Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter D - Page 28
Denary (n.) A coin; the Anglicized form of denarius. -- Udall.
Denary (a.) Containing ten or ten parts [syn: tenfold, ten-fold, denary].
Denary (a.) Numbered or proceeding by tens; based on ten; "the decimal system" [syn: decimal, denary].
Denationalization (n.) 開除國籍；剝奪公民資格 The act or process of denationalizing.
Denationalization (n.) Changing something from state to private ownership or control [syn: denationalization, denationalisation, privatization, privatisation] [ant: communisation, communization, nationalisation, nationalization].
Denationalized (imp. & p. p.) of Denationalize.
Denationalizing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Denationalize.
Denationalize (v. t.) 剝奪……的國籍；使失去獨立國資格 To divest or deprive of national character or rights.
Bonaparte's decree denationalizes, as he calls it, all ships that have touched at a British port. -- Cobbett.
An expatriated, denationalized race. -- G. Eliot.
Denationalize (v. t.) To change (something, as an industry or business) from state to private ownership or control; as, the British denationalization of steel.
Syn: privatize, denationalise.
Denationalize (v.) Put under private control or ownership; "The steel industry was denationalized" [syn: denationalize, denationalise] [ant: nationalise, nationalize].
Denaturalized (imp. & p. p.) of Denaturalize.
Denaturalizing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Denaturalize.
Denaturalize (v. t.) 使不自然；變其本性；使變質 To render unnatural; to alienate from nature.
Denaturalize (v. t.) To renounce the natural rights and duties of; to deprive of citizenship; to denationalize. [R.]
They also claimed the privilege, when aggrieved, of denaturalizing themselves, or, in other words, of publicly renouncing their allegiance to their sovereign, and of enlisting under the banners of his enemy. -- Prescott.
Denaturalize (v. t.) Same as denature.
Denaturalize (v.) Make less natural or unnatural [syn: denaturalize, denaturalise] [ant: naturalise, naturalize].
Denaturalize (v.) Strip of the rights and duties of citizenship; "The former Nazi was denaturalized" [syn: denaturalize, denaturalise] [ant: naturalise, naturalize].
Denay (v. t.) To deny. [Obs.]
That with great rage he stoutly doth denay. -- Spenser.
Denay (n.) Denial; refusal. [Obs.] -- Shak.
Dendrachate (n.) (Min.) Arborescent or dendritic agate.
Dendriform (a.) Resembling in structure a tree or shrub; having a branching shape.
Syn: arboreal, arboreous, arborescent, arboresque, arboriform, dendroid, dendroidal, treelike, tree-shaped.
Dendriform (a.) Resembling a tree in form and branching structure; "arborescent coral found off the coast of Bermuda"; "dendriform sponges" [syn: arboreal, arboreous, arborescent, arboresque, arboriform, dendriform, dendroid, dendroidal, treelike, tree-shaped].
Dendrite (n.) (Min.) A stone or mineral on or in which are branching figures resembling shrubs or trees, produced by a foreign mineral, usually an oxide of manganese, as in the moss agate; also, a crystallized mineral having an arborescent form, e. g., gold or silver; an arborization. Dendritic
Dendrite (n.) Short fiber that conducts toward the cell body of the Neuron.
Dendritic (a.) Alt. of Dendritical.
Dendritical (a.) Pertaining to a dendrite, or to arborescent crystallization; having a form resembling a shrub or tree; arborescent.
Dendritic (a.) (Neuroscience) Of or relating to or resembling a dendrite; "dendritic fiber."
Dendrocoela (n. pl.) (Zool.) A division of the Turbellaria in which the digestive cavity gives off lateral branches, which are often divided into smaller branchlets. Dendroid.
Dendroid (a.) Alt. of Dendroidal.
Dendroidal (a.) Resembling a shrub or tree in form; treelike ; branching.
