Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter D - Page 3
Dally (v. i.) 嬉戲；調情 [（+with）]；輕率的（或並非認真地）對待 [（+with）] To interchange caresses, especially with one of the opposite sex; to use fondling; to wanton; to sport.
Not dallying with a brace of courtesans. -- Shak.
Our aerie . . . dallies with the wind. -- Shak.
Dally (v. t.) 浪費（時間）[（+away）] To delay unnecessarily; to while away.
Dallying off the time with often skirmishes. -- Knolles.
Dally (v.) Behave carelessly or indifferently; "Play about with a young girl's affection" [syn: dally, toy, play, flirt].
Dally (v.) Waste time; "Get busy--don't dally!" [syn: dally, dawdle].
Dally (v.) Talk or behave amorously, without serious intentions; "The guys always try to chat up the new secretaries"; "My husband never flirts with other women" [syn: chat up, flirt, dally, butterfly, coquet, coquette, romance, philander, mash].
Dally (v.) Consider not very seriously; "He is trifling with her"; "She plays with the thought of moving to Tasmania" [syn: dally, trifle, play].
Dally (v.) To do something slowly or too slowly.
Dally (v. i.) To act playfully; especially : to play amorously.
Dally (v. i.) To deal lightly: toy.
// Accused him of dallying with a serious problem. -dallier (n.).
Dally (v. i.) To waste time.
Dally (v. i.) Linger, dawdle. Dallier (n.)
Dally (v.) To act playfully.
// Boys and girls dallied at the dance.
Dally (v.) To waste time.
// I dallied at my desk and didn't finish my homework.
Dally (v.) Linger 1, dawdle.
// Don't dally on your way home.
Dalmania (n.) A genus of trilobites, of many species, common in the Upper Silurian and Devonian rocks.
Dalmanites (n.) Same as Dalmania.
Dalmatian (a.) Of or pertaining to Dalmatia.
Dalmatica (n.) Alt. of Dalmatic.
Dalmatic (n.) A vestment with wide sleeves, and with two stripes, worn at Mass by deacons, and by bishops at pontifical Mass; -- imitated from a dress originally worn in Dalmatia.
Dalmatic (n.) A robe worn on state ocasions, as by English kings at their coronation.
Dal segno () A direction to go back to the sign / and repeat from thence to the close. See Segno.
Dal segno (adv.& a.) [Music] (Especially as a direction) Repeat from the point marked by a sign.
Compare with: D a capo.
Da capo (adv.) [Music] (Especially as a direction) Repeat from the beginning.
Daltonian (n.) One afflicted with color blindness.
Daltonism (n.) Inability to perceive or distinguish certain colors, esp. red; color blindness. It has various forms and degrees. So called from the chemist Dalton, who had this infirmity.
Dam (n.) 母獸 [C] A female parent; -- used of beasts, especially of quadrupeds; sometimes applied in contempt to a human mother.
Our sire and dam, now confined to horses, are a relic of this age (13th century) . . . .Dame is used of a hen; we now make a great difference between dame and dam. -- T. L. K. Oliphant.
The dam runs lowing up and down, Looking the way her harmless young one went. -- Shak.
Dam (n.) A king or crowned piece in the game of draughts.
Dam (n.) [C] 水壩，水堤；攔蓄之水 A barrier to prevent the flow of a liquid; esp., a bank of earth, or wall of any kind, as of masonry or wood, built across a water course, to confine and keep back flowing water.
Dam (n.) (Metal.) A firebrick wall, or a stone, which forms the front of the hearth of a blast furnace.
{Dam plate} (Blast Furnace), An iron plate in front of the dam, to strengthen it.
Dammed (imp. & p. p.) of Dam.
Damming (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Dam.
Dam (v. t.) 築壩於，築壩攔（水）[（+up/ out）]；控制，抑制 [（+in/ up/ back）] To obstruct or restrain the flow of, by a dam; to confine by constructing a dam, as a stream of water; -- generally used with in or up.
