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adjective - Invulnerable to fear or intimidation.
| | dawn patrol |
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noun
- (surfing) The act of going out for a surf at dawn, or surfers who do that.
| | D-Day |
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noun - (historical) June 6th, 1944, the date during World War II when the allies invaded western Europe.
- (figuratively) The date of any major event planned for the future.
| | deactivate |
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verb (deactivat, es)
- (ergative) to make something inactive or no longer effective
- to prevent the action of a biochemical agent (such as an enzyme)
- to remove a person or piece of hardware from active military service
| | debouch |
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verb (debouch, es)
- To pour forth from a narrow opening.
- 1985, the pretty pimpled young man, no longer a boy, came down from the imperial box in his purple to the performers" well which debouched into the arena. " Anthony Burgess, Kingdom of the Wicked
- 1993, Ungrateful brats from their cheap holiday in someone else"s misery and their tired parents try desperately to summon up joy out of indifference. " Will Self, My Idea of Fun
- 1997, the water rushes away in uncommonly long waterfalls, downward for hours, unbrak"d, till at last debouching into an interior Lake of great size " Thomas Pynchon, Mason & Dixon
| | DefCon |
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abbreviation - (US military) Defense Condition
| | defer |
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verb (defer, r, ing)
- To delay, or postpone, especially to postpone induction into military service.
- To submit to the opinion or desire of another in respect to their judgement or authority.
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adjective
- Of or pertaining to delay of an action.
- Examples : "requested a deferred payment"; "our postponed trip"
- Of or pertaining to deferment to someone else's decision or judgment.
| | deflection |
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noun
- The act of deflecting or something deflected.
- The deviation of a needle or other indicator from its previous position.
| | delta |
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noun
- The name for the fourth letter of the modern Greek alphabet �, δ.
- A landform at the mouth of a river where it empties into a body of water. w:River delta, Wikipedia has a detailed description.
- (phonetics) δ In the International Phonetic Alphabet, IPA, the symbol that represents the voiced dental fricative, the hard th in the English word father. Usu. represented by the Icelandic eth, eth/edh (í°).
- (mathematics) A change in some quantity.
- (context, computing, colloquial) A small but noticeable effect, compare with epsilon.
- This will slow the main code path down, but only by .
- (context, computing) The set of differences between two versions of a file.
- When you update the file, the system will only save the deltas.
- (context, surveying) The angle subtended at the center of a circular arc.
- The letter D in the ICAO spelling alphabet, which assigns words to letters of the alphabet.
| | demobilize |
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verb (demobiliz, ing)
- To release someone from military duty, especially after a war.
- To disband troops, or remove them from a war footing.
| | demolition |
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noun
- the action of demolishing or destroying, in particular of buildings or other structures
| | demonstrate |
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verb (demonstrat, ing)
- To display the method of using an object.
- To show the steps taken to create a logical argument or equation.
- To participate in or organize a demonstration.
| | demonstration |
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noun
- The act of demonstrate, demonstrating; showing or explaining something.
- An event at which something will be demonstrated.
- A public display of group opinion.
| | department |
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noun
- A part, portion, or subdivision.
- A distinct course of life, action, study, or the like; appointed sphere or walk; province.
- Superior to Pope in Pope's own peculiar of literature. Macaulay.
- Subdivision of business or official duty; especially, one of the principal divisions of executive government; as, the treasury department; the war department; also, in a university, one of the divisions of instructions; as, the medical department; the department of physics.
- A territorial division; a district; esp., in France, one of the districts composed of several arrondissements into which the country is divided for governmental purposes; as, the Department of the Loire.
- A military subdivision of a country; as, the Department of the Potomac.
- (obsolete) Act of departing; departure.
- Sudden departments from one extreme to another. Wotton.
| | deploy |
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verb
- (transitive) To prepare and arrange (usu. military unit or units) for use.
- The word has roots as a military term, used to describe the placement of equipment and troops in a battlefield.
