📖 D — The English dictionary · page 29

digest — Everyday, meaning 1: To digest food means to break it down in the stomach and intestines so the body can use it for energy and growth.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: To digest information means to think about it carefully until you understand it.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: A digest is a short collection or summary of news or writing.↗ Example: The stomach helps us digest our food.↗ · Chew well to help your body digest.↗ · Snakes can take days to digest a big meal.↗ · It took me a while to digest the news.↗ · Fibre in fruit and vegetables helps digestion.↗ · A cow has four parts to its stomach to digest grass.↗ · The magazine has a digest of the week's news.↗ · Crimthann absorbed instruction like a sponge and digested it as rapidly.↗

digestion — Everyday, meaning 1: The process in the body that breaks food down into tiny parts the body can take in and use.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: The body's ability to do this.↗ Example: Digestion starts when you chew food in your mouth.↗ · Saliva helps digestion by making food soft.↗ · The stomach uses acid for digestion.↗ · Fibre from fruit and vegetables is good for digestion.↗ · Food takes many hours to pass through the whole digestive system.↗ · Some people have trouble with digestion of milk.↗ · A cow has four parts to its stomach for the digestion of grass.↗ · The idea that you must wait an hour to swim after eating is a myth.↗

digestive — Everyday, meaning 1: Digestive means to do with digestion, the way the body breaks down food so it can use it.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: The digestive system is the set of body parts, from mouth to stomach to intestines, that digests food.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (UK, Ireland, Australia) A digestive (digestive biscuit) is a plain, slightly sweet, round wholemeal biscuit, often dunked in tea.↗ Example: Food travels through the digestive system.↗ · Your stomach is part of your digestive system.↗ · Gran always has a digestive with her cup of tea.↗ · Saliva starts the digestive process in your mouth.↗ · I dunked my digestive and half of it fell in the tea.↗ · Fibre is good for your digestive health.↗ · Can I have a chocolate digestive?↗

digged — Early Modern English, meaning 1: Made a hole in the ground by digging.↗ Example: And they digged another well, and they strove for that also.↗ (Torah GEN.26.21, JPS 1917) · Then meseemed that if I digged I should find beneath that tree a great treasure.↗ (More English Fairy Tales) · And Isaac's servants digged in the valley, and found there a well of living water.↗ (Torah GEN.26.19, JPS 1917)

digger — Everyday, meaning 1: A digger is a large machine with a big metal bucket on an arm, used for digging holes and moving earth.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A digger is also a person or animal that digs.↗ Example: The digger scooped up a big pile of earth.↗ · My little brother plays with his toy digger in the sandpit.↗ · Moles are excellent diggers.↗ · We watched the digger dig a hole for the new pool.↗ · The digger driver waved to us.↗ · Keep away from the digger while it is working.↗ · Wombats are strong diggers.↗

digging — Everyday, meaning 1: The action of making a hole in the ground or moving earth, with a spade, hands, paws or a machine.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Searching hard for something.↗ e.g. "digging for information".↗ Example: The dog is digging in the garden again.↗ · We spent the afternoon digging at the beach.↗ · Scientists are digging for dinosaur bones.↗ · Digging deep holes in sand can be dangerous.↗ · Grandad is digging a vegetable patch.↗ · Keep digging until you find the answer.↗ · be it known unto the king, that the Jews that came up from thee are come to us unto Jerusalem; they are building the rebellious and the bad city, and have finished the walls, and are digging out the foundations.↗ (Writings EZR.4.12, JPS 1917)↗

