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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!
| | | damn |
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noun
- The use of "damn" as a curse.
- An small quantity.
- I don't give a
verb
- (context, transitive, theology) To condemn to hell.
- The official position is that anyone who does this will be damned for all eternity.
- (transitive) To put out of favor; to ruin.
- I'm afraid that if I speak out on this, I'll be damned as a troublemaker.
- (transitive) To condemn as of poor quality, harmful, unfit or illegal.
- (transitive) To swear or curse.
adjective
- (blasphemous, profane) Generic intensifier .
- Shut the door!
| | dance |
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noun
- A sequence of rhythmic steps or movements performed to music, for pleasure or as a form of social interaction.
- A social gathering where dancing is designed to take place.
- (heraldry) A fess that has been modified to zig-zag across the center of a coat of arms from dexter to sinister.
- A genre of modern music characterised by sampled beats, repetitive rhythms and few lyrics.
verb (danc, ing)
- (intransitive) To move with rhythmic steps or movements, especially in time to music.
- I danced with her all night long.
- (intransitive) To leap or move rapidly with strong emotion.
- His eyes danced with pleasure as he spoke.
- (transitive) To perform the steps to.
- Have you ever danced the tango?
| | dangle |
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noun
- (intelligence) an agent of one intelligence agency or group who pretends to be interested in defecting or turning to another intelligence agency or group.
- (ice hockey)(slang) the action of dangling.
- That was a sick for a great goal!
verb (dangl, es)
- (intransitive) to hang loosely with the ability to swing
- His feet would in the water
- (intransitive) (ice hockey)(slang) the action of preforming a move or deke with the puck in order to get past a defender or goalie. Probably from It looks like he's dangling the puck on a string.
- He dangled around three players and the goalie to score.
- (transitive) to hang or trail something loosely
- I like to sit on the edge and my feet in the water.
| | dare |
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noun
- A challenge to prove courage.
verb ( or dares, daring, dared, or archaic durst, dared)
- (intransitive) To have enough courage (to do something).
- I wouldn't argue with my boss.
- (transitive) To defy or challenge (someone to do something)
- I you to kiss that girl.
- (transitive) To have enough courage to meet or do something, go somewhere, etc.; to face up to
- Will you death to reach your goal?
| | dark |
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noun
- A complete or (more often) partial absence of light.
- Dark surrounds us completely.
- Ignorance
- We kept him in the .
- Nightfall
- It was after before we got to playing baseball.
adjective (darker, darkest)
- Having an absolute or (more often) relative lack of light.
- The room was too for reading.
- (context, of colour) Dull or deeper in hue; not bright or light.
- My sister's hair is darker than mine.
- Her skin grew with a suntan.
- hidden, Hidden, secret
- "Meantime we shall express our darker purpose" (Shakespeare, King Lear, i 1).
- Without moral or spiritual light; sinister, malign.
- Conducive to hopelessness; depressing or bleak
- The Great Depression was a time.
- Lacking progress in science or the arts; said of a time period
- With emphasis placed on the unpleasant aspects of life; said of a work of fiction, a work of nonfiction presented in narrative form or a portion of either
- The ending of this book is rather .
| | darken |
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verb
- (transitive) To make dark or darker.
- (intransitive) To become dark or darker.
| | dash |
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noun
- (typography) The symbol " (en-dash) or " (em-dash)
- sometimes dash is also used colloquially to refer to the symbol - (hyphen)
- A short run.
- A small quantity of a liquid substance; less than 1/8 of a teaspoon.
- Add a of vinegar
- A dashboard.
- One of the two symbols of Morse code.
verb (dash, es)
- (intransitive) To run quickly or for a short distance.
- He dashed across the field.
- (context, intransitive, informal) To leave or depart.
- I have to now. See you soon.
- (transitive) To destroy by striking (against).
- He dashed the bottle against the bar and turned about to fight.
- (transitive) To throw violently.
- The man was dashed from the vehicle during the accident.
- (transitive) To sprinkle; to splatter.
- (transitive) To ruin; to destroy.
- Her hopes were dashed when she saw the damage.
- (transitive) To dishearten; to sadden.
- Her thoughts were dashed to melancholy.
- (transitive) To complete hastily, usually with down or off.
- He dashed down his eggs, she dashed off her homework
| | date |
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noun
- (context, Botany) The fruit of the date palm. This sweet fruit is somewhat in the shape of an olive, containing a soft pulp and enclosing a hard kernel.
