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proper noun
- (biblical character) Fifth son of Jacob, by his wife's handmaid Bilhah.
- (biblical) One of the Israelite tribes, descended from Dan.
- (given name, male, from Hebrew, )
- (given name, male), diminutive of Daniel
- A surname.
noun
- A small backpack, suitable for a one-day hike or for schlepping books around campus.
noun
- The action of defending or protecting from attack, danger, or injury.
- Anything employed to oppose attack(s).
- An argument in support or justification of something.
noun
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(in hockey) A move intended to deceive the opponent.
verb ( dek, ing)
- (Canadian English) To avoid, go around, or dodge an object, person, or conversation topic; often by using trickery.
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(in hockey) To execute a .
noun
- (baseball) a batter who is permitted to substitute for a pitcher in the batting rotation in Major League Baseball's American League
- (colloquial) a person who is asked to substitute for another in handling a portion of a task for which the other is less capable
noun
- (form of, one of the two plurals, die
- Noun, die
)
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1972, (translation), Einstein: The Life and Times, Avon Books
- : I, at any rate, am convinced that He does not throw .
- 1926 December 12, Albert Einstein, letter to Max Born
- : Jedenfalls bin ich í¼berzeugt, dass der Alte nicht wí¼rfelt.
- (colloquial) An alternative singular of die when the plural is .
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1980, Benny Andersson and Bjí¶rn Ulvaeus, "The Winner Takes It All", Super Trouper, Polar Music
- : The gods may throw a / Their minds as cold as ice
verb ( dic, ing)
- (transitive) To cut into small cubes.
noun
- (soccer) a free kick from which a goal may be scored directly
verb to dislocate ( dislocates dislocated dislocating)
- to put something out of its usual place
- (medicine) to (accidentally) dislodge a skeletal bone from its joint
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- Bill dislocated his shoulder in the fall.
noun
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(gymnastics): The part of a routine in which the gymnast detaches from an apparatus.
- A stylish routine, let down by a sloppy .
verb
- (transitive) to get off of (something)
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She carefully dismounted from the horse.
- (computing): (transitive) to make a hard drive unavailable for use
- The VMS operator tried to the unix hard drive with the <tt>DISMOUNT DISK$NFSMOUNT</tt> command, instead of <tt>umount /mnt/nfshome</tt>.
noun
- A training facility for martial arts, usually led by one or more sensei.
noun
- (basketball) A violation committed by dribbling for a second time without giving up possession of the ball.
noun
- A discipline of alpine skiing, involving the rapid descent of a hill
- The rapid descent of a hill in related sports
adjective ( further downhill, furthest downhill)
- located down a slope or hill
- going down a slope or a hill
- (context, by extension) easy
adverb
- Going down a slope
- Because we got to the summit of the mountain, we could only go downhill from there
noun
- The act of dunking, particularly in basketball.
- The point guard threaded a pass with pinpoint precision to the power forward for an easy dunk.
verb
- To submerge briefly in a liquid.
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I like to dunk my donut in my coffee.
- To set down carelessly.
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Parents shouldn't just dunk their kids in front of the TV.
- (basketball) (also intransitive) To put the ball directly downward through the hoop.
- The center spun quickly and dunked the ball with authority.
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