Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter D - Page 35
Dermopathic (a.) Dermatopathic.
Dermophyte (n.) A dermatophyte.
Dermoptera (n. pl.) The division of insects which includes the earwigs (Forticulidae).
Dermoptera (n. pl.) A group of lemuroid mammals having a parachutelike web of skin between the fore and hind legs, of which the colugo (Galeopithecus) is the type. See Colugo.
Dermoptera (n. pl.) An order of Mammalia; the Cheiroptera.
Dermopteran (n.) An insect which has the anterior pair of wings coriaceous, and does not use them in flight, as the earwig.
Dermopteri (n. pl.) Same as Dermopterygii.
Dermopterygii (n. pl.) A group of fishlike animals including the Marsipobranchiata and Leptocardia.
Dermoskeleton (n.) See Exoskeleton.
Dermostosis (n.) Ossification of the dermis.
Dern (n.) A gatepost or doorpost.
Dern (a.) Hidden; concealed; secret.
Dern (a.) Solitary; sad.
Derne (a.) To hide; to skulk.
Dernful (a.) Secret; hence, lonely; sad; mournful.
Dernier (a.) Last; final.
Dernly (adv.) Secretly; grievously; mournfully.
Derogant (a.) Derogatory.
Derogated (imp. & p. p.) of Derogate
Derogating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Derogate
Derogate (v. t.) (v. i.) 貶損；減損 (v. t.) 貶低；誹謗；損害 To annul in part; to repeal partly; to restrict; to limit the action of; -- said of a law.
Derogate (v. t.) To lessen; to detract from; to disparage; to depreciate; -- said of a person or thing.
Derogate (v. i.) To take away; to detract; to withdraw; -- usually with from.
Derogate (v. i.) To act beneath one-s rank, place, birth, or character; to degenerate.
Derogate (n.) Diminished in value; dishonored; degraded.
Derogate (v.) Cause to seem less serious; play down; "Don't belittle his influence" [syn: {minimize}, {belittle}, {denigrate}, {derogate}].
Derogate (v.) [ T ] (Formal) (Criticize) 貶低；誹謗；損害 To talk about or treat someone or something in a way that shows you do not respect him, her, or it.
Derogate (v.) [ T ] (Law) 廢除（法律）To officially state that a law or rule no longer needs to be obeyed because it no longer has any authority.
Phrasal verb:
Derogate from sth (- Phrasal verb with derogate) (v.) [ T ] (Formal) (Make less good) 損害；減損 To make something seem less good or important.
Phrasal verb:
Derogate from sth (- Phrasal verb with derogate) (v.) [ T ] (Formal) (Ignore rules) 偏離；違背 To not behave according to the rules of an agreement, acceptable behaviour , etc.
Derogately (adv.) 減損地；毀損地 In a derogatory manner.
Derogation (n.) （名譽、權威等的）毀損，滅損，墮落 The act of derogating, partly repealing, or lessening in value; disparagement; detraction; depreciation; -- followed by of, from, or to.
Derogation (n.) An alteration of, or subtraction from, a contract for a sale of stocks.
Derogation (n.) A communication that belittles somebody or something [syn: {disparagement}, {depreciation}, {derogation}].
Derogation (n.) (Law) The partial taking away of the effectiveness of a law; a partial repeal or abolition of a law; "any derogation of the common law is to be strictly construed".
Derogative (a.) Derogatory.
Derogative (a.) 減損的；毀損的 Lessening; belittling; derogatory.
Derogator (n.) (pl. -s) 誹謗者，貶低者；詆毀者 A detractor.
Compare: Detractor
Detractor (n.) (pl. -s) 誹謗者，貶低者；詆毀者 A person who belittles the worth of another person or cause.
Compare: Belittle
Belittle (v. t.) 輕視；貶 [imp. & p. p. Belittled; p. pr. & vb. n. Belittling.] To make little or less in a moral sense; to speak of in a depreciatory or contemptuous way. -- T. Jefferson.
Belittle (v.) Cause to seem less serious; play down; "Don't belittle his influence" [syn: minimize, belittle, denigrate, derogate].
Belittle (v.) Express a negative opinion of; "She disparaged her student's efforts" [syn: disparage, belittle, pick at] [ant: blandish, flatter].
Belittle (v.) Lessen the authority, dignity, or reputation of; "don't belittle your colleagues" [syn: diminish, belittle].
Derogatorily (adv.) In a derogatory manner; disparagingly.
