Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter D - Page 88
Doodle (n.) A trifler; a simple fellow.
Doodlesack (n.) The Scotch bagpipe.
Doole (n.) Sorrow; dole.
Doolies (n. pl. ) of Dooly
Dooly (n.) A kind of litter suspended from men's shoulders, for carrying persons or things; a palanquin.
DOOM (n.) <Games> A simulated 3D moster-hunting action game for {IBM PCs}, created and published by id Software. The original press release was dated January 1993. A cut-down shareware version v1.0 was released on 10 December 1993 and again with some bug-fixes, as v1.4 in June 1994.
DOOM is similar to Wolfenstein 3d (id Software, Apogee) but has better texture mapping; walls can be at any angle, of any thickness and have windows; lighting can fade into the distance or come from point sources; floors and ceilings can be of any height; many surfaces are animated; up to four players can play over a network or two by serial link; it has a high frame rate (comparable to TV on a 486/ 33); DOOM isn't just a collection of connected closed rooms like Wolfenstein but sounds can travel anywhere and alert monsters of your approach.
Doom (n.) [U] PS1] 厄運，毀滅，死亡；【宗】末日審判，世界末日 Judgment; judicial sentence; penal decree; condemnation.
The first dooms of London provide especially the recovery of cattle belonging to the citizens. -- J. R. Green.
Now against himself he sounds this doom. -- Shak.
Doom (n.) That to which one is doomed or sentenced; destiny or fate, esp. unhappy destiny; penalty.
Ere Hector meets his doom. -- Pope.
And homely household task shall be her doom. -- Dryden.
Doom (n.) Ruin; death.
This is the day of doom for Bassianus. -- Shak.
Doom (n.) Discriminating opinion or judgment; discrimination; discernment; decision. [Obs.]
And there he learned of things and haps to come, To give foreknowledge true, and certain doom. -- Fairfax.
Syn: Sentence; condemnation; decree; fate; destiny; lot; ruin; destruction.
Doomed (imp. & p. p.) of Doom
Dooming (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Doom
Doom (v. t.) 注定，命定 [H] [（+to）] [O2]；判定，判決[（+to）] To judge; to estimate or determine as a judge. [Obs.] -- Milton.
Doom (v. t.) To pronounce sentence or judgment on; to condemn; to consign by a decree or sentence; to sentence; as, a criminal doomed to chains or death.
Absolves the just, and dooms the guilty souls. -- Dryden.
Doom (v. t.) To ordain as penalty; hence, to mulct or fine.
Have I tongue to doom my brother's death? -- Shak.
Doom (v. t.) To assess a tax upon, by estimate or at discretion. [New England] -- J. Pickering.
Doom (v. t.) To destine; to fix irrevocably the destiny or fate of; to appoint, as by decree or by fate.
A man of genius . . . doomed to struggle with difficulties. -- Macaulay.
Doom (n.) An unpleasant or disastrous destiny; "everyone was aware of the approaching doom but was helpless to avoid it"; "that's unfortunate but it isn't the end of the world" [syn: {doom}, {doomsday}, {day of reckoning}, {end of the world}].
Doom (v.) Decree or designate beforehand; "She was destined to become a great pianist" [syn: {destine}, {fate}, {doom}, {designate}].
Doom (v.) Pronounce a sentence on (somebody) in a court of law; "He was condemned to ten years in prison" [syn: {sentence}, {condemn}, {doom}].
Doom (v.) Make certain of the failure or destruction of; "This decision will doom me to lose my position".
DOOM (Acronyms) Decentralised Object Orientated Machine.
Doom (n.) This word formerly signified a judgment. T. L.
Doomage (n.) A penalty or fine for neglect. [Local, New England]
Doomage (n.) (- pl. - s) An assessing on default.
Doomed (a.) 命中注定的；天數已盡的；注定失敗的 [（+to）]；Doom 的動詞過去式、過去分詞 Marked for certain death; "the black spot told the old sailor he was doomed".
Doomed (a.) In danger of the eternal punishment of Hell; "poor damned souls" [syn: {cursed}, {damned}, {doomed}, {unredeemed}, {unsaved}].
Doomed (a.) Marked by or promising bad fortune; "their business venture was doomed from the start"; "an ill-fated business venture"; "an ill-starred romance"; "the unlucky prisoner was again put in irons"- W.H.Prescott [syn: {doomed}, {ill-fated}, {ill- omened}, {ill-starred}, {unlucky}].
Doomed (a.) (Usually followed by `to') Determined by tragic fate; "doomed to unhappiness"; "fated to be the scene of Kennedy's assassination" [syn: {doomed}, {fated}].