- (context, Botany) The date palm itself.
| | day |
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noun
- A period of 24 hours.
- The period from midnight to the following midnight. There are 7 days in a week: Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, and Saturday.
- Rotational period of a planet (especially earth).
- The part of a day period which one spends at one"s job, school, etc.
- I worked two days last week.
- Part of a day period between sunrise and sunset where one enjoys daylight, daytime.
- and night.
(rfex, also for the last)
| | death |
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noun
- The cessation of life and all associated processes. The end of an organism's existence as an independent entity from its environment and its return to an inert, nonliving state.
- The of my grandmother saddened the whole family.
- The personification of death as a hooded figure with a scythe; the Grim Reaper.
- When walked in, a chill spread through the room.
| | deathbed |
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noun
- The bed on which someone dies
- The last hours before death
| | defiance |
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noun
- the feeling, or spirit of being defiant
| | degree |
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noun
- (geometry) A unit of measurement of angle equal to 1/360 of a circle's circumference.
- (physics) A unit of measurement of temperature on any of several scales, such as Celsius or Fahrenheit.
- Any of various units used to express specific gravity, bitterness, darkness, etc. in manufacturing various commodities.
- The amount that an entity possesses a certain property; proportion or extent.
- To what degree do the two accounts of the accident concur?
- 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.
- (graph theory) The number of edge, edges that a vertex takes part in.
- (mathematics) The sum of the exponents of a term; or, in the context of a polynomial, the highest degree of all its terms.
| | demand |
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noun (wikipedia, demand, demand (desire))
- The desire to purchase goods and services.
- Prices usually go up when exceeds supply.
- A need.
- There is a for voluntary health workers in the poorer parts of Africa and Asia.
- A claim for something.
- Modern society is responding to women's demands for equality.
- A requirement.
- His job makes many demands on his time.
- An urgent request.
- She couldn't ignore the newborn baby's demands for attention.
- An order.
- (electric) the measure of the maximum power load of a utility's customer over a short period of time; the power load integrated over a specified time interval.
verb
- To request forcefully.
- I to see the manager.
- To claim a right to something.
- The bank is demanding the mortgage payment.
- To ask forcefully for information.
- I an immediate explanation.
- To require of someone.
- This job demands a lot of patience.
- To issue a summons to court.
| | dent |
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noun - A shallow deformation in the surface of something produced by impact.
verb - To impact something, producing a dent.
- To develop a dent or dents.
- ''copper, Copper is soft and dents easily.
| | deny |
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verb (den, i, ed)
- To not allow.
- I wanted to go to the party, but I was denied.
- To assert that something is not true.
- I deny that I was at the party.
| | depth |
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noun
- The vertical distance below a surface; the amount that something is deep.
- Measure the of the water in this part of the bay.
- The distance between the front and the back, as the depth of a drawer or closet.
- (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.
- (context, computing, colors) The total palette of available colors.
- (context, art, photography) The property of appearing three-dimensional.
- The of field in this picture is amazing.
| | 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
| | devil |
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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.
| | Diamond |
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proper noun
- (given name, female) of modern usage, from the name of the gem.
| | dice |
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noun
- (form of, one of the two plurals, die
- Noun, die)
- 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 .
- 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.
| | dim |
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verb (dims, dimming, dimmed)
- (transitive) To make something less bright.
- (intransitive) To become darker.
adjective (dimmer, dimmest)
- not bright or colorful
- not smart or intelligent
- indistinct, hazy or unclear
- disapproving, unfavorable, rarely used outside the phrase "take a dim view of".
| | | discretion |
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noun
- The quality of being discreet or circumspect
- Bob showed great despite his knowledge of the affair.
- The ability to make wise choices or decisions
- The freedom to make one's own judgements
- I leave that to your .
| | dish |
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noun
- A vessel such as a plate for holding or serving food, often flat with a depressed region in the middle.
- The contents of such a vessel.
- a of stew
- A specific type of prepared food.
- a vegetable
- this is filling and easily made
- (in plural) Tableware (including cutlery, etc, as well as crockery) that is to be or is being washed after being used to prepare, serve and eat a meal.
- It's your turn to wash the dishes.
- (slang) A sexually attractive woman.
