--- title: D — The English dictionary with trees and pragmatics · page 50 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/50/) [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 50 [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/) · [E](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/english/E/) · [F](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/english/F/) · [G](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/english/G/) · [H](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/english/H/) · [I](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/english/I/) · [J](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/english/J/) · [K](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/english/K/) · [L](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/english/L/) · [M](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/english/M/) · [N](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/english/N/) · [O](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/english/O/) · [P](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/english/P/) · [Q](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/english/Q/) · [R](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/english/R/) · [S](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/english/S/) · [T](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/english/T/) · [U](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/english/U/) · [V](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/english/V/) · [W](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/english/W/) · [X](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/english/X/) · [Y](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/english/Y/) · [Z](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/english/Z/) [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/english/D/) … [49](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/english/D/page/49/) **50** [51](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/english/D/page/51/) … [62](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/english/D/page/62/) **dorsal** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* (science) Dorsal means on or to do with the back of an animal or the upper side of something.[↗](../../dorsal/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* The dorsal fin is the fin on the back of a fish, shark, dolphin or whale.[↗](../../dorsal/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* The shark's dorsal fin cut through the water.[↗](../../dorsal/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · Dolphins have a curved dorsal fin.[↗](../../dorsal/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · Label the dorsal fin on your fish diagram.[↗](../../dorsal/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · The dorsal side of a frog is green and spotty.[↗](../../dorsal/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · Some whales have a tiny dorsal fin.[↗](../../dorsal/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · The dorsal fin stops the fish from rolling over.[↗](../../dorsal/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") **dorsum** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* (science, anatomy) The back or upper surface of a body part, like the back of the hand or the top of the foot or tongue.[↗](../../dorsum/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* (science) The back of an animal.[↗](../../dorsum/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* The doctor looked at the dorsum of my hand.[↗](../../dorsum/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · The dorsum of the foot is the top side.[↗](../../dorsum/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · The fish has a spiny dorsum.[↗](../../dorsum/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · Label the dorsum and the belly side on the diagram.[↗](../../dorsum/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · The dorsum of the tongue helps us taste food.[↗](../../dorsum/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · A frog has a green dorsum and a pale belly.[↗](../../dorsum/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") **dory** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* A dory is a flat, thin sea fish; the John Dory is one eaten as food.[↗](../../dory/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* A dory is a small, light boat with high sides and a flat bottom, used for fishing.[↗](../../dory/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 3:* Dory is the name of a forgetful blue fish in the animated films Finding Nemo and Finding Dory.[↗](../../dory/#m3 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* We had John Dory and chips at the harbour.[↗](../../dory/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · The John Dory has a dark spot on its side.[↗](../../dory/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · Fishermen rowed out in a dory.[↗](../../dory/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · The dories were stacked on the deck of the big ship.[↗](../../dory/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · Dory keeps forgetting things in the film.[↗](../../dory/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · Just keep swimming, says Dory.[↗](../../dory/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") **dose** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* A dose is the amount of medicine you take at one time.[↗](../../dose/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* A dose of something is an amount of it, like a dose of sunshine or a dose of flu.