Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter D - Page 51
Digestion (n.) (Med.) Generation of pus; suppuration.
Compare: Suppuration
Suppuration (n.) 化膿，生膿 The act or process of suppurating.
Suppuration (n.) The matter produced by suppuration; pus.
Suppuration (n.) (Medicine) The formation of morbific matter in an abscess or a vesicle and the discharge of pus [syn: festering, suppuration, maturation].
Suppuration (n.) A fluid product of inflammation [syn: pus, purulence, suppuration, ichor, sanies, festering].
Digestion (n.) The process of decomposing organic matter (as in sewage) by bacteria or by chemical action or heat.
Digestion (n.) The organic process by which food is converted into substances that can be absorbed into the body.
Digestion (n.) Learning and coming to understand ideas and information; "his appetite for facts was better than his digestion."
Digestion (n.) The conversion of victuals into virtues. When the process is imperfect, vices are evolved instead -- a circumstance from which that wicked writer, Dr. Jeremiah Blenn, infers that the ladies are the greater sufferers from dyspepsia.
Digestive (n.) That which aids digestion, as a food or medicine. -- Chaucer.
That digestive [a cigar] had become to me as necessary as the meal itself. -- Blackw. Mag.
Digestive (n.) (Med.) A substance which, when applied to a wound or ulcer, promotes suppuration. -- Dunglison.
Digestive (n.) (Med.) A tonic. [R.]
Compare: Tonic
Tonic (n.) (Phon.) 補藥；生髮水；【音】主音；【語】濁音；重讀音節；有興奮作用的東西 A tonic element or letter; a vowel or a diphthong.
Tonic (n.) (Mus.) The key tone, or first tone of any scale.
Tonic (n.) (Med.) A medicine that increases the strength, and gives vigor of action to the system.
Compare: Diphthong
Diphthong (n.)【語】雙元音，複合元音 (a) A coalition or union of two vowel sounds pronounced in one syllable; as, ou in out, oi in noise; -- called a proper diphthong.
Diphthong (n.) (b) A vowel digraph; a union of two vowels in the same syllable, only one of them being sounded; as, ai in rain, eo in people; -- called an improper diphthong.
Diphthong (v. t.) To form or pronounce as a diphthong; diphthongize. [R.]
Diphthong (n.) A vowel sound that starts near the articulatory position for one vowel and moves toward the position for another
Tonic sol-fa (Mus.), The name of the most popular among letter systems of notation (at least in England), based on key relationship, and hence called "tonic." Instead of the five lines, clefs, signature, etc., of the usual notation, it employs letters and the syllables do, re, mi, etc., variously modified, with other simple signs of duration, of upper or lower octave, etc. See Sol-fa.
Tonic (a.) Of or relating to tones or sounds; specifically (Phon.), applied to, or distingshing, a speech sound made with tone unmixed and undimmed by obstruction, such sounds, namely, the vowels and diphthongs, being so called by Dr. James Rush (1833) " from their forming the purest and most plastic material of intonation."
Tonic (a.) Of or pertaining to tension; increasing tension; hence, increasing strength; as, tonic power.
Tonic (a.) (Med.) Increasing strength, or the tone of the animal system; obviating the effects of debility, and restoring healthy functions.
Tonic (a.) (Med.) Characterized by continuous muscular contraction; as, tonic convulsions.
Tonic spasm. (Med.) See the Note under Spasm.
Tonic (a.) Of or relating to or producing normal tone or tonus in muscles or tissue; "a tonic reflex"; "tonic muscle contraction."
Tonic (a.) Employing variations in pitch to distinguish meanings of otherwise similar words; "Chinese is a tonal language" [syn: tonic, tonal].
Tonic (a.) Used of syllables; "a tonic syllables carries the main stress in a word" [syn: tonic, accented] [ant: atonic, unaccented].
Tonic (a.) Relating to or being the keynote of a major or minor scale; "tonic harmony."
Tonic (a.) Imparting vitality and energy; "the bracing mountain air" [syn: bracing, brisk, fresh, refreshing, refreshful, tonic].
Tonic (n.) Lime- or lemon-flavored carbonated water containing quinine [syn: tonic, tonic water, quinine water].
Tonic (n.) A sweet drink containing carbonated water and flavoring; "in New England they call sodas tonics" [syn: pop, soda, soda pop, soda water, tonic].