Syn: arboreal, arboreous, arborescent, arboresque, arboriform, dendriform, treelike, tree-shaped.
Dendroidal (a.) Resembling a tree in form and branching structure; "arborescent coral found off the coast of Bermuda"; "dendriform sponges" [syn: arboreal, arboreous, arborescent, arboresque, arboriform, dendriform, dendroid, dendroidal, treelike, tree-shaped].
Dendrolite (n.) (Paleon.) A petrified or fossil shrub, plant, or part of a plant.
Dendrologic (a.) Varient or Dendrological: Relating to dendrology.
Dendrologist (n.) One versed in the natural history of trees.
Dendrologist (n.) A scientist who studies trees.
Dendrologous (a.) Relating to dendrology.
Dendrology (n.) 樹木學 The branch of botany studying trees and shrubs; the natural history of trees.
Dendrology (n.) A discourse or treatise on trees. -- den`dro*log"ic*al, a. -- den`dro*log"ic, a. -- den*drol"o*gist, n.
Dendrometer (n.) An instrument to measure the height and diameter of trees.
Denegate (v. t.) To deny. [Obs.]
Denegation (n.) Denial. [Obs.]
Dengue (n.) (Med.) A specific epidemic disease attended with high fever, cutaneous eruption, and severe pains in the head and limbs, resembling those of rheumatism; -- called also breakbone fever. It occurs in India, Egypt, the West Indies, etc., is of short duration, and rarely fatal.
Note: This disease, when it first appeared in the British West India Islands, was called the dandy fever, from the stiffness and constraint which it grave to the limbs and body. The Spaniards of the neighboring islands mistook the term for their word dengue, denoting prudery, which might also well express stiffness, and hence the term dengue became, as last, the name of the disease. -- Tully.
Dengue (n.) An infectious disease of the tropics transmitted by mosquitoes and characterized by rash and aching head and joints [syn: dengue, dengue fever, dandy fever, breakbone fever].
Deniable (a.) Capable of being, or liable to be, denied.
Deniable (a.) Capable of being denied or contradicted [ant: undeniable].
Denial (n.) The act of gainsaying, refusing, or disowning; negation; -- the contrary of affirmation.
You ought to converse with so much sincerity that your bare affirmation or denial may be sufficient. -- Bp. Stillingfleet.
Denial (n.) A refusal to admit the truth of a statement, charge, imputation, etc.; assertion of the untruth of a thing stated or maintained; a contradiction.
Denial (n.) A refusal to grant; rejection of a request.
The commissioners, . . . to obtain from the king's subjects as much as they would willingly give, . . . had not to complain of many peremptory denials. -- Hallam.
Denial (n.) A refusal to acknowledge; disclaimer of connection with; disavowal; -- the contrary of confession; as, the denial of a fault charged on one; a denial of God.
Denial of one's self, A declining of some gratification; restraint of one's appetites or propensities; self-denial.
Denial (n.) The act of refusing to comply (as with a request); "it resulted in a complete denial of his privileges."
Denial (n.) The act of asserting that something alleged is not true [syn: denial, disaffirmation].
Denial (n.) (Psychiatry) A defense mechanism that denies painful thoughts.
Denial (n.) Renunciation of your own interests in favor of the interests of others [syn: abnegation, self-abnegation, denial, self-denial, self-renunciation].
Denial (n.) A defendant's answer or plea denying the truth of the charges against him; "he gave evidence for the defense" [syn: defense, defence, denial, demurrer] [ant: criminal prosecution, prosecution].
Denial, () pleading. To traverse the statement of the opposite party a defence.
See Defence; Traverse.
Deniance (n.) Denial.
Denier (n.) One who denies; as, a denier of a fact, or of the faith, or of Christ.
Denier (n.) A small copper coin of insignificant value.
My dukedom to a beggarly denier. -- Shak.
Denier (n.) A unit of measurement for the fineness of silk or nylon or rayon; "with an evening dress one wears 10 denier stockings."