[↗](../../dose/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 3:* To dose someone means to give them medicine.[↗](../../dose/#m3 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* Take one dose of medicine twice a day.[↗](../../dose/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · Mum checked the dose on the bottle.[↗](../../dose/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · Never take more than the dose on the label.[↗](../../dose/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · The dose for children is smaller than for adults.[↗](../../dose/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · A dose of fresh air will do you good.[↗](../../dose/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · He had a bad dose of flu.[↗](../../dose/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") · The vet dosed the dog with worm medicine.[↗](../../dose/#x7 "tree and pragmatics") · His mother put him to bed, and made some camomile tea; and she gave a dose of it to Peter\![↗](../../dose/#x8 "tree and pragmatics") **dost** — *Early Modern English, meaning 1:* Do something, with "thou" as the subject.[↗](../../dost/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* Thou shalt stand without, and the man to whom thou dost lend shall bring forth the pledge without unto thee.[↗](../../dost/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") (Torah DEU.24.11, JPS 1917) · "What dost thou want with me now?"[↗](../../dost/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") (More English Fairy Tales) · When thou dost lend thy neighbour any manner of loan, thou shalt not go into his house to fetch his pledge.[↗](../../dost/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") (Torah DEU.24.10, JPS 1917) **dot** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* A dot is a very small round mark.[↗](../../dot/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* A dot is the point in a web or email address, said «dot».[↗](../../dot/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 3:* Dotted means with many small marks, or with things scattered here and there.[↗](../../dot/#m3 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* A die shows 5 dots.[↗](../../dot/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · Draw 4 rows of 3 dots.[↗](../../dot/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · How many dots are on the domino?[↗](../../dot/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · Join the dots in order.[↗](../../dot/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · Don't forget the dot on the i.[↗](../../dot/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · She has a dress with white dots.[↗](../../dot/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") · Be there at 3 o'clock on the dot.[↗](../../dot/#x7 "tree and pragmatics") · Houses are dotted along the hill.[↗](../../dot/#x8 "tree and pragmatics") · Then the child was to take the apple and be led into a room where the twenty men with the black dots were sitting in a ring.[↗](../../dot/#x9 "tree and pragmatics") · were also symbolized by ten dots (Mordell, The Origin of Letters and Numerals according to Sefer Yetzirah (1914))[↗](../../dot/#x10 "tree and pragmatics") · The figure 1 originated apparently from a circle and a stroke, and a dot indicated a zero.[↗](../../dot/#x11 "tree and pragmatics") (Mordell, The Origin of Letters and Numerals according to Sefer Yetzirah (1914))[↗](../../dot/#x11 "tree and pragmatics") · And as soon as she saw them she doted upon them, and sent messengers unto them into Chaldea.[↗](../../dot/#x12 "tree and pragmatics") (Prophets EZK.23.16, JPS 1917)[↗](../../dot/#x12 "tree and pragmatics") · And Oholah played the harlot when she was Mine; and she doted on her lovers, on the Assyrians, warriors, (Prophets EZK.23.5, JPS 1917)[↗](../../dot/#x13 "tree and pragmatics") · Wherefore I delivered her into the hand of her lovers, into the hand of the Assyrians, upon whom she doted.[↗](../../dot/#x14 "tree and pragmatics") (Prophets EZK.23.9, JPS 1917)[↗](../../dot/#x14 "tree and pragmatics") **doth** — *Early Modern English, meaning 1:* Does something, with "he" or "she" or "it" as the subject.[↗](../../doth/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* And wherefore doth the LORD bring us unto this land, to fall by the sword?[↗](../../doth/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") (Torah NUM.14.3, JPS 1917) · Under me doth lie Another much richer than I.[↗](../../doth/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") (More English Fairy Tales) · The Third Path is the Sanctifying Intelligence, and is the basis of foundation of Primordial Wisdom, which is called the Former of faith, and its roots, Amen; and it is the parent of Faith, from which virtues doth Faith emanate.[↗](../../doth/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1887) **dotted** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* Dotted means marked with small dots or made of dots, like a dotted line.[↗](../../dotted/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* Dotted with means having small things spread here and there, as in a field dotted with sheep.[↗](../../dotted/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 3:* (music) A dotted note lasts half as long again as the plain note.[↗](../../dotted/#m3 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 4:* Sign on the dotted line means agree to and sign an official paper.[↗](../../dotted/#m4 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* Cut along the dotted line.[↗](../../dotted/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · Trace the dotted letters to practise writing.[↗](../../dotted/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · The hillside was dotted with sheep.