--- title: D — The English dictionary with trees and pragmatics · page 27 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/27/) [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 27 [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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*Everyday, meaning 1:* A dialect is a form of a language spoken in a particular area or by a particular group, with its own words, grammar and pronunciation.[↗](../../dialect/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* My grandad speaks a strong Yorkshire dialect.[↗](../../dialect/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · In some dialects, «wee» means small.[↗](../../dialect/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · The book's characters speak in dialect.[↗](../../dialect/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · Every region has its own dialect words.[↗](../../dialect/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · Standard English is used in most school writing.[↗](../../dialect/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · The children laughed at the funny dialect word for «bread roll».[↗](../../dialect/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") · American English and British English differ like dialects.[↗](../../dialect/#x7 "tree and pragmatics") · I have modified the dialect and changed “Mally” into “Molly.”[↗](../../dialect/#x8 "tree and pragmatics") **dialogue** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* Dialogue is the words that characters speak to each other in a story, play or film.[↗](../../dialogue/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* A dialogue is a conversation between two or more people.[↗](../../dialogue/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 3:* Dialogue is a formal talk between groups or countries to solve a problem.[↗](../../dialogue/#m3 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* Put inverted commas around the dialogue.[↗](../../dialogue/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · Start a new line each time someone new speaks in your dialogue.[↗](../../dialogue/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · The film's dialogue is very funny.[↗](../../dialogue/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · The two countries began a dialogue about peace.[↗](../../dialogue/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · Click OK in the dialogue box.[↗](../../dialogue/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · We acted out a dialogue between a shopkeeper and a customer.[↗](../../dialogue/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") **diameter** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* A straight line going from one side of a circle to the other, passing through the centre.[↗](../../diameter/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* The length of that line; how wide a circle or round thing is.[↗](../../diameter/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* The diameter of the circle is 10 cm.[↗](../../diameter/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · The radius is half the diameter.[↗](../../diameter/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · The Earth's diameter is about 12,700 km.[↗](../../diameter/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · Measure the diameter of the pizza.[↗](../../diameter/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · The pipe is 5 cm in diameter.[↗](../../diameter/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · The circumference is pi times the diameter.[↗](../../diameter/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") · She was three feet and a half in diameter, and made of the very best gunpowder.[↗](../../diameter/#x7 "tree and pragmatics") **diametrically** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* Completely; as different as two things can be, used mostly in «diametrically opposed» or «diametrically opposite».[↗](../../diametrically/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* (maths) In the position of the two ends of a diameter: straight across a circle through the centre.[↗](../../diametrically/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* Their views on homework are diametrically opposed.[↗](../../diametrically/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · The two teams have diametrically opposite styles of play.[↗](../../diametrically/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · Mark two points diametrically opposite each other on the circle.[↗](../../diametrically/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · (maths) Twelve and six on a clock face are diametrically opposite.[↗](../../diametrically/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · (formal) The two reports reached diametrically opposed conclusions.[↗](../../diametrically/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") **diamond** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* A diamond is a very hard, clear, sparkling precious stone.[↗](../../diamond/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* A diamond is a shape with four equal sides standing on one of its corners, like ◊ — in maths called a rhombus.[↗](../../diamond/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 3:* Diamonds is one of the four suits in a pack of cards, with red ◊ shapes.[↗](../../diamond/#m3 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 4:* In baseball, the diamond is the field with four bases.[↗](../../diamond/#m4 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 5:* Informally, calling someone a diamond means they are a kind, good person.[↗](../../diamond/#m5 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* She wore a ring with a small diamond.[↗](../../diamond/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · Diamond is the hardest natural material on Earth.[↗](../../diamond/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · Draw a diamond with four equal sides.[↗](../../diamond/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · I picked the queen of diamonds.[↗](../../diamond/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · The kite was shaped like a diamond.[↗](../../diamond/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · Diamonds are dug out of the ground in mines.[↗](../../diamond/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") · The players ran around the baseball diamond.[↗](../../diamond/#x7 "tree and pragmatics") · ‘No doubt you are a diamond?’