I'll have the current in this place dammed up. -- Shak.
A weight of earth that dams in the water. -- Mortimer.
Dam (v. t.) To shut up; to stop up; to close; to restrain.
The strait pass was dammed With dead men hurt behind, and cowards. -- Shak.
{To dam out}, To keep out by means of a dam.
Dam (n.) A barrier constructed to contain the flow of water or to keep out the sea [syn: {dam}, {dike}, {dyke}].
Dam (n.) A metric unit of length equal to ten meters [syn: {decameter}, {dekameter}, {decametre}, {dekametre}, {dam}, {dkm}].
Dam (n.) Female parent of an animal especially domestic livestock.
Dam (v.) Obstruct with, or as if with, a dam; "dam the gorges of the Yangtse River" [syn: {dam}, {dam up}].
DAM () Debian Account Manager (Linux, Debian).
DAM () Direct Access Method / Mode (DAM, SAM).
DAM () Distributed Abstract Machine.
DAM () Draft AMendment (ISO).
Dam (n.) A construction of wood, stone, or other materials, made across a stream of water for the purpose of confining it; a mole.
Dam (n.) The owner of a stream not navigable, may erect a dam across it, and employ the water in any reasonable manner, either for his use or pleasure, so as not to destroy or render useless, materially diminish, or affect the application of the water by the proprietors below on the stream. He must not shut the gates of his dams and detain the water unreasonably, nor let it off in unusual quantities to the annoyance of his neighbors. 4 Dall. 211; 3 Caines, 207; 13 Mass. 420; 3 Pick, 268; 2 N. H. Rep. 532; 17 John. 306; 3 John. Ch. Rep. 282; 3 Rawle, 256; 2 Conn. Rep. 584; 5 Pick. 199; 20 John. 90; 1 Pick. 180; 4 Id. 460; 2 Binn. 475; 14 Serg. & Rawle, 71; Id. 9; 13 John. 212; 1 McCord, 580; 3 N. H. Rep. 321; 1 Halst. R. 1; 3 Kents Com. 354.
Dam (n.) When one side of the stream is owned by one person and the other by another, neither, without the consent of the other, can build a dam which extends beyond the filum aqua, thread of the river, without committing a trespass. Cro. Eliz. 269; 12 Mass. 211; Ang. on W. C. 14, 104, 141; vide Lois des Bat. P. 1, c. 3, s. 1, a. 3; Poth. Traite du Contrat de Societe, second app. 236; Hill. Ab. Index, h.t.; 7 Cowen, R. 266; 2 Watts, R. 327; 3 Rawle, R. 90; 17 Mass. R. 289; 5 Pick. R. 175; 4 Mass. R. 401. Vide Inundation.
Damage (n.) Injury or harm to person, property, or reputation; an inflicted loss of value; detriment; hurt; mischief.
Damage (n.) The estimated reparation in money for detriment or injury sustained; a compensation, recompense, or satisfaction to one party, for a wrong or injury actually done to him by another.
Damages (imp. & p. p.) of Damage.
Damaging (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Damage.
Damage (v. t.) To ocassion damage to the soudness, goodness, or value of; to hurt; to injure; to impair.
He . . . came up to the English admiral and gave him a broadside, with which he killed many of his men and damaged the ship. -- Clarendon.
Damage (v. i.) To receive damage or harm; to be injured or impaired in soundness or value; as, some colors in cloth damage in sunlight.
Damage (n.) The occurrence of a change for the worse [syn: damage, harm, impairment].
Damage (n.) Loss of military equipment [syn: damage, equipment casualty].
Damage (n.) The act of damaging something or someone [syn: damage, harm, hurt, scathe].
Damage (n.) The amount of money needed to purchase something; "the price of gasoline"; "he got his new car on excellent terms"; "how much is the damage?" [syn: price, terms, damage].
Damage (n.) Any harm or injury resulting from a violation of a legal right [syn: wrong, legal injury, damage].
