Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter D - Page 54
Dimyary (a. & n.) (Zool.) Same as Dimyarian.
Din (v. i.) To sound with a din; a ding.
The gay viol dinning in the dale. -- A. Seward.
Din (n.) Loud, confused, harsh noise; a loud, continuous, rattling or clanging sound; clamor; roar.
Think you a little din can daunt mine ears? -- Shak.
He knew the battle's din afar. -- Sir W. Scott.
The dust and din and steam of town. -- Tennyson.
Dinned (imp. & p. p.) of Din.
Dinning (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Din.
Din (v. t.) To strike with confused or clanging sound; to stun with loud and continued noise; to harass with clamor; as, to din the ears with cries.
Din (v. t.) To utter with a din; to repeat noisily; to ding.
This hath been often dinned in my ears. -- Swift.
To din into, To fix in the mind of another by frequent and noisy repetitions. -- Sir W. Scott.
Din (n.) A loud harsh or strident noise [syn: blare, blaring, cacophony, clamor, din].
Din (n.) The act of making a noisy disturbance [syn: commotion, din, ruction, ruckus, rumpus, tumult].
Din (v.) Make a resonant sound, like artillery; "His deep voice boomed through the hall" [syn: boom, din].
Din (v.) Instill (into a person) by constant repetition; "he dinned the lessons into his students".
DIN, () Deutsches Institut fuer Normung (org.)
DIN, () Deutsche Institut fuer Normung.
The German standardisation body, a member of ISO.
Dinaphthyl (n.) (Chem.) A colorless, crystalline hydrocarbon, C20H14, obtained from naphthylene, and consisting of a doubled naphthylene radical.
Dinar (n.) A petty money of accounts of Persia ; 100 dinars consituted a rial.
Dinar (n.) An ancient gold coin of the East , issued by various Islamic countries.
Dinar (n.) The unit of currency of Yugoslavia. One dinar equals 100 paras. Abbreviated Din.
Dinar (n.) 100 dinars equal 1 rial in Iran [syn: Iranian dinar, dinar].
Dinar (n.) The basic unit of money in Yugoslavia [syn: Yugoslavian dinar, dinar].
Dinar (n.) The basic unit of money in Tunisia [syn: Tunisian dinar, dinar].
Dinar (n.) The basic unit of money in Libya [syn: Libyan dinar, dinar].
Dinar (n.) The basic unit of money in Kuwait; equal 1,000 fils [syn: Kuwaiti dinar, dinar].
Dinar (n.) The basic unit of money in Jordan; equal to 1,000 fils [syn: Jordanian dinar, dinar].
Dinar (n.) The basic unit of money in Iraq; equal to 1,000 fils [syn: Iraqi dinar, dinar].
Dinar (n.) The basic unit of money in Bahrain; equal to 1,000 fils [syn: Bahrain dinar, dinar].
Dinar (n.) The basic unit of money in Algeria [syn: Algerian dinar, dinar].
Dinarchy (n.) See Diarchy.
Dined (imp. & p. p.) of Dine.
Dining (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Dine.
Dine (v. i.) To eat the principal regular meal of the day; to take dinner.
Now can I break my fast, dine, sup, and sleep. -- Shak.
To dine with Duke Humphrey, To go without dinner; -- a phrase common in Elizabethan literature, said to be from the practice of the poor gentry, who beguiled the dinner hour by a promenade near the tomb of Humphrey, Duke of Gloucester, in Old Saint Paul's.
Dine (v. t.) To give a dinner to; to furnish with the chief meal; to feed; as, to dine a hundred men.
A table massive enough to have dined Johnnie Armstrong and his merry men. -- Sir W. Scott.
Dine (v. t.) To dine upon; to have to eat. [Obs.] "What will ye dine." -- Chaucer.
Dine (v.) Have supper; eat dinner; "We often dine with friends in this restaurant."
Dine (v.) Give dinner to; host for dinner; "I'm wining and dining my friends."