- (context, UK, slang) A sexually attractive person of either sex.
verb (dish, es)
- To gossip; to relay information about the personal situation of another.
| | dishwater |
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noun
- water that dishes and cooking utensils have been washed in
- (context, by extension) anything dull and lacking interest or flavour
| | distance |
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noun
- (countable) The amount of space between two points, usually geographical points, usually (but not necessarily) measured along a straight line.
- The to Petersborough is thirty miles.
- (context, uncountable, figurative) The entire amount of space to the objective.
- He had promised to perform this task, but did not go the .
- (context, uncountable, figurative) A considerable amount of space.
- The friendship did not survive the row: they kept each other at a .
verb (distanc, ing)
- To move away from someone or something.
| | Dixie |
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proper noun
- (informal) The southern United States; the South.
- A female given name made popular from the song
| | DO |
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initialism
- (grammar) Direct Object
| | | done |
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verb
- (past participle of, do)
adjective
- (context, of meat or other foods) ready, Ready, fully cooked.
- exhausted, Exhausted, finished; done for.
| | door |
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noun
- A portal of entry into a building or room, consisting of a rigid plane movable on a hinge. Doors are frequently made of wood or metal. May have a handle to help open and close, a latch to hold the door closed and a lock that ensures the door cannot be opened without the key.
- An non-physical entry into the next world, a particular feeling, a company, etc.
- Keep a on your anger.
| | | doubt |
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noun
- uncertainty, Uncertainty, disbelief.
- There was some as to who the child's real father was.
verb
- To lack confidence in; to disbelieve, question, or suspect.
- He doubted that was really what you meant.
| | dovecote |
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noun
- A small house or box, raised to a considerable height above the ground, and having compartments, in which domestic pigeons breed; a dove house.
- In medieval Europe, a round or square structure of stone or wood, free-standing or built into a tower, in which pigeons were kept.
| | Down |
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proper noun
- One of the counties of Northern Ireland
| | downgrade |
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verb (downgrad, es)
- to place lower in position
| | draw |
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verb (draws, drawing, drew, drawn, )
- to produce a picture with pencil, crayon, chalk, etc. on paper, cardboard, etc.
- She likes to draw the ocean.
- to pull out (a gun, a tooth)
- (upon): to rely on
- She had to upon her experience to solve the problem
- to determine the result of a lottery
- to end a game with neither side winning
- The result will be a if nobody scores soon. <!---Noun?
| | 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)
| | drop |
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noun
- A fall.
- That was a long , but fortunately I didn't break any bones.
- The space beyond a boundary into which someone or something could fall.
- On one side of the road was a 50-meter .
- (crime) A place where items may be left anonymously for others to collect.
- I left the plans at the , like you asked.
- A small mass of liquid, just large enough to fall away of its own weight.
- Put three drops of oil into the mixture.
- A small, round sweet/piece of candy.
- Lemon drops are delicious.
- (American football) A dropped pass
- Yet another for the Tiger tight end.
- (American football) Short for drop-back or drop back
- The Tiger quarterback took a one-step , expecting his tight end to be open.
verb (drop, p, ing)
- (intransitive) To fall.
- A single shot was fired and the bird dropped from the sky.
- (intransitive) To fall in value.
- The stock dropped 1.5% on the news.
- (intransitive) To lower oneself quickly to the ground.
- Drop and give me thirty push-ups, Private!
- If your clothes are on fire, stop, and roll.
- (context, transitive) (ergative) To allow to fall.
- Don't that plate!
- (transitive) To get rid of.
- I dropped 10 pounds and an obnoxious fiance.
- (transitive) To eject, to remove.
- I've been dropped from the football team.
- (transitive) To fail to respond to an argument.
- The affirmative team dropped our arguments about the cost of the plan.
- (context, transitive, slang) To ingest a hallucinogen, particularly LSD.
- They had never dropped acid.
- (context, transitive, slang) To impart.
- I knowledge wherever I go.
- (transitive) To fail to pronounce.
- Cockneys their h's.
- (transitive) To kill.
- Make any sudden movements and I will you!
- 1865, E. Littell, The Living Age, page 613
- : ...with a single shot he dropped him like a master of the art.
- 1985, The Beastie Boys, Paul Revere
- : The piano player's out, the music stopped / His boy had beef, and he got dropped...
- 1992, Dan Parkinson, Dust on the Wind, page 164
- : With a quick clench of the fist on Joey's throat, Bodie dropped him. The man crumpled to the ground...
| | drug |
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noun
- (pharmacology) Substance used to treat an illness, relieve a symptom or modify a chemical process in the body for a specific purpose.
