📖 D — The English dictionary · page 18

depict — Everyday, meaning 1: To depict something means to show it in a picture, painting, statue or film.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: To depict means to describe something in words so readers can imagine it.↗ Example: The painting depicts a ship in a storm.↗ · Cave paintings depict horses and bison.↗ · The film depicts life in a small village.↗ · In the story the wolf is depicted as clever and sly.↗ · Draw a picture that depicts your favourite place.↗ · The stamp depicts the queen.↗ · She is sometimes depicted sitting in a chariot, drawn by lions.↗

depiction — Everyday, meaning 1: A depiction is a picture, description or performance that shows what someone or something is like.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Depiction is the act of showing something in art or words.↗ Example: The Bayeux Tapestry is a depiction of the Battle of Hastings.↗ · This painting is a depiction of a busy market.↗ · The film's depiction of dinosaurs was very realistic.↗ · Is this an accurate depiction of life in Victorian times?↗ · The author's depiction of the giant is funny and kind.↗ · Early depictions of the Earth show it with sea monsters.↗ · We compared two depictions of the same queen.↗

deplete — Everyday, meaning 1: To use up a large amount of something so that there is much less left: «Overfishing has depleted fish stocks».↗ Example: Overfishing has depleted the cod in the North Sea.↗ · The long winter depleted our firewood.↗ · Running a marathon depletes your body's energy.↗ · Chemicals called CFCs depleted the ozone layer.↗ · The team was depleted by injuries.↗ · We must not deplete the Earth's water faster than rain can refill it.↗

depleted — Everyday, meaning 1: Reduced in amount so that there is not much left; used up: «depleted supplies».↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (sport) Weakened because many members are missing: «a depleted team».↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (science) With part of something removed: «ozone-depleted», «depleted soil».↗ Example: After the party, our snack supplies were badly depleted.↗ · The fish in the sea are depleted because of overfishing.↗ · A depleted team still managed to win the match.↗ · Farmers rest the land so the soil is not depleted.↗ · By the end of the camp, our water was depleted.↗ · I felt depleted after the long swimming race.↗

depletion — Everyday, meaning 1: Depletion is when something gets used up so that there is much less of it left.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (formal, science) The steady loss of a natural thing such as water, soil goodness, fish or the ozone layer.↗ Example: Overfishing led to the depletion of cod in the sea.↗ · Ozone depletion lets more harmful sunlight reach the ground.↗ · Planting the same crop every season causes depletion of the soil.↗ · The long walk caused a depletion of our water supply.↗ · Scientists measure the depletion of groundwater under farms.↗ · Battery depletion means your tablet will soon switch off.↗

deploy — Everyday, meaning 1: To deploy soldiers, ships or equipment is to send them to a place, ready to be used.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: To deploy something is to open it out or put it into action, like an airbag or a parachute.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: In computing, to deploy a program or website is to put it where people can use it.↗ Example: The army deployed soldiers to help after the flood.↗ · The airbag deployed when the car hit the wall.↗ · The parachute deployed and the capsule landed slowly.↗ · Lifeboats were deployed to rescue the sailors.↗ · We deployed our game so the whole class could play it.↗ · Rescue teams were deployed to the mountain.↗ · The spacecraft deployed its solar panels.↗

deployment — Everyday, meaning 1: Sending soldiers, ships or equipment to a place so they are ready to act.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Putting something into use, for example opening a parachute, inflating an airbag, or releasing new software.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: A time when a soldier is sent away to serve.↗ Example: Dad is away on deployment for six months.↗ · The deployment of troops was on the evening news.↗ · The airbag's deployment saved the driver from injury.↗ · The rover's parachute deployment went perfectly.↗ · The deployment of the new app is planned for Monday.↗ · The fire service ordered the deployment of more engines.↗ · Families wrote letters during the long deployment.↗ · In addition to the Council which was being held, there were games and tournaments and brilliant deployments of troops, and universal feastings and enjoyments.↗

