Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter D - Page 80
Ditty (n.) A song; a lay; a little poem intended to be sung. "Religious, martial, or civil ditties." -- Milton.
And to the warbling lute soft ditties sing. -- Sandys.
Ditty (v. i.) To sing; to warble a little tune.
Beasts fain would sing; birds ditty to their notes. -- Herbert.
Ditty (n.) A short simple song (or the words of a poem intended to be sung).
Ditty-bag (n.) A sailor's small bag to hold thread, needles, tape, etc.; -- also called sailor's housewife.
Ditty-box (n.) A small box to hold a sailor's thread, needless, comb, etc.
Ditzy (a.) Also ditsy (Informal) 【俚】愚笨的；神經兮兮的；輕浮的，膚淺幼稚的 A ditzy person, especially a woman, is silly.
// She played the role of a ditzy blonde.
Diureide (n.) (Chem.) One of a series of complex nitrogenous substances regarded as containing two molecules of urea or their radicals, as uric acid or allantoin. Cf. Ureide.
Diuresis (n.) Increased secretion of urine; if not due to increased liquid intake or to the action of a diuretic drug it can be a symptom of diabetes mellitus.
Diuresis (n.) (Med.) Free excretion of urine.
Diuretic (a.) (Med.) Tending to increase the secretion and discharge of urine.
Diuretic (n.) A medicine with diuretic properties.
Diuretic salt (Med.), Potassium acetate; -- so called because of its diuretic properties.
Diuretic (n.) Any substance that tends to increase the flow of urine, which causes the body to get rid of excess water [syn: diuretic drug, diuretic, water pill].
Diuretical (a.) Diuretic. [Obs.] -- Boyle.
Diureticalness (n.) The quality of being diuretical; diuretic property.
Diurna (n. pl.) (Zool.) A division of Lepidoptera, including the butterflies; -- so called because they fly only in the daytime.
Diurnal (a.) Relating to the daytime; belonging to the period of daylight, distinguished from the night; -- opposed to nocturnal; as, diurnal heat; diurnal hours.
Diurnal (a.) Daily; recurring every day; performed in a day; going through its changes in a day; constituting the measure of a day; as, a diurnal fever; a diurnal task; diurnal aberration, or diurnal parallax; the diurnal revolution of the earth.
Ere twice the horses of the sun shall bring Their fiery torcher his diurnal ring. -- Shak.
Diurnal (a.) (Bot.) Opening during the day, and closing at night; -- said of flowers or leaves.
Diurnal (a.) (Zool.) Active by day; -- applied especially to the eagles and hawks among raptorial birds, and to butterflies (Diurna) among insects.
Diurnal aberration (Anat.), The aberration of light arising from the effect of the earth's rotation upon the apparent direction of motion of light.
Diurnal arc, The arc described by the sun during the daytime or while above the horizon; hence, the arc described by the moon or a star from rising to setting.
Diurnal circle, The apparent circle described by a celestial body in consequence of the earth's rotation.
Diurnal motion of the earth, The motion of the earth upon its axis which is described in twenty-four hours.
Diurnal motion of a heavenly body, That apparent motion of the heavenly body which is due to the earth's diurnal motion.
Diurnal parallax. See under Parallax.
Diurnal revolution of a planet, The motion of the planet upon its own axis which constitutes one complete revolution.
Syn: See Daily.
Diurnal (n.) A daybook; a journal. [Obs.] -- Tatler.
Diurnal (n.) (R. C. Ch.) A small volume containing the daily service for the "little hours," viz., prime, tierce, sext, nones, vespers, and compline.
Diurnal (n.) (Zool.) A diurnal bird or insect.
Diurnal (a.) Of or belonging to or active during the day; "diurnal animals are active during the day"; "diurnal flowers are open during the day and closed at night"; "diurnal and nocturnal offices" [ant: nocturnal].
Diurnal (a.) Having a daily cycle or occurring every day; "diurnal rotation of the heavens".
Diurnalist (n.) A journalist. [Obs.] -- Bp. Hall.
Diurnally (adv.) Daily; every day.
Diurnalness (n.) The quality of being diurnal.
Diurnation (n.) Continuance during the day. [Obs.]
Diurnation (n.) (Zool.) The condition of sleeping or becoming dormant by day, as is the case of the bats.
Diuturnal (a.) Of long continuance; lasting. [R.] -- Milton.
Diuturnity (n.) Long duration; lastingness. [R.] -- Sir T. Browne.
Divagate (v.) (v. i.) 流浪；徘徊；（說話時）離題；偏離 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].
Divagation (n.) 流浪；入歧途；逸脫；分離 A wandering about or going astray; digression.
Let us be set down at Queen's Crawley without further divagation. -- Thackeray.
