All English words - page 1110

Meanings of Dido:

noun

A mischievous trick or prank.

Usage examples:

When blackhawk began to cut up didos you had storekeepers and squirrel hunters all marching togethe…

proper noun

(in the aeneid) the queen and founder of carthage, who fell in love with the shipwrecked aeneas and killed herself when he deserted her.

Meanings of Didoes:

noun

A mischievous trick or prank.

Usage examples:

When blackhawk began to cut up didos you had storekeepers and squirrel hunters all marching togethe…

proper noun

(in the aeneid) the queen and founder of carthage, who fell in love with the shipwrecked aeneas and killed herself when he deserted her.

Meanings of Didos:

noun

A mischievous trick or prank.

Usage examples:

When blackhawk began to cut up didos you had storekeepers and squirrel hunters all marching togethe…

proper noun

(in the aeneid) the queen and founder of carthage, who fell in love with the shipwrecked aeneas and killed herself when he deserted her.

Meanings of Didst:

verb

Archaic second person singular past of do1.

Meanings of Didymium:

noun

A mixture containing the rare earth elements praseodymium and neodymium, used to colour glass for optical filters. it was originally regarded as a single element.

Usage examples:

In 1879 paul-emile lecoq, gallium's discoverer, announced that there was another element contaminat…

Meanings of Didymiums:

noun

A mixture containing the rare earth elements praseodymium and neodymium, used to colour glass for optical filters. it was originally regarded as a single element.

Usage examples:

In 1879 paul-emile lecoq, gallium's discoverer, announced that there was another element contaminat…

Meanings of Die:

verb

(of a person, animal, or plant) stop living.

Usage examples:

He died of tuberculosis

noun

Singular form of dice.

Meanings of Die away:

phrasal verb

Become less in amount or intensity

Meanings of Die down:

phrasal verb

Suffer from a disease that kills shoots

Meanings of Die for:

idiom

Excellent or to be strongly wished for

Usage examples:

She has a figure to die for., that chocolate cake is to die for., they sell beautiful shoes and to-…

Meanings of Die off:

phrasal verb

Become extinct

Meanings of Die-do:

idiom

Said when you are in a situation in which you must take a big risk in order to avoid failure

Usage examples:

On tuesday, it's do or die in the final game.

Meanings of Die-hard:

idiom

If a belief or way of behaving dies hard, it takes a long time to disappear, and is not given up easily

Usage examples:

Old habits die hard.

Meanings of Dieffenbachia:

noun

A plant of a genus that includes dumb cane and its relatives.

Usage examples:

The wide leaves of the dieffenbachias tend to hold dust and this might obstruct their breathing.

Meanings of Diegesis:

noun

A narrative or plot, typically in a film.

Usage examples:

It is true that the tropes and symbols that actualize the structure of the lyric, and the diegesis …

Meanings of Diehards:

noun

A person who strongly opposes change or who continues to support something in spite of opposition.

Usage examples:

A diehard yankees fan

adjective

Unwilling to change or give up your ideas or ways of behaving, even when there are good reasons to do so

Usage examples:

A diehard conservative

Meanings of Dieldrin:

noun

A toxic insecticide produced by the oxidation of aldrin, now largely banned because of its persistence in the environment.

Usage examples:

Many pesticides which were once very familiar contaminants - ddt, aldrin, dieldrin, and toxaphene -…

Meanings of Dieldrins:

noun

A toxic insecticide produced by the oxidation of aldrin, now largely banned because of its persistence in the environment.

Usage examples:

Many pesticides which were once very familiar contaminants - ddt, aldrin, dieldrin, and toxaphene -…

Meanings of Diem:

adjective

For each day

Usage examples:

Per diem allowance/payment/rate city officials received per diem payments of about $890 each., they…

Meanings of Diencephalons:

noun

The caudal (posterior) part of the forebrain, containing the epithalamus, thalamus, hypothalamus, and ventral thalamus and the third ventricle.

Usage examples:

The latter includes the diencephalon; mesencephalon, or midbrain; pons; and medulla oblongata.

Meanings of Diene:

noun

An unsaturated hydrocarbon containing two double bonds between carbon atoms.

Usage examples:

They had reacted a conjugated diene with a simple alkene to generate a cycloalkane.

Meanings of Dieresis:

noun

A mark (¨) placed over a vowel to indicate that it is sounded separately, as in naïve, brontë.

Usage examples:

As several commenters have pointed out, both publications insist on using the diaeresis mark (as in…

Meanings of Dies:

verb

(of a person, animal, or plant) stop living.

Usage examples:

He died of tuberculosis

noun

Singular form of dice.

Meanings of Diesel:

noun

An internal combustion engine in which heat produced by the compression of air in the cylinder is used to ignite the fuel.

Usage examples:

A diesel locomotive

Meanings of Dieselized:

verb

Equip with a diesel engine or diesel-electric locomotives.

Usage examples:

The car fleets have to be dieselized