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Dim Sum
- noun - traditional Chinese cuisine; a variety of foods (including several kinds of steamed or fried dumplings) are served successively in small portions
Dimeter
- - Having two poetical measures or meters. -- n. A verse of two meters.
Dimmers
- noun - a rheostat that varies the current through an electric light in order to control the level of illumination
Dimmest
- adjective - lacking clarity or distinctness;
- lacking in light; not bright or harsh; "a dim light beside the bed"; "subdued lights and soft music"
- made dim or less bright; "the dimmed houselights brought a hush of anticipation"; "dimmed headlights"; "we like dimmed lights when we have dinner"
- offering little or no hope; "the future looked black"; "prospects were bleak"; "Life in the Aran Islands has always been bleak and difficult"- J.M.Synge; "took a dim view of things"
- slow to learn or understand; lacking intellectual acuity; "so dense he never understands anything I say to him"; "never met anyone quite so dim"; "although dull at classical learning, at mathematics he was uncommonly quick"- Thackeray; "dumb officials make some really dumb decisions"; "he was either normally stupid or being deliberately obtuse"; "worked with the slow students"
Dimming
- verb - become dim or lusterless; "the lights dimmed and the curtain rose"
- become vague or indistinct; "The distinction between the two theories blurred"
- make dim by comparison or conceal
- make dim or lusterless; "Time had dimmed the silver"
- switch (a car's headlights) from a higher to a lower beam
Dimness
- noun - the property of lights or sounds that lack brilliance or are reduced in intensity
- the quality of being dim or lacking contrast
- the state of being poorly illuminated
Dimorph
- - Either one of the two forms of a dimorphous substance; as, calcite and aragonite are dimorphs.
Dimouts
- noun - darkness resulting from the extinction of lights (as in a city invisible to enemy aircraft)
Dimpled
- verb - mark with, or as if with, dimples; "drops dimpled the smooth stream"
- produce dimples while smiling; "The child dimpled up to the adults"