[↗](../../dotted/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · Draw a dotted line to show the line of symmetry.[↗](../../dotted/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · Islands are dotted around the coast.[↗](../../dotted/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · A dotted crotchet lasts one and a half beats.[↗](../../dotted/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") · Mum signed on the dotted line to join the gym.[↗](../../dotted/#x7 "tree and pragmatics") · Beneath him lay the meadows, covered with velvety green, with the murmuring river flowing through them, and dotted here and there were small wooden houses.[↗](../../dotted/#x8 "tree and pragmatics") **double** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* To double is to make or become two times as many or as much.[↗](../../double/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* Double as an adjective means two of the same, or twice the size: «a double bed», «double letters».[↗](../../double/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 3:* A double is a person who looks just like someone else.[↗](../../double/#m3 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 4:* In games, a double is two dice showing the same number.[↗](../../double/#m4 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 5:* To be bent double means to be bent over tightly, folded in half at the middle.[↗](../../double/#m5 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* Lily doubles her shells.[↗](../../double/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · Tom had 6 cards, and then his cards doubled.[↗](../../double/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · A double scoop has 2 scoops.[↗](../../double/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · Double 8 is 16.[↗](../../double/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · The number of rabbits doubled in a year.[↗](../../double/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · «Apple» has a double p.[↗](../../double/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") · Please double-check your answers.[↗](../../double/#x7 "tree and pragmatics") · We rode on top of a double-decker bus in London.[↗](../../double/#x8 "tree and pragmatics") · She was very old and almost bent double.[↗](../../double/#x9 "tree and pragmatics") · Four-square it shall be and double: a span shall be the length thereof, and a span the breadth thereof.[↗](../../double/#x10 "tree and pragmatics") (Torah EXO.28.16, JPS 1917)[↗](../../double/#x10 "tree and pragmatics") · If the theft be found in his hand alive, whether it be ox, or ass, or sheep, he shall pay double.[↗](../../double/#x11 "tree and pragmatics") (Torah EXO.22.4, JPS 1917)[↗](../../double/#x11 "tree and pragmatics") · that they might be double beneath, and in like manner they should be complete unto the top thereof unto the first ring.[↗](../../double/#x12 "tree and pragmatics") (Torah EXO.36.29, JPS 1917)[↗](../../double/#x12 "tree and pragmatics") · Who shall come within his double bridle?[↗](../../double/#x13 "tree and pragmatics") (Writings JOB.41.5, JPS 1917)[↗](../../double/#x13 "tree and pragmatics") · I hate them that are of a double mind; but Thy law do I love.[↗](../../double/#x14 "tree and pragmatics") (Writings PSA.119.113, JPS 1917)[↗](../../double/#x14 "tree and pragmatics") · They speak falsehood every one with his neighbour; with flattering lip, and with a double heart, do they speak.[↗](../../double/#x15 "tree and pragmatics") (Writings PSA.12.3, JPS 1917)[↗](../../double/#x15 "tree and pragmatics") **doubler** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* Something or someone that doubles an amount or size.[↗](../../doubler/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* (games and sport) A move or score that counts twice, or a player who scores twice.[↗](../../doubler/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 3:* (horse racing, betting) A bet on two races where you only win if both win (usually called a «double»).[↗](../../doubler/#m3 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* In our function machine, the doubler turns 5 into 10.[↗](../../doubler/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · The quiz had a doubler round where points counted twice.[↗](../../doubler/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · Land on the doubler square and your coins double\![↗](../../doubler/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · The engineer built a voltage doubler.[↗](../../doubler/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · If you put 7 into the doubler, what comes out?[↗](../../doubler/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · The doubler round helped our team win.[↗](../../doubler/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") **doublet** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* A doublet is a close-fitting jacket with a short skirt, worn by men in the past (old use, from the 1500s–1600s).[↗](../../doublet/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* The prince wore a red velvet doublet.[↗](../../doublet/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · His doublet was torn when he fell from the horse.[↗](../../doublet/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · The old king's doublet had gold buttons.[↗](../../doublet/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") **doubly** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* Twice as much; in two ways.[↗](../../doubly/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* Even more, or especially.