Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter D

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Dicky (n.) [C] 假襯胸，假襯衫；（女服胸前的）V型裝飾布；圍涎；（馬車上供僕人乘坐的）尾座；（馬車車廂外的）車夫座位；【主英】（兒語）小鳥 A false shirt front or bosom. [Also spelled dickie.]

Dicky (n.) A gentleman's shirt collar. [Local, U. S.]

Dicky (n.) A hat; esp., in U. S., a stiff hat or derby; in Eng., a straw hat. [Slang]

Dicky (n.) A seat for the driver (In a carriage); -- called also dickey box or dickie seat.

Dicky (n.) A seat at the back for servants.

Dicky (n.) One of various animals; specif.:

Dicky (n.) A donkey.

Dicky (n.) Any small bird; -- called also dickeybird or dickey bird. [Colloq.]

Dicky (n.) The hedge sparrow. [Dial. Eng.]

Dicky (n.) The haddock. dickeybird

Dicky (a.) Faulty. [British informal].

Syn: dickey.

I've got this dicky heart -- John le Carre

Dicky (n.) See dickey.

Dicky (a.) (British informal) faulty; "I've got this dicky heart"-John le Carre [syn: dicky, dickey]

Dicky (n.) A small third seat in the back of an old-fashioned two-seater [syn: dickey, dickie, dicky, dickey-seat, dickie-seat, dicky-seat].

Dicky (n.) A man's detachable insert (usually starched) to simulate the front of a shirt [syn: dickey, dickie, dicky, shirtfront].

Diclinic (a.) (Crystallog.) Having two of the intersections between the three axes oblique. See Crystallization.

Diclinous (a.) Having the stamens and pistils in separate flowers. -- Gray.

Diclinous (a.) Having pistils and stamens in separate flowers [ant: monoclinous].

Dicoccous (a.) (Bot.) Composed of two coherent, one-seeded carpels; as, a dicoccous capsule.

Dicotyledon (n.) (Bot.) A plant whose seeds divide into two seed lobes, or cotyledons, in germinating.

Syn: dicot, dicotyl.

Dicotyledon (n.) Flowering plant with two cotyledons; the stem grows by deposit on its outside [syn: dicot, dicotyledon, magnoliopsid, exogen].

Dicotyledon (n.) [ C ] (Specialized) 雙子葉植物（種子有兩片子葉的植物） A plant that produces flowers and has two cotyledons (= leaf parts inside the seed).

Dicotyledonous (a.) (Bot.) Having two cotyledons or seed lobes; as, a dicotyledonous plant. Dicrotal

Dicotyledonous (a.) (Of a flowering plant) Having two cotyledons in the seed [ant: monocotyledonous].

Dicrotal (a.) Alt. of Dicrotous

Dicrotous (a.) Dicrotic.

Dicrotic (a.) (Physiol.) Of or pertaining to dicrotism; as, a dicrotic pulse.

Dicrotic (a.) (Physiol.) Of or pertaining to the second expansion of the artery in the dicrotic pulse; as, the dicrotic wave.

Dicrotism (n.) (Physiol.) A condition in which there are two beats or waves of the arterial pulse to each beat of the heart.

Dicta (n. pl.) [L.] See Dictum.

Dictum (n.; pl. L. Dicta, E. Dictums.) 名言；格言 An authoritative statement; a dogmatic saying; an apothegm.

A class of critical dicta everywhere current. -- M. Arnold.

Dictum (n.) (Law) A judicial opinion expressed by judges on points that do not necessarily arise in the case, and are not involved in it.

Dictum (n.) (Law) (French Law) The report of a judgment made by one of the judges who has given it. -- Bouvier.

Dictum (n.) (Law) An arbitrament or award.

Dictum (n.) An authoritative declaration [syn: pronouncement, dictum, say-so].

Dictum (n.) An opinion voiced by a judge on a point of law not directly bearing on the case in question and therefore not binding [syn: obiter dictum, dictum].

DICTUM, practice. Dicta are judicial opinions expressed by the judges on points that do not necessarily arise in the case.