Damage (v.) Inflict damage upon; "The snow damaged the roof"; "She damaged the car when she hit the tree".
Damage (v.) Suffer or be susceptible to damage; "These fine china cups damage easily".
Damage, () torts. The loss caused by one person to another, or to his property, either with the design of injuring him, with negligence and carelessness, or by inevitable accident.
Damage, () He who has caused the damage is bound to repair it and, if he has done it maliciously, he may be. compelled to pay beyond the actual loss. When damage occurs by accident, without blame to anyone, the loss is borne by the owner of the thing injured; as, if a horse run away with his rider, without any fault of the latter, and injure the property of another person, the injury is the loss of the owner of the thing. When the damage happens by the act of God, or inevitable accident, as by tempest, earthquake or other natural cause, the loss must be borne by the owner. Vide Com. Dig. h.t.; Sayer on Damages.
Damage, () Pothier defines damage (dommiges et interets) to be the loss which some one has sustained, and the gain which he has failed of making. Obl. n. 159.
Damage (v.) [ T ] (B1) 損害，損壞，破壞 To harm or spoil something.
// Many buildings were badly damaged during the war.
// It was a scandal that damaged a lot of reputations.
Damage (n.) (B1) [ U ] 損害，危害；損壞；傷害 Harm or injury.
// Strong winds had caused serious damage to the roof.
// Recent discoveries about corruption have done serious damage to the company's reputation.
// The doctors were worried that he might have suffered brain damage.
Damaged (a.) Changed so as to reduce value, function, or other desirable trait; -- usually not used of persons. Opposite of undamaged. [Narrower terms: battered, beat-up, beaten-up, bedraggled, broken-down, dilapidated, ramshackle, tumble-down, unsound; bent, crumpled, dented; blasted, rent, ripped, torn; broken-backed; burned-out(prenominal), burned out(predicate), burnt-out(prenominal), burnt out (predicate); burst, ruptured; corroded; cracked, crackled, crazed; defaced, marred; hurt, weakened; knocked-out(prenominal), knocked out; mangled, mutilated; peeling; scraped, scratched; storm-beaten] Also See blemished, broken, damaged, destroyed, impaired, injured, unsound.
Damaged (a.) Rendered imperfect by impairing the integrity of some part, or by breaking. Opposite of unbroken. [Narrower terms: busted; chipped; cracked; crumbled, fragmented; crushed, ground; dissolved; fractured; shattered, smashed, splintered; split; unkept, violated] Also See: damaged, imperfect, injured, unsound.
Syn: broken.
Damaged (a.) Being unjustly brought into disrepute; as, her damaged reputation.
Syn: discredited.
Damaged (a.) Made to appear imperfect; -- especially of reputation; as, the senator's seriously damaged reputation.
Syn: besmirched, flyblown, spotted, stained, sullied, tainted, tarnished.
Damaged (a.) Harmed or injured or spoiled; "I won't buy damaged goods"; "the storm left a wake of badly damaged buildings" [ant: undamaged].
Damaged (a.) Being unjustly brought into disrepute; "a discredited politician"; "her damaged reputation" [syn: discredited, damaged].
Damages (n.) (pl.) 賠償（金），賠款 Money that is paid to someone by a person or organization who has been responsible for causing them some injury or loss.
// The politician was awarded £50,000 in damages over false allegations made by the newspaper.
// The police have been ordered to pay substantial damages to the families of the two dead boys.
Idiom: The damage is done
The damage is done 為時已晚，覆水難收 Said to mean that it is too late to improve a bad situation.
// I didn't even know I'd offended her until Colin told me and then it was too late - the damage was done.
Idiom: What's the damage?
What's the damage? (Informal humorous) 花了多少錢？ Used to ask how much you have to pay for something.
Damageable (a.) Capable of being injured or impaired; liable to, or susceptible of, damage; as, a damageable cargo.
Damageable (a.) Hurtful; pernicious.
Damage feasant () Doing injury; trespassing, as cattle.
