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Dissents
- noun - (law) the difference of one judge's opinion from that of the majority; "he expressed his dissent in a contrary opinion"
- a difference of opinion
- be of different opinions; "I beg to differ!"; "She disagrees with her husband on many questions"
- express opposition through action or words; "dissent to the laws of the country"
- the act of protesting; a public (often organized) manifestation of dissent
- withhold assent; "Several Republicans dissented"
Distance
- noun - a distant region; "I could see it in the distance"
- a remote point in time; "if that happens it will be at some distance in the future"; "at a distance of ten years he had forgotten many of the details"
- go far ahead of; "He outdistanced the other runners"
- indifference by personal withdrawal; "emotional distance"
- keep at a distance; "we have to distance ourselves from these events in order to continue living"
- size of the gap between two places; "the distance from New York to Chicago"; "he determined the length of the shortest line segment joining the two points"
- the interval between two times; "the distance from birth to death"; "it all happened in the space of 10 minutes"
- the property created by the space between two objects or points
Distends
- verb - become wider; "His pupils were dilated"
- cause to expand as it by internal pressure; "The gas distended the animal's body"
- swell from or as if from internal pressure; "The distended bellies of the starving cows"
Distinct
- adjective - (often followed by `from') not alike; different in nature or quality; "plants of several distinct types"; "the word `nationalism' is used in at least two distinct senses"; "gold is distinct from iron"; "a tree related to but quite distinct from the European beech"; "management had interests quite distinct from those of their employees"
- clearly or sharply defined to the mind; "clear-cut evidence of tampering"; "Claudius was the first to invade Britain with distinct...intentions of conquest"; "trenchant distinctions between right and wrong"
- constituting a separate entity or part; "a government with three discrete divisions"; "on two distinct occasions"
- easy to perceive; especially clearly outlined; "a distinct flavor"; "a distinct odor of turpentine"; "a distinct outline"; "the ship appeared as a distinct silhouette"; "distinct fingerprints"
- recognizable; marked; "noticed a distinct improvement"; "at a distinct (or decided) disadvantage"
Dockings
- noun - the act of securing an arriving vessel with ropes
Dodgings
- noun - a statement that evades the question by cleverness or trickery
- deliberately avoiding; keeping away from or preventing from happening
- nonperformance of something distasteful (as by deceit or trickery) that you are supposed to do; "his evasion of his clear duty was reprehensible"; "that escape from the consequences is possible but unattractive"
Dogbanes
- noun - any of several poisonous perennial plants of the genus Apocynum having acrid milky juice and bell-shaped white or pink flowers and a very bitter root
Doggoned
- - Damned; confounded; -- used as an expression of displeasure; as, I wish those doggone telemarketers would quit calling at suppertime.