Divagation (n.) A message that departs from the main subject [syn: digression, aside, excursus, divagation, parenthesis].
Divagation (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].
Divalent (a.) (Chem.) Having two units of combining power; bivalent. Cf. Valence.
Divan (n.) A book; esp., a collection of poems written by one author; as, the divan of Hafiz. [Persia]
Divan (n.) In Turkey and other Oriental countries: A council of state; a royal court. Also used by the poets for a grand deliberative council or assembly. -- Pope.
Divan (n.) A chief officer of state. [India]
Divan (n.) A saloon or hall where a council is held, in Oriental countries, the state reception room in places, and in the houses of the richer citizens. Cushions on the floor or on benches are ranged round the room.
Divan (n.) A cushioned seat, or a large, low sofa or couch; especially, one fixed to its place, and not movable.
Divan (n.) A coffee and smoking saloon. [Colloq.]
Divan (n.) A long backless sofa (usually with pillows against a wall).
Divan (n.) A Muslim council of state [syn: divan, diwan].
Divan (n.) A collection of Persian or Arabic poems (usually by one author) [syn: divan, diwan].
Divan (n.) A Muslim council chamber or law court [syn: divan, diwan].
Divaricated (imp. & p. p.) of Divaricate.
Divaricating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Divaricate.
Divaricate (v. i.) To part into two branches; to become bifid; to fork.
Divaricate (v. i.) To diverge; to be divaricate. -- Woodward.
Divaricate (v. t.) To divide into two branches; to cause to branch apart.
Divaricate (a.) Diverging; spreading asunder; widely diverging.
Divaricate (a.) (Biol.) Forking and diverging; widely diverging; as the branches of a tree, or as lines of sculpture, or color markings on animals, etc.
Divaricate (v.) Branch off; "The road divaricates here."
Divaricate (v.) Spread apart; "divaricate one's fingers."
Divaricately (adv.) With divarication.
Divarication (n.) A separation into two parts or branches; a forking; a divergence.
Divarication (n.) An ambiguity of meaning; a disagreement of difference in opinion. -- Sir T. Browne.
Divarication (n.) (Biol.) A divergence of lines of color sculpture, or of fibers at different angles.
Divarication (n.) Branching at a wide angle.
Divaricator (n.) (Zool.) One of the muscles which open the shell of brachiopods; a cardinal muscle. See Illust. of Brachiopoda.
Divast (a.) Devastated; laid waste. [Obs.]
Dived (imp. & p. p.) of Dive.
Dove () of Dive.
Diving (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Dive.
Dive (v. i.) To plunge into water head foremost; to thrust the body under, or deeply into, water or other fluid.
It is not that pearls fetch a high price because men have dived for them. -- Whately.
Note: The colloquial form dove is common in the United States as an imperfect tense form.
All [the walruses] dove down with a tremendous splash. -- Dr. Hayes.
When closely pressed it [the loon] dove . . . and left the young bird sitting in the water. -- J. Burroughs.
Dive (v. i.) Fig.: To plunge or to go deeply into any subject, question, business, etc.; to penetrate; to explore. -- South.
Dive (v. t.) To plunge (a person or thing) into water; to dip; to duck. [Obs.] -- Hooker.
Dive (v. t.) To explore by diving; to plunge into. [R.]
The Curtii bravely dived the gulf of fame. -- Denham.
He dives the hollow, climbs the steeps. -- Emerson.
Dive (n.) A plunge headforemost into water, the act of one who dives, literally or figuratively.
Dive (n.) A place of low resort. [Slang]
The music halls and dives in the lower part of the city. -- J. Hawthorne.
Dive (n.) A cheap disreputable nightclub or dance hall [syn: honkytonk, dive].
Dive (n.) A headlong plunge into water [syn: dive, diving].
Dive (n.) A steep nose-down descent by an aircraft [syn: dive, nose dive, nosedive].
Dive (v.) Drop steeply; "the stock market plunged" [syn: dive, plunge, plunk].
Dive (v.) Plunge into water; "I was afraid to dive from the board into the pool."
Dive (v.) Swim under water; "the children enjoyed diving and looking for shells."
DIVE, () Direct Interface Video Extensions (IBM, MMPM/2)
Divedapper (n.) (Zool.) A water fowl; the didapper. See Dabchick.
Divel (v. t.) To rend apart. [Obs.] -- Sir T. Browne.
Divellent (a.) Drawing asunder. [R.]
Divellicate (v. t.) To pull in pieces. [Obs. or R.]
Diver (n.) One who, or that which, dives.
Divers and fishers for pearls. -- Woodward.
Diver (n.) Fig.: One who goes deeply into a subject, study, or business. "A diver into causes." -- Sir H. Wotton.
