Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter D - Page 31
Deperditely (adv.) Hopelessly; despairingly; in the manner of one ruined; as, deperditely wicked. [Archaic]
Deperdition (n.) Loss; destruction. [Archaic] -- Sir T. Browne.
Depertible (a.) Divisible. [Obs.] -- Bacon.
Dephlegm (v. t.) (O. Chem.) To rid of phlegm or water; to dephlegmate. [Obs.] -- Boyle.
Dephlegmated (imp. & p. p.) of Dephlegmate.
Dephlegmating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Dephlegmate.
Dephlegmate (v. t.) (Chem.) 使分餾 To deprive of superabundant water, as by evaporation or distillation; to clear of aqueous matter; to rectify; -- used of spirits and acids.
Dephlegmation (n.) (Chem.) 分餾；分凝；分凝作用 The operation of separating water from spirits and acids, by evaporation or repeated distillation; -- called also concentration, especially when acids are the subject of it. [Obs.]
Dephlegmator (n.) 精餾器 An instrument or apparatus in which water is separated by evaporation or distillation; the part of a distilling apparatus in which the separation of the vapors is effected.
Dephlegmatory (a.) Pertaining to, or producing, dephlegmation.
Dephlegmedness (n.) A state of being freed from water. [Obs.] -- Boyle.
Dephlogisticated (imp. & p. p.) of Dephlogisticcate.
Dephlogisticating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Dephlogisticcate.
Dephlogisticcate (v. t.) (O. Chem.) To deprive of phlogiston, or the supposed principle of inflammability. -- Priestley.
Dephlogisticated air, Oxygen gas; -- so called by Dr. Priestly and others of his time. -- De`phlo*gis`ti*ca"tion, n.
Dephosphorization (n.) 脫磷；去磷；除磷 The act of freeing from phosphorous.
Compare: Phosphorous
Phosphorous (a.) (Chem.) 磷的；含磷的 Of or pertaining to phosphorus; resembling or containing phosphorus; specifically, designating those compounds in which phosphorus has a lower valence as contrasted with phosphoric compounds; as, phosphorous acid, H3PO3.
Phosphorous (a.) Containing or characteristic of phosphorus; "phosphoric acid" [syn: phosphorous, phosphoric].
Compare: Phosphorus
Phosphorus (n. pl. Phosphori) The morning star; Phosphor.
Phosphorus (n.) (Chem.) 磷 [U]；磷光體 [C] A poisonous nonmetallic element of the nitrogen group, obtained as a white, or yellowish, translucent waxy substance, having a characteristic disagreeable smell; this waxy allotropic form is also called yellow phosphorus, to distinguish it from another allotropic form, red phosphorus. It is very active chemically, must be preserved under water, and unites with oxygen even at ordinary temperatures, giving a faint glow, -- whence its name. It always occurs combined, usually in phosphates, as in the mineral apatite, in bones, etc. It is used in the composition on the tips of friction matches, and for many other purposes. It is an essential component of the genetic material of all living organisms. The molecule contains four atoms. Symbol P. Atomic weight 31.0.
Phosphorus (n.) (Chem.) Hence, any substance which shines in the dark like phosphorus, as certain phosphorescent bodies.
Bologna phosphorus (Chem.), Sulphide of barium, which shines in the dark after exposure to light; -- so called because this property was discovered by a resident of Bologna. The term is sometimes applied to other compounds having similar properties.
Metallic phosphorus (Chem.), An allotropic modification of phosphorus, obtained as a gray metallic crystalline substance, having very inert chemical properties. It is obtained by heating ordinary phosphorus in a closed vessel at a high temperature.
Phosphorus disease (Med.), A disease common among workers in phosphorus, giving rise to necrosis of the jawbone, and other symptoms.
Red phosphorus, or Amorphous phosphorus (Chem.), An allotropic modification of phosphorus, obtained as a dark red powder by heating ordinary phosphorus in closed vessels. It is not poisonous, is not phosphorescent, and is only moderately active chemically. It is valuable as a chemical reagent, and is used in the composition of the friction surface on which safety matches are ignited.