[↗](../../diamond/#x8 "tree and pragmatics") · The sin of Judah is written with a pen of iron, and with the point of a diamond; it is graven upon the tablet of their heart, and upon the horns of your altars.[↗](../../diamond/#x9 "tree and pragmatics") (Prophets JER.17.1, JPS 1917)[↗](../../diamond/#x9 "tree and pragmatics") **diamondback** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* A diamondback rattlesnake: a large, very venomous American rattlesnake with a pattern of diamond shapes along its back and a rattle on its tail.[↗](../../diamondback/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* A diamondback terrapin: a small turtle with diamond-shaped patterns on its shell that lives in salty marshes along the east coast of the USA.[↗](../../diamondback/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 3:* Any animal with diamond shapes on its back, for example the diamondback moth, a small pest of cabbages.[↗](../../diamondback/#m3 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* A diamondback rattlesnake lay coiled in the shade of a rock.[↗](../../diamondback/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · The diamondback shook its rattle to warn the hikers away.[↗](../../diamondback/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · Diamondbacks are the largest rattlesnakes in North America.[↗](../../diamondback/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · The ranger told us to back away slowly from the diamondback.[↗](../../diamondback/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · A diamondback terrapin was sunning itself on the muddy bank.[↗](../../diamondback/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · The terrapin's shell has a pattern like little diamonds.[↗](../../diamondback/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") · Diamondback moth caterpillars had eaten holes in the cabbages.[↗](../../diamondback/#x7 "tree and pragmatics") · In the zoo's reptile house we saw a western diamondback behind thick glass.[↗](../../diamondback/#x8 "tree and pragmatics") **diaphragm** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* The diaphragm is a large, flat, dome-shaped muscle under your lungs that helps you breathe.[↗](../../diaphragm/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* A diaphragm is a thin sheet or disc that moves or vibrates, such as in a microphone or speaker.[↗](../../diaphragm/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* The diaphragm helps the lungs fill with air.[↗](../../diaphragm/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · When you breathe in, your diaphragm moves down.[↗](../../diaphragm/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · Hiccups are sudden jumps of the diaphragm.[↗](../../diaphragm/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · Singers learn to breathe using their diaphragm.[↗](../../diaphragm/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · The diaphragm sits between the chest and the stomach.[↗](../../diaphragm/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · A microphone has a thin diaphragm that shakes when you speak.[↗](../../diaphragm/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") · Man is a microcosm, as the neck separates rationality from vitality, so does diaphragm the vitality from the vegetativeness.[↗](../../diaphragm/#x7 "tree and pragmatics") (Sefer Yetzirah, Kalisch 1877)[↗](../../diaphragm/#x7 "tree and pragmatics") **diarrhoea** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* Diarrhoea is an illness or condition in which a person has to go to the toilet very often, and the poo is runny and watery.[↗](../../diarrhoea/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* She stayed home from school with diarrhoea.[↗](../../diarrhoea/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · Wash your hands to stop germs that cause diarrhoea.[↗](../../diarrhoea/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · Drink lots of water if you have diarrhoea.[↗](../../diarrhoea/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · The baby had diarrhoea, so the parents called the doctor.[↗](../../diarrhoea/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · Bad food can give you sickness and diarrhoea.[↗](../../diarrhoea/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · Dirty water can cause diarrhoea.[↗](../../diarrhoea/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") **diary** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* A diary is a book where you write what happens each day and how you feel.[↗](../../diary/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* A diary is also a book or calendar where you write plans and appointments.[↗](../../diary/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* She writes 2 pages in her diary every day.[↗](../../diary/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · The diary has 120 pages.[↗](../../diary/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · How many days until the diary is full?[↗](../../diary/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · He bought 3 diaries.[↗](../../diary/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · Write a diary entry about your weekend.[↗](../../diary/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · I keep a diary with a lock.[↗](../../diary/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") · We kept a diary of the bean plant's growth.[↗](../../diary/#x7 "tree and pragmatics") · Anne Frank wrote a famous diary.[↗](../../diary/#x8 "tree and pragmatics") · The General's lady kept a diary, and in this diary was recorded every ball she attended and every visit she received.[↗](../../diary/#x9 "tree and pragmatics") **diatom** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* A tiny one-celled living thing, a kind of algae, that lives in water and has a glassy shell made of silica.[↗](../../diatom/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* (science) diatoms make a large part of the oxygen we breathe and are food for many sea animals.[↗](../../diatom/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* Under the microscope, the diatom looked like a tiny glass jewel.[↗](../../diatom/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · Diatoms float in oceans, lakes and rivers.[↗](../../diatom/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · Diatoms make oxygen using sunlight, like plants.[↗](../../diatom/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · Small sea creatures eat diatoms.