Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter D - Page 56
Dipper (n.) (Zool.) The buffel duck.
Dipper (n.) (Zool.) The water ouzel ({Cinolus aquaticus) of Europe.
Dipper (n.) (Zool.) The American dipper or ouzel ({Cinclus Mexicanus).
The Dipper (Astron.), The seven principal stars in the constellation of the Great Bear; popularly so called from their arrangement in the form of a dipper; -- called also Charles's Wain. See Ursa Major, under Ursa.
Dipper (n.) A ladle that has a cup with a long handle
Dipper (n.) A cluster of seven stars in Ursa Minor; at the end of the dipper's handle is Polaris [syn: Little Dipper, Dipper].
Dipper (n.) A group of seven bright stars in the constellation Ursa Major [syn: Big Dipper, Dipper, Plough, Charles's Wain, Wain, Wagon].
Dipper (n.) Small North American diving duck; males have bushy head plumage [syn: bufflehead, butterball, dipper, Bucephela albeola].
Dipper (n.) Small stocky diving bird without webbed feet; frequents fast-flowing streams and feeds along the bottom [syn: water ouzel, dipper].
Dipping (n.) The act or process of immersing.
Dipping (n.) The act of inclining downward.
Dipping (n.) The act of lifting or moving a liquid with a dipper, ladle, or the like.
Dipping (n.) The process of cleaning or brightening sheet metal or metalware, esp. brass, by dipping it in acids, etc.
Dipping (n.) The practice of taking snuff by rubbing the teeth or gums with a stick or brush dipped in snuff. [U.S.]
Dipping needle, A magnetic needle suspended at its center of gravity, and moving freely in a vertical plane, so as to indicate on a graduated circle the magnetic dip or inclination.
Diprismatic (a.) Doubly prismatic.
Dipropargyl (n.) (Chem.) A pungent, mobile, volatile liquid, C6H6, produced artificially from certain allyl derivatives. Though isomeric with benzine, it is very different in its chemical relations. Called also dipropinyl.
Dipropyl (n.) (Chem.) One of the hexane paraffins, found in petroleum, consisting of two propyl radicals. See Hexane.
Diprotodon (n.) (Paleon.) An extinct Quaternary marsupial from Australia, about as large as the hippopotamus; -- so named because of its two large front teeth. See Illustration in Appendix.
Dipsas (n.) A serpent whose bite was fabled to produce intense thirst. -- Milton.
Dipsas (n.) (Zool.) A genus of harmless colubrine snakes.
Dipsetic (a.) Tending to produce thirst. -- Wright.
Dipsomania (n.) (Med.) A morbid an uncontrollable craving (often periodic) for drink, esp. for alcoholic liquors; also improperly used to denote acute and chronic alcoholism.
Dipsomaniac (n.) One who has an irrepressible desire for alcoholic drinks.
Dipsomaniac (n.) A person who drinks alcohol to excess habitually [syn: alcoholic, alky, dipsomaniac, boozer, lush, soaker, souse].
Dipsomaniacal (a.) Of or pertaining to dipsomania.
Dipsosis (n.) Excessive thirst produced by disease.
Diptera (n. pl.) (Zool.) 雙翅類 An extensive order of insects having only two functional wings and two balancers, as the house fly, mosquito, etc. They have a suctorial proboscis, often including two pairs of sharp organs (mandibles and maxillae) with which they pierce the skin of animals. They undergo a complete metamorphosis, their larvae (called maggots) being usually without feet.
Diptera (n.) A large order of insects having a single pair of wings and sucking or piercing mouths; includes true flies and mosquitoes and gnats and crane flies [syn: Diptera, order Diptera].
Dipteral (a.) (Zool.) 【生】有雙翅的；【建】雙排柱式的 Having two wings only; belonging to the order Diptera.
Dipteral (a.) (Anc. Arch.) Having a double row of columns on each on the flanks, as well as in front and rear; -- said of a temple.
Dipteran (n.) (Zool.) An insect of the order Diptera.
Dipteran (n.) Insects having usually a single pair of functional wings (anterior pair) with the posterior pair reduced to small knobbed structures and mouth parts adapted for sucking or lapping or piercing [syn: dipterous insect, two-winged insects, dipteran, dipteron].
Dipterocarpus (n.) (Bot.) A genus of trees found in the East Indies, some species of which produce a fragrant resin, other species wood oil. The fruit has two long wings.
Dipterous (a.) (Zool.) Having two wings, as certain insects; belonging to the order Diptera.
Dipterous (a.) (Bot.) Having two wings; two-winged.
Dipterous (a.) Of or relating to or belonging to the Diptera.
Dipterygian (a.) (Zool.) Having two dorsal fins; -- said of certain fishes.
