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**digest** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* To digest food means to break it down in the stomach and intestines so the body can use it for energy and growth.[↗](../../digest/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* To digest information means to think about it carefully until you understand it.[↗](../../digest/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 3:* A digest is a short collection or summary of news or writing.[↗](../../digest/#m3 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* The stomach helps us digest our food.[↗](../../digest/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · Chew well to help your body digest.[↗](../../digest/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · Snakes can take days to digest a big meal.[↗](../../digest/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · It took me a while to digest the news.[↗](../../digest/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · Fibre in fruit and vegetables helps digestion.[↗](../../digest/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · A cow has four parts to its stomach to digest grass.[↗](../../digest/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") · The magazine has a digest of the week's news.[↗](../../digest/#x7 "tree and pragmatics") · Crimthann absorbed instruction like a sponge and digested it as rapidly.[↗](../../digest/#x8 "tree and pragmatics")

**digestion** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* The process in the body that breaks food down into tiny parts the body can take in and use.[↗](../../digestion/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* The body's ability to do this.[↗](../../digestion/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* Digestion starts when you chew food in your mouth.[↗](../../digestion/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · Saliva helps digestion by making food soft.[↗](../../digestion/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · The stomach uses acid for digestion.[↗](../../digestion/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · Fibre from fruit and vegetables is good for digestion.[↗](../../digestion/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · Food takes many hours to pass through the whole digestive system.[↗](../../digestion/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · Some people have trouble with digestion of milk.[↗](../../digestion/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") · A cow has four parts to its stomach for the digestion of grass.[↗](../../digestion/#x7 "tree and pragmatics") · The idea that you must wait an hour to swim after eating is a myth.[↗](../../digestion/#x8 "tree and pragmatics")

**digestive** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* Digestive means to do with digestion, the way the body breaks down food so it can use it.[↗](../../digestive/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* The digestive system is the set of body parts, from mouth to stomach to intestines, that digests food.[↗](../../digestive/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 3:* (UK, Ireland, Australia) A digestive (digestive biscuit) is a plain, slightly sweet, round wholemeal biscuit, often dunked in tea.[↗](../../digestive/#m3 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* Food travels through the digestive system.[↗](../../digestive/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · Your stomach is part of your digestive system.[↗](../../digestive/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · Gran always has a digestive with her cup of tea.[↗](../../digestive/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · Saliva starts the digestive process in your mouth.[↗](../../digestive/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · I dunked my digestive and half of it fell in the tea.[↗](../../digestive/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · Fibre is good for your digestive health.[↗](../../digestive/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") · Can I have a chocolate digestive?[↗](../../digestive/#x7 "tree and pragmatics")

**digged** — *Early Modern English, meaning 1:* Made a hole in the ground by digging.[↗](../../digged/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* And they digged another well, and they strove for that also.[↗](../../digged/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") (Torah GEN.26.21, JPS 1917) · Then meseemed that if I digged I should find beneath that tree a great treasure.[↗](../../digged/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") (More English Fairy Tales) · And Isaac's servants digged in the valley, and found there a well of living water.[↗](../../digged/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") (Torah GEN.26.19, JPS 1917)

**digger** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* A digger is a large machine with a big metal bucket on an arm, used for digging holes and moving earth.[↗](../../digger/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* A digger is also a person or animal that digs.[↗](../../digger/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* The digger scooped up a big pile of earth.[↗](../../digger/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · My little brother plays with his toy digger in the sandpit.[↗](../../digger/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · Moles are excellent diggers.[↗](../../digger/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · We watched the digger dig a hole for the new pool.[↗](../../digger/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · The digger driver waved to us.[↗](../../digger/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · Keep away from the digger while it is working.[↗](../../digger/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") · Wombats are strong diggers.[↗](../../digger/#x7 "tree and pragmatics")

**digging** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* The action of making a hole in the ground or moving earth, with a spade, hands, paws or a machine.[↗](../../digging/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* Searching hard for something.[↗](../../digging/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *e.g.* "digging for information".[↗](../../digging/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* The dog is digging in the garden again.[↗](../../digging/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · We spent the afternoon digging at the beach.[↗](../../digging/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · Scientists are digging for dinosaur bones.[↗](../../digging/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · Digging deep holes in sand can be dangerous.[↗](../../digging/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · Grandad is digging a vegetable patch.[↗](../../digging/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · Keep digging until you find the answer.[↗](../../digging/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") · be it known unto the king, that the Jews that came up from thee are come to us unto Jerusalem; they are building the rebellious and the bad city, and have finished the walls, and are digging out the foundations.[↗](../../digging/#x7 "tree and pragmatics") (Writings EZR.4.12, JPS 1917)[↗](../../digging/#x7 "tree and pragmatics")

