Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter D - Page 74
Disruption (n.) 分裂；崩潰；瓦解；中斷 The act or rending asunder, or the state of being rent asunder or broken in pieces; breach; rent; dilaceration; rupture; as, the disruption of rocks in an earthquake; disruption of a state.
Compare: Dilaceration
Dilaceration (n.) 牙根彎曲 Injury (as partial fracture) to a developing tooth that results in a curve in the long axis as development continues.
Other Words from Dilaceration: Dilacerated (a.)
Dilaceration (n.) The act of rending asunder. -- Arbuthnot.
Dilacerate (v. t.) 撕開；撕毀 To tear apart or in pieces.
Dilacerated (v.) Simple past tense and past participle of dilacerate.
Disruption (n.) An act of delaying or interrupting the continuity; "it was presented without commercial breaks"; "there was a gap in his account" [syn: {break}, {interruption}, {disruption}, {gap}].
Disruption (n.) A disorderly outburst or tumult; "they were amazed by the furious disturbance they had caused" [syn: {disturbance}, {disruption}, {commotion}, {flutter}, {hurly burly}, {to-do}, {hoo-ha}, {hoo-hah}, {kerfuffle}].
Disruption (n.) An event that results in a displacement or discontinuity [syn: {dislocation}, {disruption}].
Disruption (n.) The act of causing disorder [syn: {disruption}, {perturbation}].
Disruption (n.) [ C or U ] 分裂，崩潰，瓦解 An interruption in the usual way that a system, process, or event works.
// It would cause a tremendous disruption to our work schedule to install a different computer system.
// A crackdown on illegal-immigrant hiring could create widespread workplace disruptions.
Disruptive (a.) 分裂性的，破裂的 Causing, or tending to cause, disruption; caused by disruption; breaking through; bursting; as, the disruptive discharge of an electrical battery. -- Nichol.
Disruptive (a.) Characterized by unrest or disorder or insubordination; "effects of the struggle will be violent and disruptive"; "riotous times"; "these troubled areas"; "the tumultuous years of his administration"; "a turbulent and unruly childhood" [syn: {disruptive}, {riotous}, {troubled}, {tumultuous}, {turbulent}].
Disruptive (a.) (C2) 搗亂的，引起混亂的 Causing trouble and therefore stopping something from continuing as usual.
// His teacher described him as a noisy, disruptive influence in class.
Disruptor (n.) 破壞者；分裂者 A person or thing that interrupts an event, activity, or process by causing a disturbance or problem.
‘The film follows his evolution from Hollywood star to political disruptor.’
Disruptor (n.) A company or form of technology that causes radical change in an existing industry or market by means of innovation.
‘The company is becoming a major disruptor in the healthcare industry’
Disruptor (n.) [Biology ] A thing that interferes with or significantly alters the structure or function of a biological molecule such as a gene or hormone.
‘Several drugs show promise as DNA disruptors in cancer cells.’
Disrupture (n.) Disruption. [R.] -- Jefferson.
Dissatisfaction (n.) The state of being dissatisfied, unsatisfied, or discontented; uneasiness proceeding from the want of gratification, or from disappointed wishes and expectations.
The ambitious man has little happiness, but is subject to much uneasiness and dissatisfaction. -- Addison.
Syn: Discontent; discontentment; displeasure; disapprobation; distaste; dislike.
Dissatisfaction (n.) The feeling of being displeased and discontent; "he was never slow to express his dissatisfaction with the service he received" [ant: satisfaction].
Dissatisfactory (a.) Causing dissatisfaction; unable to give content; unsatisfactory; displeasing.
To have reduced the different qualifications in the different States to one uniform rule, would probably have been as dissatisfactory to some of the States, as difficult for the Convention. -- A. Hamilton. -- Dis*sat`is*fac"to*ri*ness, n.
Dissatisfactory (a.) Not up to expectations; "a disappointing performance from one who had seemed so promising" [syn: disappointing, dissatisfactory, unsatisfying].
Dissatisfied (imp. & p. p.) of Dissatisfy.
Dissatisfying (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Dissatisfy.
Dissatisfy (v. t.) To render unsatisfied or discontented; to excite uneasiness in by frustrating wishes or expectations; to displease by the want of something requisite; as, to be dissatisfied with one's fortune.
The dissatisfied factions of the autocracy. -- Bancroft.
Dissatisfy (v.) Fail to satisfy [ant: gratify, satisfy].
Disseat (v. t.) To unseat. [R.] -- Shak.
Dissected (imp. & p. p.) of Dissect.
Dissecting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Dissect.