Diptote (n.) (Gram.) A noun which has only two cases. -- Andrews.
Diptych (n.) Anything consisting of two leaves. Especially:
Diptych (n.) (Roman Antiq.) A writing tablet consisting of two leaves of rigid material connected by hinges and shutting together so as to protect the writing within.
Diptych (n.) A picture or series of pictures painted on two tablets connected by hinges. See Triptych.
Diptych (n.) A double catalogue, containing in one part the names of living, and in the other of deceased, ecclesiastics and benefactors of the church; a catalogue of saints.
Diptych (n.) A painting or carving (especially an altarpiece) on two panels (usually hinged like a book).
Dipyre (n.) (Min.) A mineral of the scapolite group; -- so called from the double effect of fire upon it, in fusing it, and rendering it phosphorescent.
Dipyrenous (a.) (Bot.) Containing two stones or nutlets.
Dipyridine (n.) (Geom.) A polymeric form of pyridine, C10H10N2, obtained as a colorless oil by the action of sodium on pyridine.
Dipyridyl (n.) (Chem.) A crystalline nitrogenous base, C10H8N2, obtained by the reduction of pyridine.
Diradiation (n.) The emission and diffusion of rays of light.
Dire (a.) Ill-boding; portentous; as, dire omens.
Dire (a.) Evil in great degree; dreadful; dismal; horrible; terrible; lamentable.
Dire was the tossing, deep the groans. -- Milton.
Gorgons and hydras and chimeras dire. -- Milton.
Dire (a.) Fraught with extreme danger; nearly hopeless; "a desperate illness"; "on all fronts the Allies were in a desperate situation due to lack of mateel"- G.C.Marshall; "a dire emergency" [syn: desperate, dire].
Dire (a.) Causing fear or dread or terror; "the awful war"; "an awful risk"; "dire news"; "a career or vengeance so direful that London was shocked"; "the dread presence of the headmaster"; "polio is no longer the dreaded disease it once was"; "a dreadful storm"; "a fearful howling"; "horrendous explosions shook the city"; "a terrible curse" [syn: awful, dire, direful, dread(a), dreaded, dreadful, fearful, fearsome, frightening, horrendous, horrific, terrible].
Dire (a.) 嚴重的；危急的；極端的 Very serious or extreme.
// These people are in dire need of help.
// He gave a dire warning that an earthquake was imminent.
// This decision will have dire consequences for local people.
Dire (a.) (Mainly UK informal) 很壞的 Very bad.
// I thought her latest book was dire!
Direct (a.) Straight; not crooked, oblique, or circuitous; leading by the short or shortest way to a point or end; as, a direct line; direct means.
What is direct to, what slides by, the question. -- Locke.
Direct (a.) Straightforward; not of crooked ways, or swerving from truth and openness; sincere; outspoken.
Be even and direct with me. -- Shak.
Direct (a.) Immediate; express; plain; unambiguous.
He nowhere, that I know, says it in direct words. -- Locke.
A direct and avowed interference with elections. -- Hallam.
Direct (a.) In the line of descent; not collateral; as, a descendant in the direct line.
Direct (a.) (Astron.) In the direction of the general planetary motion, or from west to east; in the order of the signs; not retrograde; -- said of the motion of a celestial body.
Direct (a.) (Political Science) Pertaining to, or effected immediately by, action of the people through their votes instead of through one or more representatives or delegates; as, direct nomination, direct legislation.
Direct action. (a) (Mach.) See Direct-acting.
Direct action. (b) (Trade unions) See Syndicalism, below.
Direct discourse (Gram.), The language of any one quoted without change in its form; as, he said "I can not come;" -- correlative to indirect discourse, in which there is change of form; as, he said that he could not come. They are often called respectively by their Latin names, oratio directa, and oratio obliqua.
Direct evidence (Law), Evidence which is positive or not inferential; -- opposed to circumstantial evidence, or indirect evidence. -- This distinction, however, is merely formal, since there is no direct evidence that is not circumstantial, or dependent on circumstances for its credibility. -- Wharton.
Direct examination (Law), The first examination of a witness in the orderly course, upon the merits. -- Abbott.
Direct fire (Mil.), Fire, the direction of which is perpendicular to the line of troops or to the parapet aimed at.
Direct process (Metal.), One which yields metal in working condition by a single process from the ore. -- Knight.
Direct tax, A tax assessed directly on lands, etc., and polls, distinguished from taxes on merchandise, or customs, and from excise.
Directed (imp. & p. p.) of Direct.
Directing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Direct.
Direct (v. t.) To arrange in a direct or straight line, as against a mark, or towards a goal; to point; to aim; as, to direct an arrow or a piece of ordnance.