Solar phosphori (Chem.), Phosphorescent substances which shine in the dark after exposure to the sunlight or other intense light.
Yellow phosphorus (Chem.), The waxy yellow allotropic form of elemental phosphorus. See also phosphorus [2].
Phosphorus (n.) A multivalent nonmetallic element of the nitrogen family that occurs commonly in inorganic phosphate rocks and as organic phosphates in all living cells; is highly reactive and occurs in several allotropic forms [syn: phosphorus, P, atomic number 15].
Phosphorus (n.) A planet (usually Venus) seen just before sunrise in the eastern sky [syn: morning star, daystar, Phosphorus, Lucifer].
Phosphorus
Symbol: P
Atomic number: 15
Atomic weight: 30.9738
Non-metallic element belonging to group 15 of the periodic table. Has a multiple allotropic forms. Essential element for living organisms. It was discovered by Brandt in 1669.
Depict (p. p.) Depicted. -- Lydgate.
Depicted (imp. & p. p.) of Depict.
Depicting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Depict.
Depict (v. t.) 描繪，描寫，描述，刻畫 To form a colored likeness of; to represent by a picture; to paint; to portray.
His arms are fairly depicted in his chamber. -- Fuller.
Depict (v. t.) To represent in words; to describe vividly.
C[ae]sar's gout was then depicted in energetic language. -- Motley.
Depict (v.) Show in, or as in, a picture; "This scene depicts country life"; "the face of the child is rendered with much tenderness in this painting" [syn: {picture}, {depict}, {render}, {show}].
Depict (v.) Give a description of; "He drew an elaborate plan of attack" [syn: {describe}, {depict}, {draw}].
Depict (v.) Make a portrait of; "Goya wanted to portray his mistress, the Duchess of Alba" [syn: {portray}, {depict}, {limn}].
Depict (v.) [ T ] (C2) 描繪，描述，描寫 To represent or show something in a picture or story.
// Her paintings depict the lives of ordinary people in the last century.
// In the book, he depicts his father as a tyrant.
// [ + -ing verb ] People were shocked by the advertisement which depicted a woman beating her husband.
Depiction (n.) 描寫，敘述 A painting or depicting; a representation.
Depiction (n.) A graphic or vivid verbal description; "too often the narrative was interrupted by long word pictures"; "the author gives a depressing picture of life in Poland"; "the pamphlet contained brief characterizations of famous Vermonters" [syn: {word picture}, {word-painting}, {delineation}, {depiction}, {picture}, {characterization}, {characterisation}].
Depiction (n.) A representation by picture or portraiture [syn: {depicting}, {depiction}, {portraying}, {portrayal}].
Depiction (n.) A drawing of the outlines of forms or objects [syn: {delineation}, {depiction}, {limning}, {line drawing}].
Depiction (n.) Representation by drawing or painting etc [syn: {depiction}, {delineation}, {portrayal}].
Depiction (n.) [ C or U ] 描繪，描述，描寫 The way that something is represented or shown.
// The painter's depictions of the horror of war won her a worldwide reputation.
// I disapprove of the depiction of violence on television.
Depictured (imp. & p. p.) of Depicture.
Depicturing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Depicture.
Depicture (v. t.) 描出；描寫；描述；敘述 To make a picture of; to paint; to picture; to depict.
Several persons were depictured in caricature. -- Fielding.
Depilated (imp. & p. p.) of Depilate.
Depilating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Depilate.
Depilate (v. t.) To strip of hair; to husk. -- Venner.
Depilate (v.) Remove body hair; "epilate her legs" [syn: epilate, depilate].
Depilation (n.) Act of pulling out or removing the hair; unhairing. -- Dryden.
Depilation (n.) The condition of being void of hair [syn: hairlessness, depilation].
Depilation (n.) The act of removing hair (as from an animal skin) [syn: depilation, epilation].
Depilatory (a.) Having the quality or power of removing hair.
Depilatory (n.) An application used to take off hair.