Dissect (v. t.) (Anat.) To divide into separate parts; to cut in pieces; to separate and expose the parts of, as an animal or a plant, for examination and to show their structure and relations; to anatomize.
Dissect (v. t.) To analyze, for the purposes of science or criticism; to divide and examine minutely.
This paragraph . . . I have dissected for a sample. -- Atterbury.
Dissect (v.) Cut open or cut apart; "dissect the bodies for analysis"
Dissect (v.) Make a mathematical, chemical, or grammatical analysis of; break down into components or essential features; "analyze a specimen"; "analyze a sentence"; "analyze a chemical compound" [syn: analyze, analyse, break down, dissect, take apart] [ant: synthesise, synthesize].
Dissected (a.) Cut into several parts; divided into sections; as, a dissected map.
Dissected (a.) (Bot.) Cut deeply into many lobes or divisions; as, a dissected leaf.
Dissected (a.) Having one or more incisions reaching nearly to the midrib [syn: cleft, dissected].
Dissectible (a.) Capable of being dissected, or separated by dissection. -- Paley.
Dissecting (a.) Dividing or separating the parts of an animal or vegetable body; as, a dissecting aneurism, one which makes its way between or within the coats of an artery.
Dissecting (a.) Of or pertaining to, or received during, a dissection; as, a dissecting wound.
Dissecting (a.) Used for or in dissecting; as, a dissecting knife; a dissecting microscope.
Dissection (n.) The act of dissecting an animal or plant; as, dissection of the human body was held sacrilege till the time of Francis I.
Dissection (n.) Fig.: The act of separating or dividing for the purpose of critical examination.
Dissection (n.) Anything dissected; especially, some part, or the whole, of an animal or plant dissected so as to exhibit the structure; an anatomical so prepared.
Dissection wound, A poisoned wound incurred during the dissection of a dead body.
Dissection (n.) Cutting so as to separate into pieces.
Dissection (n.) A minute and critical analysis.
Dissection (n.) Detailed critical analysis or examination one part at a time (as of a literary work).
Dissector (n.) One who dissects; an anatomist.
Disseized (imp. & p. p.) of Disseize.
Disseizing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Disseize.
Disseize (v. t.) (Law) To deprive of seizin or possession; to dispossess or oust wrongfully (one in freehold possession of land); -- followed by of; as, to disseize a tenant of his freehold. [Written also disseise.]
Which savage beasts strive as eagerly to keep and hold those golden mines, as the Arimaspians to disseize them thereof. -- Holland.
Disseizee (n.) (Law) A person disseized, or put out of possession of an estate unlawfully; -- correlative to disseizor. [Written also disseisee.]
Disseizin (n.) (Law) The act of disseizing; an unlawful dispossessing and ouster of a person actually seized of the freehold. [Written also disseisin.] -- Blackstone.
Disseizor (n.) (Law) One who wrongfully disseizes, or puts another out of possession of a freehold. [Written also disseisor.] -- Blackstone.
Disseizoress (n.) (Law) A woman disseizes.
Disseizure (n.) Disseizin. -- Speed.
Dissemblance (n.) Want of resemblance; dissimilitude. [R.] -- Osborne.
Dissemblance (n.) The act or art of dissembling; dissimulation. [Obs.]
Dissembled (imp. & p. p.) of Dissemble.
Dissembling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Dissemble.
Dissemble (v. t.) 掩飾；假裝 To hide under a false semblance or seeming; to feign (something) not to be what it really is; to put an untrue appearance upon; to disguise; to mask.
Dissemble all your griefs and discontents. -- Shak.
Perhaps it was right to dissemble your love, But -- why did you kick me down stairs? -- J. P. Kemble.
Dissemble (v. t.) To put on the semblance of; to make pretense of; to simulate; to feign.
He soon dissembled a sleep. -- Tatler.
Syn: To conceal; disguise; cloak; cover; equivocate. See {Conceal}.
Dissemble (v. i.) 隱藏真心 To conceal the real fact, motives, intention, or sentiments, under some pretense; to assume a false appearance; to act the hypocrite.
He that hateth dissembleth with his lips. -- Prov. xxvi. 24.
He [an enemy] dissembles when he assumes an air of friendship. -- C. J. Smith.
Dissemble (v.) Make believe with the intent to deceive; "He feigned that he was ill"; "He shammed a headache" [syn: {feign}, {sham}, {pretend}, {affect}, {dissemble}].
Dissemble (v.) Hide under a false appearance; "He masked his disappointment" [syn: {dissemble}, {cloak}, {mask}].
Dissemble (v.) Behave unnaturally or affectedly; "She's just acting" [syn: {dissemble}, {pretend}, {act}].
