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dine out

verb · eat at a restaurant or at somebody else's home

noun · Roman Emperor who when faced with military problems decided in 286 to divide the Roman Empire between himself in the east and Maximian in the west; he initiated the last persecution of the Christians in 303 (245-313)

diospyros

noun · a genus of trees or shrubs that have beautiful and valuable wood

dippers

noun · a Baptist denomination founded in 1708 by Americans of German descent; opposed to military service and taking legal oaths; practiced trine immersion

dipus

noun · type genus of the Dipodidae; typical jerboas having three toes on each hind foot

directly

adverb · without delay or hesitation; with no time intervening

Example: he answered immediately

direfully

adverb · in a direful manner

Example: seeing himself trapped, he cried out direfully

dirtily

adverb · in a filthy unclean manner

Example: a dirtily dressed camel driver

dirty

adjective · unpleasantly stormy

Example: there's dirty weather in the offing

disability

noun · the condition of being unable to perform as a consequence of physical or mental unfitness

Example: reading disability

disadvantageously

adverb · in a disadvantageous way; to someone's disadvantage

Example: the venture turned out badly for the investors

disagree

verb · be of different opinions

Example: I beg to differ!

disappointed

adjective · disappointingly unsuccessful

Example: disappointed expectations and thwarted ambitions

disappointing

adjective · not up to expectations

Example: a disappointing performance from one who had seemed so promising

disappointingly

adverb · in a disappointing manner

Example: the discoverer of argon, Sir William Ramsay, looked disappointingly ordinary

disappointment

noun · an act (or failure to act) that disappoints someone

disarmer

noun · someone opposed to violence as a means of settling disputes

disassociate

verb · part; cease or break association with

Example: She disassociated herself from the organization when she found out the identity of the president

disbelieve

verb · reject as false; refuse to accept

disbelievingly

adverb · in an incredulous manner

Example: the woman looked up at her incredulously

disburden

verb · take the burden off; remove the burden from

Example: unburden the donkey

disc pack

noun · (computer science) a portable pack of magnetic disks used in a disk storage device

discern

verb · detect with the senses

Example: The fleeing convicts were picked out of the darkness by the watchful prison guards

disclose

verb · make known to the public information that was previously known only to a few people or that was meant to be kept a secret

Example: The auction house would not disclose the price at which the van Gogh had sold

disclosed

adjective · made known (especially something secret or concealed)

Example: the disclosed purpose of their wicked plan

disconcerting

adjective · causing an emotional disturbance- Herb Caen

Example: his disconcerting habit of greeting friends ferociously and strangers charmingly

disconsolately

adverb · in grief-stricken loneliness; without comforting circumstances or prospects

discontentedly

adverb · with discontent; in a discontented manner

Example: he was still rumbling discontentedly when Pike returned bearing a folder of foolscap sheets

discordantly

adverb · in a discordant manner

Example: the piece ended discordantly

discouragingly

adverb · in a discouraging manner

Example: the failure rate on the bar exam is discouragingly high

discoverable

adjective · capable of being ascertained or found out

Example: ascertainable facts

discrete

adjective · constituting a separate entity or part

Example: a government with three discrete divisions

discriminating

adjective · showing or indicating careful judgment and discernment especially in matters of taste

Example: the discriminating eye of the connoisseur

discursively

adverb · in a rambling manner

disdainfully

adverb · without respect; in a disdainful manner

Example: she spoke of him contemptuously

disembodied spirit

noun · any incorporeal supernatural being that can become visible (or audible) to human beings

disentangle

verb · smoothen and neaten with or as with a comb

Example: comb your hair before dinner

disentangler

noun · a person who removes tangles; someone who takes something out of a tangled state

disgracefully

adverb · in a dishonorable manner or to a dishonorable degree

Example: his grades were disgracefully low

disgruntled

adjective · in a state of sulky dissatisfaction

disgustingly

adverb · in a disgusting manner or to a disgusting degree

Example: the beggar was disgustingly filthy

dish up

verb · provide (usually but not necessarily food)

Example: We serve meals for the homeless

dish-shaped

adjective · shaped like a dish or pan

dishonestly

adverb · in a corrupt and deceitful manner

Example: he acted dishonestly when he gave the contract to his best friend

dishonorably

adverb · in a dishonorable manner or to a dishonorable degree

Example: his grades were disgracefully low

dishonored

adjective · suffering shame

dishonourable

adjective · lacking honor or integrity; deserving dishonor

Example: dishonorable in thought and deed

dishonourably

adverb · in a dishonorable manner or to a dishonorable degree

Example: his grades were disgracefully low

disinclined

adjective · unwilling because of mild dislike or disapproval

Example: disinclined to say anything to anybody

disinfect

verb · destroy microorganisms or pathogens by cleansing

Example: disinfect a wound

disingenuously

adverb · in a disingenuous manner

Example: disingenuously, he asked leading questions abut his opponent's work

disinvolve

verb · free from involvement or entanglement

Example: How can I disentangle myself from her personal affairs?

disjointedly

adverb · in a disjointed manner

Example: `We're not married, not really married,' she said, and slowly, reluctantly, disjointedly it came out

disk space

noun · (computer science) the space available on a magnetic disk

disloyally

adverb · without loyalty; in a disloyal manner

Example: his men acted disloyally and betrayed him in the end

dismally

adverb · in a dreadful manner

Example: as he looks at the mess he has left behind he must wonder how the Brits so often managed to succeed in the kind of situation where he has so dismally failed

dismember

verb · separate the limbs from the body

Example: the tiger dismembered the tourist

disobediently

adverb · in a disobedient manner

Example: he went ahead disobediently and did what his supervisor had warned him not to do

disobliging

adjective · intentionally unaccommodating

Example: the action was not offensive to him but proved somewhat disobliging

disordered

adjective · lacking orderly continuity

Example: a confused set of instructions