Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter D - Page 68
Disinuring (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Disinure
Disinure (v. t.) To render unaccustomed or unfamiliar.
We are hindered and disinured . . . towards the true knowledge. -- Milton.
Disinvent (v.) To nullify a previous invention.
Disinvent (v. t.) To undo the invention of; to reverse the existence of.
Disinvent (n.) Undo the invention of (something).
Compare: Nullify
Nullify (v. t.) (nullifies, nullifying, nullified) 使無效；廢棄；取消；使變得無用，抵銷 Make legally null and void; invalidate.
‘Judges were unwilling to nullify government decisions.’
Nullify (v. t.) (nullifies, nullifying, nullified) Make of no use or value; cancel out.
‘Insulin can block the release of the hormone and thereby nullify the effects of training.’
Compare: Invention
Invention (n.) [Mass noun] 發明，創造 [U]；發明物，創作品 [C] The action of inventing something, typically a process or device.
‘The invention of printing in the 15th century.’
Invention (n.) [Count noun ] Something, typically a process or device, that has been invented.
‘Medieval inventions included spectacles for reading and the spinning wheel.’
Invention (n.) [Mass noun] Creative ability.
‘His powers of invention were rather limited.’
Invention (n.) [Count noun ] Something fabricated or made up.
‘You know my story is an invention.’
Invention (n.) [Mass noun] Used as a title for a short piece of music.
‘Bach's two-part Inventions.’
Disinvent (v.) [With object] Undo the invention of.
‘You can't disinvent nuclear power.’
Disinvestiture (n.) [U] The act of depriving of investiture. [Obs.] -- Ogilvie.
Disinvigorate (v. t.) To enervate; to weaken. [R.] -- Sydney Smith.
Disinvolve (v. t.) To uncover; to unfold or unroll; to disentangle. [R.] -- Dr. H. More.
Disinvolve (v.) Free from involvement or entanglement; "How can I disentangle myself from her personal affairs?" [syn: disinvolve, disembroil, disentangle].
Disjection (n.) Destruction; dispersion. -- Bp. Horsley.
Disjoined (imp. & p. p.) of Disjoin
Disjoining (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Disjoin
Disjoin (v. t.) 分開 To part; to disunite; to separate; to sunder.
That marriage, therefore, God himself disjoins. -- Milton.
Never let us lay down our arms against France, till we have utterly disjoined her from the Spanish monarchy. -- Addison.
Windmill Street consisted of disjoined houses. -- Pennant.
Syn: To disunite; separate; detach; sever; dissever; sunder; disconnect.
Disjoin (v. i.) To become separated; to part.
Disjoin (v.) Make disjoint, separated, or disconnected; undo the joining of [syn: disjoin, disjoint] [ant: bring together, join].
Disjoin (v.) Become separated, disconnected or disjoint [syn: disjoin, disjoint] [ant: conjoin, join].
Disjoint (a.) Disjointed; unconnected; -- opposed to conjoint. -- Milton.
Disjoint (v. t.) Difficult situation; dilemma; strait. [Obs.] "I stand in such disjoint." -- Chaucer.
Disjointed (imp. & p. p.) of Disjoint
Disjointing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Disjoint
Disjoint (v. t.) 使脫臼；使支離破碎；弄亂 To separate
the joints of; to separate, as parts united by joints; to put out of joint; to
force out of its socket; to dislocate; as, to disjoint limbs; to disjoint
bones; to disjoint a fowl in carving.
Yet what could swords or poisons, racks or flame, But mangle and disjoint the
brittle frame? -- Prior.
Disjoint (v. t.) To separate at
junctures or joints; to break where parts are united; to break in pieces; as,
disjointed columns; to disjoint and edifice.
Some half-ruined wall Disjointed and about to fall. -- Longfellow.
Disjoint (v. t.) To break the natural order and relations of; to make incoherent; as, a disjointed speech.
Disjoint (v. i.) 脫臼；解體 To fall in pieces. -- Shak.
Disjoint (a.) Having no elements in common.
Disjoint (v.) Part; cease or break association with; "She disassociated herself from the organization when she found out the identity of the president" [syn: disassociate, dissociate, divorce, disunite, disjoint].
