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Diploe
- - The soft, spongy, or cancellated substance between the plates of the skull.
Dipnoi
- noun - bony fishes of the southern hemisphere that breathe by a modified air bladder as well as gills; sometimes classified as an order of Crossopterygii
Dipody
- - Two metrical feet taken together, or included in one measure.
Dipole
- noun - a pair of equal and opposite electric charges or magnetic poles separated by a small distance
- an aerial half a wavelength long consisting of two rods connected to a transmission line at the center
Dipped
- verb - appear to move downward; "The sun dipped below the horizon"; "The setting sun sank below the tree line"
- dip into a liquid while eating; "She dunked the piece of bread in the sauce"
- dip into a liquid; "He dipped into the pool"
- go down momentarily; "Prices dipped"
- having abnormal sagging of the spine (especially in horses)
- immerse briefly into a liquid so as to wet, coat, or saturate; "dip the garment into the cleaning solution"; "dip the brush into the paint"
- immerse in a disinfectant solution; "dip the sheep"
- lower briefly; "She dipped her knee"
- place (candle wicks) into hot, liquid wax
- plunge (one's hand or a receptacle) into a container; "He dipped into his pocket"
- scoop up by plunging one's hand or a ladle below the surface; "dip water out of a container"
- slope downwards; "Our property dips towards the river"
- stain an object by immersing it in a liquid
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Dipper
- noun - a cluster of seven stars in Ursa Minor; at the end of the dipper's handle is Polaris
- a group of seven bright stars in the constellation Ursa Major
- a ladle that has a cup with a long handle
- small North American diving duck; males have bushy head plumage
- small stocky diving bird without webbed feet; frequents fast-flowing streams and feeds along the bottom
Dipsas
- - A serpent whose bite was fabled to produce intense thirst.
Dipsos
- unknown - Alcoholics - abbreviation for dipsomaniacs
Dipyre
- - A mineral of the scapolite group; -- so called from the double effect of fire upon it, in fusing it, and rendering it phosphorescent.
Direct
- adjective - (of a current) flowing in one direction only; "direct current"
- be in charge of
- being an immediate result or consequence; "a direct result of the accident"
- cause to go somewhere; "The explosion sent the car flying in the air"; "She sent her children to camp"; "He directed all his energies into his dissertation"
- command with authority; "He directed the children to do their homework"
- direct in spatial dimensions; proceeding without deviation or interruption; straight and short; "a direct route"; "a direct flight"; "a direct hit"
- direct the course; determine the direction of travelling
- give directions to; point somebody into a certain direction; "I directed them towards the town hall"
- guide the actors in (plays and films)
- having no intervening persons, agents, conditions; "in direct sunlight"; "in direct contact with the voters"; "direct exposure to the disease"; "a direct link"; "the direct cause of