Derogatoriness (n.) Quality of being derogatory.
Derogatory (a.) 減損的；有傷品格的；貶低的；【語】貶義的 Tending to derogate, or lessen in value; expressing derogation; detracting; injurious; -- with from to, or unto.
Derogatory (a.) Expressive of low opinion; "derogatory comments"; "disparaging remarks about the new house" [syn: {derogative}, {derogatory}, {disparaging}].
Derotremata (n. pl.) The tribe of aquatic Amphibia which includes Amphiuma, Menopoma, etc. They have permanent gill openings, but no external gills; -- called also Cryptobranchiata.
Derre (a.) Dearer.
Derrick (n.) A mast, spar, or tall frame, supported at the top by stays or guys, with suitable tackle for hoisting heavy weights, as stones in building.
Derring (a.) Daring or warlike.
Derring-do (n.) [ U ] (Old-fashioned or humorous) 英勇行為；大膽之舉 Brave action taken without considering the danger involved.
// Deeds/ feats of derring-do.
Derringer (n.) A kind of short-barreled pocket pistol, of very large caliber, often carrying a half-ounce ball.
Derth (n.) Dearth; scarcity.
Dertrotheca (n.) The horny covering of the end of the bill of birds.
Dervish (n.) Alt. of Dervis.
Dervise (n.) Alt. of Dervis.
Dervis (n.) A Turkish or Persian monk, especially one who professes extreme poverty and leads an austere life.
Derworth (a.) Precious.
Descant (v. i.) Originally, a double song; a melody or counterpoint sung above the plain song of the tenor; a variation of an air; a variation by ornament of the main subject or plain song.
Descant (v. i.) The upper voice in part music.
Descant (v. i.) The canto, cantus, or soprano voice; the treble.
Descant (v. i.) A discourse formed on its theme, like variations on a musical air; a comment or comments.
Descanted (imp. & p. p.) of Descant.
Descanting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Descant.
Descant (v. i.) To sing a variation or accomplishment.
Descant (v. i.) To comment freely; to discourse with fullness and particularity; to discourse at large.
Descanter (n.) One who descants.
Descended (imp. & p. p.) of Descend.
Descending (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Descend.
Descend (v. i.) 下降，傳下，遺傳，屈尊，降格，墮落 To pass from a higher to a lower place; to move downwards; to come or go down in any way, as by falling, flowing, walking, etc.; to plunge; to fall; to incline downward; -- the opposite of ascend.
Descend (v. i.) To enter mentally; to retire.
Descend (v. i.) To make an attack, or incursion, as if from a vantage ground; to come suddenly and with violence; -- with on or upon.
Descend (v. i.) To come down to a lower, less fortunate, humbler, less virtuous, or worse, state or station; to lower or abase one's self; as, he descended from his high estate.
Descend (v. i.) To pass from the more general or important to the particular or less important matters to be considered.
Descend (v. i.) To come down, as from a source, original, or stock; to be derived; to proceed by generation or by transmission; to fall or pass by inheritance; as, the beggar may descend from a prince; a crown descends to the heir.
Descend (v. i.) To move toward the south, or to the southward.
Descend (v. i.) To fall in pitch; to pass from a higher to a lower tone.
Descend (v. t.) To go down upon or along; to pass from a higher to a lower part of; as, they descended the river in boats; to descend a ladder.
Descend (v.) (Position) (B2) [ I or T ] (Formal) 下降；走下；降下 To go or come down.
// The path descended steeply into the valley.
// Jane descended the stairs.
Descend (v.) (Position) [ I ] (Literary) （暮色）降臨；（天幕）落下 If darkness or night descends, it becomes dark and day changes to night.
Descend (v.) (Negative mood) [ I ] (Literary) （壞心情）遍佈 If a negative or bad feeling descends, it is felt everywhere in a place or by everyone at the same time.
// A feeling of despair descended (on us) as we realized that we were lost.
Descend (v.) (Negative mood) [ I ] (Literary) 籠罩 If a condition, usually a negative condition, descends, it quickly develops in every part of a place.
// Silence descended on the room/ over the countryside.
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Descend from sth (- Phrasal verb with descend) (v.) 從…發展演變而來 To have developed from something that existed in the past.
// All living creatures are thought to descend from an organism that came into being three billion years ago.
Be descended from sb (C2) 從…繁衍而來；是…的後代 To be related to a particular person or group of people who lived in the past.
// Her father is descended from Greek royalty.