Daman (n.) A small herbivorous mammal of the genus Hyrax. The species found in Palestine and Syria is Hyrax Syriacus; that of Northern Africa is H. Brucei; -- called also ashkoko, dassy, and rock rabbit. See Cony, and Hyrax.
Damar (n.) See Dammar.
Damascene (a.) Of or relating to Damascus.
Damascene (n.) A kind of plume, now called damson. See Damson.
Damascene (v. t.) Same as Damask, or Damaskeen, v. t.
Damascus (n.) A city of Syria.
Damascus (n.) 大馬士革，是亞洲國家敘利亞的首都，也是全世界最古老的有人持續居住城市（建城至今4000多年，而有人居時間更長達一萬年之久）。其在《回回館譯語》中被稱為敵米石 Damascus is the capital and likely the largest city of Syria, following the decline in population of Aleppo due to the battle for the city. It is commonly known in Syria as ash-Sham (Arabic: الشام ash-Shām) and nicknamed as the City of Jasmine (Arabic: مدينة الياسمين Madīnat al-Yāsmīn). In addition to being one of the oldest continuously inhabited cities in the world, [3] Damascus is a major cultural centre of the Levant and the Arab world. The city has an estimated population of 1,711,000 as of 2009. [2]
Located in south-western Syria, Damascus is the centre of a large metropolitan area of 2.6 million people (2004).[4] Geographically embedded on the eastern foothills of the Anti-Lebanon mountain range 80 kilometres (50 mi) inland from the eastern shore of the Mediterranean on a plateau 680 metres (2,230 ft) above sea level, Damascus experiences a semi-arid climate because of the rain shadow effect. The Barada River flows through Damascus.
First settled in the second millennium BC, it was chosen as the capital of the Umayyad Caliphate from 661 to 750. After the victory of the Abbasid dynasty, the seat of Islamic power was moved to Baghdad. Damascus saw a political decline throughout the Abbasid era, only to regain significant importance in the Ayyubid and Mamluk periods. Today, it is the seat of the central government and all of the government ministries.
Damask (n.) Damask silk; silk woven with an elaborate pattern of flowers and the like.
Damask (n.) Linen so woven that a pattern in produced by the different directions of the thread, without contrast of color.
Damask (n.) A heavy woolen or worsted stuff with a pattern woven in the same way as the linen damask; -- made for furniture covering and hangings.
Damask (n.) Damask or Damascus steel; also, the peculiar markings or "water" of such steel.
Damask (n.) A deep pink or rose color.
Damask (a.) Pertaining to, or originating at, the city of Damascus; resembling the products or manufactures of Damascus.
Damask (a.) Having the color of the damask rose.
Damasked (imp. & p. p.) of Damask.
Damasking (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Damask.
Damask (v. t.) To decorate in a way peculiar to Damascus or attributed to Damascus; particularly: (a) with flowers and rich designs, as silk; (b) with inlaid lines of gold, etc., or with a peculiar marking or "water," as metal. See Damaskeen.
Damaskeen (v.) Alt. of Damasken
Damasken (v.) To decorate, as iron, steel, etc., with a peculiar marking or "water" produced in the process of manufacture, or with designs produced by inlaying or incrusting with another metal, as silver or gold, or by etching, etc., to damask.
Damaskin (n.) A sword of Damask steel.
Damasse (a.) Woven like damask.
Damasse (n.) A damasse fabric, esp. one of linen.
Damassin (n.) A kind of modified damask or brocade.
Dambonite (n.) A white, crystalline, sugary substance obtained from an African caoutchouc.
Dambose (n.) A crystalline variety of fruit sugar obtained from dambonite.
Dame (n.) A mistress of a family, who is a lady; a woman in authority; especially, a lady.
Dame (n.) The mistress of a family in common life, or the mistress of a common school; as, a dame's school.
Dame (n.) A woman in general, esp. an elderly woman.
Dame (n.) A mother; -- applied to human beings and quadrupeds.