Tonic (n.) (Music) the first note of a diatonic scale [syn: tonic, keynote].
Tonic (n.) A medicine that strengthens and invigorates [syn: tonic, restorative].
Digestive (a.) Pertaining to digestion; having the power to cause or promote digestion; as, the digestive ferments.
Digestive cheese and fruit there sure will be. -- B. Jonson.
Digestive apparatus, The organs of food digestion, esp. the alimentary canal and glands connected with it.
Digestive salt, The chloride of potassium.
Digestive (a.) Relating to or having the power to cause or promote digestion; "digestive juices"; "a digestive enzyme"; "digestive ferment."
Digestive (n.) Any substance that promotes digestion digestive system.
Digestive (n.) The system that makes food absorbable into the body [syn: digestive system, gastrointestinal system, systema alimentarium, systema digestorium].
Digestive system (n.) The system that makes food absorbable into the body [syn: digestive system, gastrointestinal system, systema alimentarium, systema digestorium].
Digestive system (n.) The system by which ingested food is acted upon by physical and chemical means to provide the body with absorbable nutrients and to excrete waste products; in mammals the system includes the alimentary canal extending from the mouth to the anus, and the hormones and enzymes assisting in digestion.
Digestive system (n.) The alimentary canal together with the salivary glands, liver, pancreas, and other organs of digestion.
Digestor (n.) See Digester.
Compare: Digester
Digester (n.) One who digests.
Digester (n.) A medicine or an article of food that aids digestion, or strengthens digestive power.
Rice is . . . a great restorer of health, and a great digester. -- Sir W. Temple.
Digester (n.) A strong closed vessel, in which bones or other substances may be subjected, usually in water or other liquid, to a temperature above that of boiling, in order to soften them.
Digester (n.) Autoclave consisting of a vessel in which plant or animal materials are digested.
Digesture (n.) Digestion. [Obs.] -- Harvey.
Diggable (a.) Capable of being dug.
Digger (n.) One who, or that which, digs.
Digger wasp (Zool.), Any one of the fossorial Hymenoptera.
Diggers (n. pl.) (Ethnol.) A degraded tribe of California Indians; -- so called from their practice of digging roots for food.
Digger (n.) A laborer who digs.
Digger (n.) A machine for excavating [syn: power shovel, excavator, digger, shovel].
Digging (n.) The act or the place of excavating.
Syn: excavation, dig.
Digging (n.) pl. Places where ore is dug; especially, certain localities in California, Australia, and elsewhere, at which gold is obtained. [Recent]
Digging (n.) pl. Region; locality. [Low]
Digging (n.) A thorough search for something (often causing disorder or confusion).
Syn: ransacking, rummage.
Digging (n.) The act of digging; "there's an interesting excavation going on near Princeton" [syn: excavation, digging, dig].
Dight (imp. & p. p.) of Dight.
Dighted () of Dight.
Dighting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Dight.
Dight (v. t.) 裝；飾；整頓 To prepare; to put in order; hence, to dress, or put on; to array; to adorn. [Archaic] "She gan the house to -- dight." -- Chaucer.
Two harmless turtles, dight for sacrifice. -- Fairfax.
The clouds in thousand liveries dight. -- Milton.
Dight (v. t.) To have sexual intercourse with. [Obs.] -- Chaucer.
Compare: Clothed
Clothed (a.) 穿……衣服的；覆蓋著……的，披上……的；clothe 的動詞過去式、過去分詞 Wearing clothing. [Narrower terms: adorned(predicate), bedecked(predicate), decked(predicate), decked out(predicate); appareled, attired, clad, dressed, garbed, garmented, habilimented, robed; arrayed, panoplied; breeched, pantalooned, trousered; bundled-up; caparisoned; cassocked: costumed: decent] [Narrower terms: dight] [Narrower terms: dressed-up, dressed to the nines(predicate), dressed to kill(predicate), dolled up, spruced up, spiffed up] [Narrower terms: gowned] [Narrower terms: habited] [Narrower terms: heavy-coated] [Narrower terms: overdressed] [Narrower terms: petticoated] [Narrower terms: red-coated, lobster-backed] [Narrower terms: surpliced] [Narrower terms: togged dressed esp in smart clothes)] [Narrower terms: turned out] [Narrower terms: underdressed] [Narrower terms: uniformed] [Narrower terms: vestmented] Also See: adorned, decorated.