Doomed (n.) People who are destined to die soon; "the agony of the doomed was in his voice" [syn: {doomed}, {lost}].
Doomful (a.) Full of condemnation or destructive power.
Doom palm () A species of palm tree (Hyphaene Thebaica), highly valued for the fibrous pulp of its fruit, which has the flavor of gingerbread, and is largely eaten in Egypt and Abyssinia.
Doomsday (n.) A day of sentence or condemnation; day of death.
Doomsday (n.) The day of the final judgment.
Doomsman (n.) A judge; an umpire.
Doomster (n.) Same as Dempster.
Door (n.) An opening in the wall of a house or of an apartment, by which to go in and out; an entrance way.
Door (n.) The frame or barrier of boards, or other material, usually turning on hinges, by which an entrance way into a house or apartment is closed and opened.
Door (n.) Passage; means of approach or access.
Door (n.) An entrance way, but taken in the sense of the house or apartment to which it leads.
Doorcase (n.) The surrounding frame into which a door shuts.
Doorcheek (n.) The jamb or sidepiece of a door.
Doorga (n.) A Hindoo divinity, the consort of Siva, represented with ten arms.
Dooring (n.) The frame of a door.
Doorkeeper (n.) One who guards the entrance of a house or apartment; a porter; a janitor.
Doorless (a.) Without a door.
Doornail (n.) The nail or knob on which in ancient doors the knocker struck; -- hence the old saying, "As dead as a doornail."
Doorplane (n.) A plane on a door, giving the name, and sometimes the employment, of the occupant.
Doorpost (n.) The jamb or sidepiece of a doorway.
Doorsill (n.) The sill or threshold of a door.
Doorstead (n.) Entrance or place of a door.
Doorstep (n.) The stone or plank forming a step before an outer door.
Doorstone (n.) The stone forming a threshold.
Doorstop (n.) The block or strip of wood or similar material which stops, at the right place, the shutting of a door.
Doorway (n.) The passage of a door; entrance way into a house or a room.
Doorway (n.) [ C ] (C2) 出入口，門口 The space in a wall where a door opens, or a covered area just outside a door.
Dooryard (n.) A yard in front of a house or around the door of a house.
Dop (n.) Alt. of Doop
Doop (n.) A little copper cup in which a diamond is held while being cut.
Dop (v. i.) To dip.
Dop (n.) A dip; a low courtesy.
Doppelgänger (n.) Someone who looks like someone else.
Doppelgänger (n.) A ghost that looks like a living person.
Doppelgänger (n.) A ghostly counterpart of a living person.
Doppelgänger (n.) a : double 2a b : alter ego b c : a person who has the same name as another.
Dopper (n.) An Anabaptist or Baptist.
Dopplerite (n.) A brownish black native hydrocarbon occurring in elastic or jellylike masses.
Doquet (n.) A warrant. See Docket.
Dor (n.) A large European scaraboid beetle (Geotrupes stercorarius), which makes a droning noise while flying. The name is also applied to allied American species, as the June bug. Called also dorr, dorbeetle, or dorrbeetle, dorbug, dorrfly, and buzzard clock.
Dor (n.) A trick, joke, or deception.
Dor (v. t.) To make a fool of; to deceive.
Dorado (n.) A southern constellation, within which is the south pole of the ecliptic; -- called also sometimes Xiphias, or the Swordfish.
Dorado (n.) A large, oceanic fish of the genus Coryphaena.
Dorbeetle (n.) See 1st Dor.
Doree (n.) A European marine fish (Zeus faber), of a yellow color. See Illust. of John Doree.
Doretree (n.) A doorpost.
Dorhawk (n.) The European goatsucker; -- so called because it eats the dor beetle. See Goatsucker.
Dorian (a.) Of or pertaining to the ancient Greeks of Doris; Doric; as, a Dorian fashion.
Dorian (a.) Same as Doric, 3.
Dorian (n.) A native or inhabitant of Doris in Greece.
Doric (a.) Pertaining to Doris, in ancient Greece, or to the Dorians; as, the Doric dialect.
Doric (a.) Belonging to, or resembling, the oldest and simplest of the three orders of architecture used by the Greeks, but ranked as second of the five orders adopted by the Romans. See Abacus, Capital, Order.
Doric (a.) Of or relating to one of the ancient Greek musical modes or keys. Its character was adapted both to religions occasions and to war.
Doric (n.) The Doric dialect.
Doricism (n.) A Doric phrase or idiom.
Doris (n.) A genus of nudibranchiate mollusks having a wreath of branchiae on the back.
Dorism (n.) A Doric phrase or idiom.