- (pharmacology) A substance, often addictive, which affects the central nervous system.
- A chemical or substance, not necessarily for medical purposes, that alters the way the mind or body works.
- A drug, especially illegal, taken for recreational use.
- 1971: We were somewhere around Barstow on the edge of the desert when the drugs began to take hold. " Hunter S. Thompson, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (Harper Perennial 2005, p. 3)
verb (drug, g, ed)
- (transitive) To administer intoxicating drugs to, generally without the recipient's knowledge or consent.
- She suddenly felt strange, and only then realized she'd been drugged.
- (transitive) To add intoxicating drugs to with the intention of drugging someone.
- She suddenly felt strange. She realized her drink must have been drugged.
| | drum |
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noun
- Any hollow, cylindrical object.
- In particular, a percussive instrument spanned with a thin covering on at least one end for strike, striking, forming an acoustic chamber, affecting what materials are used to make it.
- In particular, a barrel or large cylindrical container for liquid transport and storage.
- The restaurant ordered ketchup in 50-gallon drums.
verb (drum, m, ed)
- (intransitive) (music) To beat a drum.
- (intransitive) To knock successively and playfully.
- Drumming one"s fingers on a table is often an expression of impatience or annoyance.
- (transitive) To drill or review in an attempt to establish memorization.
- He"s still trying to Spanish verb conjugations into my head.
| | dry |
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verb (dries, drying, dried)
- (intransitive) To become dry.
- (transitive) To make dry. (e.g., your eyes)
- Devin dried her eyes with a handkerchief.
adjective (drier, driest or dryest)
- free, Free from liquid or moisture.
- Could you hand me a towel?
- My throat feels itchy and .
- Cover the chicken as it bakes or it'll get too .
- (chemistry) Free of water in any state; anhydrous
- Dry alcohol is 200 proof.
- Maintaining temperance; void or abstinent from alcoholic beverages.
- A former alcoholic, he's been for almost a year now.
- You'll have to drive out of this county to find any liquor.
| | 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.
| | duplicate |
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noun
- One that resembles or corresponds to another; an identical copy.
- This is a , but a very good replica.
verb (duplicat, ed)
- to make a copy of
- If we the information, are we really accomplishing much?
- to do repeatedly; to do again
- You don't need to my efforts.
- to produce something equal to
- He found it hard to the skills of his wife.
adjective
- being the same as another; identical
- This is a entry.
| | dust |
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noun (uncountable)
- fine, dry particles of matter
- Completely decomposed human remains
- 1768, w:Thomas Gray, Thomas Gray, s:Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard, Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard,
- : Can storied urn or animated bust / Back to its mansion call the fleeting breath? / Can Honour's voice provoke the silent , / Or Flatt'ry soothe the dull cold ear of Death?
verb
- (transitive) to remove dust from
- The cleaning lady needs a stool to the cupboard.
- (intransitive) to remove dust; to clean by removing dust
- Dusting always makes me cough.
- (intransitive) Of a bird, to cover itself in sand or dry, dusty earth
- (transitive) to spray or cover something with fine powder or liquid
- The mother dusted her baby's bum with talcum powder.
| | Dutch |
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proper noun
- The main language of the Netherlands and Flanders (i.e., the northern half of Belgium).
- The people from the Netherlands.
- (archaic) The main language of the Holy Roman Empire(Germany, Austria, Alsace, Luxemburg)
- (archaic) A German
adjective
- Of or pertaining to the Netherlands, the Dutch people or the Dutch language.
- In a shared manner; of a shared expense.
- (archaic) Pertaining to the Dutch, the Germans, and the Goths.
| | duty |
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noun (duties)
- That which one is morally or legally obligated to do.
- England expects that every man will do his . (Nelson)
- She felt it was her bounten duty to tell the police about the incident.
- A period of time spent at work or doing a particular task.
- I"m on from 6 pm to 6 am.
- describing a workload as to its idle, working and deenergized periods.
- A tax placed on imports or exports; a tariff.
| | dye |
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noun
- a colourant, especially one that has an affinity to the substrate to which it is applied
- a die
- 1748. David Hume. Enquiries concerning the human understanding and concerning the principles of moral. London: Oxford University Press, 1973. § 46.
- : If a were marked with one figure or number of spots on four sides, and with another figure or number of spots on the two remaining sides, it would be more probable, that the former would turn up than the latter ;
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