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Digress
- verb - lose clarity or turn aside especially from the main subject of attention or course of argument in writing, thinking, or speaking; "She always digresses when telling a story"; "her mind wanders"; "Don't digress when you give a lecture"
- wander from a direct or straight course
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"
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
Dinkeys
- noun - a small locomotive
Dinners
- noun - a party of people assembled to have dinner together; "guests should never be late to a dinner party"
- the main meal of the day served in the evening or at midday; "dinner will be at 8"; "on Sundays they had a large dinner when they returned from church"
Diocese
- noun - the territorial jurisdiction of a bishop
Dippers
- noun - a Baptist denomination founded in 1708 by Americans of German descent; opposed to military service and taking legal oaths; practiced trine immersion
- 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
Diptera
- noun - a large order of insects having a single pair of wings and sucking or piercing mouths; includes true flies and mosquitoes and gnats and crane flies