--- title: D — The English dictionary with trees and pragmatics · page 20 description: The 1197 words of the English dictionary under D, every meaning for a pupil and every example with its dependency tree and pragmatics. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/english/D/page/20/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [dictionaries](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/) / [English dictionary](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/english/) / D # D — The English dictionary · page 20 [A](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/english/A/) · [B](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/english/B/) · [C](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/english/C/) · [D](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/english/D/) · 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meaning 1:* To desalt something is to remove salt from it, such as seawater or salty food.[↗](../../desalt/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* The plant desalts seawater to make drinking water.[↗](../../desalt/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · Soak the salty fish overnight to desalt it.[↗](../../desalt/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · Boiling and catching the steam can desalt water.[↗](../../desalt/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · Some dry countries desalt sea water for their cities.[↗](../../desalt/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · We desalted salty water in a science experiment using evaporation.[↗](../../desalt/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · Desalted water must still be clean to drink safely.[↗](../../desalt/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") **descend** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* To descend is to go or come down, or to move downwards.[↗](../../descend/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* To be descended from someone means to come from them in your family history (to be their great-great-grandchild, and so on).[↗](../../descend/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 3:* To descend on a place means to arrive there suddenly in large numbers.[↗](../../descend/#m3 "tree and pragmatics") *Early Modern English, meaning 1:* To go or come down, or to fall.[↗](../../descend/#m4 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* The plane began to descend towards the airport.[↗](../../descend/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · We carefully descended the steep hill.[↗](../../descend/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · Put these numbers in descending order: 3, 8, 5.[↗](../../descend/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · She is descended from a family of sailors.[↗](../../descend/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · Night descended on the town.[↗](../../descend/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · Hundreds of fans descended on the stadium.[↗](../../descend/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") · The divers descended to the bottom of the lake.[↗](../../descend/#x7 "tree and pragmatics") · She then descended from the chariot and made her reverence.[↗](../../descend/#x8 "tree and pragmatics") · And the LORD descended in the cloud, and stood with him there, and proclaimed the name of the LORD.[↗](../../descend/#x9 "tree and pragmatics") (Torah EXO.34.5, JPS 1917)[↗](../../descend/#x9 "tree and pragmatics") · And it came to pass, when Moses entered into the Tent, the pillar of cloud descended, and stood at the door of the Tent; and the LORD spoke with Moses.[↗](../../descend/#x10 "tree and pragmatics") (Torah EXO.33.9, JPS 1917)[↗](../../descend/#x10 "tree and pragmatics") · And he dreamed, and behold a ladder set up on the earth, and the top of it reached to heaven; and behold the angels of God ascending and descending on it.[↗](../../descend/#x11 "tree and pragmatics") (Torah GEN.28.12, JPS 1917)[↗](../../descend/#x11 "tree and pragmatics") · Who hath ascended up into heaven, and descended?[↗](../../descend/#x12 "tree and pragmatics") (Writings PRO.30.4, JPS 1917)[↗](../../descend/#x12 "tree and pragmatics") · For when he dieth he shall carry nothing away; his wealth shall not descend after him.[↗](../../descend/#x13 "tree and pragmatics") (Writings PSA.49.18, JPS 1917)[↗](../../descend/#x13 "tree and pragmatics") · And it shall hail, in the downfall of the forest; but the city shall descend into the valley.[↗](../../descend/#x14 "tree and pragmatics") (Prophets ISA.32.19, JPS 1917)[↗](../../descend/#x14 "tree and pragmatics") · And the LORD descended in the cloud, and stood with him there, and proclaimed the name of the LORD.[↗](../../descend/#x15 "tree and pragmatics") (Torah EXO.34.5, JPS 1917) · "To-morrow the sun will shine, or the rain descend.[↗](../../descend/#x16 "tree and pragmatics") (Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen) · This way of thinking about language imbues the Hebrew root itself with a certain metaphysical reality, an entity from which more concrete instantions of individual words may ontologically descend and ultimately crystallize into concrete speech or material reality.[↗](../../descend/#x17 "tree and pragmatics") (Sefer Yetzirah, Sefaria community translation) **descendant** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* A person who comes later in the same family line: a child, grandchild, great-grandchild and so on.[↗](../../descendant/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* An animal or plant that has developed from an earlier kind.[↗](../../descendant/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 3:* Something that has grown out of an earlier thing.[↗](../../descendant/#m3 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* She is a descendant of Irish farmers.[↗](../../descendant/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · Birds are descendants of dinosaurs.[↗](../../descendant/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · The old queen had dozens of descendants.[↗](../../descendant/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · We drew a family tree with Great-Gran at the top and her descendants below.[↗](../../descendant/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · Modern dogs are descendants of wolves.