Dissemble (v. i.) To put a clean shirt upon the character.
Let us dissemble. Adam
Dissembler (n.) 偽君子 One who dissembles; one who conceals his opinions or dispositions under a false appearance; a hypocrite.
It is the weakest sort of politicians that are the greatest dissemblers. -- Bacon.
Priests, princes, women, no dissemblers here. -- Pope.
Syn: {Dissembler}, {Hypocrite}.
Usage: A person is called a dissembler with reference to his concealment of his real character, and a hypocrite with reference to his assumption of a false character. But hypocrite is the stronger word, being commonly used to characterize a person who is habitually insincere and false, especially one who makes professions of goodness when his aims are selfish and his life corrupt.
Dissembler (n.) A person who professes beliefs and opinions that he or she does not hold in order to conceal his or her real feelings or motives [syn: {hypocrite}, {dissembler}, {dissimulator}, {phony}, {phoney}, {pretender}].
Dissembling (a.) That dissembles; hypocritical; false. -- Dis*sem"bling*ly, adv.
Dissembling (n.) Pretending with intention to deceive [syn: pretense, pretence, feigning, dissembling].
Dissembling (n.) The act of deceiving [syn: deception, deceit, dissembling, dissimulation].
Disseminated (imp. & p. p.) of Disseminate.
Disseminating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Disseminate.
Disseminate (v. t. & i.) 散播；宣傳 To spread around widely; to sow broadcast or as seed; to scatter for growth and propagation, like seed; to spread abroad; to diffuse; as, principles, ideas, opinions, and errors are disseminated when they are spread abroad for propagation.
Disseminate (v. t. & i.) To spread or extend by dispersion.
A nearly uniform and constant fire or heat disseminated throughout the body of the earth. -- Woodward.
Syn: To spread; diffuse; propagate; circulate; disperse; scatter.
Disseminate (v.) Cause to become widely known; "spread information"; "circulate a rumor"; "broadcast the news" [syn: {circulate}, {circularize}, {circularise}, {distribute}, {disseminate}, {propagate}, {broadcast}, {spread}, {diffuse}, {disperse}, {pass around}].
Disseminated (p. a.) Occurring in small portions scattered through some other substance.
Dissemination (n.) 散播；宣傳 The act of disseminating, or the state of being disseminated; diffusion for propagation and permanence; a scattering or spreading abroad, as of ideas, beliefs, etc.
The universal dissemination of those writings. -- Wayland.
Dissemination (n.) The opening of a subject to widespread discussion and debate [syn: {dissemination}, {airing}, {public exposure}, {spreading}].
Dissemination (n.) The property of being diffused or dispersed [syn: {dissemination}, {diffusion}].
Dissemination (n.) The act of dispersing or diffusing something; "the dispersion of the troops"; "the diffusion of knowledge" [syn: {dispersion}, {dispersal}, {dissemination}, {diffusion}].
Disseminative (a.) 散布的 Tending to disseminate, or to become disseminated.
The effect of heresy is, like the plague, infectious and disseminative. -- Jer. Taylor.
Disseminative (a.) Spreading by diffusion [syn: {diffusing(a)}, {diffusive}, {dispersive}, {disseminative}].
Disseminator (n.) 傳播者 One who, or that which, disseminates, spreads, or propagates; as, disseminators of disease.
Disseminator (n.) Someone who spreads the news [syn: {propagator}, {disseminator}].
Dissension (n.) 意見不合；不和；爭吵 [U] [C] [（+among/ between）] Disagreement in opinion, usually of a violent character, producing warm debates or angry words; contention in words; partisan and contentious divisions; breach of friendship and union; strife; discord; quarrel.
Paul and Barnabas had no small dissension and disputation with them. -- Acts xv. 2.
Debates, dissension, uproars are thy joy. -- Dryden.
A seditious person and raiser-up of dissension among the people. -- Robynson (More's Utopia).
Dissension (n.) Disagreement among those expected to cooperate [syn: {discord}, {dissension}].
Dissension (n.) A conflict of people's opinions or actions or characters [syn: {disagreement}, {dissension}, {dissonance}] [ant: {accord}, {agreement}].
Dissensious (a.) Disposed to discord; contentious; dissentious. [R.] -- Ascham. -- {Dis*sen"sious*ly}, adv. -- Chapman.
Dissented (imp. & p. p.) of Dissent
Dissenting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Dissent
Dissent (v. i.) [(+from)] 不同意，持異議；【英】不信奉國教 To differ in opinion; to be of unlike or contrary sentiment; to disagree; -- followed by from.