Depilatory (a.) Able to remove hair or render hairless.
Depilatory (n.) A chemical (usually a sulfide) used to remove hair or wool or bristles from hides.
Depilatory (n.) A cosmetic for temporary removal of undesired hair [syn: depilatory, depilator, epilator].
Depilous (a.) Hairless. -- Sir t. Browne.
Depilous (a.) Completely hairless.
Deplanate (a.) (Bot.) Flattened; made level or even.
Deplant (v. t.) To take up (plants); to transplant. [R.]
Deplantation (n.) Act of taking up plants from beds.
Depleted (imp. & p. p.) of Deplete.
Depleting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Deplete.
Deplete (v. t.) (Med.) 用盡；使減少；耗盡……的資源（精力等）；使空虛 [（+of）] To empty or unload, as the vessels of human system, by bloodletting or by medicine. -- Copland.
Deplete (v. t.) To reduce by destroying or consuming the vital powers of; to exhaust, as a country of its strength or resources, a treasury of money, etc. -- Saturday Review.
Deplete (v.) Use up (resources or materials); "this car consumes a lot of gas"; "We exhausted our savings"; "They run through 20 bottles of wine a week" [syn: consume, eat up, use up, eat, deplete, exhaust, run through, wipe out].
Depletion (n.) 消耗；用盡 The act of depleting or emptying.
Depletion (n.) (Med.) The act or process of diminishing the quantity of fluid in the vessels by bloodletting or otherwise; also excessive evacuation, as in severe diarrhea.
Depletion (n.) The act of decreasing something markedly.
Depletion (n.) The state of being depleted.
Depletive (a.) 使空虛的；放血的 Able or fitted to deplete.
Depletive (n.) 減血藥 A substance used to deplete.
Depletory (a.) Serving to deplete.
Deplication (n.) An unfolding, untwisting, or unplaiting. [Obs.] -- W. Montagu.
Deploitation (n.) Same as Exploitation.
Deplorability (n.) Deplorableness. -- Stormonth.
Deplorable (a.) 可嘆的，可悲的，可憐的；悲慘的；糟糕的；骯髒的 Worthy of being deplored or lamented; lamentable; causing grief; hence, sad; calamitous; grievous; wretched; as, life's evils are deplorable.
Individual sufferers are in a much more deplorable conditious than any others. -- Burke.
Deplorable (a.) Bad; unfortunate; "my finances were in a deplorable state"; "a lamentable decision"; "her clothes were in sad shape"; "a sorry state of affairs" [syn: deplorable, distressing, lamentable, pitiful, sad, sorry].
Deplorable (a.) Of very poor quality or condition; "deplorable housing conditions in the inner city"; "woeful treatment of the accused"; "woeful errors of judgment" [syn: deplorable, execrable, miserable, woeful, wretched].
Deplorable (a.) Bringing or deserving severe rebuke or censure; "a criminal waste of talent"; "a deplorable act of violence"; "adultery is as reprehensible for a husband as for a wife" [syn: condemnable, criminal, deplorable, reprehensible, vicious].
Deplorableness (n.) State of being deplorable.
Deplorably (adv.) In a deplorable manner.
Deplorably (adv.) In an unfortunate or deplorable manner; "he was sadly neglected"; "it was woefully inadequate" [syn: deplorably, lamentably, sadly, woefully].
Deplorate (a.) Deplorable. [Obs.]
A more deplorate estate. -- Baker.
Deploration (n.) The act of deploring or lamenting; lamentation. -- Speed.
Deplored (imp. & p. p.) of Deplore.
Deploring (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Deplore.
Deplore (v. t.) 對……深感遺憾；哀嘆；悲悼，痛惜；譴責；強烈反對 To feel or to express deep and poignant grief for; to bewail; to lament; to mourn; to sorrow over.
To find her, or forever to deplore Her loss. -- Milton.
As some sad turtle his lost love deplores. -- Pope.
Deplore (v. t.) To complain of. [Obs.] -- Shak.
Deplore (v. t.) To regard as hopeless; to give up. [Obs.] -- Bacon.
