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Dissuade
- verb - turn away from by persuasion; "Negative campaigning will only dissuade people"
Distaffs
- noun - the sphere of work by women
- the staff on which wool or flax is wound before spinning
Distally
- adverb - far from the center; "the bronchus is situated distally"
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
Distaste
- noun - a feeling of dislike
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"
Disthene
- - Cyanite or kyanite; -- so called in allusion to its unequal hardness in two different directions. See Cyanite.
Distills
- verb - extract by the process of distillation; "distill the essence of this compound"
- give off (a liquid); "The doctor distilled a few drops of disinfectant onto the wound"
- remove impurities from, increase the concentration of, and separate through the process of distillation; "purify the water"
- undergo condensation; change from a gaseous to a liquid state and fall in drops; "water condenses"; "The acid distills at a specific temperature"
- undergo the process of distillation
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"