[↗](../../doubly/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* Make doubly sure the door is locked.[↗](../../doubly/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · It is doubly important to wear a helmet on a busy road.[↗](../../doubly/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · She was doubly happy: she won and her friend won too.[↗](../../doubly/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · Check your work doubly carefully.[↗](../../doubly/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · The cake was doubly sweet with icing and jam.[↗](../../doubly/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · It's doubly hard when it's cold and wet.[↗](../../doubly/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") · And, with help, she laid beside him the load of three men of doubly refined gold.[↗](../../doubly/#x7 "tree and pragmatics") **doubt** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* (noun) A feeling of not being sure if something is true or will happen.[↗](../../doubt/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* (verb) To feel unsure that something is true, or to think it is probably not true.[↗](../../doubt/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 3:* (verb) Not to trust or believe someone.[↗](../../doubt/#m3 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 4:* "No doubt" means probably or certainly.[↗](../../doubt/#m4 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* I doubt it will snow today — it's too warm.[↗](../../doubt/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · Without a doubt, she's the best singer in the class.[↗](../../doubt/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · If you are in doubt, ask the teacher.[↗](../../doubt/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · He had doubts about climbing so high.[↗](../../doubt/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · Nobody doubted his story.[↗](../../doubt/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · No doubt you're hungry after that long walk.[↗](../../doubt/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") · When in doubt, check your answer with the inverse operation.[↗](../../doubt/#x7 "tree and pragmatics") · I never doubted that you could do it.[↗](../../doubt/#x8 "tree and pragmatics") · No doubt he will soon come.[↗](../../doubt/#x9 "tree and pragmatics") · And he knew it, and said: 'It is my son's coat; an evil beast hath devoured him; Joseph is without doubt torn in pieces.'[↗](../../doubt/#x10 "tree and pragmatics") (Torah GEN.37.33, JPS 1917)[↗](../../doubt/#x10 "tree and pragmatics") · And thy life shall hang in doubt before thee; and thou shalt fear night and day, and shalt have no assurance of thy life.[↗](../../doubt/#x11 "tree and pragmatics") (Torah DEU.28.66, JPS 1917)[↗](../../doubt/#x11 "tree and pragmatics") · But Isaac Myer states that there are un- doubted traces of pointing in Hebrew MSS. of the second century.[↗](../../doubt/#x12 "tree and pragmatics") (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1893)[↗](../../doubt/#x12 "tree and pragmatics") · No doubt but ye are the people, and wisdom shall die with you.[↗](../../doubt/#x13 "tree and pragmatics") (Writings JOB.12.2, JPS 1917)[↗](../../doubt/#x13 "tree and pragmatics") **doubtful** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* If you are doubtful about something, you are not sure it is true or that it will happen.[↗](../../doubtful/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* If something is doubtful, it probably will not happen or probably is not true.[↗](../../doubtful/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 3:* Doubtful can describe something that seems not quite honest or good, like a doubtful excuse.[↗](../../doubtful/#m3 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* Sam looked doubtful when I said the ice was safe.[↗](../../doubtful/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · It is doubtful that the match will go ahead in this rain.[↗](../../doubtful/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · I'm doubtful about this map; it looks very old.[↗](../../doubtful/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · The teacher gave a doubtful smile at my excuse.[↗](../../doubtful/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · The result was doubtful, so we did the experiment again.[↗](../../doubtful/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · Whether the ferry will run tomorrow is doubtful.[↗](../../doubtful/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") · Grandpa was doubtful the little tree would survive the winter.[↗](../../doubtful/#x7 "tree and pragmatics") · But he was doubtful whether the crocodile would consent to do what wanted.[↗](../../doubtful/#x8 "tree and pragmatics") · The meaning of Belimah is more doubtful.[↗](../../doubtful/#x9 "tree and pragmatics") (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1893)[↗](../../doubtful/#x9 "tree and pragmatics") · But it is very doubtful what Mohammed ben Musa meant by Indians.[↗](../../doubtful/#x10 "tree and pragmatics") (Mordell, The Origin of Letters and Numerals according to Sefer Yetzirah (1914))[↗](../../doubtful/#x10 "tree and pragmatics") **doubtfully** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* In a way that shows you are not sure about something, or do not quite believe it.[↗](../../doubtfully/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* In a way that is uncertain or unlikely.[↗](../../doubtfully/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* «Is this the right way?» asked Alice doubtfully.[↗](../../doubtfully/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · Mum looked doubtfully at the burnt toast.