📖 D — The English dictionary · page 16

demographic — Everyday, meaning 1: A demographic is a group of people with something in common, such as age or where they live, especially when studied or targeted by sellers.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Demographics are facts and numbers about a population: how many people, how old, where they live and so on.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: Demographic (adjective) means to do with the study of populations.↗ Example: Children under ten are the target demographic for this cartoon.↗ · The census gives demographic information about the country.↗ · Our town's demographics show more older people than before.↗ · We drew a graph of demographic data in geography.↗ · Demographic change means fewer children in some villages.↗ · Adverts are made for a particular demographic.↗

demolish — In Jewish tradition, meaning 1: To knock something down completely so that it is destroyed.↗ Example: then ye shall drive out all the inhabitants of the land from before you, and destroy all their figured stones, and destroy all their molten images, and demolish all their high places.↗ (Torah NUM.33.52, JPS 1917)↗

demon — Everyday, meaning 1: (church, Bible) A demon is an evil spirit; Christians believe demons are fallen angels who oppose God.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: In myths, legends and games, a demon is a wicked monster or spirit.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (informal) A demon is a person who does something with great energy or skill: a demon at chess.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: Demons can also mean a person's inner troubles or bad memories.↗ Example: In the Bible, Jesus cast out demons.↗ · Christians believe demons are fallen angels.↗ · The hero fought a fire demon in the video game.↗ · My little sister is a demon at chess!↗ · Grandad called the fast driver a speed demon.↗ · He spoke about the demons he faced after the war.↗ · I am no demon or fairy.↗ · They sacrificed unto demons, no-gods, gods that they knew not, new gods that came up of late, which your fathers dreaded not.↗ (Torah DEU.32.17, JPS 1917)↗ · Yea, they sacrificed their sons and their daughters unto demons, (Writings PSA.106.37, JPS 1917)↗

demoniac — Everyday, meaning 1: (old use) Like a demon; wild, fierce, or as if possessed by an evil spirit.↗ Example: The witch gave a demoniac laugh.↗ · Helga had a wicked, demoniac spirit.↗ · The villain acted in a demoniac rage.↗

demonstrably — Everyday, meaning 1: In a way that can be clearly shown or proved: you can point to facts that show it is true.↗ Example: That claim is demonstrably false: look at the results.↗ · The new bridge is demonstrably safer than the old one.↗ · Practice has made her demonstrably faster at times tables.↗ · The medicine works, as the tests demonstrably show.↗ · His story was demonstrably untrue, because the shop was closed.↗ · Recycling demonstrably reduces rubbish in our bins.↗

demonstrate — Everyday, meaning 1: To demonstrate is to show how something works or how to do something.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: To demonstrate is to prove or show clearly that something is true.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: To demonstrate is to show a feeling or quality by what you do.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: To demonstrate is to march or gather with others in public to show you support or are against something.↗ Example: The teacher demonstrated how to light the Bunsen burner safely.↗ · Can you demonstrate how the robot moves?↗ · This experiment demonstrates that air takes up space.↗ · Show your working to demonstrate that your answer is correct.↗ · She demonstrated great courage when she rescued the puppy.↗ · Thousands of people demonstrated against the new road.↗ · The coach demonstrated the kick, then we tried it.↗ · He would have shown his weapons and demonstrated how he used them, and with what slash he chipped his victim, and with what slice he chopped him.↗ · It was he who demonstrated that m.T is the true God and no other.↗ (Mordell, The Origin of Letters and Numerals according to Sefer Yetzirah (1914))↗ · twenty-two letters, the Sefer Yetzirah demonstrates by permu- tations in whicli letters never repeat themselves but only change their places.↗ (Mordell, The Origin of Letters and Numerals according to Sefer Yetzirah (1914))↗ · As al- ready demonstrated, the lirst alphabet invented was similar to that still used by the Berbers, whence the inference, that there may have been a time when the Hebrews also used such an alphabet.↗ (Mordell, The Origin of Letters and Numerals according to Sefer Yetzirah (1914))↗