- "Deploy two units of infantry along the enemy's flank," the general ordered.
- (intransitive) To unfold, open, or otherwise become ready for use.
- He waited tensely for his parachute to deploy.
- (computing) to install, test and implement a computer system or application. The term can be used to refer to any installation and testing, such as setting up a new network in an enterprise, to installing a server farm, to implementing a new application over a distributed computing network. http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/D/deploy.html
- The process for the deployment scenario includes: building a master installation of the operating system, creating it's image and deploying the image onto a destination computer.
| | depth charge |
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noun
- A form of bomb that is designed to detonate at a certain depth underwater for the purposes of attacking a submerged enemy, especially a submarine.
| | desert |
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noun
- That which is considered to be deserved or merit, merited; a just punishment or reward (usually in plural).
verb
- To leave (anything that depends on one's presence to survive, exist, or succeed), especially when contrary to a promise or obligation; to abandon; to forsake.
- You can't just drive off and me here, in the middle of nowhere.
- To leave one's duty or post, especially to leave a military or naval unit without permission
- Anyone found deserting will be shot.
| | desertion |
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noun (Plural: desertions)
- The act of desert, deserting.
| | destroyer |
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noun
- someone or something who/which destroys something
- a small, fast warship with light armament
| | detach |
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verb (detach, es)
- to take apart from; to take off
| | detail |
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noun (countable and uncountable; plural details)
- (countable) Something small enough to escape casual notice.
- Note this fine detail in the lower left corner.
- We missed several important details in the contract.
- (uncountable) A profusion of details.
- This etching is full of fine detail
- Something considered trivial enough to ignore.
- I don't concern myself with the details of accounting
- (plural details) A person's name, address and other personal information.
- The arresting officer asked the suspect for his details.
- (military) a temporary unit
verb
- (transitive) to explain in detail
- I'll detail the exact procedure to you later.
- (transitive) (US (?)) to clean carefully (particularly a car)
- We need to have the minivan detailed.
- (transitive)(military) to assign to a particular task
| | dew |
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noun
- moisture in the air that settles on plants, etc in the morning, resulting in drops.
verb
- To wet with, or as if with, dew; to moisten.
| | director |
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noun
- One who directs; the person in charge of managing a department (e.g., director of engineering), project, or production (as in a show or film, e.g., film director).
- A device that displays graphical information concerning the targets of a weapons system in real time.
| | dirty |
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verb (dirt, i, ed)
- (transitive) To make (something) dirty.
- (transitive) To stain or tarnish (somebody) with dishonor.
- (transitive) To debase by distorting the real nature of (something).
- (intransitive) To become soiled.
adjective (dirt, ier)
- unclean, Unclean; covered with or containing unpleasant substances such as dirt or grime.
- Despite a walk in the rain, my shoes weren't too .
- That makes one unclean; corrupting, infecting.
- Don't put that in your mouth, dear, it's .
- Morally unclean; obscene or indecent, especially sexually.
- At the reception, Uncle Nick got drunk and told jokes to the bridesmaids.
- dishonourable, Dishonourable; violating accepted standards or rules.
- He might have scored, but it was a trick that won him the penalty.
- corrupt, Corrupt, illegal, or improper.
- I won't accept your money!
- (context, of color) Discolored by impurities.
- The old flag was a white.
- (computing) Containing data which need to be written back to a larger memory.
- Occasionally it reads the sector into a dirty buffer, which means it needs to sync the dirty buffer first.
- (computing) Containing data which need to be overwritten.
- (slang) Carrying illegal drugs.
- None of y'all get into my car if you're .
adverb
- In a dirty manner.
| | dirty bomb |
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noun
- A device containing conventional explosives and radioactive material, designed to spread radiation over a wide area.
- A nuclear bomb that speads radiation over a wide area due to inefficiency or design.
| | disarm |
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verb
- To deprive of arms; to take away the weapons of; to deprive of the means of attack or defense; to render defenseless.