deport — Everyday, meaning 1: To force someone to leave a country, usually because they are not allowed to live there or have broken the law.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (old-fashioned) To behave in a certain way (deport yourself).↗ Example: He was deported back to his home country.↗ · The government deported people without visas.↗ · In the war, families were deported to camps.↗ · The Crimean Tatars were deported in 1944.↗ · She feared her family would be deported.↗ · Courts decide who can be deported.↗ · "Can you tell me how the Will-o'-the-Wisps deport themselves, and how they behave? and in what shapes they have aforetime appeared and led people into crooked paths?"↗

deportation — Everyday, meaning 1: Making a person leave a country by law, usually sending them back to the country they came from.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (history) Forcing a whole people or group to leave their homes and move far away.↗ Example: The man faced deportation because his visa had run out.↗ · The judge stopped the deportation of the family.↗ · In 1944 the Crimean Tatars suffered mass deportation.↗ · A deportation order says a person must leave the country.↗ · Many people protested against the deportations.↗ · Deportation can split families apart.↗

depose — Everyday, meaning 1: To remove a ruler or leader from power, often by force.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (law) To give evidence under oath, especially in a written statement outside court; or to question someone in this way.↗ Example: The people deposed the cruel king.↗ · The deposed queen fled to another country.↗ · The general tried to depose the president.↗ · In the story, the wicked uncle deposed the rightful prince.↗ · The lawyer deposed the witness in his office.↗ · Rulers who ignore the people risk being deposed.↗ · Ever since Akela had been deposed, the Pack had been without a leader, hunting and fighting at their own pleasure.↗ · And the king of Egypt deposed him at Jerusalem, and fined the land a hundred talents of silver and a talent of gold.↗ (Writings 2CH.36.3, JPS 1917)↗ · But when his heart was lifted up, and his spirit was hardened that he dealt proudly, he was deposed from his kingly throne, and his glory was taken from him; (Writings DAN.5.20, JPS 1917)↗

deposit — Everyday, meaning 1: To put money into a bank account.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Money put into a bank account.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: A part of the price paid first to keep or reserve something, with the rest paid later.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: Money paid when you borrow or rent something, given back if nothing is damaged.↗ Everyday, meaning 5: To put or lay something down somewhere.↗ Everyday, meaning 6: (science) A layer of a substance left by water, wind or ice, or found under the ground (a deposit of gold, coal or sand).↗ Example: I deposited my birthday money in the bank.↗ · Mum made a deposit of 50 dollars.↗ · We paid a deposit to book the holiday cottage.↗ · You get the deposit back if you return the bottle.↗ · The river deposits sand at its mouth.↗ · Gold deposits were found in the hills.↗ · Please deposit your bags at the door.↗ · A white deposit formed inside the kettle.↗ · Apollo, pitying his deserted child, sent Hermes to convey him to Delphi, where he deposited his charge on the steps of the temple.↗ · If any one sin, and commit a trespass against the LORD, and deal falsely with his neighbour in a matter of deposit, or of pledge, or of robbery, or have oppressed his neighbour; (Torah LEV.6.2, JPS 1917)↗ · And when he came to the hill, he took them from their hand, and deposited them in the house; and he let the men go, and they departed.↗ (Prophets 2KI.5.24, JPS 1917)↗ · And they went in to the king into the court; but they had deposited the roll in the chamber of Elishama the scribe; and they told all the words in the ears of the king.↗ (Prophets JER.36.20, JPS 1917)↗

deposition — Everyday, meaning 1: (science, geography) Deposition is when wind, water or ice drops sand, mud or stones it was carrying, building up new land such as beaches and deltas.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (law) A deposition is a statement made under oath, written down to be used in court.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (formal) Deposition is removing a ruler or leader from power.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: (science) Deposition is when a gas turns straight into a solid, like frost forming.↗ Example: Deposition at the river mouth formed a delta.↗ · Waves cause deposition of sand on the beach.↗ · A spit is made by deposition along the coast.↗ · Frost on the window is an example of deposition.↗ · The witness gave a deposition to the lawyers.↗ (law)↗ · The deposition of the king led to a new government.↗ (formal)↗