DICTUM, () Dicta are regarded as of little authority, on account of the manner in which they are delivered; it frequently happening that they are given without much reflection, at the bar, without previous examination. "If," says Huston, J., in Frants v. Brown, 17 Serg. & Rawle, 292, "general dicta in cases turning on special circumstances are to be considered as establishing the law, nothing is yet settled, or can be long settled." "What I have said or written, out of the case trying," continues the learned judge, "or shall say or write, under such circumstances, maybe taken as my opinion at the time, without argument or full consideration; but I will never consider myself bound by it when the point is fairly trying and fully argued and considered. And I protest against any person considering such obiter dicta as my deliberate opinion." And it was considered by another learned judge. Mr. Baron Richards, to be a "great misfortune that dicta are taken down from judges, perhaps incorrectly, and then cited as absolute propositions." 1 Phillim. Rep. 1406; S. C. 1 Eng. Ecc. R. 129; Ram. on Judgm. ch. 5, p. 36; Willes' Rep. 666; 1 H. Bl. 53-63; 2 Bos. & P. 375; 7 T. R. 287; 3 B. & A. 341; 2 Bing. 90. The doctrine of the courts of France on this subject is stated in 11 Toull. 177, n. 133.

DICTUM, () In the French law, the report of a judgment made by one of the judges who has given it, is called the dictum. Poth. Proc. Civ. partie 1, c. 5, art. 2.

Dictamen (n.) A dictation or dictate. [R.] -- Falkland.

Dictamnus (n.) (Bot.) A suffrutescent, D. Fraxinella (the only species), with strong perfume and showy flowers. The volatile oil of the leaves is highly inflammable.

Dictamnus (n.) A dicotyledonous genus of the family Rutaceae [syn: Dictamnus, genus Dictamnus].

Dictated (imp. & p. p.) of Dictate

Dictating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Dictate

Dictate (v. t.) To tell or utter so that another may write down; to inspire; to compose; as, to dictate a letter to an amanuensis.

The mind which dictated the Iliad. -- Wayland.

Pages dictated by the Holy Spirit. -- Macaulay.

Dictate (v. t.) To say; to utter; to communicate authoritatively; to deliver (a command) to a subordinate; to declare with authority; to impose; as, to dictate the terms of a treaty; a general dictates orders to his troops.

Whatsoever is dictated to us by God must be believed. -- Watts.

Syn: To suggest; prescribe; enjoin; command; point out; urge; admonish.

Dictate (v. i.) To speak as a superior; to command; to impose conditions (on).

Who presumed to dictate to the sovereign. -- Macaulay.

Dictate (v. i.) To compose literary works; to tell what shall be written or said by another.

Sylla could not skill of letters, and therefore knew not how to dictate. -- Bacon.

Dictate (n.) A statement delivered with authority; an order; a command; an authoritative rule, principle, or maxim; a prescription; as, listen to the dictates of your conscience; the dictates of the gospel.

I credit what the Grecian dictates say. -- Prior.

Syn: Command; injunction; direction suggestion; impulse; admonition.

Dictate (n.) An authoritative rule.

Dictate (n.) A guiding principle; "the dictates of reason".

Dictate (v.) Issue commands or orders for [syn: order, prescribe, dictate].

Dictate (v.) Say out loud for the purpose of recording; "He dictated a report to his secretary".

Dictate (v.) Rule as a dictator.

Dictate (v.) (Give orders) (C1) [ I or T ] 命令，下（令）；決定，規定 To give orders, or tell someone exactly what they must do, with total authority.

// The UN will dictate the terms of troop withdrawal from the region.

// [ + question word ] He disagrees with the government dictating what children are taught in schools.

// [ + that ] The rules dictate that only running shoes must be worn on the track.

Dictate (v.) (Give orders) [ T ] 影響；決定；要求 To influence something or make it necessary.

// The party's change of policy has been dictated by its need to win back younger voters.

// [ + that ] I wanted to take a year off, but my financial situation dictated that I got a job.

Dictate (v.) (Speak) [ I or T ] 口述，口授 To speak something aloud for a person or machine to record what is said, so that it can be written down.