Damewort (n.) A cruciferrous plant (Hesperis matronalis), remarkable for its fragrance, especially toward the close of the day; -- called also rocket and dame's violet.
Damiana (n.) A Mexican drug, used as an aphrodisiac.
Damianist (n.) A follower of Damian, patriarch of Alexandria in the 6th century, who held heretical opinions on the doctrine of the Holy Trinity.
Dammar (n.) Alt. of Dammara.
Dammara (n.) An oleoresin used in making varnishes; dammar gum; dammara resin. It is obtained from certain resin trees indigenous to the East Indies, esp. Shorea robusta and the dammar pine.
Dammara (n.) A large tree of the order Coniferae, indigenous to the East Indies and Australasia; -- called also Agathis. There are several species.
Damned (imp. & p. p.) of Damn.
Damning (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Damn.
Damn (v. t.) ……入地獄；罵……該死，咒罵 To condemn; to declare guilty; to doom; to adjudge to punishment; to sentence; to censure.
He shall not live; look, with a spot I damn him. -- Shak.
Damn (v. t.) (Theol.) To doom to punishment in the future world; to consign to perdition; to curse.
Damn (v. t.) To condemn as bad or displeasing, by open expression, as by denuciation, hissing, hooting, etc.
You are not so arrant a critic as to damn them [the works of modern poets] . . . without hearing. -- Pope.
Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer, And without sneering teach the rest to sneer. -- Pope.
Note: Damn is sometimes used interjectionally, imperatively, and intensively.
Damn (v. i.) To invoke damnation; to curse. "While I inwardly damn". -- Goldsmith.
Damn (adv.) Extremely; "you are bloody right"; "Why are you so all-fired aggressive?" [syn: bloody, damn, all-fired].
Damn (a.) Used as expletives; "oh, damn (or goddamn)!" [syn: damn, goddamn].
Damn (a.) Expletives used informally as intensifiers; "he's a blasted idiot"; "it's a blamed shame"; "a blame cold winter"; "not a blessed dime"; "I'll be damned (or blessed or darned or goddamned) if I'll do any such thing"; "he's a damn (or goddam or goddamned) fool"; "a deuced idiot"; "an infernal nuisance" [syn: blasted, blame, blamed, blessed, damn, damned, darned, deuced, goddam, goddamn, goddamned, infernal].
Damn (n.) Something of little value; "his promise is not worth a damn"; "not worth one red cent"; "not worth shucks" [syn: damn, darn, hoot, red cent, shit, shucks, tinker's damn, tinker's dam].
Damn (v.) Wish harm upon; invoke evil upon; "The bad witch cursed the child" [syn: curse, beshrew, damn, bedamn, anathemize, anathemise, imprecate, maledict] [ant: bless].
Damn (v.) A word formerly much used by the Paphlagonians, the meaning of which is lost. By the learned Dr. Dolabelly Gak it is believed to have been a term of satisfaction, implying the highest possible degree of mental tranquillity. Professor Groke, on the contrary, thinks it expressed an emotion of tumultuous delight, because it so frequently occurs in combination with the word _jod_ or _god_, meaning "joy." It would be with great diffidence that I should advance an opinion conflicting with that of either of these formidable authorities.
Damnability (n.) The quality of being damnable; damnableness. -- Sir T. More.
Damnable (a.) Liable to damnation; deserving, or for which one deserves, to be damned; of a damning nature.
A creature unprepared unmeet for death, And to transport him in the mind he is, Were damnable. -- Shak.
Damnable (a.) Odious; pernicious; detestable.
Begin, murderer; . . . leave thy damnable faces. -- Shak.
Damnable (a.) Deserving a curse; "her damnable pride" [syn: damnable, execrable].
Damnableness (n.) The state or quality of deserving damnation; execrableness.
The damnableness of this most execrable impiety. -- Prynne.
Damnably (adv.) In a manner to incur severe censure, condemnation, or punishment.