Syn: To Deplore, Mourn, Lament, Bewail, Bemoan.
Usage: Mourn is the generic term, denoting a state of grief or sadness. To lament is to express grief by outcries, and denotes an earnest and strong expression of sorrow. To deplore marks a deeper and more prolonged emotion. To bewail and to bemoan are appropriate only to cases of poignant distress, in which the grief finds utterance either in wailing or in moans and sobs. A man laments his errors, and deplores the ruin they have brought on his family; mothers bewail or bemoan the loss of their children.
Deplore (v. i.) To lament. -- Gray.
Deplore (v.) Express strong disapproval of; "We deplore the government's treatment of political prisoners."
Deplore (v.) Regret strongly; "I deplore this hostile action"; "we lamented the loss of benefits" [syn: deplore, lament, bewail, bemoan].
Deploredly (adv.) Lamentably.
Deploredness (n.) The state of being deplored or deplorable. [R.] -- Bp. Hail.
Deplorement (n.) Deploration. [Obs.]
Deplorer (n.) One who deplores.
Deploringly (adv.) In a deploring manner.
Deployed (imp. & p. p.) of Deploy.
Deploying (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Deploy.
Deploy (v. t. & i.) (Mil.) (v. t.) 使展開；使疏開；(v. i.) 展開；部署 To open out; to unfold; to spread out (a body of troops) in such a way that they shall display a wider front and less depth; -- the reverse of ploy; as, to deploy a column of troops into line of battle.
Deploy (v. t.) To place (people or other resources) into a position so as to be ready to for action or use. Deploy
Deploy (n.) 部署 Alt. of Deployment.
Deployment (n.) (Mil.) 部署；調度 The act of deploying; a spreading out of a body of men in order to extend their front. -- Wilhelm.
Deployments . . . which cause the soldier to turn his back to the enemy are not suited to war. -- H. L. Scott.
Deploy (v.) Place troops or weapons in battle formation.
Deploy (v.) To distribute systematically or strategically; "The U.S. deploys its weapons in the Middle East."
Deployment (n.) The arrangement or distribution (of resources such as people or equipment), in preparation for battle or work.
Deployment (n.) The distribution of forces in preparation for battle or work.
Deplumate (a.) (Zool.) Destitute or deprived of features; deplumed.
Deplumate (v.) Strip of feathers; "pull a chicken"; "pluck the capon" [syn: {pluck}, {pull}, {tear}, {deplume}, {deplumate}, {displume}].
Deplumation (n.) 除去羽毛；換羽毛 The stripping or falling off of plumes or feathers. -- Bp. Stillingfleet.
Deplumation (n.) (Med.) A disease of the eyelids, attended with loss of the eyelashes. -- Thomas.
Deplumed (imp. & p. p.) of Deplume.
Depluming (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Deplume.
Deplume (v. t.) 拔羽毛；剝奪 To strip or pluck off the feather of; to deprive of of plumage.
On the depluming of the pope every bird had his own feather. -- Fuller.
Deplume (v. t.) To lay bare; to expose.
The exposure and depluming of the leading humbugs of the age. -- De Quincey.
Deplume (v.) Strip of honors, possessions, or attributes [syn: {deplume}, {displume}].
Deplume (v.) Strip of feathers; "pull a chicken"; "pluck the capon" [syn: {pluck}, {pull}, {tear}, {deplume}, {deplumate}, {displume}].
Depolarization (n.) 【物】退極化 The act of depriving of polarity, or the result of such action; reduction to an unpolarized condition.
{Depolarization of light} (Opt.), A change in the plane of polarization of rays, especially by a crystalline medium, such that the light which had been extinguished by the analyzer reappears as if the polarization had been anulled. The word is inappropriate, as the ray does not return to the unpolarized condition.
Depolarization (n.) A loss of polarity or polarization [syn: {depolarization}, {depolarisation}].
Depolarized (imp. & p. p.) of Depolarize.
Depolarizing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Depolarize.