**digit** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* A digit is one of the ten signs 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 and 9 that we use to write numbers.[↗](../../digit/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") The number 47 has two digits.[↗](../../digit/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* A digit is also a finger or a toe.[↗](../../digit/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 3:* «Digital» things work with numbers inside, like computers and digital clocks.[↗](../../digit/#m3 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* Write the largest two-digit number.[↗](../../digit/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · The tens digit of 58 is 5.[↗](../../digit/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · Make a three-digit number using the digits 3, 7 and 1.[↗](../../digit/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · What is the sum of the digits of 246?[↗](../../digit/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · My PIN has four digits.[↗](../../digit/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · The temperature is in single digits today.[↗](../../digit/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") · Humans have five digits on each hand.[↗](../../digit/#x7 "tree and pragmatics") · A digital clock shows the time as digits.[↗](../../digit/#x8 "tree and pragmatics") · It should probably be understood on one level as a reference to the ten digits of the decimal numeral system, though as we shall see, these Sefirot Belimah are imbued with metaphysical significance beyond mere numerals.[↗](../../digit/#x9 "tree and pragmatics") (Sefer Yetzirah, Sefaria community translation)[↗](../../digit/#x9 "tree and pragmatics") · 7) Like Pythagoras, who taught that the digits inclusive number ten which are typified in Tetraktys, (Τετρακτὺς) namely: 1 plus 2 plus 3 plus 4 equal 10, and which comprise the whole arithmetical system of nature, etc. (Sefer Yetzirah, Kalisch 1877)[↗](../../digit/#x10 "tree and pragmatics") · may say that tlie numeral system of the Sefer Yetzirah, con- sists of nine digits and the zero.[↗](../../digit/#x11 "tree and pragmatics") (Mordell, The Origin of Letters and Numerals according to Sefer Yetzirah (1914))[↗](../../digit/#x11 "tree and pragmatics")

**digital** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* Using electronic signals and computers to store, send or show information as numbers (ones and zeros): «digital camera», «digital TV».[↗](../../digital/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* Showing information as numbers on a screen rather than with hands or a pointer: «a digital clock».[↗](../../digital/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 3:* (formal, maths) To do with digits, the numbers 0 to 9.[↗](../../digital/#m3 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 4:* (medical) To do with the fingers or toes.[↗](../../digital/#m4 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* I can read the time on a digital clock.[↗](../../digital/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · We took digital photos on the trip.[↗](../../digital/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · Your digital footprint is everything you post online.[↗](../../digital/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · The library has digital books you can borrow.[↗](../../digital/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · A digital thermometer shows the temperature in numbers.[↗](../../digital/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · Our class learned about digital safety.[↗](../../digital/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") · The shop went digital and now sells online.[↗](../../digital/#x7 "tree and pragmatics") · Interested readers can check the 1562 Mantua edition for themselves through the digital archives of the National Library of Israel: nli.org.il/he/books/NNLALEPH990012793690205171/NLI.[↗](../../digital/#x8 "tree and pragmatics") (Sefer Yetzirah, Sefaria community translation)[↗](../../digital/#x8 "tree and pragmatics") · This is a digital copy of a book that was preserved for generations on library shelves before it was carefully scanned by Google as part of a project to make the world's books discoverable online.[↗](../../digital/#x9 "tree and pragmatics") (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1893)[↗](../../digital/#x9 "tree and pragmatics")

**digitalis** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* A medicine made from the foxglove plant, used by doctors to make a weak heart beat more strongly and steadily.[↗](../../digitalis/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* The foxglove plant itself, a tall plant with purple or white bell-shaped flowers.[↗](../../digitalis/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* Digitalis comes from the foxglove plant.[↗](../../digitalis/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · Doctors used digitalis to help patients with weak hearts.[↗](../../digitalis/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · Foxgloves are also called digitalis in gardening books.[↗](../../digitalis/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · Every part of the digitalis plant is poisonous.[↗](../../digitalis/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · The scientist measured the right dose of digitalis carefully.[↗](../../digitalis/#x5 "tree and pragmatics")

