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Dins
- noun - a loud harsh or strident noise
- instill (into a person) by constant repetition; "he dinned the lessons into his students"
- make a resonant sound, like artillery; "His deep voice boomed through the hall"
- the act of making a noisy disturbance
Dint
- noun - interchangeable with `means' in the expression `by means of'
Diol
- noun - any of a class of alcohols having 2 hydroxyl groups in each molecule
Dior
- noun - French couturier whose first collection in 1947 created a style that became known as the New Look (1905-1957)
Dips
- noun - (physics) the angle that a magnetic needle makes with the plane of the horizon
- a brief immersion
- a brief swim in water
- a candle that is made by repeated dipping in a pool of wax or tallow
- a depression in an otherwise level surface; "there was a dip in the road"
- a gymnastic exercise on the parallel bars in which the body is lowered and raised by bending and straightening the arms
- a sudden sharp decrease in some quantity; "a drop of 57 points on the Dow Jones index"; "there was a drop in pressure in the pulmonary artery"; "a dip in prices"; "when that became known the price of their stock went into free fall"
- a thief who steals from the pockets or purses of others in public places
- 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 i
Dire
- adjective - causing fear or dread or terror; "the awful war"; "an awful risk"; "dire news"; "a career or vengeance so direful that London was shocked"; "the dread presence of the headmaster"; "polio is no longer the dreaded disease it once was"; "a dreadful storm"; "a fearful howling"; "horrendous explosions shook the city"; "a terrible curse"
- fraught with extreme danger; nearly hopeless; "a desperate illness"; "on all fronts the Allies were in a desperate situation due to lack of materiel"- G.C.Marshall; "a dire emergency"
Dirk
- noun - a relatively long dagger with a straight blade
Dirl
- - To thrill; to vibrate; to penetrate.
Dirt
- adjective - (of roads) not leveled or drained; unsuitable for all year travel
- disgraceful gossip about the private lives of other people
- obscene terms for feces
- the part of the earth's surface consisting of humus and disintegrated rock
- the state of being covered with unclean things
Dis-
- - A prefix from the Latin, whence F. d, or sometimes d, dis-. The Latin dis-appears as di-before b, d, g, l, m, n, r, v, becomes dif-before f, and either dis-or di- before j. It is from the same root as bis twice, and duo, E. two. See Two, and cf. Bi-, Di-, Dia-. Dis- denotes separation, a parting from, as in distribute, disconnect; hence it often has the force of a privative and negative, as in disarm, disoblige, disagree. Also intensive, as in dissever.