Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter D - Page 14
Declare (v. t.) To make known by language; to communicate or manifest explicitly and plainly in any way; to exhibit; to publish; to proclaim; to announce.
This day I have begot whom I declare My only Son. -- Milton.
The heavens declare the glory of God. -- Ps. xix. 1.
Declare (v. t.) To make declaration of; to assert; to affirm; to set forth; to avow; as, he declares the story to be false.
I the Lord . . . declare things that are right. -- Isa. xlv. 19.
Declare (v. t.) (Com.) To make full statement of, as goods, etc., for the purpose of paying taxes, duties, etc.
To declare off, To recede from an agreement, undertaking, contract, etc.; to renounce.
To declare one's self, To avow one's opinion; to show openly what one thinks, or which side he espouses.
Declare (v. i.) To make a declaration, or an open and explicit avowal; to proclaim one's self; -- often with for or against; as, victory declares against the allies.
Like fawning courtiers, for success they wait, And then come smiling, and declare for fate. -- Dryden.
Declare (v. i.) (Law) To state the plaintiff's cause of action at law in a legal form; as, the plaintiff declares in trespass.
Declare (v.) State emphatically and authoritatively; "He declared that he needed more money to carry out the task he was charged with."
Declare (v.) Announce publicly or officially; "The President declared war" [syn: announce, declare].
Declare (v.) State firmly; "He declared that he was innocent."
Declare (v.) Declare to be; "She was declared incompetent"; "judge held that the defendant was innocent" [syn: declare, adjudge, hold].
Declare (v.) Authorize payments of; "declare dividends."
Declare (v.) Designate (a trump suit or no-trump) with the final bid of a hand.
Declare (v.) Make a declaration (of dutiable goods) to a customs official; "Do you have anything to declare?"
Declare (v.) Proclaim one's support, sympathy, or opinion for or against; "His wife declared at once for moving to the West Coast."
Declaredly (adv.) Avowedly; explicitly.
Declaredness (n.) The state of being declared.
Declarement (n.) Declaration. [Obs.]
Declarer (n.) One who makes known or proclaims; that which exhibits. -- Udall.
Declarer (n.) The bridge player in contract bridge who wins the bidding and can declare which suit is to be trumps [syn: contractor, declarer].
Declarer (n.) Someone who claims to speak the truth; "a bold asserter"; "a declarer of his intentions"; "affirmers of traditional doctrine"; "an asseverator of strong convictions"; "an avower of his own great intelligence" [syn: asserter, declarer, affirmer, asseverator, avower].
Declassify (v. t.) 不再當機密文件處理，從機密表刪除 To lift the restriction on publication [of documents] by reducing or eliminating the secrecy classification of; -- usually applied to government documents classified as secret.
Syn: make available again.
Declassify (v.) Lift the restriction on and make available again; "reclassify the documents" [ant: {classify}].
Declension (n.) 詞尾變化，格變化，傾斜，衰退 The act or the state of declining; declination; descent; slope.
The declension of the land from that place to the sea. -- T. Burnet.
Declension (n.) A falling off towards a worse state; a downward tendency; deterioration; decay; as, the declension of virtue, of science, of a state, etc.
Seduced the pitch and height of all his thoughts To base declension. -- Shak.
Declension (n.) Act of courteously refusing; act of declining; a declinature; refusal; as, the declension of a nomination.
Declension (n.) (Gram.) Inflection of nouns, adjectives, etc., according to the grammatical cases.
Declension (n.) (Gram.) The form of the inflection of a word declined by cases; as, the first or the second declension of nouns, adjectives, etc.
Declension (n.) (Gram.) Rehearsing a word as declined.
Note: The nominative was held to be the primary and original form, and was likened to a perpendicular line; the variations, or oblique cases, were regarded as fallings (hence called casus, cases, or fallings) from the nominative or perpendicular; and an enumerating of the various forms, being a sort of progressive descent from the noun's upright form, was called a declension. -- Harris.
Declension of the needle, Declination of the needle.
Declension (n.) The inflection of nouns and pronouns and adjectives in Indo-European languages.