Dissent (v. i.) To differ from an established church in regard to doctrines, rites, or government.
Dissent (v. i.) To differ; to be of a contrary nature.
Dissent (n.) [U] 不同意，異議；（通常大寫）不信奉國教 The act of dissenting; difference of opinion; refusal to adopt something proposed; nonagreement, nonconcurrence, or disagreement.
The dissent of no small number [of peers] is frequently recorded. -- Hallam.
Dissent (n.) (Eccl.) Separation from an established church, especially that of England; nonconformity.
It is the dissidence of dissent and the protestantism of the Protestant religion. -- Burke.
Dissent (n.) Contrariety of nature; diversity in quality. [Obs.]
The dissent of the metals. -- Bacon.
Syn: Disagreement; variance; difference; nonconcurrence; nonconformity.
Dissent (v. i.) To differ in opinion; to be of unlike or contrary sentiment; to disagree; -- followed by from.
The bill passed . . . without a dissenting voice. -- Hallam.
Opinions in which multitudes of men dissent from us. -- Addison.
Dissent (v. i.) (Eccl.) To differ from an established church in regard to doctrines, rites, or government.
Dissent (v. i.) To differ; to be of a contrary nature. -- Hooker.
Dissent (n.) (Law) The difference of one judge's opinion from that of the majority; "he expressed his dissent in a contrary opinion"
Dissent (n.) A difference of opinion.
Dissent (n.) The act of protesting; a public (often organized) manifestation of dissent [syn: {protest}, {objection}, {dissent}]
Dissent (v.) Withhold assent; "Several Republicans dissented" [ant: {accede}, {acquiesce}, {assent}]
Dissent (v.) Express opposition through action or words; "dissent to the laws of the country" [syn: {protest}, {resist}, {dissent}].
Dissent (v.) Be of different opinions; "I beg to differ!"; "She disagrees with her husband on many questions" [syn: {disagree}, {differ}, {dissent}, {take issue}] [ant: {agree}, {concord}, {concur}, {hold}].
Dissent (n.) Contracts. A disagreement to something which has been done. It is express or implied.
Dissent (n.) The law presumes that every person to whom a conveyance has been made has given his assent to it, because it is supposed to be for his benefit. To rebut the presumption, his dissent must be expressed. Vide 4 Mason, R. 206; 11 Wheat. R. 78; 1 Binn. R. 502; 2 Binn. R. 174; 6 Binn. R. 338; 12 Mass. R. 456; 17 Mass. R. 552; 3 John. Ch. R. 261; 4 John. Ch. R. 136, 529; and dissent, and the authorities there cited.
Dissentaneous (a.) Disagreeing; contrary; differing; -- opposed to {consentaneous}. [R.] -- Barrow.
Dissentany (a.) Dissentaneous; inconsistent. [Obs.] -- Milton.
Dissentation (n.) Dissension. [Obs.] -- W. Browne.
Dissenter (n.) [C] 反對者，持異議者【英】（常大寫）不順從國教者 One who dissents; one who differs in opinion, or declares his disagreement.
Dissenter (n.) (Eccl.) One who separates from the service and worship of an established church; especially, one who disputes the authority or tenets of the Church of England; a nonconformist.
Dissenters from the establishment of their several countries. -- Burke.
Robert Brown is said to have the first formal dissenter. -- Shipley.
Note: "The word is commonly applied only to Protestants. TheRoman Catholics are generally referred to as a distinct class." --Brande & C.
Dissenter (n.) A person who dissents from some established policy [syn: {dissenter}, {dissident}, {protester}, {objector}, {contestant}].
Dissenterism (n.) The spirit or principles of dissenters. -- Ed. Rev.
Dissentiate (v. t.) To throw into a state of dissent. [R.] -- Feltham.
Dissentient (a.) 持異議的；反對的 Disagreeing; declaring dissent; dissenting. -- n. One who dissents. -- Macaulay.
Dissentient (n.) 不贊成的人 One who dissents.
Dissentient (a.) (Of Catholics) Refusing to attend services of the Church of England [syn: {dissentient}, {recusant}].
Dissentient (a.) Disagreeing, especially with a majority [syn: {dissentient}, {dissenting(a)}, {dissident}].
Dissentious (a.) Marked by dissensions; apt to breed discord; quarrelsome; contentious; factious. -- {Dis*sen"tious*ly}, adv.
Dissentious (a.) Dissenting (especially dissenting with the majority opinion) [syn: {dissentious}, {divisive}, {factious}].
Dissentive (a.) Disagreeing; inconsistent. [Obs.] -- Feltham.
