Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter D - Page 47
Diathermal (a.) Freely permeable by radiant heat. Diathermancy
Diathermancy (n.) Alt. of Diathermaneity.
Diathermaneity (n.) The property of transmitting radiant heat; the quality of being diathermous. -- Melloni.
Diathermanism (n.) The doctrine or the phenomena of the transmission of radiant heat. -- Nichol.
Diathermanous (a.) Having the property of transmitting radiant heat; diathermal; -- opposed to athermanous.
Diathermic (a.) Affording a free passage to heat; as, diathermic substances. -- Melloni.
Diathermometer (n.) (Physics) An instrument for examining the thermal resistance or heat-conducting power of liquids.
Diathermous (a.) Same as Diathermal.
Diathesis (n.) (Med.) Bodily condition or constitution, esp. a morbid habit which predisposes to a particular disease, or class of diseases.
Diathesis (n.) Constitutional predisposition to a particular disease or Abnormality.
Diathetic (a.) Pertaining to, or dependent on, a diathesis or special constitution of the body; as, diathetic disease.
Diatom (n.) (Bot.) One of the Diatomaceae, a family of minute unicellular Algae having a siliceous covering of great delicacy, each individual multiplying by spontaneous division. By some authors diatoms are called Bacillariae, but this word is not in general use.
Diatom (n.) A particle or atom endowed with the vital principle.
The individual is nothing. He is no more than the diatom, the bit of protoplasm. -- Mrs. E. Lynn Linton.
Diatom (n.) Microscopic unicellular marine or freshwater colonial alga having cell walls impregnated with silica.
Diatomic (a.) (Chem.) Containing two atoms.
Diatomic (a.) (Chem.) Having two replaceable atoms or radicals.
Diatomic (a.) Of or relating to a molecule made up of two atoms; "a diatomic molecule".
Diatomous (a.) (Min.) Having a single, distinct, diagonal cleavage; -- said of crystals. -- Mohs.
Diatonic (a.) (Mus.) Pertaining to the scale of eight tones, the eighth of which is the octave of the first.
Diatonic scale (Mus.), A scale consisting of eight sounds with seven intervals, of which two are semitones and five are whole tones; a modern major or minor scale, as distinguished from the chromatic scale.
Diatonic (a.) Based on the standard major or minor scales consisting of 5 tones and 2 semitones without modulation by accidentals [ant: chromatic].
Diatonic (a.) Based on or using the five tones and two semitones of the major or minor scales of western music.
Diatonically (adv.) In a diatonic manner.
Diatribe (n.) A prolonged or exhaustive discussion; especially, an acrimonious or invective harangue; a strain of abusive or railing language; a philippic.
The ephemeral diatribe of a faction. -- John Morley.
Diatribe (n.) Thunderous verbal attack. [syn: fulmination, diatribe].
Diatribist (n.) One who makes a diatribe or diatribes.
Diatryma (n.) (Paleon.) An extinct eocene bird from
Diazeuctic (a.) Alt. of Diazeutic.
Diazeutic (a.) (Anc. Mus.) Disjoining two fourths; as, the diazeutic tone, which, like that from F to G in modern music, lay between two fourths, and, being joined to either, made a fifth. [Obs.]
Diazo- () (Chem.) A combining form (also used adjectively), meaning pertaining to, or derived from, a series of compounds containing a radical of two nitrogen atoms, united usually to an aromatic radical; as, diazo-benzene, C6H5.N2.OH.
Note: Diazo compounds are in general unstable, but are of great importance in recent organic chemistry. They are obtained by a partial reduction of the salts of certain amido compounds.
Diazo reactions (Chem.), A series of reactions whereby diazo compounds are employed in substitution. These reactions are of great importance in organic chemistry.
Diazotize (v. t.) (Chem.) To subject to such reactions or processes that diazo compounds, or their derivatives, shall be produced by chemical exchange or substitution.
Diazotize (v.) Convert (an amine) into a diazo compound.
Dib (v. i.) To dip. [Prov. Eng.] -- Walton.
Dib (n.) One of the small bones in the knee joints of sheep uniting the bones above and below the joints.
Dib (n.) pl. A child's game, played with dib bones.