[↗](../../diatom/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · Our class drew different diatom shapes: circles, boats and stars.[↗](../../diatom/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · Old diatom shells pile up on the sea floor over millions of years.[↗](../../diatom/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") · Scientists study diatoms to learn how clean a river is.[↗](../../diatom/#x7 "tree and pragmatics") **dibs** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* (slang) A claim to have or do something first: if you say «Dibs on the front seat!», you mean you get it.[↗](../../dibs/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* (slang, UK, old) Money.[↗](../../dibs/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* Dibs on the window seat\![↗](../../dibs/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · I called dibs on the last slice of pizza.[↗](../../dibs/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · You can't have it, Ellie already has dibs.[↗](../../dibs/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · Dibs on going first\![↗](../../dibs/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · Who's got dibs on the top bunk?[↗](../../dibs/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · He shouted «dibs!» before anyone else could.[↗](../../dibs/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") **dice** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* Dice are small cubes with dots from 1 to 6 on their sides, used in games.[↗](../../dice/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") A dice has 6 faces.[↗](../../dice/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* One is properly a die, two or more are dice, but many people say «a dice».[↗](../../dice/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 3:* To dice food is to cut it into small cubes.[↗](../../dice/#m3 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* She rolled two dice and got 4 and 5.[↗](../../dice/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · What is the biggest sum of two dice?[↗](../../dice/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · A dice has 6 faces.[↗](../../dice/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · He rolled the dice 10 times.[↗](../../dice/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · Roll the dice to start the game.[↗](../../dice/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · The chance of rolling a 6 is 1 in 6.[↗](../../dice/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") · Dice the onion into small pieces.[↗](../../dice/#x7 "tree and pragmatics") · We played a dice game in maths.[↗](../../dice/#x8 "tree and pragmatics") · "An' what are you doing with that box and dice I see in your hand?"[↗](../../dice/#x9 "tree and pragmatics") **dick** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* (a name) Dick is an old short form of the name Richard, as in Dick Whittington.[↗](../../dick/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* (rude, slang) A rude word for a man's private part, the penis.[↗](../../dick/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 3:* (rude, slang) A rude insult for a mean or annoying person.[↗](../../dick/#m3 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 4:* (old US slang) A detective («private dick»).[↗](../../dick/#m4 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* Dick Whittington went to London with his cat.[↗](../../dick/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · We watched the pantomime of Dick Whittington.[↗](../../dick/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · «Moby-Dick» is a story about a white whale.[↗](../../dick/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · In the old book, Dick and Jane go shopping.[↗](../../dick/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · The detective was called a private dick in old films.[↗](../../dick/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · Calling someone a dick is rude and not allowed in class.[↗](../../dick/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") · Dick heard him, and came into the room.[↗](../../dick/#x7 "tree and pragmatics") **dickens** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* Charles Dickens was a famous English writer of long novels, such as «Oliver Twist», «A Christmas Carol» and «Great Expectations».[↗](../../dickens/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* (old-fashioned, mild) «The dickens» is a gentle word for the devil, used to show surprise or annoyance, as in «What the dickens is that?».[↗](../../dickens/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 3:* A Dickens novel or Dickens's world can mean a picture of poor, dirty, crowded old city streets.[↗](../../dickens/#m3 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* Our class is reading «A Christmas Carol» by Charles Dickens.[↗](../../dickens/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · Dickens wrote about poor children working in London.[↗](../../dickens/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · Scrooge is one of Dickens's most famous characters.[↗](../../dickens/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · What the dickens is all that noise?[↗](../../dickens/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") (old-fashioned)[↗](../../dickens/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · Grandpa said the puppy was as cute as the dickens.[↗](../../dickens/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") (US, old-fashioned)[↗](../../dickens/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · The old workhouse looked like something out of Dickens.[↗](../../dickens/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") · We watched a play of «Oliver Twist», a Dickens story.[↗](../../dickens/#x7 "tree and pragmatics") · "What the dickens," said the squire, "do you mean by lying in the middle of the road like that?"[↗](../../dickens/#x8 "tree and pragmatics") **dictation** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* Dictation is saying words aloud so that someone else can write them down exactly.[↗](../../dictation/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* A dictation can be the passage that is read aloud for pupils to write.[↗](../../dictation/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* We had a spelling dictation today.[↗](../../dictation/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · The prince wrote the letter at the vizier's dictation.