Dine, () (Gen. 43:16). It was the custom in Egypt to dine at noon. But it is probable that the Egyptians took their principal meal in the evening, as was the general custom in the East (Luke 14:12).
Diner (n.) One who dines.
Diner (n.) A person eating a meal (especially in a restaurant).
Diner (n.) A passenger car where food is served in transit [syn: dining car, diner, dining compartment, buffet car].
Diner (n.) A restaurant that resembles a dining car.
Diner-out (n.) One who often takes his dinner away from home, or in company.
A brilliant diner-out, though but a curate. -- Byron.
Dinetical (a.) Revolving on an axis. [Obs.] -- Sir T. Browne.
Dinged (imp. & p. p.) of Ding.
Dang () of Ding.
Dung () of Ding.
Dinging (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Ding.
Ding (v. t.) To dash; to throw violently. [Obs.]
To ding the book a coit's distance from him. -- Milton.
Ding (v. t.) To cause to sound or ring.
To ding (anything) in one's ears, To impress one by noisy repetition, as if by hammering.
Ding (v. i.) To strike; to thump; to pound. [Obs.]
Diken, or delven, or dingen upon sheaves. -- Piers Plowman.
Ding (v. i.) To sound, as a bell; to ring; to clang.
The fretful tinkling of the convent bell evermore dinging among the mountain echoes. -- W. Irving.
Ding (v. i.) To talk with vehemence, importunity, or reiteration; to bluster. [Low]
Ding (n.) A thump or stroke, especially of a bell.
Ding (n.) A ringing sound.
Ding (n.) An impression in a surface (as made by a blow) [syn: dent, ding, gouge, nick].
Ding (v.) Go `ding dong', like a bell [syn: ding, dong, dingdong].
Ding (n., v. i.) Synonym for feep. Usage: rare among hackers, but more common in the {Real World.
Ding (n., v. i.) Dinged: What happens when someone in authority gives you a minor bitching about something, esp. something trivial. ?I was dinged for having a messy desk.?
Ding, () Synonym for feep. Usage: rare among hackers, but commoner in the Real World.
Ding, () "Dinged": What happens when someone in authority gives you a minor bitching about something, especially something trivial. "I was dinged for having a messy desk." [{Jargon File]
Dingdong (n.) The sound of, or as of, repeated strokes on a metallic body, as a bell; a repeated and monotonous sound.
Dingdong (n.) (Horol.) An attachment to a clock by which the quarter hours are struck upon bells of different tones.
Dingdong (n.) A stupid or foolish person; -- used in a deprecatory or contemptuous sense. [slang]
Syn: ding-a-ling, doofus.
Dingdong (adv.) Heartily or earnestly; "They fell to work dingdong."
Dingdong (v.) Go `ding dong', like a bell [syn: ding, dong, dingdong].
Dingey (n.) Alt. of Dinghy.
Dingy (n.) Alt. of Dinghy.
Dinghy (n.) A kind of boat used in the East Indies.
Dinghy (n.) A ship's smallest boat.
Dingey, Dingy, Dinghy, (n.) [Bengalee dingi.] A small boat propelled by oars or sails, used in the East Indies, in sheltered waters. [Written also dinghey.] -- Malcom.
Dingey, Dingy, Dinghy, (n.) A small boat intended to be used as a tender or lifeboat, carried or towed by a ship. It may be propelled by oars, sail, or a motor.
Dingey, Dingy, Dinghy, (n.) A small boat of shallow draft with cross thwarts for seats and rowlocks for oars with which it is propelled.
Syn: dory, rowboat.
Dinghy (n.) A small boat of shallow draft with cross thwarts for seats and rowlocks for oars with which it is propelled [syn: dinghy, dory, rowboat].
Dingily (adv.) In a dingy manner.
Dingily (adv.) In a dingy manner [syn: dingily, grubbily, grungily].
