📖 D — The English dictionary · page 34

disbelieve — Everyday, meaning 1: To not believe that someone or something is true; to refuse to believe.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: To not have faith in something, especially in God (formal, older use).↗ Example: The villagers disbelieved the boy who cried wolf.↗ · Thomas disbelieved the news until he saw Jesus himself.↗ · I have no reason to disbelieve you.↗ · The teacher disbelieved my excuse about the dog eating my homework.↗ · Many people disbelieved the explorer's tales.↗ · She was disbelieved at first, but the evidence proved her right.↗ · “Then do you disbelieve what I say, and think that I am telling you a falsehood?”↗

disburse — Everyday, meaning 1: (formal) To disburse money is to pay it out, usually from a fund or by an organisation, government or bank.↗ Example: The charity disbursed money to families who lost their homes.↗ · The council will disburse the funds next month.↗ · The club treasurer disburses money for team trips.↗ · A total of 600 dollars was disbursed equally among 4 schools.↗ · The bank disbursed the loan to the farmer.↗ · After the fair, the money was disbursed to three charities.↗

disc — Everyday, meaning 1: A disc is a flat, thin, round object.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A disc is a round flat object used to store music, films or computer data, such as a CD or DVD.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: A disc is one of the small pads of tough material between the bones of your spine.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: The disc of the sun or moon is its round, bright face as seen in the sky.↗ Example: The full Moon looked like a silver disc.↗ · Put the disc into the DVD player.↗ · We threw a plastic disc across the park.↗ · Cut a disc of paper for the lid.↗ · Grandad has a slipped disc in his back.↗ · The medal was a gold disc on a ribbon.↗

discard — Everyday, meaning 1: To discard something is to throw it away or get rid of it because you do not want or need it.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: In card games, to put down a card you do not want.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: As a noun: a card or thing that has been thrown away.↗ Example: Discard the apple cores in the compost bin.↗ · Peel the orange and discard the skin.↗ · In this game you discard one card each turn.↗ · Please discard used tissues in the bin.↗ · The scientist discarded the broken test tube.↗ · Discard any eggs that are cracked.↗ · Old toys were discarded by the side of the road.↗

discarded — Everyday, meaning 1: Discarded is the past form of «discard», which means to throw away or get rid of something you no longer want.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (adjective) A discarded thing has been thrown away or left behind.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: In card games, to discard a card is to put it down because you do not want it.↗ Example: The beach was covered in discarded plastic bottles.↗ · He discarded his old trainers and bought new ones.↗ · A discarded fishing line tangled around the bird's leg.↗ · Never touch a discarded needle; tell an adult.↗ · I discarded two cards and picked up two new ones.↗ · Of 50 apples, 8 were discarded because they were rotten.↗ · We made art from discarded boxes.↗

discern — Everyday, meaning 1: To see, hear or notice something that is hard to see or hear.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: To understand or recognise something, often a difference, by thinking carefully.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (formal) To tell apart, such as right from wrong.↗ Example: Through the fog we could just discern the lighthouse.↗ · Can you discern a pattern in these numbers?↗ · It was hard to discern what she meant.↗ · Babies soon learn to discern their mother's voice.↗ · Good readers discern clues the writer has hidden.↗ · He could not discern any difference between the two cakes.↗ · The judge must discern truth from lies.↗ · So rapidly did they grow, that Cadmus now discerned the fierce countenance of a man beneath every one.↗ · If they were wise, they would understand this, they would discern their latter end.↗ (Torah DEU.32.29, JPS 1917)↗ · And he discerned him not, because his hands were hairy, as his brother Esau's hands; so he blessed him.↗ (Torah GEN.27.23, JPS 1917)↗ · With whomsoever thou findest thy gods, he shall not live; before our brethren discern thou what is thine with me, and take it to thee.' — For Jacob knew not that Rachel had stolen them. — (Torah GEN.31.32, JPS 1917)↗ · Cannot my taste discern crafty devices?↗ (Writings JOB.6.30, JPS 1917)↗ · It is not the great that are wise, nor the aged that discern judgment.↗ (Writings JOB.32.9, JPS 1917)↗ · And she lay at his feet until the morning; and she rose up before one could discern another.↗ (Writings RUT.3.14, JPS 1917)↗

discernible — Everyday, meaning 1: Discernible means able to be seen, heard, noticed or understood, even if only just.↗ Example: There was no discernible difference between the two plants.↗ · In the fog, the lighthouse was barely discernible.↗ · A faint smile was discernible on her face.↗ · The change in temperature was hardly discernible.↗ · After a week, there was a discernible improvement in his reading.↗ · The ship became discernible on the horizon.↗