- To deprive of the means or the disposition to harm; to render harmless or innocuous; as, to disarm a man's wrath.
| | discharge |
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noun
- (symptom) (uncountable) pus or exudate (other than blood) from a wound or orifice, usually due to infection or pathology
- the act of accomplishing (an obligation)
- the act of expelling or letting go
- (electricity) the act of releasing an accumulated charge
- (medicine) the act of releasing an inpatient from hospital
- (military) the act of releasing a member of the armed forces from service
- (hydrology) the discharge of a river is the volume of water transported by it in a certain amount of time, usually in units of m3/s (cubic meters per second)
verb (discharg, ing)
- to accomplish or complete, as an obligation
- to expel or let go
- (electricity) to release (an accumulated charge)
- (medicine) to release (an inpatient) from hospital
- (military) to release (a member of the armed forces) from service
- to operate (any weapon that fires a projectile, such as a shotgun or sling)
| | disengage |
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noun
- (fencing) A circular movement of the blade that avoids the opponent's parry
verb (disengag, es)
- To release or loosen from something that binds, holds, entangles, or interlocks; unfasten; detach; disentangle; free.
| | dispersion |
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noun
- The state of being dispersed; dispersedness.
- A process of dispersing.
- The degree of scatter of data.
- The separation of visible light by refraction or diffraction.
| | diversion |
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noun
| | DMZ |
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initialism
- demilitarized zone
| | dog biscuit |
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noun
- food for dogs, compressed into a small dry shape.
| | dogfight |
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noun
- A twisting turning battle between two or more military aircraft, especially between fighters.
- The two bi-planes swirled around each other like angry wasps in a violent .
- A fight between dogs.
| | doodlebug |
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noun - (informal),(British) the V-1 flying bomb
- A term of endearment.
| | double time |
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noun - (military) a fast marching pace of 180 forty-inch steps per minute, double the speed of quick time
- a rate of pay twice that of normal
| | double-time |
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verb (double-tim, ing)
- (intransitive) (military) to march at double time.
- (transitive) (military) to order troops to march at double time.
| | draft |
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noun
- an early version of a written work
- I have to revise the first draft of my term paper.
- a preliminary sketch, rough outline
- Depth of water needed to float ship also spelled draught.
- a current of air, usually coming into a room or vehicle also spelled draught.
- a cheque, an order for money to be paid
- an amount of liquid that is drunk in one swallow also spelled draught.
- She took a deep draught from the bottle of water.
- conscription, the system of forcing people to serve in the military
- He left the country to avoid the draft.
- (sports) a system of assigning rookie players to professional sports teams
adjective
- Referring to drinks on tap as opposed to bottled. (draft beers)
| | draftee |
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noun
- One who is drafted into a military service. Meaning a person who is taken into a draft and classifed as to military status. Induction is the process of activating a draftee or a volunteer .
- An inductee; a conscript.
| | dragon |
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noun
- A serpentine legendary creature
- (Western) A gigantic beast, typically reptilian with leathery bat-like wings, lion-like claws, scaly skin and a serpent-like tail, often with fiery breath.
- c.1900 " w:Edith Nesbit, Edith Nesbit, s:The Last of the Dragons, The Last of the Dragons
- :But as every well-brought-up prince was expected to kill a , and rescue a princess, the dragons grew fewer and fewer till it was often quite hard for a princess to find a dragon to be rescued from.
- (Eastern) A large snake-like lizard with the eyes of a hare, the horns of a stag, and the claws of a tiger
- 1913 " w:Sax Rohmer, Sax Rohmer, s:The Insidious Dr. Fu Manchu, The Insidious Dr. Fu Manchu, ch XIII
- :These tapestries were magnificently figured with golden dragons; and as the serpentine bodies gleamed and shimmered in the increasing radiance, each , I thought, intertwined its glittering coils more closely with those of another.
- A large reptile, especially a Komodo dragon.
- The constellation Draco.
