📖 D — The English dictionary · page 14

deletion — Everyday, meaning 1: The act of removing something, such as words from a text or a file from a computer.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Something that has been removed: «I made several deletions in my essay».↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (science) The loss of a part of a gene or chromosome.↗ Example: The deletion of the file was an accident.↗ · After a few deletions, my story was much shorter and clearer.↗ · Ask an adult about deletion of photos posted online.↗ · The app asks you to confirm the deletion.↗ · Permanent deletion means you cannot get it back.↗ · The teacher marked the deletion with a neat line through the word.↗

deliberate — Everyday, meaning 1: Something deliberate is done on purpose, not by accident.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Deliberate movements or speech are slow and careful.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (formal, verb) To deliberate is to think about something carefully or talk about it for a long time before deciding.↗ Example: That trip was deliberate, not an accident!↗ · He made a deliberate mistake to see if we were listening.↗ · She walked with slow, deliberate steps across the ice.↗ · The judges deliberated for an hour before choosing the winner.↗ · Breaking the window was not deliberate; the ball slipped.↗ · The referee gave a red card for a deliberate handball.↗ · The council deliberated about the new park.↗ · Write each number in slow, deliberate strokes.↗ · The trusty servant deliberated for a long while how to set about this business, for it was very difficult to get into the presence of the King's daughter.↗

deliberately — Everyday, meaning 1: On purpose; meaning to do it, not by accident.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Slowly and carefully (He spoke deliberately).↗ Example: She deliberately left the door open for the cat.↗ · He didn't break the vase deliberately; it was an accident.↗ · The player deliberately tripped his opponent.↗ · The teacher spoke slowly and deliberately.↗ · Someone deliberately started the fire.↗ · I deliberately chose the hardest puzzle.↗ · Knowing this, the Indian deliberately steered the horse right above the city, in order that his revenge for his unjust imprisonment might be all the quicker and sweeter.↗

deliberation — Everyday, meaning 1: Deliberation is careful and long thinking or talking about something before deciding.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Doing something with deliberation means slowly and carefully, on purpose.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (law) The jury's deliberations are their discussions before the verdict.↗ Example: After much deliberation, we chose the blue one.↗ · The jury began its deliberations.↗ · He placed the last brick with great deliberation.↗ · The class council's deliberation took an hour.↗ · She chose her words with deliberation.↗ · The judges' deliberation over the cake contest was long.↗ · This they did not like at all; so after much deliberation they decided to get married.↗

delicacy — Everyday, meaning 1: A delicacy is a special, unusual or expensive food that people think is very tasty.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Delicacy is the quality of being fine, light or easily broken.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: Delicacy is care and tact in dealing with a difficult or embarrassing matter.↗ Example: Snails are a delicacy in France.↗ · The picnic basket was full of delicacies.↗ · Lace is admired for its delicacy.↗ · She handled the argument with delicacy.↗ · Fresh crab is a seaside delicacy.↗ · The feast had delicacies from every land.↗ · This last delicacy played a principal part in the salad.↗

delicate — Everyday, meaning 1: Delicate means easily broken or damaged, so it needs gentle care.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Delicate means fine, thin or light and pretty, like lace or a butterfly's wings.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: A delicate taste, colour or smell is soft and not strong.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: A delicate situation needs careful handling so nobody is upset.↗ Example: Be careful, the glass vase is very delicate.↗ · A butterfly has delicate wings.↗ · Wash this jumper on the delicate setting.↗ · The soup had a delicate flavour of herbs.↗ · Coral reefs are delicate and easily damaged.↗ · Telling your friend the truth was a delicate matter.↗ · The lace on the dress was delicate and white.↗ · She was pretty and delicate indeed.↗ · The man that is tender among you, and very delicate, his eye shall be evil against his brother, and against the wife of his bosom, and against the remnant of his children whom he hath remaining; (Torah DEU.28.54, JPS 1917)↗ · The comely and delicate one, the daughter of Zion, will I cut off.↗ (Prophets JER.6.2, JPS 1917)↗ · Come down, and sit in the dust, O virgin daughter of Babylon, sit on the ground without a throne, O daughter of the Chaldeans; for thou shalt no more be called tender and delicate.↗ (Prophets ISA.47.1, JPS 1917)↗

delicately — Everyday, meaning 1: Gently and carefully, so as not to break or hurt something: «She held the eggshell delicately».↗ Everyday, meaning 2: In a fine, light and graceful way: «delicately painted flowers».↗ Everyday, meaning 3: Tactfully, with care not to upset anyone: «He delicately asked about her illness».↗ Everyday, meaning 4: (food) With a light, gentle flavour: «delicately spiced».↗ Example: She delicately lifted the butterfly onto a leaf.↗ · The vase was delicately painted with tiny birds.↗ · Handle the test tubes delicately.↗ · The teacher delicately asked if everything was all right at home.↗ · The soup was delicately flavoured with herbs.↗ · How can I put this delicately?↗ Your shoes smell!↗ · The rock was delicately balanced on the cliff edge.↗ · She was still half a child and very delicately built; she had bright blue eyes, and a gentle, sweet expression.↗ · He that delicately bringeth up his servant from a child shall have him become master at the last.↗ (Writings PRO.29.21, JPS 1917)↗