[↗](../../dictation/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · Write down every word of the teacher's dictation.[↗](../../dictation/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · Immediately Joseph sat down and wrote down the sefer Yetzirah at the dictation of B'"usy."[↗](../../dictation/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") (Mordell, The Origin of Letters and Numerals according to Sefer Yetzirah (1914))[↗](../../dictation/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · Immediately Joseph sat down and wrote down these words at the dictation of ty"Bsy \[Ben Sira\], and he wrote them in five books on the earth : Sefer Yetzirah, etc." (Mordell, The Origin of Letters and Numerals according to Sefer Yetzirah (1914))[↗](../../dictation/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") **dictator** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* A ruler who has complete power over a country, was usually not fairly elected, and does not allow people to disagree.[↗](../../dictator/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* (informal) Someone who tells others what to do and won't listen.[↗](../../dictator/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* The dictator banned all newspapers that criticised him.[↗](../../dictator/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · In a democracy, people choose their leaders; a dictator does not let them.[↗](../../dictator/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · The people finally overthrew the dictator.[↗](../../dictator/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · My brother acts like a dictator when he holds the TV remote.[↗](../../dictator/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · History has many cruel dictators.[↗](../../dictator/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · A dictator often controls the army and the police.[↗](../../dictator/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") **diction** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* Diction is the way a person chooses and says words, especially how clear or grand their speech or writing is.[↗](../../diction/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* Her diction was so clear that every word could be heard.[↗](../../diction/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · The old book has a stiff, formal diction.[↗](../../diction/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · Good diction helps an actor to be understood.[↗](../../diction/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") **dictionary** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* A dictionary is a book or website that lists words in alphabetical order and tells you what they mean, how to spell and say them.[↗](../../dictionary/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* A book that gives the words of one language in another language, like an English–French dictionary.[↗](../../dictionary/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 3:* (computing) A list of names paired with values in a computer program.[↗](../../dictionary/#m3 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* Look up «enormous» in the dictionary.[↗](../../dictionary/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · Our teacher keeps a big dictionary on her desk.[↗](../../dictionary/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · I used an online dictionary to check the spelling.[↗](../../dictionary/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · She bought a French dictionary for her holiday.[↗](../../dictionary/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · Words in a dictionary are in alphabetical order.[↗](../../dictionary/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · The dictionary says «colour» is spelled «color» in the US.[↗](../../dictionary/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") · My little brother has a picture dictionary.[↗](../../dictionary/#x7 "tree and pragmatics") · The youth who knew the dictionary and newspaper by heart had a black horse, and he who knew all about the corporation laws received a milk-white steed.[↗](../../dictionary/#x8 "tree and pragmatics") · Frey in his dictionary gives ChHM as the plural word, lives, or vitae.[↗](../../dictionary/#x9 "tree and pragmatics") (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1893)[↗](../../dictionary/#x9 "tree and pragmatics") · This passage is explained by Isaac Satanow in his Hebrew Dictionary entitled Sephath Emeth, p. 44, b: (Sefer Yetzirah, Kalisch 1877)[↗](../../dictionary/#x10 "tree and pragmatics") · Bible dictionaries generally give the word as Cherubim, but in Hebrew the initial letter is always K and not Ch.[↗](../../dictionary/#x11 "tree and pragmatics") (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1893)[↗](../../dictionary/#x11 "tree and pragmatics") **diddle** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* (informal, UK) To cheat someone, especially out of money, in a sneaky way.[↗](../../diddle/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* (informal) To waste time or fiddle about with something.[↗](../../diddle/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 3:* In the nursery rhyme «Hey diddle diddle», it is a nonsense sound.[↗](../../diddle/#m3 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* The shop diddled us out of ten pounds.[↗](../../diddle/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · Hey diddle diddle, the cat and the fiddle.[↗](../../diddle/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · Stop diddling about and get ready\![↗](../../diddle/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · I think I've been diddled; this toy is broken.[↗](../../diddle/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · The con man diddled lots of old people.[↗](../../diddle/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · He diddled with the radio knobs.[↗](../../diddle/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/english/D/) … [26](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/english/D/page/26/) **27** [28](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/english/D/page/28/) … [62](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/english/D/page/62/) - ← previous: [page 26](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/english/D/page/26/) - next →: [page 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