- 1605 " w:William Shakespeare, William Shakespeare, s:The Tragedy of King Lear, King Lear, i 2
- :My father compounded with my mother vnder the Dragons taile, and my nativity was vnder Vrsa Maior.
- (pejorative) An unpleasant woman; a harridan.
- She"s a bit of a .
| | dragonfly |
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noun
- An insect of the suborder Anisoptera with four long transparent wings held perpendicular to a long body.
| | dragoon |
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noun
- (military) horse soldier; cavalryman, that use horses for mobility, but fight dismounted.
- A carrier of a dragon musket.
verb to dragoon
- to force someone into doing something; to coerce
| | Drake |
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proper noun
- A surname, notably of Sir Francis Drake (1540-1596).
- (given name, male), transferred use of the surname, or directly from the word drake.
| | dreadnought |
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noun
- a battleship in which most of the firepower is concentrated in large guns that are of the same caliber.
| | drift |
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noun
- The act or motion of drifting; the force which impels or drives; an overpowering influence or impulse.
- A place, also known as a ford, along a river where the water is shallow enough to permit oxen or sheep to be driven to the opposite side.
- Course or direction along which anything is driven; setting.
- The tendency of an act, argument, course of conduct, or the like; object aimed at or intended; intention; hence, also, import or meaning of a sentence or discourse; aim.
- That which is driven, forced, or urged along
- Anything driven at random.
- A mass of matter which has been driven or forced onward together in a body, or thrown together in a heap, etc., esp. by wind or water; as, a drift of snow, of ice, of sand, and the like.
- A drove or flock, as of cattle, sheep, birds.
- The horizontal thrust or pressure of an arch or vault upon the abutments.
- A collection of loose earth and rocks, or boulders, which have been distributed over large portions of the earth's surface, especially in latitudes north of forty degrees, by the agency of ice.
- In South Africa, a ford in a river.
- A slightly tapered tool of steel for enlarging or shaping a hole in metal, by being forced or driven into or through it; a broach.
- A tool used in driving down compactly the composition contained in a rocket, or like firework.
- A deviation from the line of fire, peculiar to oblong projectiles.
- A passage driven or cut between shaft and shaft; a driftway; a small subterranean gallery; an adit or tunnel.
- The distance through which a current flows in a given time.
- The angle which the line of a ship's motion makes with the meridian, in drifting.
- The distance to which a vessel is carried off from her desired course by the wind, currents, or other causes.
- The place in a deep-waisted vessel where the sheer is raised and the rail is cut off, and usually terminated with a scroll, or driftpiece.
- The distance between the two blocks of a tackle.
- The difference between the size of a bolt and the hole into which it is driven, or between the circumference of a hoop and that of the mast on which it is to be driven.
- A sideways movement of the ball through the air, when bowled by a spin bowler.
- Driftwood, driftwood included in flotsam washed up onto the beach.
- Driftless Area, Drift (see Wikipedia). The material left behind by the retreat of continenal glaciers. It buries former river valleys and creates young river valleys. The Diftless Area, a geographical area of North America, was unglaciated for the past 510 million years. Mass noun.
verb
- To move slowly, pushed by currents of water, air, etc
- The boat drifted away from the shore.
- The balloon was drifting in the breeze.
- To move haphazardly without any destination.
- ''He drifted from town to town, never settling down.
- To deviate gently from the intended direction of travel.
- ''This car tends to drift left at high speeds
| | drill |
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noun
- A tool used to remove material so as to create a hole, typically by plunging a rotating cutting bit into a stationary workpiece.
- Wear safety glasses when operating an electric drill.
- The portion of a drilling tool that drives the bit
- Use a drill with a wire brush to remove any rust or buildup.
- An activity done as an exercise or practice (especially a military exercise)
- Regular fire drills can ensure that everyone knows how to exit safely in an emergency.
- A strong, durable cotton fabric with a strong bias (diagonal) in the weave.
verb
- To create a hole by removing material with a drill (1)
- Drill a small hole to start the screw in the right direction.
