📖 D — The English dictionary · page 21

desiccation — Everyday, meaning 1: The process of drying something out completely, or the state of being very dry.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: The removal of water from food, soil or living things.↗ Example: Cacti have thick skin to avoid desiccation.↗ · The pond's desiccation left fish stranded in the mud.↗ · Desiccation is used to preserve fruit like raisins.↗ · Mud cracks form during the desiccation of a lake bed.↗ · Frogs must keep moist to avoid desiccation.↗ · Raisins are grapes dried by desiccation in the sun.↗

design — Everyday, meaning 1: A design is a drawing or plan that shows how something will look or be made.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A design is a pattern of lines, shapes and colours that decorates something.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (verb) To design means to plan and draw how something will be made or work.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: By design means on purpose.↗ Everyday, meaning 5: Designs can also mean secret plans, often bad ones, made to get what you want.↗ Example: We designed a bridge out of paper.↗ · I like the design on your T-shirt.↗ · The car was designed to be safe.↗ · Draw a design for your poster first.↗ · Is this mistake by design or by accident?↗ · The tiles have a pattern design of triangles.↗ · The wicked brothers stamped and foamed with rage when they saw the failure of their wicked designs.↗ · These three mothers did he create, form, and design, and combine with the three mothers in the world, and in the year, and in Man, both male and female.↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1887)↗ · These Three Mothers did He produce and design, and combined them; and He sealed them as the three mothers in the Universe, in the Year and in Man—both male and female.↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1893)↗ · To obtain the full value of this Treatise, it should be studied hand in hand with Hermetic Rituals, the " Isiac Tablet ", and with a complete set of the Tarot designs.↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1893)↗

designate — Everyday, meaning 1: To choose someone or something officially for a job or purpose.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: To mark or name something in a special way.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (adjective, formal) Chosen for a job but not started yet.↗ Example: Bikes must be left in the designated area.↗ · The park was designated a nature reserve.↗ · Smoking is only allowed in designated places.↗ · She was designated team captain.↗ · Let y designate the number of oranges.↗ · Dad was the designated driver.↗ · In earlier times, by which name our aunt used to designate thirty years ago, she and the before-mentioned Herr Sivertsen had been younger.↗ · The Hebrew language and its characters correspond mostly with the things they designate, and thus holy thoughts, Hebrew language (Sefer Yetzirah, Kalisch 1877)↗

designation — Everyday, meaning 1: (formal) A designation is a name, title or label given to something or someone.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (formal) Designation is choosing or naming someone or something for a special purpose or job.↗ Example: The plane had the designation "Flight 307".↗ · Her job designation is head teacher.↗ · The forest received designation as a national park.↗ · Each storm gets a name as its designation.↗ · Write your name and designation on the form.↗ · The designation of the area as a nature reserve protects the birds.↗ · The robot's designation was R2.↗ · Rooms have designations like A1 and B2.↗

designed — Everyday, meaning 1: Designed means planned and drawn before being made: she designed a poster.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Designed for (or to) means made for a particular purpose or person: this bike is designed for small children.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: Designed can mean planned on purpose, intended.↗ Example: I designed a poster for the school fair.↗ · This chair is designed for young children.↗ · The helmet is designed to protect your head.↗ · The bridge was designed by a famous engineer.↗ · We designed and built a boat that could float.↗ · A well-designed game is easy to learn.↗ · The car seat is designed to keep babies safe.↗ · Architecture next engaged his attention, and in 1657 he designed a house at Viry for his brother and supervised its construction.↗ · Ginsburg asserts that the system of vowel polluting was invented by a Rabbi Mocha in Palestine about a.d.↗ 570, who designed it to assist his pupils.↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1893)↗ · After that our father Abraham had seen, and pondered over, investigated, and understood these things, he designed, engraved, and composed them, and received them into his power (hands).↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1887)↗ · + Make non-commercial use of the files We designed Google Book Search for use by individuals, and we request that you use these files for personal, non-commercial purposes.↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1893)↗

designer — Everyday, meaning 1: A designer is a person whose job is to plan how things will look or work, such as clothes, buildings, games or websites.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (adjective use) Designer clothes or bags are made by a famous fashion company and usually cost a lot.↗ Example: She wants to be a fashion designer.↗ · The game designer planned 20 levels.↗ · A designer drew the new school logo.↗ · Designer jeans cost much more than normal ones.↗ · The designer chose blue and white for the room.↗ · Each designer made 3 dresses; 4 designers made how many?↗