[↗](../../descendant/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · He claims to be a descendant of a famous pirate.[↗](../../descendant/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") · Today's computers are descendants of huge early machines.[↗](../../descendant/#x7 "tree and pragmatics") · Daedalus, a descendant of Erechtheus, was an Athenian architect, sculptor, and mechanician.[↗](../../descendant/#x8 "tree and pragmatics") **descendants** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* Your descendants are your children, their children, their children's children and so on into the future.[↗](../../descendants/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* (science) Animals or plants that come from an older kind of living thing, like birds being descendants of dinosaurs.[↗](../../descendants/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 3:* Something new that grew out of an older thing (formal), like modern languages from older ones.[↗](../../descendants/#m3 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* The old farmer had twenty descendants at his birthday party.[↗](../../descendants/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · Birds are the living descendants of dinosaurs.[↗](../../descendants/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · Many people in New Zealand are descendants of Māori voyagers.[↗](../../descendants/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · Her descendants still live in the same village in Ireland.[↗](../../descendants/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · Our class drew a family tree showing a great-grandmother's descendants.[↗](../../descendants/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · Dogs are descendants of wolves.[↗](../../descendants/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") · The queen's descendants include princes and princesses.[↗](../../descendants/#x7 "tree and pragmatics") · “Descendants are only children,” said John.[↗](../../descendants/#x8 "tree and pragmatics") · == Chapter 6 == \[6:1\] Three Fathers and their descendants, and Seven Stars \[another version: Conquerors\] and their hosts, and Twelve Diagonal Borders.[↗](../../descendants/#x9 "tree and pragmatics") (Sefer Yetzirah, Sefaria community translation)[↗](../../descendants/#x9 "tree and pragmatics") **descender** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* (writing, typing) The part of a lower-case letter that goes below the line, as in g, j, p, q and y; also a letter that has such a part.[↗](../../descender/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* A person or thing that goes down: «a fast descender» (cyclist or skier).[↗](../../descender/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 3:* (climbing, abseiling) A metal device that controls the speed of going down a rope.[↗](../../descender/#m3 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* The letters g, j, p, q and y all have descenders.[↗](../../descender/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · Make sure your descenders go below the line.[↗](../../descender/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · In our handwriting book, ascenders go up and descenders go down.[↗](../../descender/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · The cyclist was a brilliant descender on the mountain roads.[↗](../../descender/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · The climber clipped the descender onto the rope.[↗](../../descender/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · In this font, the descenders are very long and curly.[↗](../../descender/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") **descent** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* A descent is a way or act of going down, like going down a hill, stairs or from the sky.[↗](../../descent/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* Descent means your family background, the people and places your family comes from.[↗](../../descent/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 3:* A descent can be a slope that goes downward.[↗](../../descent/#m3 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* The plane began its descent to the airport.[↗](../../descent/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · The climbers made a slow descent down the icy mountain.[↗](../../descent/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · The path has a steep descent to the beach.[↗](../../descent/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · She is of Italian descent.[↗](../../descent/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · The balloon's descent took ten minutes.[↗](../../descent/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · On the descent the bus went very slowly.[↗](../../descent/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") · In later times the noblest Theban families proudly claimed their descent from these mighty earth-born warriors.[↗](../../descent/#x7 "tree and pragmatics") **describe** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* To say or write what someone or something is like: how it looks, sounds, feels, smells or behaves.[↗](../../describe/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* To tell what happened, step by step.[↗](../../describe/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 3:* To draw or make a shape or line (formal maths: describe a circle).[↗](../../describe/#m3 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* Describe your favourite place using all five senses.[↗](../../describe/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · Can you describe the person who took the bike?[↗](../../describe/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · Describe what happened when we added vinegar to the baking soda.[↗](../../describe/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · The book describes life on a farm long ago.[↗](../../describe/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · Describe this shape: it has four equal sides and four right angles.[↗](../../describe/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · I can't describe how happy I was\![↗](../../describe/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") · He described the castle as dark and cold.