Denier (n.) Any of various former European coins of different denominations.
Denier (n.) One who denies.
Denigrate (v. t.) To blacken thoroughly; to make very black. -- Boyle.
Denigrate (v. t.) Fig.: To blacken or sully; to defame. [R.]
To denigrate the memory of Voltaire. -- Morley.
Denigrate (v.) Cause to seem less serious; play down; "Don't belittle his influence" [syn: minimize, belittle, denigrate, derogate].
Denigrate (v.) Charge falsely or with malicious intent; attack the good name and reputation of someone; "The journalists have defamed me!" "The article in the paper sullied my reputation" [syn: defame, slander, smirch, asperse, denigrate, calumniate, smear, sully, besmirch].
Denigration (n.) The act of making black. --Boyle.
Denigration (n.) Fig.: A blackening; defamation.
The vigorous denigration of science. -- Morley.
Denigration (n.) A belittling comment [syn: denigration, belittling].
Denigration (n.) An abusive attack on a person's character or good name [syn: aspersion, calumny, slander, defamation, denigration].
Denigration (n.) The act of expressing disapproval (especially of yourself) [syn: deprecation, denigration].
Denigrator (n.) One who, or that which, blackens.
Denim (n.) A coarse cotton drilling used for overalls, etc.
Denim (n) (Usually plural) Close-fitting trousers of heavy denim for manual work or casual wear [syn: jean, blue jean, denim].
Denim (n) A coarse durable twill-weave cotton fabric [syn: denim, dungaree, jean].
DENIM, () Directory-Enabled Net Infrastructure Model (Novell).
Denitration (n.) A disengaging, or removal, of nitric acid.
Denitrification (n.) The act or process of freeing from nitrogen; also, the condition resulting from the removal of nitrogen.
Denitrify (v. t.) To deprive of, or free from, nitrogen.
Denitrify (v.) Remove nitrogen from; "Denitrify the soil" [ant: nitrify].
Denization (n.) The act of making one a denizen or adopted citizen; naturalization. -- Hallam.
Denization, () Eng. law.. The act by which a foreigner becomes a subject of England; but he has not the rights either of a natural born subject, nor of one who has become naturalized. Bac. Ab. Aliens, B.
Denize (v. t.) To make a denizen; to confer the rights of citizenship upon; to naturalize. [Obs.]
There was a private act made for denizing the children of Richard Hills. -- Strype.
Denizen (n.) A dweller; an inhabitant. "Denizens of air." -- Pope.
Denizens of their own free, independent state. -- Sir W. Scott.
Denizen (n.) One who is admitted by favor to all or a part of the rights of citizenship, where he did not possess them by birth; an adopted or naturalized citizen.
Denizen (n.) One admitted to residence in a foreign country.
Ye gods, Natives, or denizens, of blest abodes. -- Dryden.
Denizen (v. t.) To constitute (one) a denizen; to admit to residence, with certain rights and privileges.
As soon as denizened, they domineer. -- Dryden.
Denizen (v. t.) To provide with denizens; to populate with adopted or naturalized occupants.
There [islets] were at once denizened by various weeds. -- J. D. Hooker.
Denizen (n.) A person who inhabits a particular place [syn: inhabitant, habitant, dweller, denizen, indweller].
Denizen (n.) A plant or animal naturalized in a region; "denizens of field and forest"; "denizens of the deep."
Denizen, () English law. An alien born, who has obtained, ex donatione legis, letters patent to make him au English subject.
Denizen, () He is intermediate between a natural born subject and an alien. He may. take lands by purchase or devise, which an alien cannot, but he is incapable of taking by inheritance. 1 Bl. Com. 374. In the United States there is no such civil condition.
Denizenation (n.) Denization; denizening. -- Abbott.
Denizenize (v. t.) To constitute (one) a denizen; to denizen. -- Abbott.