// Humans are descended from (= developed from) ape-like creatures.
Phrasal verb:
Descend into sth (Formal) (- Phrasal verb with descend) (v.) 陷入 If a situation descends into a particular state, it becomes worse.
// The demonstrations in the capital rapidly descended into anarchy.
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Descend on/ upon sb/ sth (- Phrasal verb with descend) (v.) 突然造訪，突然到達 If a group of people descend on a place or person, they arrive, usually without warning or without being invited.
// Sorry to descend on you like this, but we didn't have a phone to call you.
// The police descended on the house in the early hours of the morning.
Descend to sth (- Phrasal verb with descend) (v.) 墮落成為，墮落到 To behave badly in a way that other people would not expect you to.
// I never thought she would descend to stealing.
Descendant (a.) 下降的；降落的；祖傳的，世襲的 Descendent.
Descendant (n.) [C] 子孫，後裔 [（+of）]；從某一來源派生（或傳下）的東西 One who descends, as offspring, however remotely; -- correlative to ancestor or ascendant.
Our first parents and their descendants. -- Hale.
The descendant of so many kings and emperors. -- Burke.
Descendant (a.) Going or coming down [syn: {descendant}, {descendent}].
Descendant (a.) Proceeding by descent from an ancestor; "descendent gene" [syn: {descendant}, {descendent}].
Descendant (n.) A person considered as descended from some ancestor or race [syn: {descendant}, {descendent}] [ant: {ancestor}, {antecedent}, {ascendant}, {ascendent}, {root}].
Descendent (a.) 下降的；降落的；祖傳的；派生的 Descending; falling; proceeding from an ancestor or source.
More than mortal grace Speaks thee descendent of ethereal race. -- Pope.
Descendent (a.) Going or coming down [syn: {descendant}, {descendent}].
Descendent (a.) Proceeding by descent from an ancestor; "descendent gene" [syn: {descendant}, {descendent}].
Descendent (n.) [C] 後裔，子孫 [（+of）]；（某一原型的）派生物 A person considered as descended from some ancestor or race [syn: {descendant}, {descendent}] [ant: {ancestor}, {antecedent}, {ascendant}, {ascendent}, {root}].
Descender <text> A lowercase letter that extends below the base line, such as "g", "j", or "p". Also used to denote the part of the letter extending below the base line. Compare ascender.
Descender (n.) 下降或傳下者；【印】部分筆畫伸過基線之字母（如g, p, y等） One who descends.
Descender (n.) Someone who descends.
Descender (n.) A lowercase letter that has a part extending below other lowercase letters.
Descender (n.) (Printing) The part of lowercase letters that extends below the other lowercase letters.
Descender (n.) In the descent; as formed on in the descender. Bac. Ab. Formedon, A 1. Vide Formedon.
Descendibility (n.) The quality of being descendible; capability of being transmitted from ancestors; as, the descendibility of an estate.
Descendible (a.) Admitting descent; capable of being descended.
Descendible (a.) That may descend from an ancestor to an heir.
Descending (a.) Of or pertaining to descent; moving downwards.
Descendingly (adv.) In a descending manner.
Descension (n.) The act of going downward; descent; falling or sinking; declension; degradation.
Descensional (a.) Pertaining to descension.
Descensive (a.) Tending to descend; tending downwards; descending.
Descensory (n.) A vessel used in alchemy to extract oils.
Descent (n.) [U] [C] 下降；下傾；[C] 下坡；[U] 世系，血統 The act of descending, or passing downward; change of place from higher to lower.
Descent (n.) Incursion; sudden attack; especially, hostile invasion from sea; -- often followed by upon or on; as, to make a descent upon the enemy.
Descent (n.) Progress downward, as in station, virtue, as in station, virtue, and the like, from a higher to a lower state, from a higher to a lower state, from the more to the less important, from the better to the worse, etc.
Descent (n.) Derivation, as from an ancestor; procedure by generation; lineage; birth; extraction.
Descent (n.) Transmission of an estate by inheritance, usually, but not necessarily, in the descending line; title to inherit an estate by reason of consanguinity.
Descent (n.) Inclination downward; a descending way; inclined or sloping surface; declivity; slope; as, a steep descent.
Descent (n.) That which is descended; descendants; issue.
Descent (n.) A step or remove downward in any scale of gradation; a degree in the scale of genealogy; a generation.
Descent (n.) Lowest place; extreme downward place.
Descent (n.) A passing from a higher to a lower tone.