// I dictated my order over the phone.

// She spent the morning dictating letters to her secretary.

Phrasal verb:

Dictate to sb (-- Phrasal verb with dictate) (v.) 告訴（某人）怎麼做，指揮（某人） To tell someone what to do.

// Why should anyone dictate to parents on how to raise their children?

// I will not be dictated to like that!

Dictate (n.) [ C usually plural ] (Formal) 命令；（對自身的）要求 An order that should be obeyed, often one that you give to yourself.

// The dictates of conscience/ common sense.

Compare: Diktat

Diktat (n.) [ C or U ] (Disapproving) 死命令；勒令 An order that must be obeyed, or the act of giving such an order.

// The coach issued a diktat that all team members must attend early-morning practice.

// The occupying force ruled by diktat.

Dictation (n.) The act of dictating; the act or practice of prescribing; also that which is dictated.

It affords security against the dictation of laws. -- Paley.

Dictation (n.) The speaking to, or the giving orders to, in an overbearing manner; authoritative utterance; as, his habit, even with friends, was that of dictation.

Dictation (n.) An authoritative direction or instruction to do something [syn: command, bid, bidding, dictation].

Dictation (n.) Speech intended for reproduction in writing.

Dictation (n.) Matter that has been dictated and transcribed; a dictated passage; "he signed and mailed his dictation without. bothering to read it".

Dictation (n.) [ U ] 口述，口授 The activity of dictating something for someone else to write down.

// I'll ask my assistant to take dictation (= write down what I say).

Dictation (n.) [ C ] 聽寫，默書 A test in which a piece of writing is dictated to students learning a foreign language, to test their ability to hear and write the language correctly.

// Our French dictation lasted half an hour.

Dictator (n.) [L.] One who dictates; one who prescribes rules and maxims authoritatively for the direction of others. -- Locke.

Dictator (n.) [L.] One invested with absolute authority; especially, a magistrate created in times of exigence and distress, and invested with unlimited power.

Invested with the authority of a dictator, nay, of a pope, over our language. -- Macaulay.

Dictator (n.) A speaker who dictates to a secretary or a recording machine.

Dictator (n.) A ruler who is unconstrained by law [syn: dictator, potentate].

Dictator (n.) A person who behaves in a tyrannical manner; "my boss is a dictator who makes everyone work overtime" [syn: authoritarian, dictator].

Dictator (n.) [ C ] (Disapproving) 獨裁者，暴君 A leader who has complete power in a country and has not been elected by the people.

Dictator (n.) [ C ] (Disapproving) 獨斷專行者；專權者 A person who gives orders and behaves as if they have complete power.

// My boss is kind of a dictator.

Dictatorial (a.) Pertaining or suited to a dictator; absolute.

Military powers quite dictatorial. -- W. Irving.

Dictatorial (a.) Characteristic of a dictator; imperious; dogmatical; overbearing; as, a dictatorial tone or manner. -- Dic`ta*to"ri*al*ly, adv. -- Dic`ta*to"ri*al*ness, n.

Dictatorial (a.) Of or characteristic of a dictator; "dictatorial powers".

Dictatorial (a.) Expecting unquestioning obedience; "the timid child of authoritarian parents"; "insufferably overbearing behavior toward the waiter" [syn: authoritarian, dictatorial, overbearing].

Dictatorial (a.) Characteristic of an absolute ruler or absolute rule; having absolute sovereignty; "an authoritarian regime"; "autocratic government"; "despotic rulers"; "a dictatorial rule that lasted for the duration of the war"; "a tyrannical government" [syn: authoritarian, autocratic, dictatorial, despotic, tyrannic, tyrannical].

Dictatorial (a.) (Disapproving) 獨裁的；專制的；專橫的 Liking to give orders.

// A dictatorial ruler/ government.

// Her father is very dictatorial.

Dictatorian (a.) Dictatorial. [Obs.]

Dictatorship (n.) The office, or the term of office, of a dictator; hence, absolute power.