Declension (n.) Process of changing to an inferior state [syn: {deterioration}, {decline in quality}, {declension}, {worsening}].
Declension (n.) A downward slope or bend [syn: {descent}, {declivity}, {fall}, {decline}, {declination}, {declension}, {downslope}] [ant: {acclivity}, {ascent}, {climb}, {raise}, {rise}, {upgrade}].
Declension (n.) A class of nouns or pronouns or adjectives in Indo-European languages having the same (or very similar) inflectional forms; "the first declension in Latin."
Declensional (a.) Belonging to declension.
Declensional and syntactical forms. -- M. Arnold.
Declinable (a.) Capable of being declined; admitting of declension or inflection; as, declinable parts of speech.
Declinal (a.) Declining; sloping.
Declinate (a.) Bent downward or aside; (Bot.) bending downward in a curve; declined.
Declination (n.) The act or state of bending downward; inclination; as, declination of the head.
Declination (n.) The act or state of falling off or declining from excellence or perfection; deterioration; decay; decline.
Declination (n.) The act of deviating or turning aside; oblique motion; obliquity; withdrawal.
Declination (n.) The act or state of declining or refusing; withdrawal; refusal; averseness.
Declination (n.) The angular distance of any object from the celestial equator, either northward or southward.
Declination (n.) The arc of the horizon, contained between the vertical plane and the prime vertical circle, if reckoned from the east or west, or between the meridian and the plane, reckoned from the north or south.
Declination (n.) The act of inflecting a word; declension. See Decline, v. t., 4.
Declination (n.) [C] Astronomy; Specialized; 偏角，磁偏角，赤緯 An angle that gives the position of a point in space relation to earth.
// The asteroid Toutatis is easiest to see in early Seotemper, when it lies at higher declinations.
Declinator (n.) An instrument for taking the declination or angle which a plane makes with the horizontal plane.
Declinator (n.) A dissentient. [R.] -- Bp. Hacket.
Declinatory (a.) Containing or involving a declination or refusal, as of submission to a charge or sentence. --Blackstone.
Declinatory plea (O. Eng. Law), the plea of sanctuary or of benefit of clergy, before trial or conviction; -- now abolished.
Declinature (n.) The act of declining or refusing; as, the declinature of an office.
Declined (imp. & p. p.) of Decline.
Declining (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Decline.
Decline (v. i.) To bend, or lean downward; to take a downward direction; to bend over or hang down, as from weakness, weariness, despondency, etc.; to condescend. "With declining head." -- Shak.
He . . . would decline even to the lowest of his family. -- Lady Hutchinson.
Disdaining to decline, Slowly he falls, amidst triumphant cries. -- Byron.
The ground at length became broken and declined rapidly. -- Sir W. Scott.
Decline (v. i.) To tend or draw towards a close, decay, or extinction; to tend to a less perfect state; to become diminished or impaired; to fail; to sink; to diminish; to lessen; as, the day declines; virtue declines; religion declines; business declines.
That empire must decline Whose chief support and sinews are of coin. -- Waller.
And presume to know . . . Who thrives, and who declines. -- Shak.
Decline (v. i.) To turn or bend aside; to deviate; to stray; to withdraw; as, a line that declines from straightness; conduct that declines from sound morals.
Yet do I not decline from thy testimonies. -- Ps. cxix. 157.
Decline (v. i.) To turn away; to shun; to refuse; -- the opposite of accept or consent; as, he declined, upon principle.
Decline (n.) A falling off; a tendency to a worse state; diminution or decay; deterioration; also, the period when a thing is tending toward extinction or a less perfect state; as, the decline of life; the decline of strength; the decline of virtue and religion.
Their fathers lived in the decline of literature. -- Swift.
Decline (n.) (Med.) That period of a disorder or paroxysm when the symptoms begin to abate in violence; as, the decline of a fever.
Decline (n.) A gradual sinking and wasting away of the physical faculties; any wasting disease, esp. pulmonary consumption; as, to die of a decline. -- Dunglison.
Syn: Decline, Decay, Consumption.