Disjoint (v.) Separate at the joints; "disjoint the chicken before cooking it" [syn: disjoint, disarticulate].
Disjoint (v.) Make disjoint, separated, or disconnected; undo the joining of [syn: disjoin, disjoint] [ant: bring together, join].
Disjoint (v.) Become separated, disconnected or disjoint [syn: disjoin, disjoint] [ant: conjoin, join].
Disjointed (a.) 脫臼的；無關聯的；無條理的 Separated at the joints; disconnected; incoherent. -- Dis*joint"ed*ly, adv. -- Dis*joint"ed*ness, n.
Disjointed (a.) Lacking orderly continuity; "a confused set of instructions"; "a confused dream about the end of the world"; "disconnected fragments of a story"; "scattered thoughts" [syn: confused, disconnected, disjointed, disordered, garbled, illogical, scattered, unconnected].
Disjointed (a.) Taken apart at the joints; "a disjointed fowl".
Disjointed (a.) Separated at the joint; "a dislocated knee"; "a separated shoulder" [syn: disjointed, dislocated, separated].
Disjointly (adv.) In a disjointed state. -- Sandys.
Disjudication (n.) Judgment; discrimination. See Dijudication. [Obs.] -- Boyle.
Disjunct (a.) 分離的 Disjoined; separated. [R.]
Disjunct (a.) (Zool.) 身體各部凹入而能收縮的 Having the head, thorax, and abdomen separated by a deep constriction.
Disjunct tetrachords (Mus.), Tetrachords so disposed to each other that the gravest note of the upper is one note higher than the acutest note of the other.
Compare: Tetrachord
Tetrachord (n.) (Anc. Mus.)【音】四度音階；四弦樂器 A scale series of four sounds, of which the extremes, or first and last, constituted a fourth. These extremes were immutable; the two middle sounds were changeable.
Disjunct (a.) Progressing melodically by intervals larger than a major second [ant: conjunct].
Disjunct (a.) Having deep constrictions separating head, thorax, and abdomen, as in insects.
Disjunct (a.) Marked by separation of or from usually contiguous elements; "little isolated worlds, as abruptly disjunct and unexpected as a palm-shaded well in the Sahara"- Scientific Monthly [syn: disjunct, isolated].
Disjunct (a.) Used of distributions, as of statistical or natural populations; "disjunct distribution of king crabs".
Disjunction (n.) 分離；分裂 The act of disjoining; disunion; separation; a parting; as, the disjunction of soul and body.
Disjunction (n.) A disjunctive proposition. -- Coleridge.
Disjunction (n.) State of being disconnected [syn: disjunction, disjuncture, disconnection, disconnectedness] [ant: connectedness, connection, link].
Disjunction (n.) The act of breaking a connection [syn: disconnection, disjunction].
Disjunctive (n.) (Gram.) 反意連詞 A disjunctive conjunction.
Disjunctive (n.) (Logic) A disjunctive proposition.
Disjunctive (a.) Tending to disjoin; separating; disjoining.
Disjunctive (a.) 分離的；分裂的；【語】轉折的，反意的 Tending to disjoin; separating; disjoining.
Disjunctive (a.) (Mus.) Pertaining to disjunct tetrachords. "Disjunctive notes." -- Moore (Encyc. of Music).
Disjunctive conjunction (Gram.), One connecting grammatically two words or clauses, expressing at the same time an opposition or separation inherent in the notions or thoughts; as, either, or, neither, nor, but, although, except, lest, etc.
Disjunctive proposition, A proposition in which the parts are connected by disjunctive conjunctions, specifying that one of two or more propositions may hold, but that no two propositions may hold at the same time; as it is either day or night.
Disjunctive syllogism (Logic), One in which the major proposition is disjunctive; as, the earth moves in a circle or an ellipse; but in does not move in a circle, therefore it moves in an ellipse.
Disjunctive (a.) Serving or tending to divide or separate [ant: conjunctive].
Disjunctively (adv.) 分離地 In a disjunctive manner; separately. -- Dr. H. More.