[↗](../../describe/#x7 "tree and pragmatics") · It was a pleasure to hear Alfred describe anything.[↗](../../describe/#x8 "tree and pragmatics") · However, only one, ספ״ר SPR, is capable of describing all three: counting (סָפַר safar 'he counted', מִסְפָּר mispar 'number, count'), writing (סֵפֶר sefer 'book, scroll'), and speaking (סִפֵּר sipper 'he told, accounted', סִפּוּר sippur 'telling, account').[↗](../../describe/#x9 "tree and pragmatics") (Sefer Yetzirah, Sefaria community translation)[↗](../../describe/#x9 "tree and pragmatics") · He hath described a boundary upon the face of the waters, unto the confines of light and darkness.[↗](../../describe/#x10 "tree and pragmatics") (Writings JOB.26.10, JPS 1917)[↗](../../describe/#x10 "tree and pragmatics") · And ye shall describe the land into seven portions, and bring the description hither to me; and I will cast lots for you here before the LORD our God.[↗](../../describe/#x11 "tree and pragmatics") (Prophets JOS.18.6, JPS 1917)[↗](../../describe/#x11 "tree and pragmatics") · And the men went and passed through the land, and described it by cities into seven portions in a book, and they came to Joshua unto the camp at Shiloh.[↗](../../describe/#x12 "tree and pragmatics") (Prophets JOS.18.9, JPS 1917)[↗](../../describe/#x12 "tree and pragmatics") **description** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* A description is words that tell what someone or something is like — how it looks, sounds, feels or behaves.[↗](../../description/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* A description is the act of describing.[↗](../../description/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 3:* A description can also mean a kind or sort of person or thing.[↗](../../description/#m3 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* Write a description of your favourite place.[↗](../../description/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · She gave the police a description of the man.[↗](../../description/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · The book has a lovely description of the sea.[↗](../../description/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · The puppy fits the description of the lost dog.[↗](../../description/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · His description of the storm made me shiver.[↗](../../description/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · Add a description under each picture.[↗](../../description/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") · The view was beautiful beyond description.[↗](../../description/#x7 "tree and pragmatics") · Here lies a maiden of another description.[↗](../../description/#x8 "tree and pragmatics") · And ye shall describe the land into seven portions, and bring the description hither to me; and I will cast lots for you here before the LORD our God.[↗](../../description/#x9 "tree and pragmatics") (Prophets JOS.18.6, JPS 1917)[↗](../../description/#x9 "tree and pragmatics") **descriptive** — *In Jewish tradition, meaning 1:* Telling what something is like.[↗](../../descriptive/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* The tongue is, as it were, the descriptive pen of all the spiritual issues, and the genital parts are the originators of the corporeal substances.[↗](../../descriptive/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") (Sefer Yetzirah, Kalisch 1877)[↗](../../descriptive/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") **descriptor** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* A word or phrase that describes something or tells you what kind of thing it is.[↗](../../descriptor/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* (formal, school) A sentence that explains what a pupil must show to reach a level or grade in a mark scheme.[↗](../../descriptor/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 3:* (computing) A label or piece of data that describes a file or item.[↗](../../descriptor/#m3 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* «Spooky» is a good descriptor for the old house.[↗](../../descriptor/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · Pick three descriptors for your main character.[↗](../../descriptor/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · The teacher read us the descriptors for each grade.[↗](../../descriptor/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · (formal) Candidates should consult the assessment descriptors.[↗](../../descriptor/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · «Large» and «huge» are both size descriptors.[↗](../../descriptor/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · (computing) Each file has a descriptor that tells the computer its type.[↗](../../descriptor/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") **desert** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* A desert (DEZ-ert) is a large area of land that gets very little rain, so few plants grow; it may be sandy, rocky, hot or cold.[↗](../../desert/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* To desert (di-ZURT) someone or somewhere is to leave and not come back, when you should stay.[↗](../../desert/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 3:* A deserted place has nobody in it.[↗](../../desert/#m3 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* The Sahara is a huge hot desert.[↗](../../desert/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · Cacti grow in the desert.[↗](../../desert/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · Camels can go days without water in the desert.[↗](../../desert/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · Antarctica is a cold desert.[↗](../../desert/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · Take lots of water when you visit the desert.[↗](../../desert/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · The soldier deserted his post.[↗](../../desert/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") · The beach was deserted in winter.[↗](../../desert/#x7 "tree and pragmatics") · Imagine you are on a desert island.[↗](../../desert/#x8 "tree and pragmatics") · Now the desert lies behind them.[↗](../../desert/#x9 "tree and pragmatics") · And Balak took Balaam unto the top of Peor, that looketh down upon the desert.