Antonym: Unclothed.
Clothed (a.) Covered with or as if with clothes or a wrap or cloak.
Fog-cloaked meadows.
Syn: cloaked, draped, mantled, wrapped.
Dighter (n.) One who dights. [Obs.]
Digit (n.) (Zool.) One of the terminal divisions of a limb appendage; a finger or toe.
The ruminants have the "cloven foot," i. e., two hoofed digits on each foot. -- Owen.
Digit (n.) A finger's breadth, commonly estimated to be three fourths of an inch.
Digit (n.) (Math.) One of the ten figures or symbols, 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, by which all numbers are expressed; -- so called because of the use of the fingers in counting and computing.
Note: By some authorities the symbol 0 is not included with the digits.
Digit (n.) (Anat.) One twelfth part of the diameter of the sun or moon; -- a term used to express the quantity of an eclipse; as, an eclipse of eight digits is one which hides two thirds of the diameter of the disk.
Digit (v. t.) To point at or out with the finger. [R.]
Digit (n.) One of the elements that collectively form a system of numeration; "0 and 1 are digits" [syn: digit, figure].
Digit (n.) The length of breadth of a finger used as a linear measure [syn: finger, fingerbreadth, finger's breadth, digit].
Digit (n.) A finger or toe in human beings or corresponding body part in other vertebrates [syn: digit, dactyl].
Digital (a.) Of or performance to the fingers, or to digits; done with the fingers; as, digital compression; digital examination.
Digital (a.) Of or pertaining to digits[3]; expressed in digits[3], or using digits[3]; as, a digital display; a digital clock.
Digital (a.) (Computers)
performing internal logical and arithmetic operations by means of digits,
usually represented as binary numbers. Contrasted to analog, wherein variables
are represented as coninuous physical quantities such as voltages or the
position of a pointer on a continuous scale; as, a digital computer.
Note:
In digital computers, physical quantities in analog form, such as images,
sounds, distances, voltages, etc., must first be converted to an internal digital
representation before calculations can be performed on them. The conversion may
be done by the data enterer, by approximation, in the case of numerical values,
or by analog-to-digital conversion in the case of light or sound intensities.
The latter case uses special equipment to convert the physical impulses into a
digital value, using a pre-defined encoding system.
Digital (a.) Displaying numbers rather than scale positions; "digital clock"; "digital readout."
Digital (a.) Relating to or performed with the fingers; "digital Examination."
Digital (a.) Of a circuit or device that represents magnitudes in digits; "digital computer" [ant: analog, analogue, linear].
Digital, () Common abbreviation for Digital Equipment Corporation.
(1995-12-18)
Digital, () A description of data which is stored or transmitted as a
sequence of discrete symbols from a finite set, most commonly this means binary
data represented using electronic or electromagnetic signals.
The opposite is analogue. (1998-10-28)
Digitain (n.) Any one of several extracts of foxglove (Digitalis), as the "French extract," the "German extract," etc., which differ among themselves in composition and properties.
Digitain (n.) A supposedly distinct vegetable principle as the essential ingredient of the extracts. It is a white, crystalline substance, and is regarded as a glucoside.
Digitalis (n.) A genus of plants including the foxglove.
Digitalis (n.) The dried leaves of the purple foxglove (Digitalis purpurea), used in heart disease, disturbance of the circulation, etc.
Digitate (v. t.) To point out as with the finger.
Digitate (a.) Alt. of Digitated.
Digitated (a.) Having several leaflets arranged, like the fingers of the hand, at the extremity of a stem or petiole. Also, in general, characterized by digitation.
Digitation (n.) A division into fingers or fingerlike processes; also, a fingerlike process.
Digitiform (a.) Formed like a finger or fingers; finger-shaped; as, a digitiform root.
Digitigrade (a.) Walking on the toes; -- distinguished from plantigrade.
Digitigrade (n.) An animal that walks on its toes, as the cat, lion, wolf, etc.; -- distinguished from a plantigrade, which walks on the palm of the foot.
Digitipartite (a.) Parted like the fingers.
Digitize (v. t.) To finger; as, to digitize a pen.
Digitorium (n.) A small dumb keyboard used by pianists for exercising the fingers; -- called also dumb piano.
Digitule (n.) A little finger or toe, or something resembling one.