Dictatorship (n.) A form of government in which the ruler is an absolute dictator (not restricted by a constitution or laws or opposition etc.) [syn: dictatorship, absolutism, authoritarianism, Caesarism, despotism, monocracy, one-man rule, shogunate, Stalinism, totalitarianism, tyranny].

Dictatorship (n.) [ C ] 獨裁統治國家 A country ruled by a dictator.

// A military dictatorship.

Dictatorship (n.) [ U ] 獨裁；獨裁統治 The state of being, or being ruled by, a dictator.

// The dictatorship of Franco lasted for nearly 40 years.

Dictatory (a.) 獨裁者的；自大的 Dogmatical; overbearing; dictatorial. -- Milton.

Dictatress (n.) 女獨裁者 A woman who dictates or commands.

Earth's chief dictatress, ocean's mighty queen. -- Byron.

Dictatrix (n.) [L.] 女獨裁者 A dictatress.

Dictature (n.) Office of a dictator; dictatorship. [R.] -- Bacon.

Diction (n.) 措詞，用語；發音；發音法 Choice of words for the expression of ideas; the construction, disposition, and application of words in discourse, with regard to clearness, accuracy, variety, etc.; mode of expression; language; as, the diction of Chaucer's poems.

His diction blazes up into a sudden explosion of prophetic grandeur. -- De Quincey.

Syn: Diction, Style, Phraseology.

Usage: Style relates both to language and thought; diction, to language only; phraseology, to the mechanical structure of sentences, or the mode in which they are phrased. The style of Burke was enriched with all the higher graces of composition; his diction was varied and copious; his phraseology, at times, was careless and cumbersome. "Diction is a general term applicable alike to a single sentence or a connected composition.

Errors in grammar, false construction, a confused disposition of words, or an improper application of them, constitute bad diction; but the niceties, the elegancies, the peculiarities, and the beauties of composition, which mark the genius and talent of the writer, are what is comprehended under the name of style." -- Crabb.

Diction (n.) The articulation of speech regarded from the point of view of its intelligibility to the audience [syn: enunciation, diction].

Diction (n.) The manner in which something is expressed in words; "use concise military verbiage"- G.S.Patton [syn: wording, diction, phrasing, phraseology, choice of words, verbiage].

Dictionalrian (n.) A lexicographer. [R.]

Compare: Lexicographer

Lexicographer (n.) 詞典編纂者 A person who compiles dictionaries.

‘Contributors range from in-house lexicographers and editors to consultants whose specialist subjects include science, business and finance, law, education, religion and pharmacology.’

Compare: Pharmacology

Pharmacology (n.) 藥理學 The branch of medicine concerned with the uses, effects, and modes of action of drugs.

‘The main thrust of the book is to describe the toxicology and pharmacology of herbal products.’

Dictionaries (n. pl. ) of Dictionary

Dictionary (n.) 字典，辭典 [ C ] A book containing the words of a language, arranged alphabetically, with explanations of their meanings; a lexicon; a vocabulary; a wordbook.

I applied myself to the perusal of our writers; and noting whatever might be of use to ascertain or illustrate any word or phrase, accumulated in time the materials of a dictionary. -- Johnson.

Dictionary (n.) Hence, a book containing the words belonging to any system or province of knowledge, arranged alphabetically; as, a dictionary of medicine or of botany; a biographical dictionary.

Dictionary (n.) A reference book containing an alphabetical list of words with information about them [syn: {dictionary}, {lexicon}].

Dictionary, Data dictionary.

Dictionary, Associative array.

Dictionary, Free On-line Dictionary of Computing.

Dictionary (n.) A malevolent literary device for cramping the growth of a language and making it hard and inelastic. This dictionary, however, is a most useful work.

Dicta (n. pl. ) [L.] See Dictum

Dictums (n. pl. ) of Dictum

Dictum (n.) 言明，格言，法官的附帶意見 An authoritative statement; a dogmatic saying; an apothegm.

A class of critical dicta everywhere current. -- M. Arnold.

Dictum (n.) (Law) A judicial opinion expressed by judges on points that do not necessarily arise in the case, and are not involved in it.