Descent (n.) A movement downward.
Descent (n.) Properties attributable to your ancestry; "he comes from good origins" [syn: {origin}, {descent}, {extraction}].
Descent (n.) The act of changing your location in a downward direction.
Descent (n.) The kinship relation between an individual and the individual's progenitors [syn: {descent}, {line of descent}, {lineage}, {filiation}].
Descent (n.) A downward slope or bend [syn: {descent}, {declivity}, {fall}, {decline}, {declination}, {declension}, {downslope}] [ant: {acclivity}, {ascent}, {climb}, {raise}, {rise}, {upgrade}].
Descent (n.) The descendants of one individual; "his entire lineage has been warriors" [syn: {lineage}, {line}, {line of descent}, {descent}, {bloodline}, {blood line}, {blood}, {pedigree}, {ancestry}, {origin}, {parentage}, {stemma}, {stock}].
Descent (n.) (Relation) [ U ] 血緣關係，家族關係；祖先；出身 The state or fact of being related to a particular person or group of people who lived in the past.
// She's a woman of mixed/French descent.
// They trace their line of descent back to a French duke.
// He claims direct descent from Mohammed.
Descent (n.) (Arrival) [ U ] 不期而至，突然到達 An occasion when a group of people arrive somewhere, usually suddenly or unexpectedly.
// We weren't prepared for the descent of thousands of journalists on the town.
Descent (n.) (Position) [ C or U ] 下降，下落；下沉 A movement down.
// The plane began (to make) its final descent into the airport.
// There is a steep descent (= way down, such as a path) to the village below.
Descent (n.) (Negative change) [ S or U ] 墮落，蛻變 A change in someone's behaviour, or in a situation, from good to bad.
// His descent into crime was rapid.
Describable (a.) That can be described; capable of description.
Described (imp. & p. p.) of Describe.
Describing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Describe.
Describe (v. t.) 描寫，描繪，敘述 [+wh-]；形容，把……說成 [（+as）]；畫（圖形）；形成……的形狀；(形星等) 周轉 To represent by drawing; to draw a plan of; to delineate; to trace or mark out; as, to describe a circle by the compasses; a torch waved about the head in such a way as to describe a circle.
Describe (v. t.) To represent by words written or spoken; to give an account of; to make known to others by words or signs; as, the geographer describes countries and cities.
Describe (v. t.) To distribute into parts, groups, or classes; to mark off; to class.
Describe (v. i.) To use the faculty of describing; to give a description; as, Milton describes with uncommon force and beauty.
Describe (v.) [ T ] (A2) 描述，描寫，描繪 To say or write what someone or something is like.
// Could you describe your attacker?
// He described the painting in detail.
// [ + question word ] Let me describe (to you) how it happened.
// She described Gary as shy.
Describe (v.) (Formal) 畫；畫出…圖形 If you describe a shape, you draw it or move in a direction that follows the line of it.
// He used compasses to describe a circle.
Describent (n.) Same as Generatrix.
Describer (n.) One who describes.
Descrier (n.) One who descries.
Description (n.) 描繪，描寫，描述，刻劃；種類 The act of describing; a delineation by marks or signs.
Description (n.) A sketch or account of anything in words; a portraiture or representation in language; an enumeration of the essential qualities of a thing or species.
Milton has descriptions of morning. -- D. Webster.
Description (n.) A class to which a certain representation is applicable; kind; sort.
A difference . . . between them and another description of public creditors. -- A. Hamilton.
The plates were all of the meanest description. --Macaulay.
Syn: Account; definition; recital; relation; detail; narrative; narration; explanation; delineation; representation; kind; sort. See Definition.
Description (n.) A statement that represents something in words [syn: description, verbal description].
Description (n.) The act of describing something.
Description (n.) Sort or variety; "every description of book was there".
Description (n.) [ C or U ] (B1) 描述，描寫，描繪 Something that tells you what something or someone is like.
// Write a description of your favourite beach.
// She has given the police a very detailed/full description of the robber.
// A girl answering (= matching) the description of the missing teenager was spotted in Glasgow.
// Your paper contains too much description, and not enough discussion of the issues.
Of every description 各種各樣的 Of all types.
// Boats of every description were entering the harbour.
Be beyond description (Also defy description) 無法形容，難以描述 To be something that you cannot describe accurately because of its great size, quality, or level.
// Her beauty is beyond description.
// The mess in Bart's room defies description (= is very bad)!