desirable — Everyday, meaning 1: Desirable means worth having or wanting; good, useful or attractive.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (formal) Desirable means advisable or a good idea.↗ Example: A garden is desirable when you have a dog.↗ · It is desirable to arrive ten minutes early.↗ · Good teamwork is a desirable skill.↗ · The house is in a very desirable area.↗ · The advert said French was desirable but not essential.↗ · A healthy breakfast is desirable before a long day.↗ · The King answered that in a certain country there was a King who had a beautiful daughter, and he thought it would be most desirable if Sigurd could get her.↗ · Moreover, they scorned the desirable land, they believed not His word; (Writings PSA.106.24, JPS 1917)↗ · For wisdom is better than rubies, and all things desirable are not to be compared unto her.↗ (Writings PRO.8.11, JPS 1917)↗ · There is desirable treasure and oil in the dwelling of the wise; but a foolish man swalloweth it up.↗ (Writings PRO.21.20, JPS 1917)↗

desire — Everyday, meaning 1: noun.↗ e.g. A desire is a strong wish or longing for something.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: verb (formal).↗ e.g. To desire something means to want it very much.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: "Leaves a lot to be desired" means it is not very good.↗ Example: She had a strong desire to become a vet.↗ · The hero's only desire was to get home.↗ · Add salt until you get the desired taste.↗ · He had no desire to go out in the rain.↗ · The king desired a golden crown.↗ · The food at the camp left a lot to be desired.↗ · Round your answer to the desired number of decimal places.↗ · “Because young people have strong desires.↗ · and seest among the captives a woman of goodly form, and thou hast a desire unto her, and wouldest take her to thee to wife; (Torah DEU.21.11, JPS 1917)↗ · Not so; go now ye that are men, and serve the LORD; for that is what ye desire.'↗ And they were driven out from Pharaoh's presence.↗ (Torah EXO.10.11, JPS 1917)↗ · If thou doest well, shall it not be lifted up? and if thou doest not well, sin coucheth at the door; and unto thee is its desire, but thou mayest rule over it.'↗ (Torah GEN.4.7, JPS 1917)↗ · And beside Thee I desire none upon earth.↗ (Writings PSA.73.25, JPS 1917)↗ · And on whom is all the desire of Israel?↗ (Prophets 1SA.9.20, JPS 1917)↗ · I am my beloved's, and his desire is toward me.↗ (Writings SNG.7.11, JPS 1917)↗

desirous — Everyday, meaning 1: Old or formal: wanting very much to have or do something.↗ Example: The king was desirous of a golden carpet.↗ · She was desirous to learn magic.↗ · Are you desirous of a second helping?↗ · Be not desirous of his dainties; seeing they are deceitful food.↗ (Writings PRO.23.3, JPS 1917)↗

desist — Everyday, meaning 1: (formal) To stop doing something, especially when told to: «desist from doing it».↗ Example: The judge told him to desist from shouting.↗ · (formal) Please desist from running in the corridors.↗ · The company received a letter telling it to cease and desist.↗ · The guard ordered the boys to desist at once.↗ · (formal) Pupils must desist from talking once the exam begins.↗ · The rain finally desisted in the evening.↗ · The Grasshopper refused to desist, and chirped louder and louder the more the Owl entreated.↗ · and also their gods, with their molten images, and with their precious vessels of silver and of gold, shall he bring into captivity into Egypt; and he shall desist some years from the king of the north.↗ (Writings DAN.11.8, JPS 1917)↗

desk — Everyday, meaning 1: A desk is a table where you sit to read, write or work, often with drawers.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A desk is also a counter where you get help, like the front desk of a hotel.↗ Example: There are 6 rows of desks with 5 desks in each.↗ · The class needs 28 desks.↗ · Each desk has 2 pencils.↗ · A desk costs $45.↗ · Put your books in your desk.↗ · Please keep your desk tidy.↗ · Ask at the front desk of the library.↗ · The teacher's desk is at the front.↗ · One morning Mr. Fitzwarren was sitting at his desk in his office.↗

desolate — Everyday, meaning 1: Desolate means empty and bare, with no people or life.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Desolate means sad and lonely, feeling that nothing is good.↗ Example: The desolate house stood at the end of the lane.↗ · The moor was cold and desolate.↗ · After her friends left, she felt desolate.↗ · As long as it lieth desolate it shall have rest; even the rest which it had not in your sabbaths, when ye dwelt upon it.↗ (Torah LEV.26.35, JPS 1917)↗ · I will not drive them out from before thee in one year, lest the land become desolate, and the beasts of the field multiply against thee.↗ (Torah EXO.23.29, JPS 1917)↗ · Then shall the land be paid her sabbaths, as long as it lieth desolate, and ye are in your enemies' land; even then shall the land rest, and repay her sabbaths.↗ (Torah LEV.26.34, JPS 1917)↗ · Let their encampment be desolate; let none dwell in their tents.↗ (Writings PSA.69.26, JPS 1917)↗ · Lo, let that night be desolate; let no joyful voice come therein.↗ (Writings JOB.3.7, JPS 1917)↗ · For the mountain of Zion, which is desolate, the foxes walk upon it.↗ (Writings LAM.5.18, JPS 1917)↗