Dinginess (n.) Quality of being dingy; a dusky hue.
Dinginess (n.) Discoloration due to dirtiness [syn: dinginess, dinge].
Dingle (n.) A narrow dale; a small dell; a small, secluded, and embowered valley.
Dingle (n.) A small wooded hollow [syn: dell, dingle].
Dingle-dangle (adv.) In a dangling manner.
Dingo (n.) (Zool.) A wild dog found in Australia, but supposed to have introduced at a very early period. It has a wolflike face, bushy tail, and a reddish brown color.
Dingo (n.) Wolflike yellowish-brown wild dog of Australia [syn: dingo, warrigal, warragal, Canis dingo].
Dingthrift (n.) A spendthrift. [Obs.]
Wilt thou, therefore, a drunkard be, A dingthrift and a knave? -- Drant.
Dingy (a.) Soiled; sullied; of a dark or dusky color; dark brown; dirty. "Scraps of dingy paper." -- Macaulay.
Dingey, Dingy, Dinghy (n.) [Bengalee dingi.] A small boat propelled by oars or sails, used in the East Indies, in sheltered waters. [Written also dinghey.] -- Malcom.
Dingey, Dingy, Dinghy (n.) A small boat intended to be used as a tender or lifeboat, carried or towed by a ship. It may be propelled by oars, sail, or a motor.
Dingey, Dingy, Dinghy (n.) A small boat of shallow draft with cross thwarts for seats and rowlocks for oars with which it is propelled.
Syn: dory, rowboat.
Dingy (a.) Thickly covered with ingrained dirt or soot; "a miner's begrimed face"; "dingy linen"; "grimy hands"; "grubby little fingers"; "a grungy kitchen" [syn: begrimed, dingy, grimy, grubby, grungy, raunchy].
Dingy (a.) (Of color) Discolored by impurities; not bright and clear; "dirty" is often used in combination; "a dirty (or dingy)
white"; "the muddied grey of the sea"; "muddy colors"; "dirty-green walls"; "dirty-blonde hair" [syn: dirty, dingy, muddied, muddy].
Dingy (a.) Causing dejection; "a blue day"; "the dark days of the war"; "a week of rainy depressing weather"; "a disconsolate winter landscape"; "the first dismal dispiriting days of November"; "a dark gloomy day"; "grim rainy weather" [syn: blue, dark, dingy, disconsolate, dismal, gloomy, grim, sorry, drab, drear, dreary].
Dinichthys (n.) (Paleon.) A genus of large extinct Devonian ganoid fishes. In some parts of Ohio remains of the Dinichthys are abundant, Indicating animals twenty feet in length.
Dining (n. & a.) from Dine, a.
Note: Used either adjectively or as the first part of a compound; as, dining hall or dining-hall, dining room, dining table, etc.
dining-hall; dininghall
Dining (n.) The act of eating dinner.
Dink (a.) Trim; neat. [Scot.] -- Burns. -- Dink"ly, adv.
Dink (v. t.) To deck; -- often with out or up. [Scot.]
Dink (n.) [ca. 1985, acronym from double income no kids.] Either of a married couple who both are employed and have no children. The term is often used as the prototype of midde-class persons with higher-than-average disposable income.
Dink (n.) (Tennis) A ball hit softly that falls to the ground just beyond the net.
Dink (n.) An Asian person, especially a Vietnamese; -- used contemptuously, considered disparaging and offensive. [U.S. slang]
Syn: slant, slope.
Dink (n.) A couple who both have careers and no children (an acronym for dual income no kids).
Dink (n.) A soft return so that the tennis ball drops abruptly after crossing the net [syn: drop shot, dink].
Dink (a.) Said of a machine that has the bitty box nature; a machine too small to be worth bothering with ? sometimes the system you're currently forced to work on. First heard from an MIT hacker working on a CP/M system with 64K, in reference to any 6502 system, then from fans of 32-bit architectures about 16-bit machines. ?GNUMACS will never work on that dink machine.?