Dictum (n.) (Law) (French Law) The report of a judgment made by one of the judges who has given it. -- Bouvier.

Dictum (n.) An arbitrament or award.

Dictyogen (n.) (Bot.) A plant with net-veined leaves, and monocotyledonous embryos, belonging to the class Dictyogenae, proposed by Lindley for the orders Dioscoreaceae, Smilaceae, Trilliaceae, etc.

Dicyanide (n.) (Chem.) A compound of a binary type containing two cyanogen groups or radicals; -- called also bicyanide.

Dicyemata (n. pl.) (Zool.) An order of worms parasitic in cephalopods. They are remarkable for the extreme simplicity of their structure. The embryo exists in two forms.

Dicyemid (a.) (Zool.) Like or belonging to the Dicyemata.

Dicyemid (n.) One of the Dicyemata.

Dicynodont (n.) (Paleon.) One of a group of extinct reptiles having the jaws armed with a horny beak, as in turtles, and in the genus Dicynodon, supporting also a pair of powerful tusks. Their remains are found in triassic strata of South Africa and India.

Dicynodont (n.) A kind of therapsid.

Diegetic (a.) Of, or relating to diegesis.

Diegetic (a.) That occurs as part of the action (rather than as background), and can be heard by the film's characters.

Doh (n.) The syllable naming the first (tonic) note of any major diatonic scale in solmization, usually written do.

Syn: do, ut.

Do (n.) An abbreviation of Ditto.

Did () imp. of Do. Didactic

Do (v. t.) To place; to put. [Obs.] -- Tale of a Usurer (about 1330).

Do (v. t.) To cause; to make; -- with an infinitive. [Obs.]

My lord Abbot of Westminster did do shewe to me late certain evidences. -- W. Caxton.

I shall . . . your cloister do make. -- Piers Plowman.

A fatal plague which many did to die. -- Spenser.

We do you to wit [i. e., We make you to know] of the grace of God bestowed on the churches of Macedonia. -- 2 Cor. viii. 1.

Note: We have lost the idiom shown by the citations (do used like the French faire or laisser), in which the verb in the infinitive apparently, but not really, has a passive signification, i. e., cause . . . to be made.

Do (v. t.) To bring about; to produce, as an effect or result; to effect; to achieve.

The neglecting it may do much danger. -- Shak.

He waved indifferently 'twixt doing them neither good not harm. -- Shak.

Do (v. t.) To perform, as an action; to execute; to transact to carry out in action; as, to do a good or a bad act; do our duty; to do what I can.

Six days shalt thou labor and do all thy work. -- Ex. xx. 9.

We did not do these things. -- Ld. Lytton.

You can not do wrong without suffering wrong. -- Emerson.

Hence: To do homage, honor, favor, justice, etc., to render homage, honor, etc.

Do (v. t.) To bring to an end by action; to perform completely; to finish; to accomplish; -- a sense conveyed by the construction, which is that of the past participle done.

"Ere summer half be done." "I have done weeping." -- Shak.

Do (v. t.) To make ready for an object, purpose, or use, as food by cooking; to cook completely or sufficiently; as, the meat is done on one side only.

Do (v. t.) To put or bring into a form, state, or condition, especially in the phrases, to do death, to put to death; to slay; to do away (often do away with), to put away; to remove; to do on, to put on; to don; to do off, to take off, as dress; to doff; to do into, to put into the form of; to translate or transform into, as a text.

Done to death by slanderous tongues. -- Shak.

The ground of the difficulty is done away. -- Paley.

Suspicions regarding his loyalty were entirely done away. -- Thackeray.

To do on our own harness, that we may not; but we must do on the armor of God. -- Latimer.

Then Jason rose and did on him a fair Blue woolen tunic. -- W. Morris (Jason).

Though the former legal pollution be now done off, yet there is a spiritual contagion in idolatry as much to be shunned. -- Milton.

It ["Pilgrim's Progress"] has been done into verse: it has been done into modern English. -- Macaulay.

Do (v. t.) To cheat; to gull; to overreach. [Colloq.]

