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- English Word Diptote Definition A noun which has only two cases.
- English Word Diptych Definition Anything consisting of two leaves.
- English Word Diptych Definition A writing tablet consisting of two leaves of rigid material connected by hinges and shutting together so as to protect the writing within.
- English Word Diptych Definition A picture or series of pictures painted on two tablets connected by hinges. See Triptych.
- English Word Diptych Definition A double catalogue, containing in one part the names of living, and in the other of deceased, ecclesiastics and benefactors of the church; a catalogue of saints.
- English Word Dipyre Definition A mineral of the scapolite group; -- so called from the double effect of fire upon it, in fusing it, and rendering it phosphorescent.
- English Word Dipyrenous Definition Containing two stones or nutlets.
- English Word Dipyridil Definition A crystalline nitrogenous base, C10H8N2, obtained by the reduction of pyridine.
- English Word Dipyridine Definition A polymeric form of pyridine, C10H10N2, obtained as a colorless oil by the action of sodium on pyridine.
- English Word Diradiation Definition The emission and diffusion of rays of light.
- English Word Dire Definition Ill-boding; portentous; as, dire omens.
- English Word Dire Definition Evil in great degree; dreadful; dismal; horrible; terrible; lamentable.
- English Word Direct Definition Straight; not crooked, oblique, or circuitous; leading by the short or shortest way to a point or end; as, a direct line; direct means.
- English Word Direct Definition Straightforward; not of crooked ways, or swerving from truth and openness; sincere; outspoken.
- English Word Direct Definition Immediate; express; plain; unambiguous.
- English Word Direct Definition In the line of descent; not collateral; as, a descendant in the direct line.
- English Word Direct Definition In the direction of the general planetary motion, or from west to east; in the order of the signs; not retrograde; -- said of the motion of a celestial body.
- English Word Direct Definition To arrange in a direct or straight line, as against a mark, or towards a goal; to point; to aim; as, to direct an arrow or a piece of ordnance.
- English Word Direct Definition To point out or show to (any one), as the direct or right course or way; to guide, as by pointing out the way; as, he directed me to the left-hand road.
- English Word Direct Definition To determine the direction or course of; to cause to go on in a particular manner; to order in the way to a certain end; to regulate; to govern; as, to direct the affairs of a nation or the movements of an army.
- English Word Direct Definition To point out to with authority; to instruct as a superior; to order; as, he directed them to go.
- English Word Direct Definition To put a direction or address upon; to mark with the name and residence of the person to whom anything is sent; to superscribe; as, to direct a letter.
- English Word Direct Definition To give direction; to point out a course; to act as guide.
- English Word Direct Definition A character, thus [/], placed at the end of a staff on the line or space of the first note of the next staff, to apprise the performer of its situation.
- English Word Direct-acting Definition Acting directly, as one part upon another, without the intervention of other working parts.
- English Word Directed Definition of Direct
- English Word Directer Definition One who directs; a director.
- English Word Directing Definition of Direct
- English Word Direction Definition The act of directing, of aiming, regulating, guiding, or ordering; guidance; management; superintendence; administration; as, the direction o/ public affairs or of a bank.
- English Word Direction Definition That which is imposed by directing; a guiding or authoritative instruction; prescription; order; command; as, he grave directions to the servants.