Direct
(v. t.)
To point out or show to (any one), as the direct or right course or way; to
guide, as by pointing out the way; as, he directed me to the left-hand road.
The Lord direct your into the love of God. -- 2 Thess. iii. 5.
The next points to which I will direct your attention. -- Lubbock.
Direct (v. t.) To determine the direction or course of; to cause to go on in a particular manner; to order in the way to a certain end; to regulate; to govern; as, to direct the affairs of a nation or the movements of an army.
I will direct their work in truth. -- Is. lxi. 8.
Direct (v. t.) To point out to with authority; to instruct as a superior; to order; as, he directed them to go.
I 'll first direct my men what they shall do. -- Shak.
Direct (v. t.) To put a direction or address upon; to mark with the name and residence of the person to whom anything is sent; to superscribe; as, to direct a letter.
Syn: To guide; lead; conduct; dispose; manage; regulate; order; instruct; command.
Direct (v. i.) To give direction; to point out a course; to act as guide.
Wisdom is profitable to direct. -- Eccl. x. 10.
Direct (n.) (Mus.) A character, thus [?], placed at the end of a staff on the line or space of the first note of the next staff, to apprise the performer of its situation. -- Moore (Encyc. of Music).
Direct (adv.) Without deviation; "the path leads directly to the lake"; "went direct to the office" [syn: directly, straight, direct].
Direct (a.) Direct in spatial dimensions; proceeding without deviation or interruption; straight and short; "a direct route"; "a direct flight"; "a direct hit" [ant: indirect].
Direct (a.) Having no intervening persons, agents, conditions; "in direct sunlight"; "in direct contact with the voters"; "direct exposure to the disease"; "a direct link"; "the direct cause of the accident"; "direct vote" [syn: direct, unmediated].
Direct (a.) Straightforward in means or manner or behavior or language or action; "a direct question"; "a direct response"; "a direct approach" [ant: indirect].
Direct (a.) In a straight unbroken line of descent from parent to child; "lineal ancestors"; "lineal heirs"; "a direct descendant of the king"; "direct heredity" [syn: lineal, direct] [ant: collateral, indirect].
Direct (a.) Moving from west to east on the celestial sphere; or -- for planets--around the sun in the same direction as the Earth [ant: retrograde].
Direct (a.) Similar in nature or effect or relation to another quantity; "a term is in direct proportion to another term if it increases (or decreases) as the other increases (or decreases)" [ant: inverse].
Direct (a.) (Of a current) Flowing in one direction only; "direct current" [ant: alternating]
Direct (a.) Being an immediate result or consequence; "a direct result of the accident".
Direct (a.) In precisely the same words used by a writer or speaker; "a direct quotation"; "repeated their dialog verbatim" [syn: direct, verbatim].
Direct (a.) Lacking compromising or mitigating elements; exact; "the direct opposite".
Direct (v.) Command with authority; "He directed the children to do their homework".
Direct (v.) Intend (something) to move towards a certain goal; "He aimed his fists towards his opponent's face"; "criticism directed at her superior"; "direct your anger towards others, not towards yourself" [syn: target, aim, place, direct, point].
Direct (v.) Guide the actors in (plays and films).
Direct (v.) Be in charge of.
Direct (v.) Take somebody somewhere; "We lead him to our chief"; "can you take me to the main entrance?"; "He conducted us to the palace" [syn: lead, take, direct, conduct, guide].
Direct (v.) Cause to go somewhere; "The explosion sent the car flying in the air"; "She sent her children to camp"; "He directed all his energies into his dissertation" [syn: send, direct].
Direct (v.) Point or cause to go (blows, weapons, or objects such as photographic equipment) towards; "Please don't aim at your little brother!"; "He trained his gun on the burglar"; "Don't train your camera on the women"; "Take a swipe at one's opponent" [syn: aim, take, train, take aim, direct].
Direct (v.) Lead, as in the performance of a composition; "conduct an orchestra; Barenboim conducted the Chicago symphony for years" [syn: conduct, lead, direct].
Direct (v.) Give directions to; point somebody into a certain direction; "I directed them towards the town hall".
Direct (v.) Specifically design a product, event, or activity for a certain public [syn: calculate, aim, direct].
Direct (v.) Direct the course; determine the direction of travelling [syn: steer, maneuver, manoeuver, manoeuvre, direct, point, head, guide, channelize, channelise].
Direct (v.) Put an address on (an envelope) [syn: address, direct].
Direct (v.) Plan and direct (a complex undertaking); "he masterminded the robbery" [syn: mastermind, engineer, direct, organize, organise, orchestrate].
DIRECT. () Straight forward; not collateral.
DIRECT. () The direct line of descents for example, is formed by a series of degrees between persons who descend one from another. Civ. Code of Lo. art. 886.