He was not be done, at his time of life, by frivolous offers of a compromise that might have secured him seventy-five per cent. -- De Quincey.

Do (v. t.) To see or inspect; to explore; as, to do all the points of interest. [Colloq.]

Do (v. t.) (Stock Exchange) To cash or to advance money for, as a bill or note.

Do (v. t.) To perform work upon, about, for, or at, by way of caring for, looking after, preparing, cleaning, keeping in order, or the like.

The sergeants seem to do themselves pretty well. -- Harper's Mag.

Do (v. t.) To deal with for good and all; to finish up; to undo; to ruin; to do for. [Colloq. or Slang]

Sometimes they lie in wait in these dark streets, and fracture his skull, . . . or break his arm, or cut the sinew of his wrist; and that they call doing him. -- Charles Reade.

Note: (a) Do and did are much employed as auxiliaries, the verb to which they are joined being an infinitive. As an auxiliary the verb do has no participle. "I do set my bow in the cloud." -- Gen. ix. 13. [Now archaic or rare except for emphatic assertion.]

Rarely . . . did the wrongs of individuals to the knowledge of the public. -- Macaulay.

(b) They are often used in emphatic construction. "You don't say so, Mr. Jobson. -- but I do say so." -- Sir W. Scott. "I did love him, but scorn him now." -- Latham.

(c) In negative and interrogative constructions, do and did are in common use. I do not wish to see them; what do you think? Did C[ae]sar cross the Tiber? He did not. "Do you love me?" -- Shak.

(d) Do, as an auxiliary, is supposed to have been first used before imperatives. It expresses entreaty or earnest request; as, do help me. In the imperative mood, but not in the indicative, it may be used with the verb to be; as, do be quiet. Do, did, and done often stand as a general substitute or representative verb, and thus save the repetition of the principal verb. "To live and die is all we have to do." -- Denham. In the case of do and did as auxiliaries, the sense may be completed by the infinitive (without to) of the verb represented. "When beauty lived and died as flowers do now." -- Shak. "I . . . chose my wife as she did her wedding gown." -- Goldsmith.

My brightest hopes giving dark fears a being.

As the light does the shadow. -- Longfellow.

In unemphatic affirmative sentences do is, for the most part, archaic or poetical; as, "This just reproach their virtue does excite." -- Dryden.

To do one's best, To do one's diligence (and the like), To exert one's self; to put forth one's best or most or most diligent efforts. "We will . . . do our best to gain their assent." -- Jowett (Thucyd.).

To do one's business, To ruin one. [Colloq.] -- Wycherley.

To do one shame, To cause one shame. [Obs.]

To do over. (a) To make over; to perform a second time.

To do over. (b) To cover; to spread; to smear. "Boats . . . sewed together and done over with a kind of slimy stuff like rosin." -- De Foe.

To do to death, To put to death. (See 7.) [Obs.]

To do up. (a) To put up; to raise. [Obs.] -- Chaucer.

To do up. (b) To pack together and envelop; to pack up.

To do up. (c) To accomplish thoroughly. [Colloq.]

To do up. (d) To starch and iron. "A rich gown of velvet, and a ruff done up with the famous yellow starch." -- Hawthorne.

To do way, To put away; to lay aside. [Obs.] -- Chaucer.

To do with, To dispose of; to make use of; to employ; -- usually preceded by what. "Men are many times brought to that extremity, that were it not for God they would not know what to do with themselves." -- Tillotson.

To have to do with, To have concern, business or intercourse with; to deal with. When preceded by what, the notion is usually implied that the affair does not concern the person denoted by the subject of have. "Philology has to do with language in its fullest sense." -- Earle. "What have I to do with you, ye sons of Zeruiah?" -- 2 Sam. xvi. 10.

Do (v. i.) To act or behave in any manner; to conduct one's self.

They fear not the Lord, neither do they after . . . the law and commandment. -- 2 Kings xvii. 34.

Do (v. i.) To fare; to be, as regards health; as, they asked him how he did; how do you do to-day?