**digitize** — *In Jewish tradition, meaning 1:* To change something such as a book into a form that a computer can store and show.[↗](../../digitize/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* Google is proud to partner with libraries to digitize public domain materials and make them widely accessible.[↗](../../digitize/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1893)[↗](../../digitize/#x1 "tree and pragmatics")

**dignified** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* Calm, serious and behaving in a way that makes people respect you.[↗](../../dignified/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* Looking important and stately: «a dignified old building».[↗](../../dignified/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* The old judge walked in a slow, dignified way.[↗](../../dignified/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · She kept a dignified silence when they teased her.[↗](../../dignified/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · The losing team gave a dignified speech.[↗](../../dignified/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · The cat sat on the wall looking very dignified.[↗](../../dignified/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · The hospital makes sure patients are treated in a dignified way.[↗](../../dignified/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · It's hard to look dignified when you fall in a puddle.[↗](../../dignified/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") · The Monkey sat up, grave and dignified, on the Dolphin's back.[↗](../../dignified/#x7 "tree and pragmatics")

**dignitary** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* A dignitary is an important person who holds a high rank or office, such as a judge, bishop or senior official.[↗](../../dignitary/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* The mayor and other dignitaries sat at the front.[↗](../../dignitary/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · He thought I was one of the court dignitaries.[↗](../../dignitary/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · The dignitary arrived with a long train of servants.[↗](../../dignitary/#x3 "tree and pragmatics")

**dignity** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* Dignity is the worth that every person has, which means they should be treated with respect.[↗](../../dignity/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* Dignity is a calm, serious and proud way of behaving, even in hard times.[↗](../../dignity/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 3:* Self-respect: feeling that you matter.[↗](../../dignity/#m3 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* Every person deserves to be treated with dignity.[↗](../../dignity/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · She lost the race but shook hands with dignity.[↗](../../dignity/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · The nurses helped Grandpa keep his dignity in hospital.[↗](../../dignity/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · Laughing at someone who fell takes away their dignity.[↗](../../dignity/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · The old king walked with great dignity.[↗](../../dignity/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · Slipping on the ice, I lost all my dignity\![↗](../../dignity/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") (joking)[↗](../../dignity/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") · "Daddy who?" asked Uncle Remus, straightening himself up with dignity.[↗](../../dignity/#x7 "tree and pragmatics") · Reuben, thou art my first-born, my might, and the first-fruits of my strength; the excellency of dignity, and the excellency of power.[↗](../../dignity/#x8 "tree and pragmatics") (Torah GEN.49.3, JPS 1917)[↗](../../dignity/#x8 "tree and pragmatics") · Strength and dignity are her clothing; and she laugheth at the time to come.[↗](../../dignity/#x9 "tree and pragmatics") (Writings PRO.31.25, JPS 1917)[↗](../../dignity/#x9 "tree and pragmatics") · And the king said: 'What honour and dignity hath been done to Mordecai for this?'[↗](../../dignity/#x10 "tree and pragmatics") Then said the king's servants that ministered unto him: 'There is nothing done for him.'[↗](../../dignity/#x10 "tree and pragmatics") (Writings EST.6.3, JPS 1917)[↗](../../dignity/#x10 "tree and pragmatics")

**digraph** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* Two letters that together make one sound, such as sh in «ship», ch in «chip», th in «thin», ee in «see» and ai in «rain».[↗](../../digraph/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* «Sh» is a digraph in the word «fish».[↗](../../digraph/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · Find the digraph in «boat».[↗](../../digraph/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") It's «oa».[↗](../../digraph/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · «Ph» in «phone» is a digraph that sounds like f.[↗](../../digraph/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · The split digraph i-e makes «bike» say its name.[↗](../../digraph/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · Underline every digraph in the sentence.[↗](../../digraph/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · «Th» can sound different in «this» and «thin».[↗](../../digraph/#x6 "tree and pragmatics")

**dike** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* A dike is a long bank of earth or stone built to keep the sea or a river from flooding the land; it is the same as a dyke.[↗](../../dike/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* (old use) A dike can also be a ditch dug to drain water from land.[↗](../../dike/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* The farmers built a high dike to keep out the sea.[↗](../../dike/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · She came to the dike and called out.[↗](../../dike/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · The mother sat on the dike and wailed for her child.[↗](../../dike/#x3 "tree and pragmatics")