Disjuncture (n.) 分裂不一致的狀態；分離 The act of disjoining, or state of being disjoined; separation. -- Fuller.
Disk (n.) A discus; a quoit.
Some whirl the disk, and some the javelin dart. -- Pope.
Disk (n.) A flat, circular plate; as, a disk of metal or paper.
Disk (n.) (Astron.) The circular figure of a celestial body, as seen projected of the heavens.
Disk (n.) (Biol.) A circular structure either in plants or animals; as, a blood disk; germinal disk, etc.
Disk (n.) (Bot.) The whole surface of a leaf.
Disk (n.) (Bot.) The central part of a radiate compound flower, as in sunflower.
Disk (n.) (Bot.) A part of the receptacle enlarged or expanded under, or around, or even on top of, the pistil.
Disk (n.) (Zool.) The anterior surface or oral area of coelenterate animals, as of sea anemones.
Disk (n.) (Zool.) The lower side of the body of some invertebrates, especially when used for locomotion, when it is often called a creeping disk.
Disk (n.) (Zool.) In owls, the space around the eyes.
Disk engine, A form of rotary steam engine.
Disk shell (Zool.), Any species of Discina.
Diskindness (n.) Unkindness; disservice. [R.] -- A. Tucker.
Diskless (a.) Having no disk; appearing as a point and not expanded into a disk, as the image of a faint star in a telescope.
Dislade (v. t.) To unlade. [Obs.] -- Heywood.
Disleal (a.) Disloyal; perfidious. [Obs.] "Disleal knight." -- Spenser.
Disleave (v. t.) To deprive of leaves. [R.]
The cankerworms that annually that disleaved the elms. -- Lowell.
Disliked (imp. & p. p.) of Dislike
Disliking (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Dislike
Dislike (v. t.) 不喜愛，厭惡 [W] [+v-ing] To regard with dislike or aversion; to disapprove; to disrelish.
Every nation dislikes an impost. -- Johnson.
Dislike (v. t.) To awaken dislike in; to displease. "Disliking countenance." -- Marston. "It dislikes me." -- Shak.
Dislike (n.) 不喜愛，厭惡 [C] [U] [（+of/ for）] A feeling of positive and usually permanent aversion to something unpleasant, uncongenial, or offensive; disapprobation; repugnance; displeasure; disfavor; -- the opposite of liking or fondness.
God's grace . . . gives him continual dislike to sin. -- Hammond.
The hint malevolent, the look oblique, The obvious satire, or implied dislike. -- Hannah More.
We have spoken of the dislike of these excellent women for Sheridan and Fox. -- J. Morley.
His dislike of a particular kind of sensational stories. -- A. W. Ward.
Dislike (n.) Discord; dissension. [Obs.] -- Fairfax.
Syn: Distaste; disinclination; disapprobation; disfavor; disaffection; displeasure; disrelish; aversion; reluctance; repugnance; disgust; antipathy. -- Dislike, Aversion, Reluctance, Repugnance, Disgust, Antipathy. Dislike is the more general term, applicable to both persons and things and arising either from feeling or judgment. It may mean little more than want of positive liking; but antipathy, repugnance, disgust, and aversion are more intense phases of dislike. Aversion denotes a fixed and habitual dislike; as, an aversion to or for business. Reluctance and repugnance denote a mental strife or hostility something proposed (repugnance being the stronger); as, a reluctance to make the necessary sacrifices, and a repugnance to the submission required. Disgust is repugnance either of taste or moral feeling; as, a disgust at gross exhibitions of selfishness. Antipathy is primarily an instinctive feeling of dislike of a thing, such as most persons feel for a snake. When used figuratively, it denotes a correspondent dislike for certain persons, modes of acting, etc. Men have an aversion to what breaks in upon their habits; a reluctance and repugnance to what crosses their will; a disgust at what offends their sensibilities; and are often governed by antipathies for which they can give no good reason.
Dislike (n.) An inclination to withhold approval from some person or group [syn: disfavor, disfavour, dislike, disapproval].
Dislike (n.) A feeling of aversion or antipathy; "my dislike of him was instinctive" [ant: liking].
Dislike (v.) Have or feel a dislike or distaste for; "I really dislike this salesman" [ant: like].
