Vocabulary English-English With D Part 1
Dashboard (noun)
a panel extending across the interior of a vehicle as an automobile below the windshield and usually containing dials and controls
- In a demonstration at an imaginary dashboard, Michael greeted the computer ("Good morning, Sally"), told it he was catching a flight from John F. Kennedy International Airport and received a map and spoken directions, estimated travel time, the state of the traffic ahead, the weather, the flight's status, country music on the radio and directions to an Italian restaurant en route.
Database (noun)
a usually large collection of data organized especially for rapid search and retrieval as by a computer
- Our editors make daily updates to our proprietary database of company information, which can be found on our Web site, Hoover's Online.
Dazzlingly (adverb)
manner of arousing admiration by an impressive display
- The long cylinders of ancient ice that they retrieve provide a dazzlingly detailed record of what was happening in the world over the past several ice ages.
Deadliest (adjective)
extremely destructive or harmful
- At least 80 and perhaps hundreds of people were killed in the deadliest historical eruption to occur in what is now the United States.
Deal with (verb)
to be occupied or concerned
- Politeness strategies are developed for the main purpose of dealing with face threatening acts.
Dearth (noun)
an inadequate supply
- The model offers no way to explain the moon's confounding dearth of iron.
Debris (noun)
an accumulation of fragments of rock
- Landslides, mud flows and debris avalanches frequently accompany other natural disasters such as floods and earthquakes.
Decay (verb)
to become or cause to become rotten or unsound; to decompose
- Because of the high humidity, abundant insects, and scavenger-eating animals and birds, an animal carcass can decay in Mississippi in just a few days.
Decipher (verb)
to make understandable
- Few historians today have the capability of deciphering scrolls written in ancient Egyptian.
Decode (verb)
to convert a coded message into intelligible form; to discover the underlying meaning of
- It seems that the structure of the language you learn as a child affects how the structure of your brain develops to decode speech. Native English speakers, for example, find it extraordinarily difficult to learn Mandarin
Decorated (verb)
to furnish with emblems of honor worn on one’s clothing, or displayed on objects
- Quincy Jones is one of the most decorated musicians of all time.
Decry (verb)
to consider or treat as small or unimportant
- There are those who decry marriage as a sexist and patriarchal institution that should be avoided at all costs.
Deem (verb)
to have an opinion
- Any human caused blazes are to be suppressed immediately as well as any natural fires deemed dangerous.
Default (noun)
a failure to pay financial debts
- The trend has been to raise rates because of the increasing number of defaults among consumers.
Deferential (adjective)
showing or expressing respect and esteem due a superior or an elder
- The Justice Department properly withheld the names and other details about hundreds of foreigners detained in the months after the Sept. 11 attacks, a federal appeals court ruled Tuesday. The powerful decision was deferential to the Bush administration's arguments over continued threats to America from terrorists.
Definitive (adjective)
serving the function of deciding or settling with finality
- Two recent books are the definitive books in the area of cold reading: King of the Cold Readers (KCR) by Bascom Jones and Red Hot Cold Reading (RHCR) by Thomas Saville, Ph.D. and Herb Dewey.
Deflect (verb)
to turn aside especially from a straight course or fixed direction
- If the interior is weak, for example, an attempt to deflect it with a nuclear warhead (an option under consideration) may simply break up the asteroid into many smaller and uncontrolled pieces.
Defuse (verb)
to remove the fuse from a mine or bomb; to make less harmful, potent, or tense
- You can tend to your loved one and to yourself by focusing on the rewards of caring for someone with Alzheimer's disease and by learning to recognize and defuse stress.
Degradation (noun)
the act or an instance of demoting
- Don Quixote shows how not distinguishing between the two leads to the moral degradation of his hero and, consequently, of his public.
Degraded (adjective)
reduced far below ordinary standards of civilized life and conduct; characterized by degeneration of structure or function
- Protecting existing habitat and restoring degraded habitat can help the grizzly to recover.
Delectable (adjective)
highly pleasing, especially to the sense of taste
- The ape inserts a twig into a hole in a termite’s nest, after which it pull outs the twig covered with delectable insects.
Delegate (noun)
one who stands in for another; one who is given authority to represent another
- In 1776, John Adams was a Massachusetts delegate to the Continental Congress in Philadelphia.
Deleterious (adjective)
harmful often in a subtle or unexpected way
- There is increasing evidence that some beached whales may have been stranded as a result of loud sounds made by mid-range navy sonar. This has produced a great deal of concern about the possible deleterious effects of noise pollution on marine mammals.
Delineation (noun)
a line marking and shaping the outer form of an object
- Bialystok asserts that the delineation begins at the age of twenty, at which point begins a decline in the ability to learn a language.
Delta (noun)
the alluvial deposit at the mouth of a river
- The delta extends outward fifty miles on both sides of the Mississippi River in the area of Mississippi and Louisiana and experiences floods during the spring.
Demise (noun)
a cessation of existence or activity
- Columbia's demise on Feb. 1, 2003, not only cost the lives of seven astronauts, but also leaves a gaping hole in the busy shuttle manifest, which is now focused on building and supplying the International Space Station.
Demographic (adjective)
relating to the dynamic balance of a population
- These demographic peculiarities reveal a pattern of upward marriage or hypergamy which is quite different from endogamy and reflects an acknowledged status difference between communities.
Demikian, semoga bermanfaat.
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