depositor — Everyday, meaning 1: A person who puts money into a bank account.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Someone who puts something down or leaves something somewhere for safe keeping.↗ Example: Every depositor gets a statement each month.↗ · As a depositor, Sam earns a little interest on his savings.↗ · The bank promised that depositors' money was safe.↗ · When rumours spread, worried depositors queued outside the bank.↗ · Young depositors can open a children's savings account.↗ · The law protects depositors if a bank fails.↗

depot — Everyday, meaning 1: A depot is a large building or yard where goods, vehicles or supplies are kept until they are needed.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A depot is a place where buses, trains or trams are parked, cleaned and repaired.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (US) A depot is a small railway or bus station.↗ Example: The buses go back to the depot at midnight.↗ · Our parcel is waiting at the delivery depot.↗ · The army kept food and blankets in a supply depot.↗ · Grandpa met Grandma at the old train depot.↗ · A lorry leaves the depot with 240 boxes and drops 30 at each shop.↗ · The council's depot is full of grit for the winter roads.↗ · The firefighters drove the engine back to the depot.↗ · We waited at the bus depot for the last bus home.↗

depraved — In Jewish tradition, meaning 1: Morally bad or wicked, corrupted in behavior.↗ Example: Their soul perisheth in youth, and their life as that of the depraved.↗ (Writings JOB.36.14, JPS 1917)↗

depreciation — Everyday, meaning 1: (money) The loss of value of something as it gets older or is used, like a car being worth less each year.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (money) A fall in the value of a country's money compared with other currencies.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (formal) Saying that something is of little worth.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: Self-depreciation means running yourself down, saying that you are not very good or clever.↗ Example: New cars suffer fast depreciation in the first year.↗ · Because of depreciation, Dad's old phone is worth very little.↗ · The depreciation of the dollar made holidays abroad dearer.↗ · We worked out the depreciation of the laptop in maths.↗ · Toys usually lose value, but some rare ones avoid depreciation.↗ · The company counts depreciation on its machines every year.↗

depress — Everyday, meaning 1: To depress someone is to make them feel very sad and without hope.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (formal) To depress a button, key or pedal is to press it down.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (money) To depress prices, trade or wages is to make them lower or less active.↗ Example: Grey, rainy days depress me.↗ · Depress the button to start the machine.↗ · The bad news depressed the whole team.↗ · The driver depressed the clutch.↗ · The storm depressed sales at the seaside shops.↗ · Losing every game started to depress him.↗

depressed — Everyday, meaning 1: Very sad and without hope, often for a long time.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (health) Having the illness depression, which needs help from a doctor or counsellor.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (of a place or economy) Poor, with few jobs or little business.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: Pushed down (a depressed button).↗ Everyday, meaning 5: Lower than the area around it (a depressed area of ground).↗ Example: She felt depressed after her dog died.↗ · If you feel depressed for a long time, tell someone you trust.↗ · Depression is an illness that can be treated.↗ · The town was depressed after the mine closed.↗ · Depress the button to start the machine.↗ · Rain on holiday is depressing!↗ · But after she had been some time with Mother Holle she grew sad and depressed, and at first she hardly knew herself what was the matter.↗

depression — Everyday, meaning 1: Depression is an illness of the mind that makes a person feel very sad, empty, tired or hopeless for a long time, much more than ordinary sadness; doctors and counsellors can help.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A depression is a hollow or low place in a surface.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: In weather, a depression is an area of low air pressure that often brings clouds, wind and rain.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: A depression is a long time when many people have no work and little money: the Great Depression of the 1930s.↗ Example: My uncle had depression, and talking to a doctor helped him get better.↗ · If you feel sad for a long time, tell a trusted adult.↗ · A deep depression is moving in from the Atlantic, bringing rain.↗ · The rain collected in a depression in the field.↗ · During the Great Depression, many families were very poor.↗ · A tropical depression can grow into a hurricane.↗

deprive — Everyday, meaning 1: To deprive someone of something is to take it away or not let them have it.↗ Example: Plants deprived of light turn yellow.↗ · You'll be deprived of screen time if you lie.↗ · Many children are deprived of education.↗ · Sleep-deprived drivers are dangerous.↗ · The war deprived them of their homes.↗ · Being sent to bed early deprived him of the film.↗ · “Sire,” she said, “I am not come to deprive you of the throne you fill so worthily.↗