Probably derived from mainstream ?dinky?, which isn't sufficiently pejorative. See macdink.
Dink, () Said of a machine that has the bitty box nature; a machine too small to be worth bothering with - sometimes the system you're currently forced to work on. First heard from an MIT hacker working on a CP/M system with 64K, in reference to any 6502 system, then from fans of 32 bit architectures about 16-bit machines. "GNUMACS will never work on that dink machine." Probably derived from mainstream "dinky", which isn't sufficiently pejorative.
See macdink. [{Jargon File] (1994-10-31)
Dinmont (n.) (Zool.) A wether sheep between one and two years old. [Scot.]
Dinner (n.) The principal meal of the day, eaten by most people about midday, but by many (especially in cities) at a later hour.
Dinner (n.) An entertainment; a feast.
A grand political dinner. -- Tennyson.
Note: Dinner is much used, in an obvious sense, either adjectively or as the first part of a compound; as, dinner time, or dinner-time, dinner bell, dinner hour, etc.
Dinner (n.) The main meal of the day served in the evening or at midday; "dinner will be at 8"; "on Sundays they had a large dinner when they returned from church."
Dinner (n.) A party of people assembled to have dinner together; "guests should never be late to a dinner party" [syn: dinner, dinner party].
Dinnerless (a.) Having no dinner ; as, the naughty child was sent to bed dinnerless. -- Fuller.
Dinnerly (a.) Of or pertaining to dinner. [R.]
The dinnerly officer. -- Copley.
Dinoceras (n.) (Paleon.) A genus of large extinct Eocene mammals from Wyoming; --
{Uintatherium">called also {Uintatherium. See Illustration in Appendix.
Note: They were herbivorous, and remarkable for three pairs of hornlike protuberances on the skull. The males were armed with a pair of powerful canine tusks.
Dinoceras (n.) A variety of dinocerate [syn: dinoceras, uintathere].
Dinornis (n.) (Paleon.) A genus of extinct, ostrichlike birds of gigantic size, which formerly inhabited New Zealand. See Moa. [Written also Deinornis.] Dinosaur
Dinornis (n.) Type genus of the Dinornithidae: large moas [syn: Dinornis, genus Dinornis].
Dinosaur (n.) Alt. of Dinosaurian.
Dinosaurian (n.) (Paleon.) One of
the Dinosauria. [Written also deinosaur, and deinosaurian.]
Dinosaur (n.) Any of numerous extinct
terrestrial reptiles of the Mesozoic era
Dinosaur (n.) Any hardware requiring raised flooring and special power. Used especially of old minis and mainframes, in contrast with newer microprocessor-based machines. In a famous quote from the 1998 Unix EXPO, Bill Joy compared the liquid-cooled mainframe in the massive IBM display with a grazing dinosaur ?with a truck outside pumping its bodily fluids through it?. IBM was not amused. Compare big iron; see also mainframe.
Dinosaur (n.) [IBM] A very conservative user; a zipperhead.
Dinosaur, () Any hardware requiring raised flooring and special power.
Used especially of old minicomputers and mainframes, in contrast with newer microprocessor-based machines.
In a famous quote from the 1988 Unix EXPO, Bill Joy compared the liquid-cooled mainframe in the massive IBM display with a grazing dinosaur "with a truck outside pumping its bodily fluids through it". IBM was not amused.
Compare big iron; see also dinosaurs mating.