digit — Everyday, meaning 1: A digit is one of the ten signs 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 and 9 that we use to write numbers.↗ The number 47 has two digits.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A digit is also a finger or a toe.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: «Digital» things work with numbers inside, like computers and digital clocks.↗ Example: Write the largest two-digit number.↗ · The tens digit of 58 is 5.↗ · Make a three-digit number using the digits 3, 7 and 1.↗ · What is the sum of the digits of 246?↗ · My PIN has four digits.↗ · The temperature is in single digits today.↗ · Humans have five digits on each hand.↗ · A digital clock shows the time as digits.↗ · It should probably be understood on one level as a reference to the ten digits of the decimal numeral system, though as we shall see, these Sefirot Belimah are imbued with metaphysical significance beyond mere numerals.↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Sefaria community translation)↗ · 7) Like Pythagoras, who taught that the digits inclusive number ten which are typified in Tetraktys, (Τετρακτὺς) namely: 1 plus 2 plus 3 plus 4 equal 10, and which comprise the whole arithmetical system of nature, etc. (Sefer Yetzirah, Kalisch 1877)↗ · may say that tlie numeral system of the Sefer Yetzirah, con- sists of nine digits and the zero.↗ (Mordell, The Origin of Letters and Numerals according to Sefer Yetzirah (1914))↗

digital — Everyday, meaning 1: Using electronic signals and computers to store, send or show information as numbers (ones and zeros): «digital camera», «digital TV».↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Showing information as numbers on a screen rather than with hands or a pointer: «a digital clock».↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (formal, maths) To do with digits, the numbers 0 to 9.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: (medical) To do with the fingers or toes.↗ Example: I can read the time on a digital clock.↗ · We took digital photos on the trip.↗ · Your digital footprint is everything you post online.↗ · The library has digital books you can borrow.↗ · A digital thermometer shows the temperature in numbers.↗ · Our class learned about digital safety.↗ · The shop went digital and now sells online.↗ · Interested readers can check the 1562 Mantua edition for themselves through the digital archives of the National Library of Israel: nli.org.il/he/books/NNLALEPH990012793690205171/NLI.↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Sefaria community translation)↗ · This is a digital copy of a book that was preserved for generations on library shelves before it was carefully scanned by Google as part of a project to make the world's books discoverable online.↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1893)↗

digitalis — Everyday, meaning 1: A medicine made from the foxglove plant, used by doctors to make a weak heart beat more strongly and steadily.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: The foxglove plant itself, a tall plant with purple or white bell-shaped flowers.↗ Example: Digitalis comes from the foxglove plant.↗ · Doctors used digitalis to help patients with weak hearts.↗ · Foxgloves are also called digitalis in gardening books.↗ · Every part of the digitalis plant is poisonous.↗ · The scientist measured the right dose of digitalis carefully.↗

digitize — In Jewish tradition, meaning 1: To change something such as a book into a form that a computer can store and show.↗ Example: Google is proud to partner with libraries to digitize public domain materials and make them widely accessible.↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1893)↗

dignified — Everyday, meaning 1: Calm, serious and behaving in a way that makes people respect you.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Looking important and stately: «a dignified old building».↗ Example: The old judge walked in a slow, dignified way.↗ · She kept a dignified silence when they teased her.↗ · The losing team gave a dignified speech.↗ · The cat sat on the wall looking very dignified.↗ · The hospital makes sure patients are treated in a dignified way.↗ · It's hard to look dignified when you fall in a puddle.↗ · The Monkey sat up, grave and dignified, on the Dolphin's back.↗

dignitary — Everyday, meaning 1: A dignitary is an important person who holds a high rank or office, such as a judge, bishop or senior official.↗ Example: The mayor and other dignitaries sat at the front.↗ · He thought I was one of the court dignitaries.↗ · The dignitary arrived with a long train of servants.↗

dignity — Everyday, meaning 1: Dignity is the worth that every person has, which means they should be treated with respect.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Dignity is a calm, serious and proud way of behaving, even in hard times.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: Self-respect: feeling that you matter.↗ Example: Every person deserves to be treated with dignity.↗ · She lost the race but shook hands with dignity.↗ · The nurses helped Grandpa keep his dignity in hospital.↗ · Laughing at someone who fell takes away their dignity.↗ · The old king walked with great dignity.↗ · Slipping on the ice, I lost all my dignity!↗ (joking)↗ · "Daddy who?" asked Uncle Remus, straightening himself up with dignity.↗ · Reuben, thou art my first-born, my might, and the first-fruits of my strength; the excellency of dignity, and the excellency of power.↗ (Torah GEN.49.3, JPS 1917)↗ · Strength and dignity are her clothing; and she laugheth at the time to come.↗ (Writings PRO.31.25, JPS 1917)↗ · And the king said: 'What honour and dignity hath been done to Mordecai for this?'↗ Then said the king's servants that ministered unto him: 'There is nothing done for him.'↗ (Writings EST.6.3, JPS 1917)↗

