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.
Declinator (n.) An instrument for taking the declination or angle which a plane makes with the horizontal plane.
Declinator (n.) A dissentient.
Declinatory (a.) Containing or involving a declination or refusal, as of submission to a charge or sentence.
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.
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.
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.
Decline (v. i.) To turn away; to shun; to refuse; -- the opposite of accept or consent; as, he declined, upon principle.
Decline (v. t.) To bend downward; to bring down; to depress; to cause to bend, or fall.
Decline (v. t.) To cause to decrease or diminish.
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.
Decline (v. t.) To inflect, or rehearse in order the changes of grammatical form of; as, to decline a noun or an adjective.
Decline (v. t.) To run through from first to last; to repeat like a schoolboy declining a noun.
Decline (v. i.) 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.
Decline (v. i.) That period of a disorder or paroxysm when the symptoms begin to abate in violence; as, the decline of a fever.
Decline (v. i.) A gradual sinking and wasting away of the physical faculties; any wasting disease, esp. pulmonary consumption; as, to die of a decline.
Declined (a.) Declinate.
Decliner (n.) He who declines or rejects.
Declinometer (n.) An instrument for measuring the declination of the magnetic needle.
Declinous (a.) Declinate.
Declivitous (a.) Alt. of Declivous.
Declivous (a.) Descending gradually; moderately steep; sloping; downhill.
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.
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.
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.
Decoction (n.) An extract got from a body by boiling it in water.
Decocture (n.) A decoction.
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.
Decollated (a.) 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.
Decolling (n.) Beheading.
Decolor (v. t.) To deprive of color; to bleach.
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.
Decolorize (v. t.) To deprive of color; to whiten.
Decomplex (a.) Repeatedly compound; made up of complex constituents.
Decomposable (a.) Capable of being resolved into constituent elements.
Decomposed (imp. & p. p.) of Decompose.
Decomposing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Decompose.
Decompose (v. t.) (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.) 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.) See Decompound, a., 2.
Decomposite (n.) Anything decompounded.
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.
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.
Decompound (a.) Compound of what is already compounded; compounded a second time.
Decompound (a.) Several times compounded or divided, as a leaf or stem; decomposite.
Decompound (n.) A decomposite.
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.
Deconcentration (n.) Act of deconcentrating.
Deconcoct (v. t.) To decompose.