delicious — Everyday, meaning 1: Delicious means tasting or smelling very good.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Delicious can describe anything very pleasant, like «a delicious feeling of being warm».↗ Example: This apple pie is delicious!↗ · Something smells delicious in the kitchen.↗ · Thank you for the delicious dinner.↗ · The strawberries were sweet and delicious.↗ · We had a delicious picnic in the park.↗ · Fresh bread is delicious when it is still warm.↗ · The delicious smell of popcorn filled the cinema.↗ · Ah, what delicious cakes he saw standing there!↗

deliciously — Everyday, meaning 1: In a very pleasant way, especially to the taste or the smell, or in a way that gives great enjoyment.↗ Example: The bread smelt deliciously of butter.↗ · The soup cooked deliciously on the stove.↗ · She sang deliciously in the evening.↗

delight — Everyday, meaning 1: Delight is a feeling of great happiness and pleasure.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A delight is something or someone that gives great pleasure.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (verb) To delight someone is to make them very happy.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: (verb) To delight in something is to enjoy it very much, sometimes in a mean way.↗ Example: The children screamed with delight on the roller coaster.↗ · To my delight, the snow was still there in the morning.↗ · Your daughter is a delight to have in class.↗ · The magician delighted the audience with his tricks.↗ · The puppy delights in chewing shoes.↗ · The garden was full of summer delights.↗ · Edmund ate the Turkish delight in the Narnia story.↗ · We were delighted to win the cup.↗ · To his delight it seemed thick and stout.↗ · And the young man deferred not to do the thing, because he had delight in Jacob's daughter.↗ (Torah GEN.34.19, JPS 1917)↗ · If the LORD delight in us, then He will bring us into this land, and give it unto us — a land which floweth with milk and honey.↗ (Torah NUM.14.8, JPS 1917)↗ · Only the LORD had a delight in thy fathers to love them, and He chose their seed after them, even you, above all peoples, as it is this day.↗ (Torah DEU.10.15, JPS 1917)↗ · Yea, Thy testimonies are my delight, they are my counsellors.↗ (Writings PSA.119.24, JPS 1917)↗ · How fair and how pleasant art thou, O love, for delights!↗ (Writings SNG.7.7, JPS 1917)↗ · When my cares are many within me, Thy comforts delight my soul.↗ (Writings PSA.94.19, JPS 1917)↗

delighted — Everyday, meaning 1: Very pleased and happy.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (verb, past) Gave great pleasure to someone: «The show delighted the children.».↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (formal, polite) Very willing: «I'd be delighted to help.».↗ Example: She was delighted with her new puppy.↗ · We were delighted to win the spelling bee.↗ · The magician delighted the children with his tricks.↗ · I'd be delighted to come to your party.↗ · Grandma was delighted that we visited.↗ · The teacher was delighted by our project.↗ · (formal) We are delighted to announce the winners of the poetry prize.↗ · The prince was so delighted that he could not speak.↗ · Under its shadow I delighted to sit, and its fruit was sweet to my taste.↗ (Writings SNG.2.3, JPS 1917)↗ · He brought me forth also into a large place; He delivered me, because He delighted in me.↗ (Prophets 2SA.22.20, JPS 1917)↗ · It is of the LORD that a man's goings are established; and He delighted in his way.↗ (Writings PSA.37.23, JPS 1917)↗

delightful — Everyday, meaning 1: Delightful means giving great joy or pleasure; very nice.↗ Example: We had a delightful day at the beach.↗ · The garden was delightful in spring.↗ · Everything came to a delightful end.↗ · And upon all the ships of Tarshish, and upon all delightful imagery.↗ (Prophets ISA.2.16, JPS 1917)↗

delightfully — Everyday, meaning 1: In a way that gives great pleasure or joy.↗ Example: The fire warmed the room delightfully.↗ · The bird sang delightfully at dawn.↗ · The day was delightfully sunny.↗

delilah — In Jewish tradition, meaning 1: The woman Samson loved in the valley of Sorek.↗ She was a Philistine who got his secret and betrayed him.↗ Example: And it came to pass afterward, that he loved a woman in the valley of Sorek, whose name was Delilah.↗ (Prophets JDG.16.4, JPS 1917)↗ · And Delilah said to Samson: 'Tell me, I pray thee, wherein thy great strength lieth, and wherewith thou mightest be bound to afflict thee.'↗ (Prophets JDG.16.6, JPS 1917)↗ · And Delilah said unto Samson: 'Behold, thou hast mocked me, and told me lies; now tell me, I pray thee, wherewith thou mightest be bound.'↗ (Prophets JDG.16.10, JPS 1917)↗