Do (v. i.) [Perh. a different word. OE. dugen, dowen, to avail, be of use, AS. dugan. See Doughty.] To succeed; to avail; to answer the purpose; to serve; as, if no better plan can be found, he will make this do.

You would do well to prefer a bill against all kings and parliaments since the Conquest; and if that won't do; challenge the crown. -- Collier.

To do by. See under By.

To do for. (a) To answer for; to serve as; to suit.

To do for. (b) To put an end to; to ruin; to baffle completely; as, a goblet is done for when it is broken. [Colloq.]

Some folks are happy and easy in mind when their victim is stabbed and done for. -- Thackeray.

To do withal, To help or prevent it. [Obs.] "I could not do withal." -- Shak.

To do without, To get along without; to dispense with.

To have done, To have made an end or conclusion; to have finished; to be quit; to desist.

To have done with, To have completed; to be through with; to have no further concern with.

Well to do, In easy circumstances.

Do (n.) Deed; act; fear. [Obs.] -- Sir W. Scott.

Do (n.) Ado; bustle; stir; to do. [R.]

A great deal of do, and a great deal of trouble. -- Selden.

Do (n.) A cheat; a swindle. [Slang, Eng.]

Do (n.) An uproarious party [syn: bash, do, brawl].

Do (n.) The syllable naming the first (tonic) note of any major scale in solmization [syn: do, doh, ut].

Do (n.) Doctor's degree in osteopathy [syn: Doctor of Osteopathy, DO].

Do (v.) Engage in; "make love, not war"; "make an effort"; "do research"; "do nothing"; "make revolution" [syn: make, do].

Do (v.) Carry out or perform an action; "John did the painting, the weeding, and he cleaned out the gutters"; "the skater executed a triple pirouette"; "she did a little dance" [syn: perform, execute, do].

Do (v.) Get (something) done; "I did my job" [syn: do, perform].

Do (v.) Proceed or get along; "How is she doing in her new job?"; "How are you making out in graduate school?"; "He's come a long way" [syn: do, fare, make out, come, get along].

Do (v.) Give rise to; cause to happen or occur, not always intentionally; "cause a commotion"; "make a stir"; "cause an accident" [syn: cause, do, make].

Do (v.) Carry out or practice; as of jobs and professions; "practice law" [syn: practice, practise, exercise, do].

Do (v.) Be sufficient; be adequate, either in quality or quantity; "A few words would answer"; "This car suits my purpose well"; "Will $100 do?"; "A 'B' grade doesn't suffice to get me into medical school"; "Nothing else will serve" [syn: suffice, do, answer, serve].

Do (v.) Create or design, often in a certain way; "Do my room in blue"; "I did this piece in wood to express my love for the forest" [syn: do, make] [ant: undo, unmake].

Do (v.) Behave in a certain manner; show a certain behavior; conduct or comport oneself; "You should act like an adult"; "Don't behave like a fool"; "What makes her do this way?"; "The dog acts ferocious, but he is really afraid of people" [syn: act, behave, do].

Do (v.) Spend time in prison or in a labor camp; "He did six years for embezzlement" [syn: serve, do].

Do (v.) Carry on or function; "We could do with a little more help around here" [syn: do, manage].

Do (v.) Arrange attractively; "dress my hair for the wedding" [syn: dress, arrange, set, do, coif, coiffe, coiffure].

Do (v.) Travel or traverse (a distance); "This car does 150 miles per hour"; "We did 6 miles on our hike every day".

DO, Distributed Objects (NeXT)

Do, Repeat loop.

Do, The country code for Dominican Republic. (1999-06-10)

DID, Digital Image Design.

Direct Inward Dialing

DID, (DID) A service offered by telephone companies which allows the last 3 or 4 digits of a phone number to be transmitted to the destination exchange.

For example, a company could have 10 incoming lines, all with the number 234 000. If a caller dials 234 697, the call is sent to 234 000 (the company's exchange), and the digits 697 are transmitted. The company's exchange then routes the call to extension 697. This gives the impression of 1000 direct dial lines, whereas in fact there are only 10. Obviously, only 10 at a time can be used.