Dislikeful (a.) Full of dislike; disaffected; malign; disagreeable. [Obs.] -- Spenser.
Dislikelihood (n.) The want of likelihood; improbability. -- Sir W. Scott.
Disliken (v. t.) To make unlike; to disguise. [Obs.] -- Shak.
Dislikeness (n.) Unlikeness. [R.] -- Locke.
Disliker (n.) One who dislikes or disrelishes.
Dislimb (v. t.) To tear limb from limb; to dismember. [Obs.] -- Bailey.
Dislimn (v. t.) To efface, as a picture. [Obs.] -- Shak.
Dislink (v. t.) To unlink; to disunite; to separate. [R.] -- Tennyson.
Dislive (v. t.) To deprive of life. [Obs.]
Telemachus dislived Amphimedon. -- Chapman.
Dislocated (imp. & p. p.) of Dislocate.
Dislocating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Dislocate.
Dislocate (v. t.) To displace; to put out of its proper place. Especially, of a bone: To remove from its normal connections with a neighboring bone; to put out of joint; to move from its socket; to disjoint; as, to dislocate your bones. -- Shak.
After some time the strata on all sides of the globe were dislocated. -- Woodward.
And thus the archbishop's see, dislocated or out of joint for a time, was by the hands of his holiness set right again. -- Fuller.
Dislocate (a.) Dislocated. -- Montgomery.
Dislocate (v.) Move out of position; "dislocate joints"; "the artificial hip joint luxated and had to be put back surgically" [syn: dislocate, luxate, splay, slip].
Dislocate (v.) Put out of its usual place, position, or relationship; "The colonists displaced the natives".
Dislocation (n.) The act of displacing, or the state of being displaced. -- T. Burnet.
Dislocation (n.) (Geol.) The displacement of parts of rocks or portions of strata from the situation which they originally occupied. Slips, faults, and the like, are dislocations.
Dislocation (n.) (Surg.) The act of dislocating, or putting out of joint; also, the condition of being thus displaced.
Dislocation (n.) An event that results in a displacement or discontinuity [syn: dislocation, disruption].
Dislocation (n.) The act of disrupting an established order so it fails to continue; "the social dislocations resulting from government policies"; "his warning came after the breakdown of talks in London" [syn: dislocation, breakdown].
Dislocation (n.) A displacement of a part (especially a bone) from its normal position (as in the shoulder or the vertebral column).
Dislodged (imp. & p. p.) of Dislodge.
Dislodging (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Dislodge.
Dislodge (v. t.) To drive from a lodge or place of rest; to remove from a place of quiet or repose; as, shells resting in the sea at a considerate depth are not dislodged by storms.
Dislodge (v. t.) To drive out from a place of hiding or defense; as, to dislodge a deer, or an enemy.
The Volscians are dislodg'd. -- Shak.
Dislodge (v. i.) To go from a place of rest. [R.]
Where Light and Darkness in perpetual round Lodge and dislodge by turns. -- Milton.
Dislodge (n.) Dwelling apart; separation. [R.]
Dislodge (v.) Remove or force out from a position; "The dentist dislodged the piece of food that had been stuck under my gums"; "He finally could free the legs of the earthquake victim who was buried in the rubble" [syn: dislodge, free] [ant: deposit, lodge, stick, wedge].
Dislodge (v.) Change place or direction; "Shift one's position" [syn: shift, dislodge, reposition].
Dislodge (v.) Remove or force from a position of dwelling previously occupied; "The new employee dislodged her by moving into her office space" [syn: dislodge, bump].
Dislodgment (n.) The act or process of dislodging, or the state of being dislodged.
Dislodgment (n.) Forced removal from a position of advantage [syn: dislodgment, dislodgement].
Disloign (v. t.) To put at a distance; to remove. [Obs.]
Low-looking dales, disloigned from common gaze. -- Spenser.
Disloyal (a.) Not loyal; not true to a sovereign or lawful superior, or to the government under which one lives; false where allegiance is due; faithless; as, a subject disloyal to the king; a husband disloyal to his wife.
Without a thought disloyal. -- Mrs. Browning.
