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beginning with letter D
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dag
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noun
  1. A skewer
  2. A sharpened stick, used for roasting food over a fire. Compare dogwood, formerly dagwood
  3. A long pointed strip of cloth at the edge of a piece of clothing
  4. One of a row of decorative strips of cloth, ornamenting a tent, booth, or fairground
= verb (dag, g, ed)
  1. (transitive) To skewer food, for roasting over a fire
  2. (transitive) To cut or slash the edge of a garment into dags
dam
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noun
  1. structure placed across a flowing body of water to stop the flow
verb (dams, damming, dammed)
  1. To block the flow of water.
decagram
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noun (plural: decagrams)
  1. A metric measurement that weighs 10 grams. Its symbol is dag. It is uncommonly used.
  2. A ten pointed star.
decaliter
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noun
  1. ten liters
decameter
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noun
  1. (American, sometimes International): A distance of 10 meters
  • Translations
  • British English, British and Canadian English, sometimes Int'l: decametre Abbreviation form (symbol): dam
deciliter
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noun
degree
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noun
  1. (geometry) A unit of measurement of angle equal to 1/360 of a circle's circumference.
  2. (physics) A unit of measurement of temperature on any of several scales, such as Celsius or Fahrenheit.
  3. Any of various units used to express specific gravity, bitterness, darkness, etc. in manufacturing various commodities.
  4. The amount that an entity possesses a certain property; proportion or extent.
To what degree do the two accounts of the accident concur?
  1. An award (generally superior to a diploma but inferior to a doctorate) bestowed by a university or, in some countries, a college, as an indication of academic achievement or occasionally bestowed to honor its recipient.
  2. (graph theory) The number of edge, edges that a vertex takes part in.
  3. (mathematics) The sum of the exponents of a term; or, in the context of a polynomial, the highest degree of all its terms.
depth
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noun
  1. The vertical distance below a surface; the amount that something is deep.
Measure the of the water in this part of the bay.
  1. The distance between the front and the back, as the depth of a drawer or closet.
  2. (context, figurative) The intensity, complexity, strength, seriousness or importance of an emotion, or situation.
The of her misery was apparent to everyone.
The of the crisis had been exaggerated.
  1. (context, computing, colors) The total palette of available colors.
  2. (context, art, photography) The property of appearing three-dimensional.
The of field in this picture is amazing.
dessiatine
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noun
  1. a Russian measure of land, roughly 1.1 hectares
dg
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abbreviation
  1. decigram
digit
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noun
  1. A finger or toe.
  2. (arithmetic) A numeral that can be combined with others to write larger numbers, and that cannot itself be split into other numerals.
The digits of the decimal number system are 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 and 9, and those in the hexadecimal number system are those in the decimal system along with A, B, C, D, E and F.
The number 2307 has four digits: the thousands digit is 2; the hundreds digit is 3; the tens digit is 0; and the units digit is 7.
  1. (context, slang, UK, in plural) One's phone number.
That girl likes me — she gave me her digits.
dimension
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noun
  1. A single aspect of a given thing.
  2. A measure of spatial extent in a particular direction, such as height, width or breadth, or depth.
  3. A construct whereby objects or individuals can be distinguished.
  4. (geometry) Any of the independent coordinates used to specify uniquely the location of a point in a space.
  5. (linear algebra) The number of elements of any basis of a vector space.
  6. (physics) One of the physical property regarded as a fundamental measure of a physical quantity, such as mass, length and time.
The dimensions of velocity are length divided by time.
  1. (computing) Any of the independent ranges of index, indices in a multidimensional array.
  2. (science fiction) An alternative universe or plane of existence.
verb
  1. (transitive) To mark, cut or shape something to specified dimensions.
divide
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noun
  1. A thing that divides.
Stay on your side of the , please.
  1. An act of dividing.
The left most of the good land on my share of the property.
  1. A distancing between two people or things.
There is a great between us.
divider
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noun
  1. An object that separates.
  2. A device resembling a drawing compass and used to transfer measurements of length.
  3. (context, British, US) The median of a highway or other road where traffic in opposite directions are kept separated.
  4. A person who separates or classifies.
DL
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initialism (wikipedia, Driver's license)
(wikipedia, Disabled list)
  1. Driver's license
  2. Disabled list, in baseball
  3. (context, sexuality) down low, Down Low
DM
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abbreviation
  1. (pharmaceutical drug) dextromethorphan
  2. The Deutsche Mark, former German currency now replaced by the Euro.
Note: DM was commonly used, but the official banking code was DEM.
  1. (italbrac, role playing) Dungeon Master
drachm
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noun
  1. (obsolete) A unit of weight in the apothecaries' weight system of measure.
(UK & US) 1/8 ounce apoth.
(UK & US) 3.89 gram.
  1. A denomination of coinage in ancient Greece.
drachma
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noun (drachmae or drachmas)
  1. The currency of Greece from ancient times until 2001, with the symbol ₯, since replaced by the euro.
DRAM
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initialism
  1. dynamic random-access memory
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