Usage: Decline marks the first stage in a downward progress; decay indicates the second stage, and denotes a tendency to ultimate destruction; consumption marks a steady decay from an internal exhaustion of strength. The health may experience a decline from various causes at any period of life; it is naturally subject to decay with the advance of old age; consumption may take place at almost any period of life, from disease which wears out the constitution. In popular language decline is often used as synonymous with consumption. By a gradual decline, states and communities lose their strength and vigor; by progressive decay, they are stripped of their honor, stability, and greatness; by a consumption of their resources and vital energy, they are led rapidly on to a completion of their existence.
Decline (v. t.) To bend downward; to bring down; to depress; to cause to bend, or fall.
In melancholy deep, with head declined. -- Thomson.
And now fair Phoebus gan decline in haste His weary wagon to the western vale. -- Spenser.
Decline (v. t.) To cause to decrease or diminish. [Obs.] "You have declined his means." -- Beau. & Fl.
He knoweth his error, but will not seek to decline it. -- Burton.
Decline (v. t.) To put or turn aside; to turn off or away from; to refuse to undertake or comply with; reject; to shun; to avoid; as, to decline an offer; to decline a contest; he declined any participation with them.
Could I Decline this dreadful hour? -- Massinger.
Decline (v. t.) (Gram.) To inflect, or rehearse in order the changes of grammatical form of; as, to decline a noun or an adjective.
Note: Now restricted to such words as have case inflections; but formerly it was applied both to declension and conjugation.
After the first declining of a noun and a verb. -- Ascham.
Decline (v. t.) To run through from first to last; to repeat like a schoolboy declining a noun. [R.] -- Shak.
Decline (n.) Change toward something smaller or lower [syn: decline, diminution].
Decline (n.) A condition inferior to an earlier condition; a gradual falling off from a better state [syn: decline, declination] [ant: improvement, melioration].
Decline (n.) A gradual decrease; as of stored charge or current [syn: decay, decline].
Decline (n.) A downward slope or bend [syn: descent, declivity, fall, decline, declination, declension, downslope] [ant: acclivity, ascent, climb, raise, rise, upgrade].
Decline (v.) grow worse; "Conditions in the slum worsened" [syn: worsen, decline] [ant: ameliorate, better, improve, meliorate].
Decline (v.) Refuse to accept; "He refused my offer of hospitality" [syn: refuse, reject, pass up, turn down, decline] [ant: accept, have, take].
Decline (v.) Show unwillingness towards; "he declined to join the group on a hike" [syn: refuse, decline] [ant: accept, consent, go for].
Decline (v.) Grow smaller; "Interest in the project waned" [syn: decline, go down, wane].
Decline (v.) Go down; "The roof declines here."
Decline (v.) Go down in value; "the stock market corrected"; "prices slumped" [syn: decline, slump, correct].
Decline (v.) Inflect for number, gender, case, etc., "in many languages, speakers decline nouns, pronouns, and adjectives."
Declined (a.) Declinate.
Decliner (n.) He who declines or rejects.
A studious decliner of honors. -- Evelyn.
Declinometer (n.) (Physics) An instrument for measuring the declination of the magnetic needle.
Declinometer (n.) An instrument for measuring magnetic declination [syn: declinometer, transit declinometer].
Declinous (a.) Declinate. Declivitous
Declivitous (a.) Alt. of Declivous.
Declivous (a.) Descending gradually; moderately steep; sloping; downhill.
Declivitous (a.) Sloping down rather steeply [syn: declivitous, downhill, downward-sloping].
Declivities (n. pl. ) of Declivity.
Declivity (n.) Deviation from a horizontal line; gradual descent of surface; inclination downward; slope; -- opposed to acclivity, or ascent; the same slope, considered as descending, being a declivity, which, considered as ascending, is an acclivity.
Declivity (n.) A descending surface; a sloping place.
Commodious declivities and channels for the passage of the waters. -- Derham.
Decocted (imp. & p. p.) of Decoct.
Decocting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Decoct.
Decoct (v. t.) To prepare by boiling; to digest in hot or boiling water; to extract the strength or flavor of by boiling; to make an infusion of.
Decoct (v. t.) To prepare by the heat of the stomach for assimilation; to digest; to concoct.
