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noun
- (context, weapon) A stabbing weapon, similar to a sword but with a short, double-edged blade.
- (RQ:Shakespeare Wives), Act I, Scene I, line 282.
- : I bruised my shin th" other day with playing at sword and with a master of fence; ...
- 1786, w:Francis Grose, Francis Grose, A Treatise on Ancient Armour and Weapons, page 34.
- : The , under the title cultellum and misericorde, has been the constant companion of the sword, at least from the days of Edward I. and is mentioned in the statute of Winchester.
- A text character (") that is used for footnotes, to signify death, and to express the mathematical application of Hermitian conjugacy.
- (rfd-sense) (figurative) Anything that causes pain like a dagger.
- (RQ:Shakespeare Merchant), Act III, Scene II, line 108.
- : TUBAL: Your daughter spent in Genoa, as I heard, one night, fourscore ducats.
- : SHYLOCK: Thou stick"st a in me: I shall never see my gold again: fourscore ducats at a sitting! Fourscore ducats!
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noun
- The floorlike covering of the horizontal sections, or compartments, of a ship. Small vessels have only one deck; larger ships have two or three decks.
- A balcony.
- A porch.
- The upper part or top of a mansard roof or curb roof when made nearly flat.
- The roof of a passenger car.
- A pack or set of playing cards.
- A heap or store.
- (slang) Cool, fresh.
- Presentation Slides (ie. MS Powerpoint or Apple Keynote)
verb
- To cover; to overspread.
- To dress, as the person; to clothe; especially, to clothe with more than ordinary elegance; to array; to adorn; to embellish.
- To furnish with a deck, as a vessel.
- (slang) to knock someone to the floor with a single punch
| | deckle |
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noun
- A paper-making instrument which limits the pulp, and consequently the size of the resulting paper.
| | deckle-edged |
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adjective
- rough edged like uncut paper
| | delivery |
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noun
- The act of conveying something
- The was completed by four.
- The item which has been conveyed
- Your is on the table.
- The act of giving birth
- The was painful.
- (baseball) A pitching motion
- ''His has a catch in it.
- (baseball) A thrown pitch
- ''Here is the ; ... strike three!
- The manner of speaking
- The actor's was flawless.
- (medicine) administration of a drug
- Drug system.
- (curling) The process of throwing a stone
adjective
- The place where a delivery happens
- The room is just down the hall.
- The person who performs a delivery
- The man is here.
| | demy |
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noun
- A paper size, 17½ inches by 22½ inches.
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verb (desensitiz, ing)
- to cause to become less sensitive or insensitive
- The exposure to light desensitized the film, so I had to buy a new roll.
- Even those who believe themselves desensitized to the grotesque will be shocked at this site.
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noun
- (theology) A creature of hell.
- (theology) (the devil or the Devil) The chief devil; Satan.
- The bad part of the conscience; the opposite to the angel.
- The in me wants to let him suffer.
- A wicked or naughty person, or one who harbors reckless, spirited energy, especially in a mischievous way; usually said of a young child.
- Those two kids can really be little devils when they get into a toy store.
- A thing that is awkward or difficult to understand or do.
- That mathematics problem is quite a .
- (context, euphemistically, with an article, as an intensifier) Hell.
- What in the is that?
- She is having a of a time fixing it.
- He"ll have a of a fate if he doesn"t get it done on time.
- You can go to the for all I care.
- A person, especially a man; used to express a particular opinion of him, usually in the phrases poor devil and lucky devil.
- A dust devil.
- (context, Christian Science) An evil or erroneous entity.
verb (devils, deviling or devilling, deviled or devilled)
- To annoy or bother; to bedevil.
- To grill with Cayenne pepper; to season highly in cooking, as with pepper.
| | diagonal |
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noun
- something arranged diagonally or obliquely
- a line or cut across a fabric that is not at right angles to a side of the fabric
- a punctuation mark used to separate related items of information
- (geometry) a diagonal line or plane
adjective
- (geometry) joining, Joining two nonadjacent vertices (of a polygon or polyhedron).
- Having a slanted or oblique direction, lines or markings.
- Pertaining to the front left and back right (or the front right and back left) legs of a quadruped.
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proper noun
- (given name, female) of modern usage, from the name of the gem.
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noun
- (colloquial) a silly or stupid person
- 2003, The Gilmore Girls (TV, episode 4.07)
- :"The fire department is out here because some parked in the red zone."
- a special ornamental typographical symbol, for example, a bullet, an arrow, a pointing hand, etc.
- 1982, The Elements of Editing: A Modern Guide for Editors and Journalists, Arthur Plotnik, p.8
- :"The compulsive editor, when checking the specs on an article, can't help checking also for such items as initial capital and closing , if they are used routinely. These decorative items have a way of being forgotten..."
- an architectural style of apartment building, where the second storey overhangs an area for parking cars
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noun
- A show or spectacle.
- (computing): An electronic screen that shows graphics or text.
verb
- (transitive): To show conspicuously.
| | | doublet |
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noun
- a man"s close-fitting jacket, with or without sleeves. Men in Europe wore doublets from the 1400s to the 1600s.
- a pair of two similar or equal things; couple.
- one of two or more different words in a language derived from the same origin but coming by different routes.
- An imitation gem made of two pieces of glass or crystal with a layer of color between them.
- (printing, US) A word or phrase set a second time by mistake.
- (quantum mechanics) A quantum state of a system with a spin of 1/2, such that there are two allowed values of the spin component, -1/2 and +1/2.
| | doublure |
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noun
- an elaborately decorated leather flyleaf in a book
| | dress |
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noun (es, -)
- (countable) A garment; an item of clothing (usually worn by a woman or young girl) which covers the upper part of the body as well as below the waist.
- Amy and Mary looked very pretty in their dresses'.''
- (uncountable) apparel, Apparel, clothing.
verb (dress, es)
- (transitive) To clothe something; to put clothes on something.
- (intransitive) To clothe oneself; to put on clothes.
- (transitive) To prepare the surface of a material (usually stone or lumber).
- To bandage a wound.
- 1883: w:Robert Louis Stevenson, Robert Louis Stevenson, w:Treasure Island, Treasure Island
- : ...he was deadly pale, and the blood-stained bandage round his head told that he had recently been wounded, and still more recently dressed.
- (transitive) To prepare food for cooking, especially by seasoning it.
| | dropout |
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noun , or drop-out
- Someone who has left an educational institution without completing the course
- The politicians of the world are mere political university dropouts.
| | duct |
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noun
- a pipe, tube or canal which carries air or liquid from one place to another, as in heating and air-conditioning ducts.
| | duodecimo |
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noun
- A size of paper, so called because it is originally made by folding and cutting a single sheet from a printing press into 12 leaves; (5 by 7¾ inches): 6.5 to 7.5 inches high, approximately 4.5 inches wide.
- A page of that size; hence, a whole booklet having pages of this size
| | duplicator |
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noun
- A device that reproduces pages of typed, printed or written material; a copier
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