[↗](../../doubtfully/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · He doubtfully tasted the strange green soup.[↗](../../doubtfully/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · «I suppose it might work,» she said doubtfully.[↗](../../doubtfully/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · The Mole looked doubtfully at the wobbly boat.[↗](../../doubtfully/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · The dog sniffed the new food doubtfully.[↗](../../doubtfully/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") · “There is a way,” said the servant doubtfully.[↗](../../doubtfully/#x7 "tree and pragmatics") **doubtless** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* Doubtless means certainly, or very probably, as far as one can tell: they will doubtless arrive soon.[↗](../../doubtless/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* You will doubtless be hungry after the long walk.[↗](../../doubtless/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · Doubtless the bus is late again.[↗](../../doubtless/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · The witch was doubtless hiding somewhere in the wood.[↗](../../doubtless/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · In essence the work was, doubtless, the crystallization of centuries of tradition by one writer, and it has been added to from time to time, by later authors, who have also revised it.[↗](../../doubtless/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1893)[↗](../../doubtless/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · '"The invention of Signs to represent numbers is doubtless much older than any form ol writing" (Chambers Encyclopaedia, 1893, Vol. (Mordell, The Origin of Letters and Numerals according to Sefer Yetzirah (1914))[↗](../../doubtless/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · In this passage tlie author doubtless refers again to the Sefer Yetzirah, which was revealed or handed down by the prophet Jeremiah to Joseph ben Uziel.[↗](../../doubtless/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") (Mordell, The Origin of Letters and Numerals according to Sefer Yetzirah (1914))[↗](../../doubtless/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") **dough** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* A thick soft mixture of flour, water and other things, for making bread, pizza, pastry or biscuits before baking.[↗](../../dough/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* (informal, old slang) Money.[↗](../../dough/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* We kneaded the dough for ten minutes.[↗](../../dough/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · Leave the dough in a warm place so it can rise.[↗](../../dough/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · Roll out the dough and cut out star shapes.[↗](../../dough/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · Pizza dough is stretched into a circle.[↗](../../dough/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · The yeast makes bubbles that make the dough rise.[↗](../../dough/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · Don't eat raw cookie dough with raw egg or flour in it.[↗](../../dough/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") · My little sister made a dinosaur out of play dough.[↗](../../dough/#x7 "tree and pragmatics") · "I haven't got enough dough for that," joked Dad.[↗](../../dough/#x8 "tree and pragmatics") · Vasilissa took flour, kneaded dough, and made a pie.[↗](../../dough/#x9 "tree and pragmatics") · Of the first of your dough ye shall give unto the LORD a portion for a gift throughout your generations.[↗](../../dough/#x10 "tree and pragmatics") (Torah NUM.15.21, JPS 1917)[↗](../../dough/#x10 "tree and pragmatics") · And the people took their dough before it was leavened, their kneading-troughs being bound up in their clothes upon their shoulders.[↗](../../dough/#x11 "tree and pragmatics") (Torah EXO.12.34, JPS 1917)[↗](../../dough/#x11 "tree and pragmatics") · Of the first of your dough ye shall set apart a cake for a gift; as that which is set apart of the threshing-floor, so shall ye set it apart.[↗](../../dough/#x12 "tree and pragmatics") (Torah NUM.15.20, JPS 1917)[↗](../../dough/#x12 "tree and pragmatics") · And she took dough, and kneaded it, and made cakes in his sight, and did bake the cakes.[↗](../../dough/#x13 "tree and pragmatics") (Prophets 2SA.13.8, JPS 1917)[↗](../../dough/#x13 "tree and pragmatics") · They are all adulterers, as an oven heated by the baker, who ceaseth to stir from the kneading of the dough until it be leavened.[↗](../../dough/#x14 "tree and pragmatics") (Prophets HOS.7.4, JPS 1917)[↗](../../dough/#x14 "tree and pragmatics") · The children gather wood, and the fathers kindle the fire, and the women knead the dough, to make cakes to the queen of heaven, and to pour out drink-offerings unto other gods, that they may provoke Me.[↗](../../dough/#x15 "tree and pragmatics") (Prophets JER.7.18, JPS 1917)[↗](../../dough/#x15 "tree and pragmatics") [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/english/D/) … [49](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/english/D/page/49/) **50** [51](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/english/D/page/51/) … [62](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/english/D/page/62/) - ← previous: [page 49](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/english/D/page/49/) - next →: [page 51](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/english/D/page/51/) - ↑ back to [The English dictionary](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/english/)