Dinosaur, () [IBM] A very conservative user; a zipperhead. [{Jargon File]
Dinosaur, CO -- U.S. town in Colorado
Population (2000): 319
Housing Units (2000): 156
Land area (2000): 0.795669 sq. miles (2.060772 sq. km)
Water
area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 0.795669 sq. miles (2.060772 sq. km)
FIPS code: 20495
Located within: Colorado (CO), FIPS 08
Location: 40.241560 N, 109.008747 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 81610
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Dinosaur, CO
Dinosaur
Dinosauria (n. pl.) (Paleon.) An order of extinct mesozoic reptiles, mostly of large size (whence the name). Notwithstanding their size, they present birdlike characters in the skeleton, esp. in the pelvis and hind limbs. Some walked on their three-toed hind feet, thus producing the large "bird tracks," so-called, of mesozoic sandstones; others were five-toed and quadrupedal. See Illust. of Compsognathus, also Illustration of Dinosaur in Appendix. Dinothere
Dinothere (n.) Alt. of Dinotherium.
Dinotherium (n.) (Paleon.) A large extinct proboscidean mammal from the miocene beds of Europe and Asia. It is remarkable fora pair of tusks directed downward from the decurved apex of the lower jaw.
Dinoxide (n.) (Chem.) Same as Dioxide.
Dinsome (a.) Full of din. [Scot.] -- Burns.
Dint (n.) A blow; a stroke. [Obs.] "Mortal dint." -- Milton. "Like thunder's dint." -- Fairfax.
Dint (n.) The mark left by a blow; an indentation or impression made by violence; a dent. -- Dryden.
Every dint a sword had beaten in it [the shield]. -- Tennyson.
Dint (n.) Force; power; -- esp. in the phrase by dint of.
Now you weep; and, I perceive, you feel The dint of pity. -- Shak.
It was by dint of passing strength That he moved the massy stone at length. -- Sir W. Scott.
Dinted (imp. & p. p.) of Dint.
Dinting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Dint.
Dint (v. t.) To make a mark or cavity on or in, by a blow or by pressure; to dent. -- Donne. Tennyson.
Dint (n.) Interchangeable with `means' in the expression `by means of'.
Dinumeration (n.) Enumeration. [Obs.] -- Bullokar.
Diocesan (a.) Of or pertaining to a diocese; as, diocesan missions.
Diocesan (n.) A bishop, viewed in relation to his diocese; as, the diocesan of New York.
Diocesan (n.) pl. The clergy or the people of a diocese. -- Strype.
Diocesan (a.) Belonging to or governing a diocese.
Diocesan (n.) A bishop having jurisdiction over a diocese
Dioceses (n. pl. ) of Diocese.
Diocese (n.) (Eccl.) 主教教區；教區；主教轄區；聖座所指派由主教全權管理的教會行政區域，亦即託付給主教並在司鐸團協助下所牧養部份天主子民的地區教會。如臺灣地區共分七個教區即臺北、新竹、台中、嘉義、台南、高雄、花蓮。由本堂神父管理的區域稱「堂區」，與教區有別。 The circuit or extent of a bishop's jurisdiction; the district in which a bishop exercises his ecclesiastical authority. [Frequently, but improperly, spelt diocess.]
Diocesener (n.) One who belongs to a diocese. [Obs.] -- Bacon.
Diodon (n.) (Zool.) A genus of spinose, plectognath fishes, having the teeth of each jaw united into a single beaklike plate. They are able to inflate the body by taking in air or water, and, hence, are called globefishes, swellfishes, etc. Called also porcupine fishes, and sea hedgehogs.
Diodon (n.) (Zool.) A genus of whales.
Diodon (n.) Type genus of the Diodontidae [syn: Diodon, genus Diodon].
Diodont (a.) (Zool.) Like or pertaining to the genus Diodon.
Diodont (n.) A fish of the genus Diodon, or an allied genus.
Dioecia (n. pl.) (Bot.) A Linnaean class of plants having the stamens and pistils on different plants.
Dioecia (n. pl.) (Zool.) A subclass of gastropod mollusks in which the sexes are separate. It includes most of the large marine species, like the conchs, cones, and cowries. Dioecian
Dioecian (a.) Alt. of Dioecious.
Dioecious (a.) (Biol.) Having the sexes in two separate individuals; -- applied to plants in which the female flowers occur on one individual and the male flowers on another of the same species, and to animals in which the ovum is produced by one individual and the sperm cell by another; -- opposed to monoecious.