Decoct (v. t.) To warm, strengthen, or invigorate, as if by boiling. [R.]
"Decoct their cold blood." -- Shak.
Decoct (v.) Extract the essence of something by boiling it.
Decoct (v.) Be cooked until very little liquid is left; "The sauce should reduce to one cup" [syn: boil down, reduce, decoct, concentrate].
Decoct (v.) Steep in hot water.
Decoctible (a.) Capable of being boiled or digested.
Decoction (n.) The act or process of boiling anything in a watery fluid to extract its virtues.
In decoction . . . it either purgeth at the top or settleth at the bottom. -- Bacon.
Decoction (n.) An extract got from a body by boiling it in water.
If the plant be boiled in water, the strained liquor is called the decoction of the plant. -- Arbuthnot.
In pharmacy decoction is opposed to infusion, where there is merely steeping. -- Latham.
Decoction (n.) (Pharmacology) The extraction of water-soluble drug substances by boiling.
Decoction, () med. jurisp. The operation of boiling certain ingredients in a fluid, for the purpose of extracting the parts soluble at that temperature.
Decoction also means the product of this operation.
Decoction, () In a case in which the indictment charged the prisoner with having administered to a woman a decoction of a certain shrub called savin, it appeared that the prisoner had administered an infusion (q.v.) and not a decoction; the prisoner's counsel insisted that he was entitled to an acquittal, on the ground that the medicine was misdescribed, but it was held that infusion and decoction are ejusdem generis, and that the variance was immaterial. 3 Camp. R. 74, 75.
Decocture (n.) A decoction. [R.]
Decollated (imp. & p. p.) of Decollate.
Decollating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Decollate.
Decollate (v. t.) To sever from the neck; to behead; to decapitate.
The decollated head of St. John the Baptist. -- Burke.
Decollate (v.) Cut the head of; "the French King was beheaded during the Revolution" [syn: decapitate, behead, decollate].
Decollated (a.) (Zool.) Decapitated; worn or cast off in the process of growth, as the apex of certain univalve shells.
Decollation (n.) The act of beheading or state of one beheaded; -- especially used of the execution of St. John the Baptist.
Decollation (n.) A painting representing the beheading of a saint or martyr, esp. of St. John the Baptist.
Decollete (a.) Leaving the neck and shoulders uncovered; cut low in the neck, or low-necked, as a dress.
Decollete (a.) Wearing a d['e]collet['e] gown.
Decollete (a.) (Of a garment) having a low-cut neckline; "a low-cut neckline" [syn: decollete, low-cut, low-necked].
Decolling (n.) Beheading. [R.]
By a speedy dethroning and decolling of the king. -- Parliamentary History (1648).
Decolor (v. t.) To deprive of color; to bleach.
Decolor (v.) Remove color from; "The sun bleached the red shirt" [syn: bleach, bleach out, decolor, decolour, decolorize, decolourize, decolorise, decolourise, discolorize, discolourise, discolorise].
Decolorant (n.) A substance which removes color, or bleaches.
Decolorate (a.) Deprived of color.
Decolorate (v. t.) To decolor.
Decoloration (n.) The removal or absence of color. -- Ferrand.
Decolorize (v. t.) To deprive of color; to whiten. -- Turner. -- De*col`or*i*za"tion, n.
Decolorize (v.) Remove color from; "The sun bleached the red shirt" [syn: bleach, bleach out, decolor, decolour, decolorize, decolourize, decolorise, decolourise, discolorize, discolourise, discolorise].
Decomplex (a.) Repeatedly compound; made up of complex constituents.
Decomposable (a.) Capable of being resolved into constituent elements.
Decomposable (a.) Capable of being partitioned [syn: analyzable, decomposable].
Decomposed (imp. & p. p.) of Decompose.
Decomposing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Decompose.
Decompose (v. t.) (v. i.) 分解，(使) 腐爛 To separate the constituent parts of; to resolve into original elements; to set free from previously existing forms of chemical combination; to bring to dissolution; to rot or decay.
Decompose (v. i.) To become resolved or returned from existing combinations; to undergo dissolution; to decay; to rot.
Decompose (v.) Separate (substances) into constituent elements or parts [syn: {decompose}, {break up}, {break down}].