Digladiate (v. i.) To fight like gladiators; to contend fiercely; to dispute violently.
Digladiation (n.) Act of digladiating.
Diglottism (n.) Bilingualism.
Diglyph (n.) A projecting face like the triglyph, but having only two channels or grooves sunk in it.
Dignation (n.) The act of thinking worthy; honor.
Digne (a.) Worthy; honorable; deserving.
Digne (a.) Suitable; adequate; fit.
Digne (a.) Haughty; disdainful.
Dignification (n.) 使其尊嚴化 The act of dignifying; exaltation.
Dignified (a.) Marked with dignity; stately; as, a dignified judge.
Dignified (imp. & p. p.) of Dignify.
Dignifying (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Dignify.
Dignify (v. t.) 使有尊嚴，使高貴 [（+by/ with）]；抬高……的身價 [（+by/ with）] To invest with dignity or honor; to make illustrious; to give distinction to; to exalt in rank; to honor.
Your worth will dignify our feast. -- B. Jonson.
Syn: To exalt; elevate; prefer; advance; honor; illustrate; adorn; ennoble.
Dignify (v.) Confer dignity or honor upon; "He was dignified with a title" [syn: ennoble, dignify].
Dignify (v.) Raise the status of; "I shall not dignify this insensitive remark with an answer."
Dignified (a.) 有尊嚴的；莊嚴的；高貴的；dignify的動詞過去式、過去分詞 Having or expressing dignity; especially formality or stateliness in bearing or appearance; "her dignified demeanor"; "the director of the school was a dignified white-haired gentleman" [ant: undignified].
Dignified (a.) Having or showing self-esteem [syn: dignified, self-respecting, self-respectful].
Dignitaries (n. pl. ) of Dignitary.
Dignitary (n.) 顯貴，要人 [C] One who possesses exalted rank or holds a position of dignity or honor; especially, one who holds an ecclesiastical rank above that of a parochial priest or clergyman.
Dignitary (n.) An important or influential (and often overbearing) person [syn: very important person, VIP, high-up, dignitary, panjandrum, high muckamuck].
Dignities (n. pl. ) of Dignity.
Dignity (n.) 尊嚴；莊嚴 [U]；尊貴；高尚 [U] The state of being worthy or honorable; elevation of mind or character; true worth; excellence.
Dignity (n.) Elevation; grandeur.
The dignity of this act was worth the audience of kings. -- Shak.
Dignity (n.) Elevated rank; honorable station; high office, political or ecclesiastical; degree of excellence; preferment; exaltation. -- Macaulay.
And the king said, What honor and dignity hath been done to Mordecai for this? -- Esth. v. i. 3.
Reuben, thou art my firstborn, . . . the excellency of dignity, and the excellency of power. -- Gen. xlix. 3.
Dignity (n.) Quality suited to inspire respect or reverence; loftiness and grace; impressiveness; stateliness; -- said of mien, manner, style, etc.
A letter written with singular energy and dignity of thought and language. -- Macaulay.
Dignity (n.) One holding high rank; a dignitary.
These filthy dreamers . . . speak evil of dignities. -- Jude. 8.
Dignity (n.) Fundamental principle; axiom; maxim. [Obs.] Sciences concluding from dignities, and principles known by themselves. -- Sir T. Browne.
Syn: See Decorum.
To stand upon one's dignity, to have or to affect a high notion of one's own rank, privilege, or character.
They did not stand upon their dignity, nor give their minds to being or to seeming as elegant and as fine as anybody else. -- R. G. White.
Dignity (n.) The quality of being worthy of esteem or respect; "it was beneath his dignity to cheat"; "showed his true dignity when under pressure" [syn: dignity, self-respect, self-regard, self-worth].
Dignity (n.) Formality in bearing and appearance; "he behaved with great dignity" [syn: dignity, lordliness, gravitas].
Dignity (n.) High office or rank or station; "he respected the dignity of the emissaries."
Dignotion (n.) Distinguishing mark; diagnostic.
Digonous (a.) Having two angles.
Digram (n.) A digraph.
Digraph (n.) Two signs or characters combined to express a single articulated sound; as ea in head, or th in bath.
Digraphic (a.) Of or pertaining to a digraph.
Digressed (imp. & p. p.) of Digress.
Digressing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Digress.