[↗](../../desert/#x10 "tree and pragmatics") (Torah NUM.23.28, JPS 1917)[↗](../../desert/#x10 "tree and pragmatics") · and from Bamoth to the valley that is in the field of Moab, by the top of Pisgah, which looketh down upon the desert.[↗](../../desert/#x11 "tree and pragmatics") (Torah NUM.21.20, JPS 1917)[↗](../../desert/#x11 "tree and pragmatics") · He found him in a desert land, and in the waste, a howling wilderness; He compassed him about, He cared for him, He kept him as the apple of His eye.[↗](../../desert/#x12 "tree and pragmatics") (Torah DEU.32.10, JPS 1917)[↗](../../desert/#x12 "tree and pragmatics") · But lusted exceedingly in the wilderness, and tried God in the desert.[↗](../../desert/#x13 "tree and pragmatics") (Writings PSA.106.14, JPS 1917)[↗](../../desert/#x13 "tree and pragmatics") · I will even make a way in the wilderness, and rivers in the desert.[↗](../../desert/#x14 "tree and pragmatics") (Prophets ISA.43.19, JPS 1917)[↗](../../desert/#x14 "tree and pragmatics") · They wandered in the wilderness in a desert way; they found no city of habitation.[↗](../../desert/#x15 "tree and pragmatics") (Writings PSA.107.4, JPS 1917)[↗](../../desert/#x15 "tree and pragmatics") **deserter** — *In Jewish tradition, meaning 1:* A person who leaves his own side and goes over to the enemy.[↗](../../deserter/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* Then Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard carried away captive into Babylon the remnant of the people that remained in the city, the deserters also, that fell away to him, with the rest of the people that remained.[↗](../../deserter/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") (Prophets JER.39.9, JPS 1917)[↗](../../deserter/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") **deserve** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* If you deserve something, you should get it because of what you have done or what you are like.[↗](../../deserve/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* It can be used for good things (a reward) or bad things (a punishment).[↗](../../deserve/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* You've tidied your room, so you deserve a treat.[↗](../../deserve/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · She deserved the prize for her amazing painting.[↗](../../deserve/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · Everyone deserves to be treated kindly.[↗](../../deserve/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · The team played well and deserved to win.[↗](../../deserve/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · Nobody deserves to be bullied.[↗](../../deserve/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · What did I do to deserve this?[↗](../../deserve/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") · After a long walk, we deserved a rest.[↗](../../deserve/#x7 "tree and pragmatics") · And I deserve it, as usual\![↗](../../deserve/#x8 "tree and pragmatics") · then it shall be, if the wicked man deserve to be beaten, that the judge shall cause him to lie down, and to be beaten before his face, according to the measure of his wickedness, by number.[↗](../../deserve/#x9 "tree and pragmatics") (Torah DEU.25.2, JPS 1917)[↗](../../deserve/#x9 "tree and pragmatics") · As the LORD liveth, ye deserve to die, because ye have not kept watch over your lord, the LORD'S anointed.[↗](../../deserve/#x10 "tree and pragmatics") (Prophets 1SA.26.16, JPS 1917)[↗](../../deserve/#x10 "tree and pragmatics") · For all my father's house were deserving of death at the hand of my lord the king; yet didst thou set thy servant among them that did eat at thine own table.[↗](../../deserve/#x11 "tree and pragmatics") (Prophets 2SA.19.29, JPS 1917)[↗](../../deserve/#x11 "tree and pragmatics") · And after all that is come upon us for our evil deeds, and for our great guilt, seeing that Thou our God hast punished us less than our iniquities deserve, and hast given us such a remnant, (Writings EZR.9.13, JPS 1917)[↗](../../deserve/#x12 "tree and pragmatics") **deservedly** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* Rightly, because someone has earned it or deserves it.[↗](../../deservedly/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* The team won deservedly after hard practice.[↗](../../deservedly/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · She was deservedly proud of her painting.[↗](../../deservedly/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · He was deservedly rewarded for his kindness.[↗](../../deservedly/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") **desiccate** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* To desiccate something is to remove all the water from it so it becomes completely dry.[↗](../../desiccate/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* Desiccated (adjective) means completely dried out; desiccated coconut is dried, shredded coconut for baking.[↗](../../desiccate/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* Sprinkle desiccated coconut on top of the cake.[↗](../../desiccate/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · The hot wind desiccated the crops.[↗](../../desiccate/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · Silica gel packets desiccate the air in a shoe box.[↗](../../desiccate/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · The desiccated leaves crumbled in my hand.[↗](../../desiccate/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · Egyptians desiccated bodies with salt to make mummies.[↗](../../desiccate/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · Drought desiccates the soil until it cracks.[↗](../../desiccate/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/english/D/) … [19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/english/D/page/19/) **20** [21](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/english/D/page/21/) … [62](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/english/D/page/62/) - ← previous: [page 19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/english/D/page/19/) - next →: [page 21](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/english/D/page/21/) - ↑ back to [The English dictionary](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/english/)