desolation — Everyday, meaning 1: Desolation is a state of being empty, ruined and bare, with nothing living.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Desolation is great sadness and loneliness.↗ Example: The flood left only desolation behind.↗ · We walked through the desolation of the burnt village.↗ · Her desolation grew each day.↗ · And I will bring the land into desolation; and your enemies that dwell therein shall be astonished at it.↗ (Torah LEV.26.32, JPS 1917)↗ · And I will make your cities a waste, and will bring your sanctuaries unto desolation, and I will not smell the savour of your sweet odours.↗ (Torah LEV.26.31, JPS 1917)↗ · And you will I scatter among the nations, and I will draw out the sword after you; and your land shall be a desolation, and your cities shall be a waste.↗ (Torah LEV.26.33, JPS 1917)↗ · How are they become a desolation in a moment!↗ (Writings PSA.73.19, JPS 1917)↗ · How is Babylon become a desolation among the nations!↗ (Prophets JER.50.23, JPS 1917)↗ · Terror and the pit are come upon us, desolation and destruction.↗ (Writings LAM.3.47, JPS 1917)↗

despair — Everyday, meaning 1: The feeling of having lost all hope.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (verb) To lose hope: «Don't despair — we'll find your cat.».↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (phrase) «Drive someone to despair» or «be the despair of someone» means make them feel hopeless and worried.↗ Example: Toad lay in his dungeon in despair.↗ · Don't despair — you can try again tomorrow.↗ · She shook her head in despair at the mess.↗ · The teacher despaired of ever getting the class quiet.↗ · After the storm, the farmers were in despair.↗ · His messy room is the despair of his mum.↗ · I do not despair of the future.↗ · When he raiseth himself up, the mighty are afraid; by reason of despair they are beside themselves.↗ (Writings JOB.41.17, JPS 1917)↗ · Therefore I turned about to cause my heart to despair concerning all the labour wherein I had laboured under the sun. (Writings ECC.2.20, JPS 1917)↗

despairingly — Everyday, meaning 1: In a hopeless way, as if you have given up all hope.↗ Example: "Help me!" she cried despairingly.↗ · He sat on the step and shook his head despairingly.↗ · The boy looked despairingly at the flooded road.↗

despatch — Everyday, meaning 1: To despatch something is to send it off, especially a parcel, letter or message.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: To despatch someone is to send them somewhere to do a job.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (formal) To despatch a task is to do it quickly; (old) to despatch someone can mean to kill them.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: A despatch is a sending, or an official report or message, for example from a war.↗ Example: Your parcel was despatched this morning.↗ · The ambulance was despatched to the accident.↗ · The general sent a despatch to London.↗ · She despatched her homework in ten minutes.↗ · In the old story, the knight despatched the dragon.↗ · Despatch riders carried messages in the war.↗ · They then despatched a herald on board of her, demanding the surrender of Medea and the Fleece.↗ · And the assembly shall stone them with stones, and despatch them with their swords; they shall slay their sons and their daughters, and burn up their houses with fire.↗ (Prophets EZK.23.47, JPS 1917)↗

desperate — Everyday, meaning 1: Feeling that you have little hope and will do anything to change the situation.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Wanting or needing something very much: «desperate for a drink».↗ Everyday, meaning 3: Very serious or dangerous: «a desperate situation».↗ Everyday, meaning 4: Done as a last try with little chance of success: «a desperate attempt».↗ Everyday, meaning 5: (informal, UK) «Desperate for the loo» means needing the toilet very badly.↗ Example: The lost hikers were desperate for water.↗ · I'm desperate to see the new film.↗ · They made a desperate attempt to save the goal.↗ · The family was in desperate need of food and shelter.↗ · (informal) Stop the car, I'm desperate for the loo!↗ · Desperate times call for desperate measures.↗ · The kitten gave a desperate cry from the tree.↗ · Her case, on the contrary, looked more desperate than ever.↗ · Do ye hold words to be an argument, but the speeches of one that is desperate to be wind?↗ (Writings JOB.6.26, JPS 1917)↗ · In the day of thy planting thou didst make it to grow, and in the morning thou didst make thy seed to blossom — a heap of boughs in the day of grief and of desperate pain.↗ (Prophets ISA.17.11, JPS 1917)↗