- To practice, especially in a military context
- They drilled daily to learn the routine exactly.
- To repeat an idea frequently in order to encourage someone to remember it
- The instructor drilled into us the importance of reading the instructions.
- To investigate or examine something in more detail or at a different level
- Drill deeper and you may find the underlying assumptions faulty.
- (ergative) To cause one's subordinates to drill (2)
- The sergeant was up by 6:00 every morning, drilling his troops.
| | drive |
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noun
- A trip made in a motor vehicle
- It was a long .
- A driveway
- The mansion had a long, tree-lined .
- A motor that does not take fuel, but instead depends on a mechanism that stores potential energy for subsequent use:
- Some old model trains have clockwork drives.
- (computers) A mass-storage device; as, a disk drive, a DVD drive, a flash drive''
- Self-motivation; ability coupled with ambition:
- ''Crassus had wealth and wit, but Pompey had and Caesar as much again.
- (military) A sustained advance in the face of the enemy to take a strategic objective:
- Napoleon's on Moscow was as determined as it was disastrous.
- (golf) A stroke made with a driver
- (baseball) A ball struck in a flat trajectory (also called line drive)
- A type of public roadway.
- Beverly Hills" most famous street is Rodeo .
- (psychology) desire, Desire or interest.
- (cricket) A type of shot played by swinging the bat in a vertical arc, through the line of the ball, and hitting it along the ground, normally between cover and midwicket.
verb (drives, driving, drove, driven)
- (defn, English)
| | dry run |
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noun - (idiom) A practice; a rehearsal.
- They did a of the demonstration before showing it to the CEO.
| | duck |
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noun
- An aquatic bird of the family Anatidae, having a flat bill and webbed feet.
- Specifically, an adult female female duck; contrasted with drake and with duckling.
- The flesh of a duck used as food.
- (cricket) A batsman's score of zero after getting out. (short for duck's egg, since the digit "0" is round like an egg.)
- (UK, especially East of the Pennines) Dear, Mate (informal way of addressing a friend or stranger).
- Ay up duck, ow'a'tha?
- (slang) A playing card with the rank of two.
- A tightly-woven cotton fabric used as sailcloth.
- 1912, Katherine Mansfield, "The Woman At The Store", from "Selected Short Stories":
- He was dressed in a Jaeger vest"a pair of blue trousers, fastened round the waist with a plaited leather belt.
verb
- (intransitive) To lower the head in order to prevent it from being struck by something.
- (transitive) To lower (something) into water.
- (transitive) To lower (the head) in order to prevent it from being struck by something.
- (transitive) To try to evade doing something.
| | dud |
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noun (plural: duds)
- A broken or nonfunctional device that does not perform its intended function, such as a bomb.
- (obsolete) Clothes, now always used in plural form duds.
| | dumdum |
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noun
- A bullet, with a soft nose, that expands upon impact to cause a gaping wound
| | dummy |
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noun (dummies)
- A silent person; a person who does not talk.
- An unintelligent person.
- Don't be such a !
- A figure of a person or animal used by a ventriloquist.
- Something constructed with the size and form of a human, to be used in place of a person.
- To understand the effects of the accident, we dropped a from the rooftop.
- A deliberately nonfunctional device or tool used in place of a functional one.
- The hammer and drill in the display are dummies.
- (context, Australia, UK) A pacifier.
- The baby wants its .
- (bridge) The partner of the winning bidder, who shows his or her hand.
- A bodily gesture meant to fool an opposing player in sport; feints.
- (linguistics) A word serving only to make a construction grammatical.
- The pronoun "it" in "It's a mystery why this happened" is a .
- (complang) An unused parameter or value.
- If <code>flag1</code> is false, the other parameters are dummies.
verb (dummies, dummying, dummied)
- To make a mock-up or prototype version of something, without some or all off its intended functionality.
- The carpenters dummied some props for the rehearsals.
| | duster |
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noun
- An object, now especially a cloth, used for dusting surfaces etc.
- Someone who dusts.
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