**dilapidated** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* Dilapidated means old, falling to pieces and in need of repair.[↗](../../dilapidated/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* The dilapidated barn had a broken roof.[↗](../../dilapidated/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · We found a dilapidated dovecot in the old garden.[↗](../../dilapidated/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · Ivy grew over the dilapidated walls.[↗](../../dilapidated/#x3 "tree and pragmatics")

**dilate** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* To become wider or bigger, especially an opening in the body.[↗](../../dilate/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* The pupils of your eyes dilate (get bigger) in the dark so more light can come in.[↗](../../dilate/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 3:* (medicine) A doctor may use drops to dilate your pupils to look inside your eyes.[↗](../../dilate/#m3 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 4:* (formal, rare) To talk or write at length about something.[↗](../../dilate/#m4 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* Your pupils dilate when you walk into a dark room.[↗](../../dilate/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · The optician put drops in my eyes to dilate them.[↗](../../dilate/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · When you are hot, blood vessels in your skin dilate.[↗](../../dilate/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · Cat's eyes dilate into big black circles at night.[↗](../../dilate/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · Watch a friend's eyes dilate when you turn off the light.[↗](../../dilate/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · The nurse checked whether the patient's pupils were dilated.[↗](../../dilate/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") · The opposite of dilate is constrict.[↗](../../dilate/#x7 "tree and pragmatics")

**dilemma** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* A dilemma is a hard choice between two (or more) options when each one has a bad side, so it is hard to know what is right.[↗](../../dilemma/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* (ethics) A moral dilemma is a choice where two good rules pull against each other, like being honest and being kind.[↗](../../dilemma/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* I had a dilemma: go to my best friend's party or my cousin's.[↗](../../dilemma/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · Telling the truth would hurt Sam's feelings — it was a real dilemma.[↗](../../dilemma/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · The class argued about a moral dilemma for an hour.[↗](../../dilemma/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · The hero's dilemma was to save the town or save his dog.[↗](../../dilemma/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · Mum faced a dilemma: work late or see my concert.[↗](../../dilemma/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · Our team won the ethics olympiad by explaining the dilemma clearly.[↗](../../dilemma/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") · This question placed Iwanich in a dilemma.[↗](../../dilemma/#x7 "tree and pragmatics")

**diligence** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* Diligence is careful, steady, hard work that keeps going until the job is done properly.[↗](../../diligence/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* (law, business) Due diligence is checking something carefully before making a big decision, such as buying a company or a house.[↗](../../diligence/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 3:* (history) A diligence was also a stagecoach in France and nearby countries long ago.[↗](../../diligence/#m3 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* Her diligence paid off when she finally learned her times tables.[↗](../../diligence/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · The teacher praised Sam's diligence in checking every sum.[↗](../../diligence/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · Ants are famous for their diligence.[↗](../../diligence/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · With diligence, the team finished the model in time.[↗](../../diligence/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · The bank did its due diligence before lending the money.[↗](../../diligence/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · He showed great diligence in practising the piano every day.[↗](../../diligence/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") · The travellers rode a diligence across France in the old story.[↗](../../diligence/#x7 "tree and pragmatics") · Little by little his diligence was rewarded.[↗](../../diligence/#x8 "tree and pragmatics") · I Darius have made a decree; let it be done with all diligence.'[↗](../../diligence/#x9 "tree and pragmatics") (Writings EZR.6.12, JPS 1917)[↗](../../diligence/#x9 "tree and pragmatics") · Then Tattenai, the governor beyond the River, Shethar-bozenai, and their companions, because that Darius the king had thus sent, acted with all diligence.[↗](../../diligence/#x10 "tree and pragmatics") (Writings EZR.6.13, JPS 1917)[↗](../../diligence/#x10 "tree and pragmatics") · therefore thou shalt with all diligence buy with this money bullocks, rams, lambs, with their meal-offerings and their drink-offerings, and shalt offer them upon the altar of the house of your God which is in Jerusalem.[↗](../../diligence/#x11 "tree and pragmatics") (Writings EZR.7.17, JPS 1917)[↗](../../diligence/#x11 "tree and pragmatics")

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