delineated — Everyday, meaning 1: (formal) Described or explained clearly and in detail: «The rules are clearly delineated in the handbook».↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Marked out with lines or edges, so the limits are clear: «The pitch is delineated by white lines».↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (art) Drawn or outlined: «a delineated shape».↗ Example: The car park spaces are delineated with yellow paint.↗ · Each person's job was clearly delineated on the poster.↗ · On the map, the national park is delineated in green.↗ · The mountains were sharply delineated against the sunset.↗ · The rules of the game are delineated in the booklet.↗ · The artist delineated the face with a few quick strokes.↗

delineation — Everyday, meaning 1: (formal, old use) A drawing or outline that shows the shape of something.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A clear description that shows what something is like.↗ Example: The artist's delineation of the castle was very fine.↗ · A map is a delineation of the land.↗ · His delineation of the people was clear.↗

delinquent — Everyday, meaning 1: A delinquent, or juvenile delinquent, is a young person who keeps breaking the law or behaving badly.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (adjective) Delinquent behaviour is behaviour that breaks laws or rules.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (formal, mainly US) A delinquent bill or account is one that has not been paid on time.↗ Example: The police caught the young delinquents spraying paint on the wall.↗ · The story is about a delinquent who turns his life around.↗ · Stealing cars is delinquent behaviour.↗ · The bank sent a letter about the delinquent account.↗ · He was called a juvenile delinquent, but he just needed help.↗ · The delinquents were made to clean up the park.↗ · Her tax payment was delinquent by three months.↗

delirium — In Jewish tradition, meaning 1: A confused, wild state of mind, often from fever or illness.↗

deliver — Everyday, meaning 1: To deliver means to take letters, parcels or goods to a place or person: the postman delivers the post.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: To deliver a speech or talk means to give it to an audience.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: To deliver a baby means to help it be born.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: To deliver means to do what you promised: they delivered on time.↗ Everyday, meaning 5: To deliver from danger (old use) means to rescue.↗ Example: The postman delivers our letters every morning.↗ · The shop will deliver the new sofa on Friday.↗ · A driver delivers 36 parcels in a morning and 28 in the afternoon.↗ How many is that in all?↗ · Maya delivered her talk about volcanoes to the class.↗ · The midwife delivered the baby safely.↗ · Don't open the door to a delivery person if you are on your own.↗ · The team delivered the project on time.↗ · "What should I deliver?" said Tom.↗ · And when her days to be delivered were fulfilled, behold, there were twins in her womb.↗ (Torah GEN.25.24, JPS 1917)↗ · Thou shalt not deliver unto his master a bondman that is escaped from his master unto thee; (Torah DEU.23.15, JPS 1917)↗ · And Reuben heard it, and delivered him out of their hand; and said: 'Let us not take his life.'↗ (Torah GEN.37.21, JPS 1917)↗ · Or have I no power to deliver?↗ (Prophets ISA.50.2, JPS 1917)↗ · But Jeremiah said: 'They shall not deliver thee.↗ (Prophets JER.38.20, JPS 1917)↗ · Beware lest Hezekiah persuade you, saying: The LORD will deliver us.↗ (Prophets ISA.36.18, JPS 1917)↗

deliverance — Everyday, meaning 1: (formal) Deliverance is being rescued or set free from danger, suffering or evil.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (church, Bible) In Christian and Jewish teaching, deliverance means God saving people, as when God led the Israelites out of slavery in Egypt.↗ Christians pray «deliver us from evil».↗ Example: The Israelites celebrated their deliverance from Egypt.↗ · The sailors prayed for deliverance from the storm.↗ · Passover remembers God's deliverance of the Israelites.↗ · The rescue boat was their only hope of deliverance.↗ · Daniel's deliverance from the lions amazed the king.↗ · The prisoners waited many years for deliverance.↗ · He rose and thanked God for his deliverance.↗ · And God sent me before you to give you a remnant on the earth, and to save you alive for a great deliverance.↗ (Torah GEN.45.7, JPS 1917)↗ · God is unto us a God of deliverances; and unto GOD the Lord belong the issues of death.↗ (Writings PSA.68.21, JPS 1917)↗ · Thou art my hiding-place; Thou wilt preserve me from the adversary; with songs of deliverance Thou wilt compass me about.↗ (Writings PSA.32.7, JPS 1917)↗ · And Saul said: 'There shall not a man be put to death this day; for to-day the LORD hath wrought deliverance in Israel.'↗ (Prophets 1SA.11.13, JPS 1917)↗