Damnably (adv.) Odiously; detestably; excessively. [Low]
Damnably (adv.) In a damnable manner; "kindly Arthur--so damnably , politely , endlessly persistent!" [syn: damned, damnably, cursedly].
Damnation (n.) (n.) 非難；被罰下地獄 (int.) 糟了；該死 The state of being damned; condemnation; openly expressed disapprobation.
Damnation (n.) (Theol.) Condemnation to everlasting punishment in the future state, or the punishment itself.
How can ye escape the damnation of hell? -- Matt. xxiii. 33.
Wickedness is sin, and sin is damnation. -- Shak.
Damnation (n.) A sin deserving of everlasting punishment.
The deep damnation of his taking-off. --Shak.
Damnation (n.) The act of damning.
Damnation (n.) The state of being condemned to eternal punishment in Hell [syn: {damnation}, {eternal damnation}].
Damnation (n.) In Rom. 13:2, means "condemnation," which comes on those who withstand God's ordinance of magistracy. This sentence of condemnation comes not from the magistrate, but from God, whose authority is thus resisted.
In 1 Cor. 11:29 (R.V., "judgment") this word means condemnation, in the sense of exposure to severe temporal judgements from God, as the following verse explains.
In Rom. 14:23 the word "damned" means "condemned" by one's own conscience, as well as by the Word of God. The apostle shows here that many things which are lawful are not expedient; and that in using our Christian liberty the question should not simply be, Is this course I follow lawful? but also, Can I follow it without doing injury to the spiritual interests of a brother in Christ? He that "doubteth", i.e., is not clear in his conscience as to "meats", will violate his conscience "if he eat," and in eating is condemned; and thus one ought not so to use his liberty as to lead one who is "weak" to bring upon himself this condemnation.
Damnatory (a.) Dooming to damnation; condemnatory. "Damnatory invectives". -- Hallam.
Damnatory (a.) Threatening with damnation [syn: damnatory, damning].
Damned (a.) Sentenced to punishment in a future state; condemned; consigned to perdition.
Damned (a.) Hateful; detestable; abominable.
But, O, what damned minutes tells he o'er Who doats, yet doubts, suspects, yet strongly loves. -- Shak.
Compare: Darned
Darned (a.) An intensifying expletive; a eupehmism for damned; as, for no darned reason at all.
Syn: blasted, blessed, damn, damned, deuced, goddam, goddamn, goddamned, gosh-darned.
Damned (adv.) In a damnable manner; "kindly Arthur--so damnably, politely , endlessly persistent!" [syn: damned, damnably, cursedly].
Damned (a.) Expletives used informally as intensifiers; "he's a blasted idiot"; "it's a blamed shame"; "a blame cold winter"; "not a blessed dime"; "I'll be damned (or blessed or darned or goddamned) if I'll do any such thing"; "he's a damn (or goddam or goddamned) fool"; "a deuced idiot"; "an infernal nuisance" [syn: blasted, blame, blamed, blessed, damn, damned, darned, deuced, goddam, goddamn, goddamned, infernal].
Damned (a.) In danger of the eternal punishment of Hell; "poor damned souls" [syn: cursed, damned, doomed, unredeemed, unsaved].
Damned (n.) People who are condemned to eternal punishment; "he felt he had visited the realm of the damned".
Damnific (a.) Procuring or causing loss; mischievous; injurious.
Damnification (n.) That which causes damage or loss.
Damnification. () That which causes a loss or damage to a society, or to one who has indemnified another. For example, when a society has entered into an obligation to pay the debt of the principal, and the principal has become bound in a bond to indemnify the surety, the latter has suffered a damnification the moment he becomes liable to be sued for the debt of the principal - and it has been held in an action brought by the surety, upon a bond of indemnity, that the terror of suit, so that the surety dare not go about his business, is a damnification. Ow. 19; 2 Chit. R. 487; 1 Saund. 116; 8 East, 593; Cary, 26.