Denizenship (n.) State of being a denizen.
Denmark (n.) 丹麥 A constitutional monarchy in northern Europe; consists of the mainland of Jutland and many islands between the North Sea and the Baltic Sea [syn: {Denmark}, {Kingdom of Denmark}, {Danmark}].
Compare: Copenhagen
Copenhagen (n.) 哥本哈根 The capital city of Denmark, situated in the eastern part of the country.
Denmark satin (n.) 丹麥緞紋呢 See under [{Satin}].
Compare: Stain
Stain (n.) A smooth, often silk fabric that is woven with a glossy face and a dull back.
Stain (n.) A garment made of this fabric.
Stain (n.) A kind of paint that dries to a smooth shiny finish.
Stain (a.) Made of or covered with stain.
Stain (a.) Glossy, sleek, and smooth.
Compare: The Great Belt Fixed link
The Great Belt Fixed link (n.) 大貝爾特橋（也有音譯為斯托伯爾特橋）是一座連接丹麥西蘭島和菲英島的大橋，橫跨大貝爾特海峽。大橋由三部分組成，從西蘭島到斯普奧島之間為懸索橋（東橋）和海底隧道，從斯普奧島到菲英島為箱梁橋（西橋）。通常把東橋稱為大貝爾特橋。
Is a multi-element fixed link crossing the Great Belt strait between the Danish islands of Zealand and Funen. It consists of five structures: a road suspension bridge and a railway tunnel between Zealand and the small island Sprogø located in the middle of the Great Belt, and a box girder bridge for both road and rail traffic between Sprogø and Funen. The "Great Belt Bridge" commonly refers to the suspension bridge, although it may also be used to mean the box-girder bridge or the link in its entirety. The suspension bridge, officially known as the East Bridge, has the world's third longest main span (1.6 km), and the longest outside of Asia. It was designed by the Danish engineering firms COWI and Ramboll.
Dennet (n.) A light, open, two-wheeled carriage for one horse; a kind of gig.
Denominable (a.) Capable of being denominated or named.
Denominated (imp. & p. p.) of Denominate.
Denominating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Denominate.
Denominate (v. t.) To give a name to; to characterize by an epithet; to entitle; to name; to designate.
Denominate (a.) Having a specific name or denomination; specified in the concrete as opposed to abstract; thus, 7 feet is a denominate quantity, while 7 is mere abstract quantity or number. See Compound number, under Compound.
Denomination (n.) 名稱 [C]；命名 [U]；宗派，教派 [C] The act of naming or designating.
Denomination (n.) That by which anything is denominated or styled; an epithet; a name, designation, or title; especially, a general name indicating a class of like individuals; a category; as, the denomination of units, or of thousands, or of fourths, or of shillings, or of tons.
Those [qualities] which are classed under the denomination of sublime. -- Burke.
Denomination (n.) A class, or society of individuals, called by the same name; a sect; as, a denomination of Christians.
Syn: Name; appellation; title. See Name.
Denomination (n.) A group of religious congregations having its own organization and a distinctive faith.
Denomination (n.) A class of one kind of unit in a system of numbers or measures or weights or money; "he flashed a fistful of bills of large denominations."
Denomination (n.) Identifying word or words by which someone or something is called and classified or distinguished from others [syn: appellation, denomination, designation, appellative].
Denominational (a.) 宗派的 Pertaining to a denomination, especially to a sect or society.
Denominationalism (n.) 宗派制度；對宗派主義或制度之擁護；宗派心；門戶之見 A denominational or class spirit or policy; devotion to the interests of a sect or denomination.
Denominationalist (n.) 宗派主義者 One imbued with a denominational spirit.
Denominationally (adv.) 宗派地 In a denominational manner; by denomination or sect.
Denominative (a.) 有名稱的， 【文】 出自名詞或形容詞的 Conferring a denomination or name.
Denominative (a.) Connotative; as, a denominative name.