Direct-acting (a.) Acting directly, as one part upon another, without the intervention of other working parts.
Directer (n.) One who directs; a director.
Direction (n.) The act of directing, of aiming, regulating, guiding, or ordering; guidance; management; superintendence; administration; as, the direction o/ public affairs or of a bank.
Direction (n.) That which is imposed by directing; a guiding or authoritative instruction; prescription; order; command; as, he grave directions to the servants.
Direction (n.) The name and residence of a person to whom any thing is sent, written upon the thing sent; superscription; address; as, the direction of a letter.
Direction (n.) The line or course upon which anything is moving or aimed to move, or in which anything is lying or pointing; aim; line or point of tendency; direct line or course; as, the ship sailed in a southeasterly direction.
Direction (n.) The body of managers of a corporation or enterprise; board of directors.
Direction (n.) The pointing of a piece with reference to an imaginary vertical axis; -- distinguished from elevation. The direction is given when the plane of sight passes through the object.
Directive (a.) Having power to direct; tending to direct, guide, or govern; showing the way.
Directive (a.) Able to be directed; manageable.
Directly (adv.) In a direct manner; in a straight line or course.
Directly (adv.) In a straightforward way; without anything intervening; not by secondary, but by direct, means.
Directly (adv.) Without circumlocution or ambiguity; absolutely; in express terms.
Directly (adv.) Exactly; just.
Directly (adv.) Straightforwardly; honestly.
Directly (adv.) Manifestly; openly.
Directly (adv.) Straightway; next in order; without delay; immediately.
Directly (adv.) Immediately after; as soon as.
Directness (n.) The quality of being direct; straightness; straightforwardness; immediateness.
Director (n.) One who, or that which, directs; one who regulates, guides, or orders; a manager or superintendent.
Director (n.) One of a body of persons appointed to manage the affairs of a company or corporation; as, the directors of a bank, insurance company, or railroad company.
Director (n.) 指揮器；導向體；導引器 A part of a machine or instrument which directs its motion or action.
Director (n.) A slender grooved instrument upon which a knife is made to slide when it is wished to limit the extent of motion of the latter, or prevent its injuring the parts beneath.
Director (n.) [ C ] (Manger) (B1) 經理，管理者，主任，董事 A manager of an organization, company, college, etc.
// The board of directors.
// She has become the director of the new information centre.
Director (n.) [ C ] (Manger) (US) （學校）校長，主任 Someone in charge of a school for very young children.
Director (n.) [ C ] (Film maker) (B1)（電影或戲劇的）導演 A person who is in charge of a film or play and tells the actors how to play their parts.
// A famous film/ movie director.
Compare:
Producer (n.) [ C ] (Film/ music) (B2) 製作人，製片人 A person who makes the practical and financial arrangements needed to make a film, play, or television or radio programme.
// A Hollywood/ movie producer.
Directorate (n.) The office of director; also, a body of directors taken jointly.
Directorial (a.) Having the quality of a director, or authoritative guide; directive.
Directorial (a.) Pertaining to: director or directory; specifically, relating to the Directory of France under the first republic. See Directory, 3.
Directorship (n.) The condition or office of a director; directorate.
Directory (a.) Containing directions; enjoining; instructing; directorial.
Directories (n. pl. ) of Directory.
Directory (n.) A collection or body of directions, rules, or ordinances; esp., a book of directions for the conduct of worship; as, the Directory used by the nonconformists instead of the Prayer Book.
Directory (n.) A book containing the names and residences of the inhabitants of any place, or of classes of them; an address book; as, a business directory.
Directory (n.) A body of directors; board of management; especially, a committee which held executive power in France under the first republic.
Directory (n.) Direction; guide.
Directress (n.) A woman who directs.
Directrixes (n. pl. ) of Directrix.
Directrix (n.) A directress.
Directrix (n.) A line along which a point in another line moves, or which in any way governs the motion of the point and determines the position of the curve generated by it; the line along which the generatrix moves in generating a surface.
Directrix (n.) A straight line so situated with respect to a conic section that the distance of any point of the curve from it has a constant ratio to the distance of the same point from the focus.
Direful (a.) Dire; dreadful; terrible; calamitous; woeful; as, a direful fiend; a direful day.
Direly (adv.) In a dire manner.
Dirempt (a.) Divided; separated.
Dirempt (v. t.) To separate by force; to tear apart.
Diremption (n.) A tearing apart; violent separation.
Direness (n.) Terribleness; horror; woefulness.
Direption (n.) The act of plundering, despoiling, or snatching away.
Direptitious (a.) Characterized by direption.
Direptitiously (adv.) With plundering violence; by violent injustice.