discernment — In Jewish tradition, meaning 1: The ability to see clearly the difference between things, such as right and wrong or true and false; good judgment and understanding.↗ Example: His discernment is past searching out.↗ (Prophets ISA.40.28, JPS 1917)↗ · Discretion shall watch over thee, discernment shall guard thee; (Writings PRO.2.11, JPS 1917)↗ · 'Job speaketh without knowledge, and his words are without discernment.'↗ (Writings JOB.34.35, JPS 1917)↗

discharge — Everyday, meaning 1: (verb) To let someone leave officially, for example a patient from hospital or a soldier from the army.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (verb) To let out a liquid, gas or electricity.↗ e.g. The pipe discharges water into the river.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (verb, formal) To do a duty fully.↗ e.g. She discharged her duties well.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: (verb) To fire a gun.↗ Everyday, meaning 5: (noun) The act of letting someone go or letting something out.↗ Everyday, meaning 6: (noun) Liquid that comes out of something, such as from a cut or the nose.↗ Example: Grandad was discharged from hospital after two days.↗ · The factory must not discharge waste into the river.↗ · A phone battery discharges as you use it.↗ · Lightning is a huge electric discharge.↗ · The officer discharged his duties with care.↗ · The doctor looked at the discharge from the cut.↗ · The soldier got his discharge from the army.↗ · If a tank discharges 5 litres a minute, it loses 50 litres in 10 minutes.↗ · The true fabulist, therefore, discharges a most important function.↗ · It is good that thou shouldest take hold of the one; yea, also from the other withdraw not thy hand; for he that feareth God shall discharge himself of them all.↗ (Writings ECC.7.18, JPS 1917)↗ · There is no man that hath power over the wind to retain the wind; neither hath he power over the day of death; and there is no discharge in war; neither shall wickedness deliver him that is given to it.↗ (Writings ECC.8.8, JPS 1917)↗

discharged — Everyday, meaning 1: If a patient is discharged from hospital, they are allowed to go home.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: If someone is discharged from the army or a job, they are officially allowed or made to leave.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: If a battery is discharged, its stored electricity has been used up.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: If a liquid or gas is discharged, it is let out or flows out.↗ Everyday, meaning 5: If a gun is discharged, it is fired.↗ Everyday, meaning 6: (formal) If a duty or debt is discharged, it has been done or paid.↗ Example: Grandma was discharged from hospital and came home on Friday.↗ · The soldier was discharged after ten years in the army.↗ · My tablet's battery is fully discharged — I need to charge it.↗ · Dirty water was discharged into the river.↗ · The gun was discharged by accident, so always treat guns as dangerous.↗ · The cloud discharged its electricity as lightning.↗ · She discharged her duties as captain very well.↗ · Meanwhile the enemy discharged several thousand arrows, many of which stuck in my hands and face.↗

disciple — Everyday, meaning 1: (Bible) A disciple was a follower of Jesus who learned from him; the twelve closest were also called apostles.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A disciple is anyone who follows and learns from a teacher or leader and believes in their ideas.↗ Example: Jesus called Peter and Andrew to be his disciples.↗ · The disciples were afraid when the storm hit their boat.↗ · At the Last Supper, Jesus washed his disciples' feet.↗ · The young chef was a disciple of the great baker.↗ · We learned the names of the twelve disciples.↗ · A disciple listens, learns, and tries to live by the teaching.↗ · The one who came to you before was only my disciple!” replied the old man again.↗ · The disciples of Pythagoras looked upon the decade as a holy number, and swore by it and by the Tetraktys which contain the number ten, (Sefer Yetzirah, Kalisch 1877)↗ · Burnet, Early Greek Pliitosopliy, page 99) that "all that has come down to us under the names of various disciples of Pythagoras is pure forgery, of the most worthless kind.↗ (Mordell, The Origin of Letters and Numerals according to Sefer Yetzirah (1914))↗ · 'Bind up the testimony, seal the instruction among My disciples.'↗ (Prophets ISA.8.16, JPS 1917)↗

disciplinary — Everyday, meaning 1: Disciplinary means to do with punishing people who break rules, at school, work or in sport.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (formal) To do with a subject of study, as in «interdisciplinary».↗ Example: Fighting in class led to disciplinary action.↗ · The player faced a disciplinary hearing after the match.↗ · The school has a clear disciplinary policy.↗ · He has a clean disciplinary record.↗ · The worker was given a disciplinary warning for being late.↗ · Our project was interdisciplinary: maths, art and science together.↗