Denominative (a.) Possessing, or capable of possessing, a distinct denomination or designation; denominable.
Denominative (a.) Derived from a substantive or an adjective; as, a denominative verb.
Denominative (n.) 【文】 出自名詞或形容詞之字 A denominative name or term; denominative verb.
Denominatively (adv.) 有名稱地；【文】出自名詞或形容詞地 By denomination.
Denominator (n.) 命名者 One who, or that which, gives a name; origin or source of a name.
Denominator (n.) 分母 That number placed below the line in vulgar fractions which shows into how many parts the integer or unit is divided.
Denominator (n.) That part of any expression under a fractional form which is situated below the horizontal line signifying division.
Denotable (a.) 可指示的，可表示的 Capable of being denoted or marked.
Denotate (v. t.) To mark off; to denote.
Denotation (n.) 指示，表示，符號 The marking off or separation of anything.
Denotative (a.) 指示的，表示的，外延的 Having power to denote; designating or marking off.
Denoted (imp. & p. p.) of Denote.
Denoting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Denote.
Denote (v. t.) To mark out plainly; to signify by a visible sign; to serve as the sign or name of; to indicate; to point out; as, the hands of the clock denote the hour.
Denote (v. t.) 表示；象徵To be the sign of; to betoken; to signify; to mean.
Denotement (n.) 指示（符號） Sign; indication.
Denotive (a.) 指示的，表示的，外延的 Serving to denote : Denotative.
Denouement (n.) （小說、戲劇等的）結局，收場 The unraveling or discovery of a plot; the catastrophe, especially of a drama or a romance.
Denouement (n.) The solution of a mystery; issue; outcome.
Denouement (n.) The outcome of a complex sequence of events.
Denouement (n.) The final resolution of the main complication of a literary or dramatic work.
Denouement (n.) [ C ] 結局，結果 The end of a story, in which everything is explained, or the end result of a situation.
Denounced (imp. & p. p.) of Denounce.
Denouncing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Denounce.
Denounce (v. t.) 指責，譴責 [（+as）]；告發，指控；彈劾 [（+as）]； 通告廢除（或終止） To make known in a solemn or official manner; to declare; to proclaim (especially an evil). [Obs.]
Denouncing wrath to come. -- Milton.
I denounce unto you this day, that ye shall surely perish. -- Deut. xxx.
Denounce (v. t.) To proclaim in a threatening manner; to threaten by some outward sign or expression.
His look denounced desperate. -- Milton.
Denounce (v. t.) To point out as deserving of reprehension or punishment, etc.; to accuse in a threatening manner; to invoke censure upon; to stigmatize.
Denounced for a heretic. -- Sir T. More.
To denounce the immoralities of Julius C[ae]sar. -- Brougham.
Denounce (v.) Speak out against; "He denounced the Nazis."
Denounce (v.) To accuse or condemn or openly or formally or brand as disgraceful; "He denounced the government action"; "She was stigmatized by society because she had a child out of wedlock" [syn: {stigmatize}, {stigmatise}, {brand}, {denounce}, {mark}].
Denounce (v.) Announce the termination of, as of treaties.
Denounce (v.) Give away information about somebody; "He told on his classmate who had cheated on the exam" [syn: {denounce}, {tell on}, {betray}, {give away}, {rat}, {grass}, {shit}, {shop}, {snitch}, {stag}].
Denouncement (n.) 公開抨擊；痛罵 Solemn, official, or menacing announcement; denunciation.
Denouncer (n.) 斥責者， 告發者 One who denounces, or declares, as a menace.
Dense (a.) Having the constituent parts massed or crowded together; close; compact; thick; containing much matter in a small space; heavy; opaque; as, a dense crowd; a dense forest; a dense fog.
Dense (a.) Stupid; gross; crass; as, dense ignorance.
Densely (adv.) In a dense, compact manner.
Denseless (n.) The quality of being dense; density.