demonstration — Everyday, meaning 1: A demonstration is showing people how to do something or how something works.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A demonstration is a public event where people march or gather to show what they think about something.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: A demonstration is a way of showing a feeling or quality: a demonstration of love.↗ Example: The teacher gave a demonstration of how a volcano erupts.↗ · Watch the demonstration before you try.↗ · The chef did a cooking demonstration.↗ · Thousands of people joined the demonstration in the city.↗ · The demonstration was peaceful.↗ · The firefighter gave a demonstration of how to use the extinguisher.↗ · "Its form is simple and grave; there is nothing like a demonstration nor an argument; but it consists rather of a series of aphorisms, regularly grouped, and which have all the conciseness of the most ancient oracles."↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1893)↗

demote — Everyday, meaning 1: To demote someone is to move them to a lower rank, job or level.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: In sport, to move a team down a league (UK: relegate).↗ Example: He was demoted from captain to player.↗ · The manager demoted her after the mistake.↗ · Pluto was demoted to a dwarf planet.↗ · Losing three games could demote us.↗ · The officer was demoted for bad behaviour.↗ · The coach threatened to demote anyone who skipped practice.↗

den — Everyday, meaning 1: The home of a wild animal, often hidden, like a fox's or lion's den or a bear's cave.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A secret hideout that children build or play in, from sticks, blankets or boxes.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: A small cosy room in a house for relaxing (mainly American).↗ Everyday, meaning 4: A place where bad things happen in secret: a den of thieves.↗ Example: We built a den out of sticks in the woods.↗ · The fox cubs stayed safe in their den.↗ · Bears sleep in dens during the winter.↗ · My brother and I made a blanket den in the living room.↗ · Dad watches TV in the den.↗ · Going to the head teacher's office felt like walking into the lion's den.↗ · The robbers met in a secret den.↗ · Never crawl into an animal's den.↗ · Geist ; verbannte sie mit sieben, goss sie aus mit den zwolf Gestimen.↗ **, "He drew them with water.↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1893)↗ · Then the beasts go into coverts, and remain in their dens.↗ (Writings JOB.37.8, JPS 1917)↗ · The sun ariseth, they slink away, and couch in their dens.↗ (Writings PSA.104.22, JPS 1917)↗ · When they couch in their dens, and abide in the covert to lie in wait?↗ (Writings JOB.38.40, JPS 1917)↗

dengue — Everyday, meaning 1: A tropical disease spread by the bite of certain mosquitoes, causing high fever, headache and very painful muscles and joints.↗ Example: Dengue is spread by mosquitoes.↗ · Travellers used repellent to avoid dengue.↗ · There was an outbreak of dengue after the heavy rains.↗ · Dengue fever is sometimes called «breakbone fever» because it hurts so much.↗ · Emptying water from old tyres stops mosquitoes breeding and helps prevent dengue.↗ · She got dengue on holiday and needed rest and fluids.↗

denial — Everyday, meaning 1: A denial is saying that something is not true.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Denial is refusing to give something, or saying no: denial of rights.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: Being «in denial» means not accepting a painful truth.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: (Bible) Peter's denial is when he said he did not know Jesus.↗ Example: The minister made a firm denial.↗ · Despite his denial, the crumbs were on his face.↗ · She was in denial about losing the race.↗ · Denial of food is cruel.↗ · Peter's denial happened before the cock crowed.↗ · Denial is one stage of grief.↗

denim — Everyday, meaning 1: A strong cotton cloth, usually blue, used to make jeans, jackets, skirts and overalls.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (plural, informal) Denims: clothes, especially jeans, made of this cloth.↗ Example: My favourite jacket is made of denim.↗ · Jeans are made of strong cotton denim.↗ · Denim was first used for workers' trousers because it is tough.↗ · She wore denim shorts on the beach.↗ · Wearing a denim jacket with jeans is called «double denim».↗ · Denim fades each time you wash it.↗ · Indigo dye gives denim its blue colour.↗

denominate — Everyday, meaning 1: (formal, money) To denominate an amount or a price is to state it in a particular currency or unit.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (formal) To denominate something is to give it a name.↗ Example: Oil prices are denominated in US dollars.↗ · The prize was denominated in euros.↗ · The loan was denominated in pounds.↗ · Old Latin books denominate the river by another name.↗ · Many international prices are denominated in dollars.↗ · The cost was denominated in both currencies.↗ · By Indians he might have meant Ethio- pians, or any other nation under the torrid zone which the ancients used tu denominate as Indians (T. (Mordell, The Origin of Letters and Numerals according to Sefer Yetzirah (1914))↗