Depolarize (v. t.) (Opt.) To deprive of polarity; to reduce to an unpolarized condition.
Note: This word has been inaccurately applied in optics to describe the effect of a polarizing medium, as a crystalline plate, in causing the reappearance of a ray, in consequence of a change in its plane of polarization, which previously to the change was intercepted by the analyzer.
Depolarize (v. t.) (Elec.) To free from polarization, as the negative plate of the voltaic battery.
Depolarize (v.) Eliminate the polarization of [syn: depolarize, depolarise].
Depolarizer (n.) (Elec.) A substance used to prevent polarization, as upon the negative plate of a voltaic battery.
Depolish (v. t.) To remove the polish or glaze from.
Depolishing (n.) (Ceramics) The process of removing the vitreous glaze from porcelain, leaving the dull luster of the surface of ivory porcelain. -- Knight.
Deponed (imp. & p. p.) of Depone.
Deponing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Depone.
Depone (v. t.) To lay, as a stake; to wager. [Obs.] -- Hudibras.
Depone (v. t.) To lay down. [R.] -- Southey.
Depone (v. t.) 【古】作證 To assert under oath; to depose. [A Scotticism]
Sprot deponeth that he entered himself thereafter in conference. -- State Trials (1606).
Depone (v. i.) To testify under oath; to depose; to bear witness. [A Scotticism]
The fairy Glorians, whose credibility on this point can not be called in question, depones to the confinement of Merlin in a tree. -- Dunlop.
Depone (v.) Make a deposition; declare under oath [syn: swear, depose, depone].
Deponent (n.) (Law) 【律】證人；提出口供者 One who deposes or testifies under oath; one who gives evidence; usually, one who testifies in writing.
Deponent (n.) (Gr. & Lat. Gram.) A deponent verb.
Syn: Deponent, Affiant.
Usage: These are legal terms describing a person who makes a written declaration under oath, with a view to establish certain facts. An affiant is one who makes an affidavit, or declaration under oath, in order to establish the truth of what he says. A deponenet is one who makes a deposition, or gives written testimony under oath, to be used in the trial of some case before a court of justice. See under Deposition.
Deponent (a.) (Gram.) 【語】異態的 Having a passive form with an active meaning, as certain latin and Greek verbs.
Deponent (n.) A person who testifies or gives a deposition [syn: testifier, deponent, deposer].
Deponent, () witness. One who gives information, on oath or affirmation, respecting some facts known to him, before a magistrate he who makes a deposition.
Depopulacy (n.) Depopulation; destruction of population. [R.] -- Chapman.
Depopulated (imp. & p. p.) of Depopulate.
Depopulating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Depopulate.
Depopulate (v. t.) （戰爭、疾病等）使人口減少；滅絕（某地）人口 To deprive of inhabitants, whether by death or by expulsion; to reduce greatly the populousness of; to dispeople; to unpeople.
Where is this viper, That would depopulate the city? -- Shak.
Note: It is not synonymous with laying waste or destroying, being limited to the loss of inhabitants; as, an army or a famine may depopulate a country. It rarely expresses an entire loss of inhabitants, but often a great diminution of their numbers; as, the deluge depopulated the earth.
Depopulate (v. i.) 人口減少 To become dispeopled. [R.]
Whether the country be depopulating or not. -- Goldsmith.
Depopulate (v.) Reduce in population; "The epidemic depopulated the countryside" [syn: depopulate, desolate].
Depopulation (n.) 人口減少 The act of depopulating, or condition of being depopulated; destruction or explusion of inhabitants.
The desolation and depopulation [of St.Quentin] were now complete. -- Motley.
Depopulation (n.) The condition of having reduced numbers of inhabitants (or no inhabitants at all).
Depopulation. () In its most proper signification, is the destruction of the people of a country or place. This word is, however, taken rather in a passive than an active one; we say depopulation, to designate a diminution of inhabitants, arising either from violent causes, or the want of multiplication. Vide 12 Co. 30.
Depopulator (n.) One who depopulates; a dispeopler.
Deported (imp. & p. p.) of Deport.