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noun
- A skewer
- A sharpened stick, used for roasting food over a fire. Compare dogwood, formerly dagwood
- A long pointed strip of cloth at the edge of a piece of clothing
- One of a row of decorative strips of cloth, ornamenting a tent, booth, or fairground
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verb (dag, g, ed)
- (transitive) To skewer food, for roasting over a fire
- (transitive) To cut or slash the edge of a garment into dags
| | | dam |
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noun
- structure placed across a flowing body of water to stop the flow
verb (dams, damming, dammed)
- To block the flow of water.
| | decagram |
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noun (plural: decagrams)
- A metric measurement that weighs 10 grams. Its symbol is dag. It is uncommonly used.
- A ten pointed star.
| | decaliter |
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noun
- ten liters
| | decameter |
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noun
- (American, sometimes International): A distance of 10 meters
- 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
- (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.
| | 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.
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noun
- a Russian measure of land, roughly 1.1 hectares
| | dg |
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abbreviation
- decigram
| | digit |
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noun
- A finger or toe.
- (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.
- (context, slang, UK, in plural) One's phone number.
- That girl likes me — she gave me her digits.
| | dimension |
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noun
- A single aspect of a given thing.
- A measure of spatial extent in a particular direction, such as height, width or breadth, or depth.
- A construct whereby objects or individuals can be distinguished.
- (geometry) Any of the independent coordinates used to specify uniquely the location of a point in a space.
- (linear algebra) The number of elements of any basis of a vector space.
- (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.
- (computing) Any of the independent ranges of index, indices in a multidimensional array.
- (science fiction) An alternative universe or plane of existence.
verb
- (transitive) To mark, cut or shape something to specified dimensions.
| | divide |
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noun
- A thing that divides.
- Stay on your side of the , please.
- An act of dividing.
- The left most of the good land on my share of the property.
- A distancing between two people or things.
- There is a great between us.
| | divider |
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noun
- An object that separates.
- A device resembling a drawing compass and used to transfer measurements of length.
- (context, British, US) The median of a highway or other road where traffic in opposite directions are kept separated.
- A person who separates or classifies.
| | DL |
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initialism (wikipedia, Driver's license)
(wikipedia, Disabled list)
- Driver's license
- Disabled list, in baseball
- (context, sexuality) down low, Down Low
| | DM |
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abbreviation
- (pharmaceutical drug) dextromethorphan
- The Deutsche Mark, former German currency now replaced by the Euro.
- Note: DM was commonly used, but the official banking code was DEM.
- (italbrac, role playing) Dungeon Master
| | drachm |
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noun
- (obsolete) A unit of weight in the apothecaries' weight system of measure.
- (UK & US) 1/8 ounce apoth.
- (UK & US) 3.89 gram.
- A denomination of coinage in ancient Greece.
| | drachma |
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noun (drachmae or drachmas)
- The currency of Greece from ancient times until 2001, with the symbol �, since replaced by the euro.
| | DRAM |
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initialism
- dynamic random-access memory
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