DIB, () Defense Information Base (mil., USA)
DIB, () Device Independent Bitmap (MS, Windows)
DIB, () Director Interface Board (Airbus, A380, CIDS)
DIB, () Directory Information Base (X.500, DS)
DIB, () DOS Info Block (BIOS, DOS)
DIB, () Dual Independent Bus [architecture] (PC)
Device independent bitmap
DDB
DIB
(DIB) An image format in which the sequence and depth of pixels in the file is not specifically related to their layout in any particular device. This allows any device dependent bitmap (DDB) image to be converted to or DIB format without loss of information, and this can then later be converted to other DDB formats for, e.g., printing or display. Rather than requiring converters from each DDB format to all other formats, only converters to and from DIB are needed.
DIB images are normally transferred in metafiles, bmp files, and the clipboard.
Transferring colour bitmaps from one device to another was not possible in versions of Microsoft Windows earlier than 3.0. Application programs can build DIB images without any interaction with Windows. If Windows lacks a drawing primitive, the application can simulate it directly into the DIB instead of using the existing graphics device interface (GDI) primitives. Unfortunately, under Windows versions 3.0 and 3.1, GDI cannot perform output operations directly to a DIB.
Conversion between DIB and DDB is performed by the device driver. Where the driver does not have this facility, the conversion is performed by GDI but only in monochrome. DIBs are slower to use than device dependent bitmaps due to the conversions required.
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Dibasic (a.) (Chem.) Having two acid hydrogen atoms capable of replacement by basic atoms or radicals, in forming salts; bibasic; -- said of acids, as oxalic or sulphuric acids. Cf. Diacid, Bibasic.
Note: In the case of certain acids dibasic and divalent are not synonymous; as, tartaric acid is tetravalent and dibasic, lactic acid is divalent but monobasic.
Dibasicity (n.) (Chem.) The property or condition of being dibasic.
Dibber (n.) A dibble. -- Halliwell.
Dibber (n.) A wooden hand tool with a pointed end; used to make holes in the ground for planting seeds or bulbs [syn: dibble, dibber].
Dibble (n.) A pointed implement used to make holes in the ground in which no set out plants or to plant seeds.
Dibbled (imp. & p. p.) of Dibble.
Dibbling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Dibble.
Dibble (v. i.) To dib or dip frequently, as in angling. -- Walton.
Dibble (v. t.) To plant with a dibble; to make holes in (soil) with a dibble, for planting.
Dibble (v. t.) To make holes or indentations in, as if with a dibble.
The clayey soil around it was dibbled thick at the time by the tiny hoofs of sheep. -- H. Miller.
Dibble (n.) A wooden hand tool with a pointed end; used to make holes in the ground for planting seeds or bulbs [syn: dibble, dibber].
Dibble (v.) Plant with a wooden hand tool; "dibble Spring bulbs".
Dibble (v.) Make a hole with a wooden hand tool; "dibble the ground".
Dibble, OK -- U.S. town in Oklahoma
Population (2000): 289
Housing Units (2000): 120
Land area (2000): 2.659524 sq. miles (6.888136 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 2.659524 sq. miles (6.888136 sq. km)
FIPS code: 20650
Located within: Oklahoma (OK), FIPS 40
Location: 35.040060 N, 97.639805 W
ZIP Codes (1990):
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Dibble, OK
Dibble
Dibbler (n.) One who, or that which, dibbles, or makes holes in the ground for seed.
Dibranchiata (n. pl.) (Zool.) An order of cephalopods which includes those with two gills, an apparatus for emitting an inky fluid, and either eight or ten cephalic arms bearing suckers or hooks, as the octopi and squids. See Cephalopoda.
Dibranchiata (n.) Comprising all living cephalopods except the family Nautilidae: the orders Octopoda (octopuses) and Decapoda (squids and cuttlefish) [syn: Dibranchiata, subclass Dibranchiata, Dibranchia, subclass Dibranchia].
Dibranchiate (a.) (Zool.) Having two gills.
Dibranchiate (n.) One of the Dibranchiata.
Dibranchiate (n.) Cephalopods having two gills [syn: dibranchiate, dibranchiate mollusk, dibranch].
Dibs (n.) A sweet preparation or treacle of grape juice, much used in the East. -- Johnston.
A small amount of money.
Dibs (n.) A right or claim, such as the right of use, or of first choice; as, I have dibs on the binoculars after Jim is finished..
Dibs (n.) A claim of rights; "I have dibs on that last slice of pizza".
Dibstone (n.) A pebble used in a child's game called dibstones.
Dibutyl (n.) A liquid hydrocarbon, C8H18, of the marsh-gas series, being one of several octanes, and consisting of two butyl radicals. Cf. Octane.
Dicacious (a.) Talkative; pert; saucy.
Dicacity (n.) Pertness; sauciness.
Dicalcic (a.) Having two atoms or equivalents of calcium to the molecule.