Digress (v. i.) 走向岔道；脫離主題 To step or turn aside; to deviate; to swerve; especially, to turn aside from the main subject of attention, or course of argument, in writing or speaking.
Digress (v. i.) To turn aside from the right path; to transgress; to offend.
Digress (v.) Lose clarity or turn aside especially from the main subject of attention or course of argument in writing, thinking, or speaking; "She always digresses when telling a story"; "her mind wanders"; "Don't digress when you give a lecture" [syn: {digress}, {stray}, {divagate}, {wander}].
Digress (v.) Wander from a direct or straight course [syn: {sidetrack}, {depart}, {digress}, {straggle}].
Digress (n.) Digression. [Obs.]
Digression (n.) 離題，扯到枝節上，脫軌 The act of digressing or deviating, esp. from the main subject of a discourse; hence, a part of a discourse deviating from its main design or subject.
Digression (n.) A turning aside from the right path; transgression; offense.
Digression (n.) (Anat.) The elongation, or angular distance from the sun; -- said chiefly of the inferior planets.
Digression (n.) A message that departs from the main subject [syn: {digression}, {aside}, {excursus}, {divagation}, {parenthesis}].
Digression (n.) A turning aside (of your course or attention or concern); "a diversion from the main highway"; "a digression into irrelevant details"; "a deflection from his goal" [syn: {diversion}, {deviation}, {digression}, {deflection}, {deflexion}, {divagation}].
Digression (n.) Wandering from the main path of a journey [syn: {digression}, {excursion}].
Digressional (a.) Pertaining to, or having the character of, a digression; departing from the main purpose or subject. -- T. Warton.
Digressive (a.) Departing from the main subject; partaking of the nature of digression. -- Johnson.
Digressive (a.) Of superficial relevance if any; "a digressive allusion to the day of the week"; "a tangential remark" [syn: digressive, tangential].
Digressive (a.) (Of e.g. speech and writing) Tending to depart from the main point or cover a wide range of subjects; "amusingly digressive with satirical thrusts at women's fashions among other things"; "a rambling discursive book"; "his excursive remarks"; "a rambling speech about this and that" [syn: digressive, discursive, excursive, rambling].
Digressively (adv.) By way of digression.
Digue (n.) A bank; a dike. [Obs.] -- Sir W. Temple.
Digynia (n.) (Bot.) A Linnaean order of plants having two styles. Digynian
Digynian (a.) Alt. of Digynous.
Digynous (a.) Of or pertaining to the Digynia; having two styles.
Dihedral (a.) Having two plane faces; as, the dihedral summit of a crystal.
Dihedron (n.) A figure with two sides or surfaces.
Dihexagonal (a.) Consisting of two hexagonal parts united; thus, a dihexagonal pyramid is composed of two hexagonal pyramids placed base to base.
Dihexagonal (a.) Having twelve similar faces; as, a dihexagonal prism.
Diiamb (n.) A diiambus.
Diiambus (n.) (Pros.) A double iambus; a foot consisting of two iambuses.
Diiodide (n.) (Chem.) A compound of a binary type containing two atoms of iodine; -- called also biniodide. diiodotyrosine
Diisatogen (n.) (Chem.) A red crystalline nitrogenous substance or artificial production, which by reduction passes directly to indigo.
Dijudicant (n.) One who dijudicates. [R.] -- Wood.
Dijudicated (imp. & p. p.) of Dijudicate.
Dijucating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Dijudicate.
Dijudicate (v. i.) To make a judicial decision; to decide; to determine. [R.] -- Hales.
Dijudication (n.) The act of dijudicating; judgment. [R.] -- Cockeram.
Dika (n.) A kind of food, made from the almondlike seeds of the Irvingia Barteri, much used by natives of the west coast of Africa; -- called also dika bread.
Dike (n.) 堤；壩；【英】溝；壕溝；障礙物，防護欄；（用於劃分土地的）低土牆；低石牆；【地】岩牆，岩脈 A ditch; a channel for water made by digging.
Little channels or dikes cut to every bed. -- Ray.
Dike (n.) An embankment to prevent inundations; a levee.
Dikes that the hands of the farmers had raised . . . Shut out the turbulent tides. -- Longfellow.
Dike (n.) A wall of turf or stone. [Scot.]
Dike (n.) (Geol.) A wall-like mass of mineral matter, usually an intrusion of igneous rocks, filling up rents or fissures in the original strata.