This system is also used by fax servers. Instead of an exchange at the end of the 234 000 line, a computer running fax server software and fax modem cards uses the last three digits to identify the recipient of the fax. This allows 1000 people to have their own individual fax numbers, even though there is only one 'fax machine'. (1997-06-29)

Didactic (a.) 好教誨的；教訓的 Alt. of Didactical.

Didactic (n.) A treatise on teaching or education. [Obs.] -- Milton.

Didactical (a.) 好教誨的；教訓的（= didactic） Fitted or intended to teach; conveying instruction; preceptive; instructive; teaching some moral lesson; as, didactic essays. "Didactical writings." -- Jer. Taylor.

The finest didactic poem in any language. -- Macaulay.

Didactical (a.) excessively prone to instruct, even those who do not wish to be instructed; -- of people. [Pejorative]

Syn: didactic.

Didactic (a.) Instructive (especially excessively) [syn: didactic, didactical].

Didactically (adv.) 教導地；教學地，用於教學地 In a didactic manner.

Didactically (adv.) In a didactic manner; "this is a didactically sound method" [syn: didactically, pedagogically].

Didacticism (n.) 教導主義；教訓主義；啟蒙主義；教訓癖 The didactic method or system.

Didacticism (n.) Communication that is suitable for or intended to be instructive; "the didacticism expected in books for the young"; "the didacticism of the 19th century gave birth to many great museums".

Didacticity (n.) Aptitude for teaching. -- Hare.

Didacticity (n.) (rare) The quality of being didactic; = "didacticism".

Didactics (n.) 教授法 The art or science of teaching.

Didactics (n.) The activities of educating or instructing; activities that impart knowledge or skill; "he received no formal education"; "our instruction was carefully programmed"; "good classroom teaching is seldom rewarded" [syn: education, instruction, teaching, pedagogy, didactics, educational activity].

Didactyl (n.) (Zool.) 【動】每一肢僅有二趾爪或指的 An animal having only two digits.

Compare: Digit

Digit (n.) 手指；足趾；數字 Any of the numerals from 0 to 9, especially when forming part of a number.

‘This invention was the decimal system of numerals - nine digits and a zero.’

Digit (n.) A finger (including the thumb) or toe.

‘There are up to 17 phalanges (finger bones) in each digit.’

Digit (n.) (Zoology) An equivalent structure at the end of the limbs of many higher vertebrates.

‘All adult plethodontids have four limbs, with four digits on the forelimbs.’

Didactylous (a.) (Zool.) Having only two digits; two-toed.

Didal (n.) A kind of triangular spade. [Obs.]

Dabchick (n.) (Zool.) A small water bird ({Podilymbus podiceps), allied to the grebes, remarkable for its quickness in diving; -- called also dapchick, dobchick, dipchick, didapper, dobber, devil-diver, hell-diver, and pied-billed grebe.

Didapper (n.) (Zool.) See Dabchick.

Didascalar (a.) Didascalic. [R.]

Didascalic (a.) Didactic; preceptive. [R.] -- Prior.

Diddle (v. i.) To totter, as a child in walking. [Obs.] -- Quarles.

Diddle (v. t.) To cheat or overreach. [Colloq.] -- Beaconsfield.

Diddle (v.) Deprive of by deceit; "He swindled me out of my inheritance"; "She defrauded the customers who trusted her"; "the cashier gypped me when he gave me too little change" [syn: victimize, swindle, rook, goldbrick, nobble, diddle, bunco, defraud, scam, mulct, gyp, gip, hornswoggle, short-change, con].

Diddle (v.) Manipulate manually or in one's mind or imagination; "She played nervously with her wedding ring"; "Don't fiddle with the screws"; "He played with the idea of running for the Senate" [syn: toy, fiddle, diddle, play].

Diddle (v. t.) To work with or modify in a not-particularly-serious manner. ?I diddled a copy of ADVENT so it didn't double-space all the time.? ?Let's diddle this piece of code and see if the problem goes away.? See tweak and twiddle.

Diddle (n.) The action or result of diddling.