Dicarbonic (a.) Containing two carbon residues, or two carboxyl or radicals; as, oxalic acid is a dicarbonic acid.
Dicast (n.) A functionary in
ancient
Dicastery (n.) A court of justice; judgment hall.
Die (n. pl. ) of Dice.
Dice (n.) Small cubes used in gaming or in determining by chance; also, the game played with dice. See Die, n.
Diced (imp. & p. p.) of Dice.
Dicing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Dice.
Dice (v. i.) To play games with dice.
Dice (v. i.) To ornament with squares, diamonds, or cubes.
Dicebox (n.) A box from which dice are thrown in gaming.
Dicentra (n.) A genus of herbaceous plants, with racemes of two-spurred or heart-shaped flowers, including the Dutchman's breeches, and the more showy Bleeding heart (D. spectabilis).
Dicephalous (a.) Having two heads on one body; double-headed.
Dicer (n.) A player at dice; a dice player; a gamester.
Dich (v. i.) To ditch.
Dichastic (a.) Capable of subdividing spontaneously.
Dichlamydeous (a.) Having two coverings, a calyx and in corolla.
Dichloride (n.) Same as Bichloride.
Dichogamous (a.) Manifesting dichogamy.
Dichogamy (n.) The condition of certain species of plants, in which the stamens and pistil do not mature simultaneously, so that these plants can never fertilize themselves.
Dichotomist (n.) One who dichotomizes.
Dichotomized (imp. & p. p.) of Dichotomize.
Dichotomizing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Dichotomize.
Dichotomize (v. t.) 二分；對分；叉分 To cut into two parts; to part into two divisions; to divide into pairs; to bisect. [R.]
The apostolical benediction dichotomizes all good things into grace and peace. -- Bp. Hall.
Dichotomize (v. t.) (Astron.) To exhibit as a half disk. See Dichotomy, 3. "[The moon] was dichotomized." -- Whewell.
Dichotomize (v. i.) To separate into two parts; to branch dichotomously; to become dichotomous.
Dichotomize (v.) Divide into two opposing groups or kinds [syn: dichotomize, dichotomise].
Dichotomous (a.) Regularly dividing by pairs from bottom to top; as, a dichotomous stem.
Dichotomy (n.) A cutting in two; a division.
Dichotomy (n.) Division or distribution of genera into two species; division into two subordinate parts.
Dichotomy (n.) That phase of the moon in which it appears bisected, or shows only half its disk, as at the quadratures.
Dichotomy (n.) Successive division and subdivision, as of a stem of a plant or a vein of the body, into two parts as it proceeds from its origin; successive bifurcation.
Dichotomy (n.) The place where a stem or vein is forked.
Dichotomy (n.) Division into two; especially, the division of a class into two subclasses opposed to each other by contradiction, as the division of the term man into white and not white.
Dichroic (a.) Having the property of dichroism; as, a dichroic crystal.
Dichroiscope (n.) Same as Dichroscope.
Dichroism (n.) The property of presenting different colors by transmitted light, when viewed in two different directions, the colors being unlike in the direction of unlike or unequal axes.
Dichroite (n.) Iolite; -- so called from its presenting two different colors when viewed in two different directions. See Iolite.
Dichroitic (a.) Dichroic.
Dichromate (n.) A salt of chromic acid containing two equivalents of the acid radical to one of the base; -- called also bichromate.
Dichromatic (a.) Having or exhibiting two colors.
Dichromatic (a.) Having two color varieties, or two phases differing in color, independently of age or sex, as in certain birds and insects.
Dichromatism (n.) The state of being dichromatic.
Dichromic (a.) Furnishing or giving two colors; -- said of defective vision, in which all the compound colors are resolvable into two elements instead of three.
Dichroous (a.) Dichroic.
Dichroscope (n.) An instrument for examining the dichroism of crystals.
Dichroscopic (a.) Pertaining to the dichroscope, or to observations with it.
Dicing (n.) An ornamenting in squares or cubes.
Dicing (n.) Gambling with dice.
Dickcissel (n.) The American black-throated bunting (Spiza Americana).
Dickens (n. / interj.) The devil.
Dicker (n.) The number or quantity of ten, particularly ten hides or skins; a dakir; as, a dicker of gloves.
Dicker (n.) A chaffering, barter, or exchange, of small wares; as, to make a dicker.
Dicker (v. i. & t.) To negotiate a dicker; to barter.
Dickey (n.) Alt. of Dicky.
Dicky (n.) A seat behind a carriage, for a servant.