All English words - page 1046

Meanings of Decriminalization:

noun

The action or process of ceasing to treat something as illegal or as a criminal offence.

Usage examples:

Voters approved decriminalization of the drug

Meanings of Decriminalize:

verb

Stop treating (something) as illegal or as a criminal offence.

Usage examples:

A battle to decriminalize cannabis

Meanings of Decriminalizes:

verb

Stop treating (something) as illegal or as a criminal offence.

Usage examples:

A battle to decriminalize cannabis

Meanings of Decry:

verb

Publicly denounce.

Usage examples:

They decried human rights abuses

Meanings of Decrypt:

verb

Make (a coded or unclear message) intelligible.

Usage examples:

The computer can be used to encrypt and decrypt sensitive transmissions

noun

A text that has been decoded.

Usage examples:

He passed the raw decrypts to moscow, but denies that he was a spy

Meanings of Decrypting:

verb

Make (a coded or unclear message) intelligible.

Usage examples:

The computer can be used to encrypt and decrypt sensitive transmissions

noun

A text that has been decoded.

Usage examples:

He passed the raw decrypts to moscow, but denies that he was a spy

Meanings of Decryption:

verb

To change electronic information that was written in code (= a system of letters, numbers, or symbols) back into a form that you can understand and use normally

Usage examples:

The main element of the new software is the creation of a pair of numbers that work like keys to en…

Meanings of Decumbent:

adjective

(of a plant) lying along the ground or along a surface, with the extremity curving upwards.

Usage examples:

P. myriophylla is a woody subshrub that forms patches of prostrate or decumbent stems often rooting…

Meanings of Decussate:

verb

(of two or more things) cross or intersect each other to form an x.

Usage examples:

The fibres decussate in the collar

adjective

Shaped like an x.

Usage examples:

This is much simpler than those reproductive organs of living gnetales with a cone-like inflorescen…

Meanings of Decussated:

verb

(of two or more things) cross or intersect each other to form an x.

Usage examples:

The fibres decussate in the collar

adjective

Shaped like an x.

Usage examples:

This is much simpler than those reproductive organs of living gnetales with a cone-like inflorescen…

Meanings of Decussating:

verb

(of two or more things) cross or intersect each other to form an x.

Usage examples:

The fibres decussate in the collar

adjective

Shaped like an x.

Usage examples:

This is much simpler than those reproductive organs of living gnetales with a cone-like inflorescen…

Meanings of Decyl:

noun

Of or denoting an alkyl radical —c10h21, derived from decane.

Meanings of Dedans:

noun

(in real tennis) an open gallery for spectators at the service side of a court.

Usage examples:

The wall behind the server likewise rises into a slope, but lower down, suspended above the floor, …

Meanings of Dedendum:

noun

The radial distance from the pitch circle of a cogwheel or wormwheel to the bottom of the tooth space or groove.

Usage examples:

Gears have addendums and dedendums that are the amount of tooth above and below the pitch line.

Meanings of Dedicate:

verb

Devote (time or effort) to a particular task or purpose.

Usage examples:

Joan has dedicated her life to animals

Meanings of Dedicated:

adjective

Devoted to a task or purpose.

Usage examples:

A team of dedicated doctors

verb

Devote (time or effort) to a particular task or purpose.

Usage examples:

Joan has dedicated her life to animals

Meanings of Dedicating:

verb

Devote (time or effort) to a particular task or purpose.

Usage examples:

Joan has dedicated her life to animals

Meanings of Dedication:

noun

The quality of being dedicated or committed to a task or purpose.

Usage examples:

His dedication to his duties

Meanings of Dedications:

noun

The action of dedicating a church or other building.

Usage examples:

The dedication of a new city church

Meanings of Dedicator:

noun

A person who cites or nominates a book or other artistic work as being issued or performed in someone's honour.

Usage examples:

Greek works of art were intended to project the status of the dedicator

Meanings of Deduce:

verb

Arrive at (a fact or a conclusion) by reasoning; draw as a logical conclusion.

Usage examples:

Little can be safely deduced from these figures

Meanings of Deduced:

verb

Arrive at (a fact or a conclusion) by reasoning; draw as a logical conclusion.

Usage examples:

Little can be safely deduced from these figures

Meanings of Deduces:

verb

Arrive at (a fact or a conclusion) by reasoning; draw as a logical conclusion.

Usage examples:

Little can be safely deduced from these figures

Meanings of Deduct:

verb

Subtract or take away (an amount or part) from a total.

Usage examples:

Tax has been deducted from the payments

Meanings of Deductible:

adjective

Able to be deducted, especially from taxable income or tax to be paid.

Usage examples:

Childcare vouchers will be deductible expenses for employers

noun

The part of an insurance claim to be paid by the insured; an excess.

Usage examples:

Insurance companies, for instance, are talking about premium credits, lower deductibles and rebates…