discipline — Everyday, meaning 1: Discipline is following rules and controlling how you act, often taught by parents or teachers.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Self-discipline: making yourself do what you should, like practising every day.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: To discipline someone is to punish them for breaking rules.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: (formal) A subject or field of study, such as maths or biology.↗ Example: The coach said discipline is the key to winning.↗ · Learning piano takes a lot of discipline.↗ · The school has strict discipline.↗ · Her parents disciplined her for lying.↗ · Chemistry and physics are two scientific disciplines.↗ · It takes self-discipline to do homework before games.↗ · The soldiers marched with perfect discipline.↗ · The pressure of regularity and discipline here stamped the jewel, which in the future the world so well knew.↗ · To receive the discipline of wisdom, justice, and right, and equity; (Writings PRO.1.3, JPS 1917)↗ · He openeth also their ear to discipline, and commandeth that they return from iniquity.↗ (Writings JOB.36.10, JPS 1917)↗ · The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge; but the foolish despise wisdom and discipline.↗ (Writings PRO.1.7, JPS 1917)↗

disclose — Everyday, meaning 1: To disclose something is to tell people something that was secret or private.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: To disclose something is to show something that was hidden.↗ Example: Never disclose your password to anyone online.↗ · The company did not disclose how much money it made.↗ · She finally disclosed the secret to her best friend.↗ · If something worries you, you can disclose it to a teacher.↗ · The magician would not disclose how the trick worked.↗ · Lifting the curtain disclosed a hidden door.↗ · The winner's name will be disclosed tomorrow.↗ · My zeal prompts me to disclose this to your Majesty.↗ · Then said Jonathan: 'Behold, we will pass over unto the men, and we will disclose ourselves unto them.↗ (Prophets 1SA.14.8, JPS 1917)↗ · and I thought to disclose it unto thee, saying: Buy it before them that sit here, and before the elders of my people.↗ (Writings RUT.4.4, JPS 1917)↗ · For, behold, the LORD cometh forth out of His place to visit upon the inhabitants of the earth their iniquity; the earth also shall disclose her blood, and shall no more cover her slain.↗ (Prophets ISA.26.21, JPS 1917)↗

disclosed — Everyday, meaning 1: Disclosed is the past form of «disclose»: told or made known something that was secret or private.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (adjective) Disclosed information has been made public or told.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: Disclosed can mean uncovered or shown, when something hidden is revealed.↗ Example: The boy disclosed that he had broken the window.↗ · The price of the house was not disclosed.↗ · The report disclosed that the river was polluted.↗ · She disclosed her worries to the school nurse.↗ · The team's new coach was disclosed at the press meeting.↗ · The detective disclosed who the thief was at the end.↗ · The money was paid to an undisclosed person.↗ · This, when removed, disclosed a flight of stone steps which led to a large room richly furnished and lighted by tapers.↗ · He bound the essences of the twenty-two letters on his tongue, and God disclosed to him the secrets of them.↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1887)↗ · And both of them disclosed themselves unto the garrison of the Philistines; and the Philistines said: 'Behold Hebrews coming forth out of the holes where they hid themselves.'↗ (Prophets 1SA.14.11, JPS 1917)↗

disclosure — Everyday, meaning 1: Telling people something that was secret or private.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A fact or piece of information that is made known.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (formal) Officially giving information, such as in law or business.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: (safety) When a child tells a trusted adult about something harmful happening to them.↗ Example: The disclosure of the secret shocked everyone.↗ · If you are worried, telling an adult is called a disclosure, and it is the right thing to do.↗ · (formal) The company made a full disclosure of its accounts.↗ · Full disclosure: I've already eaten one of the biscuits.↗ · The disclosure of passwords is not allowed.↗ · The newspaper's disclosure led to an investigation.↗

disco — Everyday, meaning 1: A disco is a party or event where people dance to recorded pop music, often with coloured lights.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A school disco is an evening dance party for pupils at school.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: Disco is a kind of dance music with a strong beat, popular long ago and still played at parties.↗ Example: The school disco is on Friday night.↗ · We danced under the flashing disco lights.↗ · Grandma loves old disco music.↗ · A silver disco ball hung from the ceiling.↗ · Tickets for the disco cost £2 each.↗ · Lily was too shy to dance at her first disco.↗