Syn: Disobedient; faithless; untrue; treacherous; perfidious; dishonest; inconstant; disaffected.
Disloyal (a.) Showing lack of love for your country [syn: unpatriotic, disloyal] [ant: loyal, patriotic].
Disloyal (a.) Deserting your allegiance or duty to leader or cause or principle; "disloyal aides revealed his indiscretions to the papers" [ant: loyal].
Disloyally (adv.) In a disloyal manner.
Disloyally (adv.) Without loyalty; in a disloyal manner; "his men acted disloyally and betrayed him in the end" [ant: loyally].
Disloyalty (n.) Want of loyalty; lack of fidelity; violation of allegiance.
Disloyalty (n.) The quality of being disloyal [ant: loyalty, trueness].
Dismail (v. t.) To divest of coat of mail. -- Spenser.
Dismal (a.) Fatal; ill-omened; unlucky. [Obs.]
An ugly fiend more foul than dismal day. -- Spenser.
Dismal (a.) Gloomy to the eye or ear; sorrowful and depressing to the feelings; foreboding; cheerless; dull; dreary; as, a dismal outlook; dismal stories; a dismal place.
Full well the busy whisper, circling round, Convey'd the dismal tidings when he frowned. -- Goldsmith.
A dismal description of an English November. -- Southey.
Syn: Dreary; lonesome; gloomy; dark; ominous; ill-boding; fatal; doleful; lugubrious; funereal; dolorous; calamitous; sorrowful; sad; joyless; melancholy; unfortunate; unhappy.
Dismal (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].
Dismally (adv.) In a dismal manner; gloomily; sorrowfully; uncomfortably.
Dismally (adv.) In a cheerless manner; "in August 1914 , there was a dismally sentimental little dinner, when the French, German, Austrian and Belgian members of the committee drank together to the peace of the future" [syn: dismally, drearily].
Dismally (adv.) In a dreadful manner; "as he looks at the mess he has left behind he must wonder how the Brits so often managed to succeed in the kind of situation where he has so dismally failed" [syn: dismally, dreadfully].
Dismalness (n.) The quality of being dismal; gloominess.
Disman (v. t.) To unman. [Obs.] -- Feltham.
Disman, () Distributed Management.
Dismantled (imp. & p. p.) of Dismantle.
Dismantling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Dismantle.
Dismantle (v. t.) 去掉……的覆蓋物；從（房子、船等）拆除 [（+of）]； 拆卸，拆開；解散 To strip or deprive of dress; to divest.
Dismantle (v. t.) To strip of furniture and equipments, guns, etc.; to unrig; to strip of walls or outworks; to break down; as, to dismantle a fort, a town, or a ship.
A dismantled house, without windows or shutters to keep out the rain. -- Macaulay.
Dismantle (v. t.) To disable; to render useless. -- Comber.
Syn: To demolish; raze. See Demolish.
Dismantle (v.) Tear down so as to make flat with the ground; "The building was levelled" [syn: level, raze, rase, dismantle, tear down, take down, pull down] [ant: erect, put up, raise, rear, set up].
Dismantle (v.) Take apart into its constituent pieces [syn: disassemble, dismantle, take apart, break up, break apart] [ant: assemble, piece, put together, set up, tack, tack together].
Dismantle (v.) Take off or remove; "strip a wall of its wallpaper" [syn: strip, dismantle].
Dismarch (v. i.) To march away. [Obs.]
Dismarry (v. t.) To free from the bonds of marriage; to divorce. [Obs.] -- Ld. Berners.
Dismarshal (v. t.) To disarrange; to derange; to put in disorder. [R.] -- Drummond.
Dismask (v. t.) To divest of a mask. -- Shak.
Dismasted (imp. & p. p.) of Dismast
Dismasting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Dismast
Dismast (v. t.) To deprive of a mast of masts; to break and carry away the masts from; as, a storm dismasted the ship.
Dismastment (n.) The act of dismasting; the state of being dismasted. [R.] -- Marshall.
Dismaw (v. t.) To eject from the maw; to disgorge. [R.] -- Shelton.
Dismayed (imp. & p. p.) of Dismay.