Dorking fowl () One of a breed of large-bodied domestic fowls, having five toes, or the hind toe double. There are several strains, as the white, gray, and silver-gray. They are highly esteemed for the table.
Dormancy (n.) The state of being dormant; quiescence; abeyance.
Dormant (a.) Sleeping; as, a dormant animal; hence, not in action or exercise; quiescent; at rest; in abeyance; not disclosed, asserted, or insisted on; as, dormant passions; dormant claims or titles.
Dormant (a.) In a sleeping posture; as, a lion dormant; -- distinguished from couchant.
Dormant (a.) A large beam in the roof of a house upon which portions of the other timbers rest or " sleep."
Dormer (n.) Alt. of Dormer window
Dormer window (n.) A window pierced in a roof, and so set as to be vertical while the roof slopes away from it. Also, the gablet, or houselike structure, in which it is contained.
Dormitive (a.) Causing sleep; as, the dormitive properties of opium.
Dormitive (n.) A medicine to promote sleep; a soporific; an opiate.
Dormitories (n. pl. ) of Dormitory
Dormitory (n.) A sleeping room, or a building containing a series of sleeping rooms; a sleeping apartment capable of containing many beds; esp., one connected with a college or boarding school.
Dormitory (n.) A burial place.
Dormice (n. pl. ) of Dormouse
Dormouse (n.) A small European rodent of the genus Myoxus, of several species. They live in trees and feed on nuts, acorns, etc.; -- so called because they are usually torpid in winter.
Dorn (n.) A British ray; the thornback.
Dornick (n.) Alt. of Dornock
Dornock (n.) A coarse sort of damask, originally made at Tournay (in Flemish, Doornick), Belgium, and used for hangings, carpets, etc. Also, a stout figured linen manufactured in Scotland.
Dorp (n.) A hamlet.
Dorr (n.) The dorbeetle; also, a drone or an idler. See 1st Dor.
Dorr (v. t.) To deceive. [Obs.] See Dor, v. t.
Dorr (v. t.) To deafen with noise.
Dorrfly (n.) See 1st Dor.
Dorrhawk (n.) See Dorhawk.
Dorsad (adv.) Toward the dorsum or back; on the dorsal side; dorsally.
Compare: Neural
Neural (a.) (Anat. & Zool.) Relating to the nerves or nervous system; taining to, situated in the region of, or on the side with, the neural, or cerebro-spinal, axis; -- opposed to hemal. As applied to vertebrates, neural is the same as dorsal; as applied to invertebrates it is usually the same as ventral. Cf. Hemal.
Neural arch (Anat.), The cartilaginous or bony arch on the dorsal side of the centrum of the vertebra in a segment of the spinal skeleton, usually inclosing a segment of the spinal cord.
Compare: Posterior
Posterior (a.) Later in time; hence, later in the order of proceeding or moving; coming after; -- opposed to prior.
Hesiod was posterior to Homer. -- Broome.
Posterior (a.) Situated behind; hinder; -- opposed to anterior.
Posterior (a.) (Anat.) At or toward the caudal extremity; caudal; -- in human anatomy often used for dorsal.
Posterior (a.) (Bot.) On the side next the axis of inflorescence; -- said of an axillary flower. -- Gray.
Dorsal (n.) (Fine Arts) A hanging, usually of rich stuff, at the back of a throne, or of an altar, or in any similar position.
Dorsal (a.) (Anat.) Pertaining to, or situated near, the back, or dorsum, of an animal or of one of its parts; notal; tergal; neural; as, the dorsal fin of a fish; the dorsal artery of the tongue; -- opposed to ventral.
Dorsal (a.) (Bot.) Pertaining to the surface naturally inferior, as of a leaf.
Dorsal (a.) (Bot.) Pertaining to the surface naturally superior, as of a creeping hepatic moss.
Dorsal vessel (Zool.), A central pulsating blood vessel along the back of insects, acting as a heart.
Dorsal (a.) Belonging to or on or near the back or upper surface of an animal or organ or part; "the dorsal fin is the vertical fin on the back of a fish and certain marine mammals" [ant: ventral].
Dorsal (a.) Facing away from the axis of an organ or organism; "the abaxial surface of a leaf is the underside or side facing away from the stem" [syn: abaxial, dorsal] [ant: adaxial, ventral].
Dorsale (n.) Same as Dorsal, n.
Dorsally (adv.) (Anat.) On, or toward, the dorsum, or back; on the dorsal side of; dorsad.
Dorsally (adv.) In a dorsal location or direction.
Dorse (n.) Same as dorsal, n. [Obs.]