Damnification. () A judgment fairly obtained against a party for a cause against which another person is bound to indemnify him, with timely notice to that person of the bringing of the action, is admissible as evidence in an action brought against the guarantor on the indemnity. 7 Cranch, 300, 322. See F. N. B. Warrantia Chartae; Lib. Int. Index, Warrantia Chartae; 2 S. & R. 12, 13.
Damnify (v. t.) To cause loss or damage to; to injure; to impair. [R.]
This work will ask as many more officials to make expurgations and expunctions, that the commonwealth of learning be not damnified. -- Milton.
Damnify. () To cause damage, injury or loss.
Damning (a.) That damns; damnable; as, damning evidence of guilt.
Damning (a.) Threatening with damnation [syn: damnatory, damning].
Damningness (n.) Tendency to bring damnation. "The damningness of them [sins]." -- Hammond.
Damnum (n.) [L.] (law) Harm; detriment, either to character or property. Damosella; Damosel
Damosel (n.) Alt. of Damoiselle.
Damosella (n.) Alt. of Damoiselle.
Damoiselle (n.) See Damsel. [Archaic]
Damosel (n.) A young unmarried woman [syn: damsel, demoiselle, damoiselle, damosel, damozel].
Compare: Mica
Mica (n.) (Min.) The name of a group of minerals characterized by highly perfect cleavage, so that they readily separate into very thin leaves, more or less elastic. They differ widely in composition, and vary in color from pale brown or yellow to green or black. The transparent forms are used in lanterns, the doors of stoves, etc., being popularly called isinglass. Formerly called also cat-silver, and glimmer.
Note: The important species of the mica group are: muscovite, common or potash mica, pale brown or green, often silvery, including damourite (also called hydromica and muscovy glass); biotite, iron-magnesia mica, dark brown, green, or black;
lepidomelane, iron, mica, black; phlogopite, magnesia mica, colorless, yellow, brown; lepidolite, lithia mica, rose-red, lilac.
Mica (usually muscovite, also biotite) Is an essential constituent of granite, gneiss, and mica slate; biotite is common in many eruptive rocks; phlogopite in crystalline limestone and serpentine.
Mica diorite (Min.), An eruptive rock allied to diorite but containing mica (biotite) instead of hornblende.
Mica powder, A kind of dynamite containing fine scales of mica.
Mica schist, Mica slate (Geol.), A schistose rock, consisting of mica and quartz with, usually, some feldspar.
Damourite (n.) (Min.) A kind of Muscovite, or potash mica, containing water.
Damourite (n.) A variety of muscovite.
Damp (n.) [U] 濕氣，潮濕；（礦井）瓦斯；有毒氣體；【古】消沉，沮喪 Moisture; humidity; fog; fogginess; vapor.
Night . . . with black air Accompanied, with damps and dreadful gloom. -- Milton.
Damp (n.) Dejection; depression; cloud of the mind.
Even now, while thus I stand blest in thy presence, A secret damp of grief comes o'er my soul. -- Addison.
It must have thrown a damp over your autumn excursion. -- J. D. Forbes.
Damp (n.) (Mining) A gaseous product, formed in coal mines, old wells, pints, etc.
{Choke damp}, A damp consisting principally of carbonic acid gas; -- so called from its extinguishing flame and animal life. See {Carbonic acid}, under {Carbonic}.
{Damp sheet}, A curtain in a mine gallery to direct air currents and prevent accumulation of gas.
{Fire damp}, A damp consisting chiefly of light carbureted hydrogen; -- so called from its tendence to explode when mixed with atmospheric air and brought into contact with flame.
Damp (a.) 有濕氣的；潮濕的；消沉的，沮喪的 Being in a state between dry and wet; moderately wet; moist; humid.
O'erspread with a damp sweat and holy fear. -- Dryden.
Damp (a.) Dejected; depressed; sunk. [R.]
All these and more came flocking, but with looks Downcast and damp. -- Milton.
Damped (imp. & p. p.) of Damp.
Damping (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Damp.