Decompose (v.) Lose a stored charge, magnetic flux, or current; "the particles disintegrated during the nuclear fission process" [syn: {disintegrate}, {decay}, {decompose}].
Decompose (v.) Break down; "The bodies decomposed in the heat" [syn: {decompose}, {rot}, {molder}, {moulder}].
Decomposed (a.) (Zool.) Separated or broken up; -- said of the crest of birds when the feathers are divergent.
Decomposite (a.) Compounded more than once; compounded with things already composite.
Decomposite (a.) (Bot.) See Decompound, a., 2.
Decomposite (n.) Anything decompounded.
Decomposites of three metals or more. -- Bacon.
Decomposition (n.) The act or process of resolving the constituent parts of a compound body or substance into its elementary parts; separation into constituent part; analysis; the decay or dissolution consequent on the removal or alteration of some of the ingredients of a compound; disintegration; as, the decomposition of wood, rocks, etc.
Decomposition (n.) The state of being reduced into original elements.
Decomposition (n.) Repeated composition; a combination of compounds. [Obs.]
Decomposition of forces. Same as Resolution of forces, under Resolution.
Decomposition of light, The division of light into the prismatic colors.
Decomposition (n.) The analysis of a vector field [syn: decomposition, vector decomposition].
Decomposition (n.) In a decomposed state [syn: decomposition, disintegration].
Decomposition (n.) (Chemistry) Separation of a substance into two or more substances that may differ from each other and from the original substance [syn: decomposition, decomposition reaction, chemical decomposition reaction].
Decomposition (n.) (Biology) The process of decay caused by bacterial or fungal action [syn: decomposition, rot, rotting, putrefaction].
Decomposition (n.) The organic phenomenon of rotting [syn: decay, decomposition].
Decompounded (imp. & p. p.) of Decompound.
Decompounding (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Decompound.
Decompound (v. t.) To compound or mix with that is already compound; to compound a second time.
Decompound (v. t.) To reduce to constituent parts; to decompose.
It divides and decompounds objects into . . . parts. -- Hazlitt.
Decompound (a.) Compound of what is already compounded; compounded a second time.
Decompound (a.) (Bot.) Several times compounded or divided, as a leaf or stem; decomposite.
Decompound (n.) A decomposite.
Decompound (a.) Of a compound leaf; consisting of divisions that are themselves compound.
Decompoundable (a.) Capable of being decompounded.
Decompression (n.) 減壓 The process of experiencing decompression; the act or process of relieving or reducing pressure.
Syn: decompressing.
Decompression (n.) The reduction of atmospheric pressure experienced by divers rising from deep water to the surface, thus reducing the concentration of dissolved atmospheric gases in the blood; -- especially applied to a gradual reduction of such pressure.
Decompression (n.) The process, analogous to sense 2, undergone by divers in a decompression chamber, in which an artificially high atmospheric pressure is gradually lowered to normal pressure.
Decompression (n.) A return to a normal, more relaxed state after a period of intense stress, psychological pressure, or urgent activity; -- of people.
Decompression (n.) (Computers) The process of converting digitally encoded data from a more compact (compressed) form to its original, larger size.
Note: The process of compression and decompression may completely recover all of the original data (called lossless compression), or may lose some of the original data in order to achieve higher degress of compression (lossy compression). The latter is used especially with images or video data, which may be of very large size relative to text, and for which small changes may be imperceptible to the human eye. The JPEG data compression format is a lossy format.
Decompression (n.) Restoring compressed information to its normal form for use or display [ant: compression].
Decompression (n.) Relieving pressure (especially bringing a compressed person gradually back to atmospheric pressure) [syn: decompression, decompressing] [ant: compressing, compression].
Deconcentrate (v. t.) To withdraw from concentration; to decentralize. [R.]
Deconcentrate (v.) Make less central; "After the revolution, food distribution was decentralized" [syn: decentralize, deconcentrate, decentralise] [ant: centralise, centralize, concentrate].
Deconcentration (n.) Act of deconcentrating. [R.]
Deconcoct (v. t.) To decompose. [R.] -- Fuller.