Diver (n.) (Zool.) Any bird of certain genera, as Urinator (formerly Colymbus), or the allied genus Colymbus, or Podiceps, remarkable for their agility in diving.
Note: The northern diver ({Urinator imber) is the loon; the black diver or velvet scoter ({Oidemia fusca) is a sea duck. See Loon, and Scoter.
Diver (n.) Someone who works underwater [syn: diver, frogman, underwater diver].
Diver (n.) Someone who dives (into water) [syn: diver, plunger].
Diver (n.) Large somewhat primitive fish-eating diving bird of the northern hemisphere having webbed feet placed far back; related to the grebes [syn: loon, diver].
Diverb (n.) A saying in which two members of the sentence are contrasted; an antithetical proverb. [Obs.]
Italy, a paradise for horses, a hell for women, as the diverb goes. -- Burton.
Diverberate (v. t.) To strike or sound through. [R.] -- Davies (Holy Roode).
Diverberation (n.) A sounding through.
Diverged (imp. & p. p.) of Diverge.
Diverging (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Diverge.
Diverge (v. i.) （道路等）分叉；叉開 [（+from）]；偏離；背離 [（+from）] To extend from a common point in different directions; to tend from one point and recede from each other; to tend to spread apart; to turn aside or deviate (as from a given direction); -- opposed to converge; as, rays of light diverge as they proceed from the sun.
Diverge (v. i.) To differ from a typical form; to vary from a normal condition; to dissent from a creed or position generally held or taken.
Diverge (v.) Move or draw apart; "The two paths diverge here" [ant: converge].
Diverge (v.) Have no limits as a mathematical series [ant: converge, meet].
Diverge (v.) Extend in a different direction; "The lines start to diverge here"; "Their interests diverged" [ant: converge, meet].
Diverge (v.) Be at variance with; be out of line with [syn: deviate, vary, diverge, depart] [ant: conform].
Diverge, () If a series of approximations to some value get progressively further from it then the series is said to diverge.
The reduction of some term under some evaluation strategy diverges if it does not reach a normal form after a finite number of reductions. (1994-12-08)
Divergement (n.) Divergence.
Divergence (n.) Alt. of Divergency.
Divergency (n.) A receding from each other in moving from a common center; the state of being divergent; as, an angle is made by the divergence of straight lines.
Rays come to the eye in a state of divergency.
Divergency (n.) Disagreement; difference.
Related with some divergence by other writers. -- Sir G. C. Lewis.
Divergence (n.) The act of moving away in different direction from a common point; "an angle is formed by the divergence of two straight lines" [syn: divergence, divergency].
Divergence (n.) A variation that deviates from the standard or norm; "the deviation from the mean" [syn: deviation, divergence, departure, difference].
Divergence (n.) An infinite series that has no limit [syn: divergence, divergency] [ant: convergence, convergency].
Divergence (n.) A difference between conflicting facts or claims or opinions; "a growing divergence of opinion" [syn: discrepancy, disagreement, divergence, variance].
Divergency (n.) An infinite series that has no limit [syn: divergence, divergency] [ant: convergence, convergency].
Divergence (n.) The act of moving away in different direction from a common point; "an angle is formed by the divergence of two straight lines" [syn: divergence, divergency].
Divergence (n.) A variation that deviates from the standard or norm; "the deviation from the mean" [syn: deviation, divergence, departure, difference].
Divergence (n.) An infinite series that has no limit [syn: divergence, divergency] [ant: convergence, convergency].
Divergence (n.) A difference between conflicting facts or claims or opinions; "a growing divergence of opinion" [syn: discrepancy, disagreement, divergence, variance].
Divergent (a.) Receding farther and farther from each other, as lines radiating from one point; deviating gradually from a given direction; -- opposed to convergent.
Divergent (a.) (Optics) Causing divergence of rays; as, a divergent lens.
Divergent (a.) Fig.: Disagreeing from something given; differing; as, a divergent statement.
Divergent series. (Math.) See Diverging series, under Diverging.
Divergent (a.) Diverging from another or from a standard; "a divergent opinion".
Divergent (a.) Tending to move apart in different directions [syn: divergent, diverging] [ant: convergent].
Diverging (a.) Tending in different directions from a common center; spreading apart; divergent.
Diverging series (Math.), A series whose terms are larger as the series is extended; a series the sum of whose terms does not approach a finite limit when the series is extended indefinitely; -- opposed to a converging series.
Diverging (a.) Tending to move apart in different directions [syn: divergent, diverging] [ant: convergent].
Divergingly (adv.) In a diverging manner.
Divers (a.) Different in kind or species; diverse. [Obs.]