digraph — Everyday, meaning 1: Two letters that together make one sound, such as sh in «ship», ch in «chip», th in «thin», ee in «see» and ai in «rain».↗ Example: «Sh» is a digraph in the word «fish».↗ · Find the digraph in «boat».↗ It's «oa».↗ · «Ph» in «phone» is a digraph that sounds like f.↗ · The split digraph i-e makes «bike» say its name.↗ · Underline every digraph in the sentence.↗ · «Th» can sound different in «this» and «thin».↗

dike — Everyday, meaning 1: A dike is a long bank of earth or stone built to keep the sea or a river from flooding the land; it is the same as a dyke.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (old use) A dike can also be a ditch dug to drain water from land.↗ Example: The farmers built a high dike to keep out the sea.↗ · She came to the dike and called out.↗ · The mother sat on the dike and wailed for her child.↗

dilapidated — Everyday, meaning 1: Dilapidated means old, falling to pieces and in need of repair.↗ Example: The dilapidated barn had a broken roof.↗ · We found a dilapidated dovecot in the old garden.↗ · Ivy grew over the dilapidated walls.↗

dilate — Everyday, meaning 1: To become wider or bigger, especially an opening in the body.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: The pupils of your eyes dilate (get bigger) in the dark so more light can come in.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (medicine) A doctor may use drops to dilate your pupils to look inside your eyes.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: (formal, rare) To talk or write at length about something.↗ Example: Your pupils dilate when you walk into a dark room.↗ · The optician put drops in my eyes to dilate them.↗ · When you are hot, blood vessels in your skin dilate.↗ · Cat's eyes dilate into big black circles at night.↗ · Watch a friend's eyes dilate when you turn off the light.↗ · The nurse checked whether the patient's pupils were dilated.↗ · The opposite of dilate is constrict.↗

dilemma — Everyday, meaning 1: A dilemma is a hard choice between two (or more) options when each one has a bad side, so it is hard to know what is right.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (ethics) A moral dilemma is a choice where two good rules pull against each other, like being honest and being kind.↗ Example: I had a dilemma: go to my best friend's party or my cousin's.↗ · Telling the truth would hurt Sam's feelings — it was a real dilemma.↗ · The class argued about a moral dilemma for an hour.↗ · The hero's dilemma was to save the town or save his dog.↗ · Mum faced a dilemma: work late or see my concert.↗ · Our team won the ethics olympiad by explaining the dilemma clearly.↗ · This question placed Iwanich in a dilemma.↗

diligence — Everyday, meaning 1: Diligence is careful, steady, hard work that keeps going until the job is done properly.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (law, business) Due diligence is checking something carefully before making a big decision, such as buying a company or a house.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (history) A diligence was also a stagecoach in France and nearby countries long ago.↗ Example: Her diligence paid off when she finally learned her times tables.↗ · The teacher praised Sam's diligence in checking every sum.↗ · Ants are famous for their diligence.↗ · With diligence, the team finished the model in time.↗ · The bank did its due diligence before lending the money.↗ · He showed great diligence in practising the piano every day.↗ · The travellers rode a diligence across France in the old story.↗ · Little by little his diligence was rewarded.↗ · I Darius have made a decree; let it be done with all diligence.'↗ (Writings EZR.6.12, JPS 1917)↗ · Then Tattenai, the governor beyond the River, Shethar-bozenai, and their companions, because that Darius the king had thus sent, acted with all diligence.↗ (Writings EZR.6.13, JPS 1917)↗ · therefore thou shalt with all diligence buy with this money bullocks, rams, lambs, with their meal-offerings and their drink-offerings, and shalt offer them upon the altar of the house of your God which is in Jerusalem.↗ (Writings EZR.7.17, JPS 1917)↗