Damp (v. i.) 變潮濕；【物】阻尼，減幅 (v. t.) 使潮濕；使沮喪；抑制；降低 To render damp; to moisten; to make humid, or moderately wet; to dampen; as, to damp cloth.
Damp (v. i.) To put out, as fire; to depress or deject; to deaden; to cloud; to check or restrain, as action or vigor; to make dull; to weaken; to discourage. "To damp your tender hopes." -- Akenside.
Usury dulls and damps all industries, improvements, and new inventions, wherein money would be stirring if it were not for this slug. -- Bacon.
How many a day has been damped and darkened by an angry word! -- Sir J. Lubbock.
The failure of his enterprise damped the spirit of the soldiers. -- Macaulay.
Compare: Deoxyribonucleotide
Deoxyribonucleotide (n.) An organic molecule consisting of a hereocyclic base attached to the 1-carbon of a deoxyribose ring, with a phosphate group esterified at the 5 position of the deoxyribose. Deoxyribonuceotides are the monomer units which make up {deoxyribonucleic acid}, the molecule carrying the hereditary information in most organisms. The most common forms of deoxyribonuceotide are {thymidine-5'-phosphate} (abbreviated {TMP}), {deoxyadenosine-5'-phosphate} (abbreviated {dAMP}), {deoxyguanosine-5'-phosphate} (abbreviated {dGMP}), and {deoxycytidine-5'-phosphate} (abbreviated {dCMP}).
Deoxyribonucleotide (n.) 脫氧核糖核苷酸（英語：deoxyribonucleotide）是DNA（脫氧核糖核酸，英語：deoxyribonucleic acid）的小分子單體。每個脫氧核糖核苷酸包括三個部分：一個鹼基、一個脫氧核糖和一個磷酸基團 [1]。含氮鹼基與脫氧核糖的1'號位碳原子結合，磷酸基團與脫氧核糖的4'號位碳原子結合，脫氧核糖的2'號位碳原子連結的是H原子而不是 -OH 。
當脫氧核糖核苷酸聚合成DNA時，磷酸基團會與另一個脫氧核糖核苷酸的脫氧核糖的3'號位碳原子結合，通過酯化反應組成磷酸二酯鍵。新的核苷酸通常都是加到上一個核苷酸的3'號碳原子上，因此DNA合成的方向是從5' 到3' 端。
A deoxyribonucleotide is the monomer, or single unit, of DNA, or deoxyribonucleic acid. Each deoxyribonucleotide comprises three parts: a nitrogenous base, a deoxyribose sugar, and one phosphate group. [1] The nitrogenous base is always bonded to the 1' carbon of the deoxyribose, which is distinguished from ribose by the presence of a proton on the 2' carbon rather than an -OH group. The phosphate groups bind to the 5' carbon of the sugar.
When deoxyribonucleotides polymerize to form DNA, the phosphate group from one nucleotide will bond to the 3' carbon on another nucleotide, forming a phosphodiester bond via dehydration synthesis. New nucleotides are always added to the 3' carbon of the last nucleotide, so synthesis always proceeds from 5' to 3'.
Damp (a.) Slightly wet; "clothes damp with perspiration"; "a moist breeze"; "eyes moist with tears" [syn: {damp}, {dampish}, {moist}].
Damp (n.) A slight wetness [syn: {damp}, {dampness}, {moistness}].
Damp (v.) Deaden (a sound or noise), especially by wrapping [syn: {muffle}, {mute}, {dull}, {damp}, {dampen}, {tone down}].
Damp (v.) Restrain or discourage; "the sudden bad news damped the joyous atmosphere".
Damp (v.) Make vague or obscure or make (an image) less visible; "muffle the message" [syn: {dampen}, {deaden}, {damp}].
Damp (v.) Lessen in force or effect; "soften a shock"; "break a fall" [syn: {dampen}, {damp}, {soften}, {weaken}, {break}].
Dampened (imp. & p. p.) of Dampen.