Dioecian (a.) Having male and female reproductive organs in separate plants or animals [syn: dioecious, dioecian] [ant: monecious, monoecious, monoicous].
Dioeciously (adv.) (Biol.) In a dioecious manner.
Di[oe]ciously hermaphrodite (Bot.), Having flowers structurally perfect, but practically di[oe]cious, -- those on one plant producing no pollen, and those on another no ovules.
Dioeciousness (n.) (Biol.) The state or quality of being dioecious.
Dioecism (n.) (Biol.) The condition of being dioecious. dioestrous
Diogenes (n.) A Greek Cynic philosopher (412?-323 B. C.) who lived much in Athens and was distinguished for contempt of the common aims and conditions of life, and for sharp, caustic sayings.
Diogenes' crab (Zool.), A species of terrestrial hermit crabs ({Cenobita Diogenes), abundant in the West Indies and often destructive to crops.
Diogenes' tub, () The tub which the philosopher Diogenes is said to have carried about with him as his house, in which he lived.
Diogenes (n.) An ancient Greek philosopher and Cynic who rejected social conventions (circa 400-325 BC).
Dioicous (a.) See Dioecious.
Diomedea (n.) [NL.] (Zool.) A genus of large sea birds, including the albatross. See Albatross.
Dionaea (n.) (Bot.) An insectivorous plant. See Venus's flytrap.
Dionaea (n.) A genus of the family Droseraceae [syn: Dionaea, genus Dionaea].
Dionysian (a.) Relating to Dionysius, a monk of the 6th century; as, the Dionysian, or Christian, era.
Dionysian period, A period of 532 years, depending on the cycle of the sun, or 28 years, and the cycle of the moon, or 19 years; -- sometimes called the Greek paschal cycle, or Victorian period.
Dionysian (a.) Of or relating to or worshipping Dionysus.
Diophantine (a.) Originated or taught by Diophantus, the Greek writer on algebra.
Diophantine analysis (Alg.), That branch of indeterminate analysis which has for its object the discovery of rational values that satisfy given equations containing squares or cubes; as, for example, to find values of x and y which make x^{2 + y^{2} an exact square.
Diopside (n.) (Min.) A crystallized variety of pyroxene, of a clear, grayish green color; mussite.
Dioptase (n.) (Min.) A hydrous silicate of copper, occurring in emerald-green crystals. Diopter
Diopter (n.) Alt. of Dioptra.
Dioptra (n.) An optical instrument, invented by Hipparchus, for taking altitudes, leveling, etc.
Diopter (n.) A unit of measurement of the refractive power of a lens which is equal to the reciprocal of the focal length measured in meters; used by oculists [syn: diopter, dioptre].
Dioptre (n.) (Optics) A unit employed by oculists in numbering glasses according to the metric system; a refractive power equal to that of a glass whose principal focal distance is one meter.
Dioptre (n.) A unit of measurement of the refractive power of a lens which is equal to the reciprocal of the focal length measured in meters; used by oculists [syn: diopter, dioptre].
Dioptric (a.) (Optics) Of or pertaining to the dioptre, or to the metric system of numbering glasses.
Dioptric (n.) A dioptre. See Dioptre. Dioptric
Dioptric (a.) Alt. of Dioptrical.
Dioptrical (a.) Of or pertaining to dioptrics; assisting vision by means of the refraction of light; refractive; as, the dioptric system; a dioptric glass or telescope. "Dioptrical principles." -- Nichol.
Dioptric curve (Geom.), A Cartesian oval. See under Cartesian.
Dioptrics (n.) (Optics) The science of the refraction of light; that part of geometrical optics which treats of the laws of the refraction of light in passing from one medium into another, or through different mediums, as air, water, or glass, and esp. through different lenses; -- distinguished from catoptrics, which refers to reflected light.