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- English Word Diagraphics Definition The art or science of descriptive drawing; especially, the art or science of drawing by mechanical appliances and mathematical rule.
- English Word Diaheliotropic Definition Relating or, or manifesting, diaheliotropism.
- English Word Diaheliotropism Definition A tendency of leaves or other organs of plants to have their dorsal surface faced towards the rays of light.
- English Word Dial Definition An instrument, formerly much used for showing the time of day from the shadow of a style or gnomon on a graduated arc or surface; esp., a sundial; but there are lunar and astral dials. The style or gnomon is usually parallel to the earth's axis, but the dial plate may be either horizontal or vertical.
- English Word Dial Definition The graduated face of a timepiece, on which the time of day is shown by pointers or hands.
- English Word Dial Definition A miner's compass.
- English Word Dial Definition To measure with a dial.
- English Word Dial Definition To survey with a dial.
- English Word Dialect Definition Means or mode of expressing thoughts; language; tongue; form of speech.
- English Word Dialect Definition The form of speech of a limited region or people, as distinguished from ether forms nearly related to it; a variety or subdivision of a language; speech characterized by local peculiarities or specific circumstances; as, the Ionic and Attic were dialects of Greece; the Yorkshire dialect; the dialect of the learned.
- English Word Dialectal Definition Relating to a dialect; dialectical; as, a dialectical variant.
- English Word Dialectic Definition Same as Dialectics.
- English Word Dialectic Definition Alt. of Dialectical
- English Word Dialectical Definition Pertaining to dialectics; logical; argumental.
- English Word Dialectical Definition Pertaining to a dialect or to dialects.
- English Word Dialectically Definition In a dialectical manner.
- English Word Dialectician Definition One versed in dialectics; a logician; a reasoner.
- English Word Dialectics Definition That branch of logic which teaches the rules and modes of reasoning; the application of logical principles to discursive reasoning; the science or art of discriminating truth from error; logical discussion.
- English Word Dialectology Definition That branch of philology which is devoted to the consideration of dialects.
- English Word Dialector Definition One skilled in dialectics.
- English Word Dialed Definition of Dial
- English Word Dialing Definition of Dial
- English Word Dialing Definition The art of constructing dials; the science which treats of measuring time by dials.
- English Word Dialing Definition A method of surveying, especially in mines, in which the bearings of the courses, or the angles which they make with each other, are determined by means of the circumferentor.
- English Word Dialist Definition A maker of dials; one skilled in dialing.
- English Word Diallage Definition A figure by which arguments are placed in various points of view, and then turned to one point.
- English Word Diallage Definition A dark green or bronze-colored laminated variety of pyroxene, common in certain igneous rocks.
- English Word Dialled Definition of Dial
- English Word Diallel Definition Meeting and intersecting, as lines; not parallel; -- opposed to parallel.
- English Word Dialling Definition of Dial