denomination — Everyday, meaning 1: (church) A denomination is one of the separate groups or branches of a religion, especially Christianity, such as Catholic, Anglican, Methodist or Baptist.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (money, maths) The value printed on a coin or banknote: a five-pound note and a ten-pound note are different denominations.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (formal) A name or kind of unit.↗ Example: Methodists and Baptists are two Christian denominations.↗ · Our town has churches of many denominations.↗ · The bank gave Dad the money in small denominations.↗ · Coins come in denominations such as 1p, 2p, 5p, 10p, 20p and 50p.↗ · Which denomination is the biggest coin you have?↗ · Christians of all denominations came to the joint service.↗ · The machine accepts notes of every denomination.↗ · In a police-office, consequently, we find copying-clerks among many other scribes of various denominations, of which, it seems, our hero was one.↗

denominational — Everyday, meaning 1: (church) Denominational means belonging to or run by one particular branch of a religion, such as Catholic, Anglican, Methodist or Baptist.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Non-denominational means open to all Christians or all faiths, not belonging to one church.↗ Example: Our school is a denominational school linked to the Catholic church.↗ · The hospital chapel is non-denominational, so anyone can pray there.↗ · There are small denominational differences in how churches baptise.↗ · The service was non-denominational and welcomed people of all faiths.↗ · Many denominational schools have assemblies with prayers.↗ · Denominational groups worked together to help the homeless.↗

denote — Everyday, meaning 1: To be a sign or symbol for something; to stand for.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (formal) To show or mean something.↗ Example: Let n denote the number of children.↗ · The symbol ÷ denotes division.↗ · On the map, a blue line denotes a river.↗ · A red flag denotes danger.↗ · The letter m denotes metres.↗ · Stars denote the best answers.↗ · One wore a cap of two staring colors, denoting the class of persons to which she belonged.↗ · 3) Paths denote powers, effects, kinds, forms, degrees or stages.↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Kalisch 1877)↗ · It is a particle like כּ, as; it is added the word מִין kind, denoting: as a kind of, like, as.↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Kalisch 1877)↗ · C. to denote the absence of degrees, minutes, or seconds in their sexagesi- mal notation.↗ (Mordell, The Origin of Letters and Numerals according to Sefer Yetzirah (1914))↗

denounce — Everyday, meaning 1: To say publicly and strongly that something or someone is wrong, bad or evil.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: To tell the authorities that someone has done something wrong, often to get them punished: «He denounced his neighbour to the police».↗ Example: The mayor denounced the attack on the mosque.↗ · The prophet denounced the king for his greed.↗ · Pupils denounced the bullying in a school assembly.↗ · The spy was denounced to the police.↗ · Many people denounced the plan as unfair.↗ · The church leaders denounced the cruelty to refugees.↗ · Meanwhile, the townspeople got up a petition against him, and denounced him to the King, saying:↗

dense — Everyday, meaning 1: Thick, with things packed closely together.↗ e.g. "a dense forest", "dense fog".↗ Everyday, meaning 2: In science, having a lot of mass packed into a small space; dense things feel heavy for their size.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: Informal and unkind: slow to understand.↗ Example: We got lost in the dense forest.↗ · Drive slowly in dense fog.↗ · A stone sinks because it is denser than water.↗ · Oil floats on water because it is less dense.↗ · The crowd was so dense we couldn't move.↗ · Cities are densely populated.↗ · Well, they walked and walked till they reached a dark, dense forest.↗

density — Everyday, meaning 1: Density is how much mass is packed into a certain amount of space; dense things are heavy for their size.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Density is also how crowded or close together things are in an area (population density).↗ Example: Lead has a very high density.↗ · Ice floats because its density is lower than water's.↗ · Oil has a lower density than water, so it floats on top.↗ · Cities have a high population density.↗ · The density of trees in the jungle makes it dark.↗ · We compared the density of different liquids in a jar.↗

dent — Everyday, meaning 1: A small hollow made in a hard surface when something hits or presses it: «a dent in the car door».↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (verb) To make a dent in something.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: A reduction: «make a dent in» means reduce something a bit.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: (verb) To harm or weaken, such as someone's confidence or pride.↗ Example: The ball left a dent in the car door.↗ · Don't buy the tin with the big dent.↗ · He dented his bike when he fell off.↗ · We've barely made a dent in this huge pizza.↗ · Losing the match dented their confidence.↗ · The savings made a big dent in the cost of the holiday.↗ · There's a dent in my water bottle from when I dropped it.↗