Every sect of them hath a divers posture. -- Bacon.
Thou shalt not sow thy vineyard with divers seeds. -- Deut. xxii. 9.
Divers (a.) Several; sundry; various; more than one, but not a great number; as, divers philosophers. Also used substantively or pronominally.
Divers of Antonio's creditors. -- Shak.
Note: Divers is now limited to the plural; as, divers ways (not divers way). Besides plurality it ordinarily implies variety of kind.
Divers (a.) Many and different; "tourist offices of divers nationalities"; "a person of diverse talents" [syn: divers(a), diverse].
Diverse (a.) Different; unlike; dissimilar; distinct; separate.
The word . . . is used in a sense very diverse from its original import. -- J. Edwards.
Our roads are diverse: farewell, love! said she. -- R. Browning.
Diverse (a.) Capable of various forms; multiform.
Eloquence is a great and diverse thing. -- B. Jonson.
Diverse (adv.) In different directions; diversely.
Diverse (v. i.) To turn aside. [Obs.]
The redcross knight diverst, but forth rode Britomart. -- Spenser.
Diverse (a.) Many and different; "tourist offices of divers nationalities"; "a person of diverse talents" [syn: divers(a), diverse].
Diverse (a.) Distinctly dissimilar or unlike; "celebrities as diverse as Bob Hope and Bob Dylan"; "animals as various as the jaguar and the cavy and the sloth" [syn: diverse, various].
Diversely (adv.) In different ways; differently; variously. "Diversely interpreted." -- Bacon.
How diversely love doth his pageants play. -- Spenser.
Diversely (adv.) In different directions; to different points.
On life's vast ocean diversely we sail. -- Pope.
Diversely (adv.) In diverse ways; "the alternatives that are variously represented by the participants"; "the speakers treated the subject most diversely" [syn: variously, diversely, multifariously].
Diverseness (n.) The quality of being diverse.
Diverseness (n.) Noticeable heterogeneity; "a diversity of possibilities"; "the range and variety of his work is amazing" [syn: diverseness, diversity, multifariousness, variety].
Diversifiability (n.) The quality or capacity of being diversifiable. -- Earle.
Diversifiable (a.) Capable of being diversified or varied. -- Boyle.
Diversification (n.) The act of making various, or of changing form or quality. -- Boyle.
Diversification (n.) State of diversity or variation; variegation; modification; change; alternation.
Infinite diversifications of tints may be produced. -- Adventurer.
Diversification (n.) The act of introducing variety (especially in investments or in the variety of goods and services offered); "my broker recommended a greater diversification of my investments"; "he limited his losses by diversification of his product line" [syn: diversification, variegation].
Diversification (n.) The condition of being varied; "that restaurant's menu lacks diversification; every day it is the same".
Diversified (a.) 多變化的，各種的 Distinguished by various forms, or by a variety of aspects or objects; variegated; as, diversified scenery or landscape.
Diversify (v. t.) [imp. & p. p. Diversified; p. pr. & vb. n. Diversifying.] To make diverse or various in form or quality; to give variety to; to variegate; to distinguish by numerous differences or aspects.
Separated and diversified on from another. -- Locke.
Its seven colors, that diversify all the face of nature. -- I. Taylor.
Diversified (a.) Having variety of character or form or components; or having increased variety; "a diversified musical program ranging from classical to modern"; "diversified farming"; "diversified manufacturing"; "diversified scenery"; "diversified investments" [ant: undiversified].
Diversifier (n.) One who, or that which, diversifies.
Diversiform (a.) Of a different form; of varied forms.
Diversified (imp. & p. p.) of Diversify.
Diversifying (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Diversify.
Diversify (v. t.) To make diverse or various in form or quality; to give variety to; to variegate; to distinguish by numerous differences or aspects.
Separated and diversified on from another. -- Locke.
Its seven colors, that diversify all the face of nature. -- I. Taylor.
Diversify (v.) Make (more) diverse; "diversify a course of study".
Diversify (v.) Spread into new habitats and produce variety or variegate; "The plants on this island diversified" [syn: diversify, radiate].
Diversify (v.) Vary in order to spread risk or to expand; "The company diversified" [syn: diversify, branch out, broaden] [ant: narrow, narrow down, specialise, specialize].
Diversiloquent (a.) Speaking in different ways. [R.]
Diversion (n.) The act of turning aside from any course, occupation, or object; as, the diversion of a stream from its channel; diversion of the mind from business.
Diversion (n.) That which diverts; that which turns or draws the mind from care or study, and thus relaxes and amuses; sport; play; pastime; as, the diversions of youth. "Public diversions." -- V. Knox.
Such productions of wit and humor as expose vice and folly, furnish useful diversion to readers. -- Addison.