Dissepiment (n.) 【動】【植】中隔 A separating tissue; a partition; a septum.
Dissepiment (n.) (Bot.) One of the partitions which divide a compound ovary into cells.
Dissepiment (n.) (Zool.) One of the transverse, calcareous partitions between the radiating septa of a coral.
Dissert (v. i.) 論述；論說；寫論文；講演 To discourse or dispute; to discuss.
Dissertate (v. i.) 【罕】論述 To deal in dissertation; to write dissertations; to discourse.
Dissertation (n.) （博士學位）論文；（專題）論文；學術演講 [（+on/ upon/ concerning）] A formal or elaborate argumentative discourse, oral or written; a disquisition; an essay; a discussion; as, Dissertations on the Prophecies.
Dissertation (n.) A treatise advancing a new point of view resulting from research; usually a requirement for an advanced academic degree [syn: {dissertation}, {thesis}].
Dissertational (a.) Relating to dissertations; resembling a dissertation.
Dissertationist (n.) A writer of dissertations.
Dissertator (n.) 論述；講演；論說；寫論文 One who writers a dissertation; one who discourses.
Dissertly (adv.) See Disertly.
Disserved (imp. & p. p.) of Disserve.
Disserving (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Disserve.
Disserve (v. t.) 虐待 To fail to serve; to do injury or mischief to; to damage; to hurt; to harm.
Have neither served nor disserved the interests of any party. -- Jer. Taylor.
Disservice (n.) 幫倒忙的行為；傷害；造成損害的行為 Injury; mischief.
We shall rather perform good offices unto truth than any disservice unto their relators. -- Sir T. Browne.
Disservice (n.) An act intended to help that turns out badly; "he did them a disservice" [syn: {disservice}, {ill service}, {ill turn}] [ant: {service}].
Disserviceable (a.) 起損害作用的；危害性的 Calculated to do disservice or harm; not serviceable; injurious; harmful; unserviceable. -- Shaftesbury. -- {Dis*serv"ice*a*ble*ness}, n. -- Norris. -- {Dis*serv"ice*a*bly}, adv.
Dissettle (v. t.) To unsettle. [Obs.]
Dissettlement (n.) The act of unsettling, or the state of being unsettled. -- Marvell.
Dissevered (imp. & p. p.) of Dissever.
Dissevering (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Dissever.
Dissever (v. t.) 使分離；使分裂 To part in two; to sever thoroughly; to sunder; to disunite; to separate; to disperse.
The storm so dissevered the company . . . that most of therm never met again. -- Sir P. Sidney.
States disserved, discordant, belligerent. -- D. Webster.
Dissever (v. i.) 分離；分開 To part; to separate. -- Chaucer.
Dissever (v.) Separate into parts or portions; "divide the cake into three equal parts"; "The British carved up the Ottoman Empire after World War I" [syn: {divide}, {split}, {split up}, {separate}, {dissever}, {carve up}] [ant: {unify}, {unite}].
Disseverance (n.) The act of disserving; separation.
Disseveration (n.) The act of disserving; disseverance. [Obs.]
Disseverment (n.) Disseverance. -- Sir W. Scott.
Disshadow (v. t.) To free from shadow or shade. [Obs.] -- G. Fletcher.
Dissheathe (v. i.) To become unsheathed. [Obs.] -- Sir W. Raleigh.
Disship (v. t.) To dismiss from service on board ship. [Obs.] -- Hakluyt.
Disshiver (v. t. & i.) To shiver or break in pieces. [Obs.]
Dissidence (n.) 不同意；異議 Disagreement; dissent; separation from the established religion. -- I. Taylor.
It is the dissidence of dissent. -- Burke.
Dissidence (n.) Disagreement; especially disagreement with the government.
Dissident (a.) 意見不同的；不贊成的；持不同政見的 No agreeing; dissenting; discordant; different.
Our life and manners be dissident from theirs. -- Robynson (More's Utopia).
Dissident (n.) (Eccl.) 意見不同的人；不贊成者；持不同政見者 One who disagrees or dissents; one who separates from the established religion.
The dissident, habituated and taught to think of his dissidence as a laudable and necessary opposition to ecclesiastical usurpation. -- I. Taylor.
Dissident (a.) Characterized by departure from accepted beliefs or standards [syn: {dissident}, {heretical}, {heterodox}].
Dissident (a.) Disagreeing, especially with a majority [syn: {dissentient}, {dissenting(a)}, {dissident}].
Dissident (n.) A person who dissents from some established policy [syn: {dissenter}, {dissident}, {protester}, {objector}, {contestant}].