self-control
disciplinal.adjective
discipliner.noun,.plural.discipliners
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