📖 D — The English dictionary · page 45

diviner — Everyday, meaning 1: A person who claims to find hidden things or to foretell the future.↗ Example: The king sent for a diviner.↗ · The diviner said the rain would come soon.↗ · For these nations, that thou art to dispossess, hearken unto soothsayers, and unto diviners; but as for thee, the LORD thy God hath not suffered thee so to do.↗ (Torah DEU.18.14, JPS 1917)↗ · The mighty man, and the man of war; the judge, and the prophet, and the diviner, and the elder; (Prophets ISA.3.2, JPS 1917)↗ · That frustrateth the tokens of the imposters, and maketh diviners mad; that turneth wise men backward, and maketh their knowledge foolish; (Prophets ISA.44.25, JPS 1917)↗ · And the seers shall be put to shame, and the diviners confounded; yea, they shall all cover their upper lips; for there shall be no answer of God.↗ (Prophets MIC.3.7, JPS 1917)↗

divinity — Everyday, meaning 1: The quality of being God or a god; being divine.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A god or goddess: «Roman divinities».↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (school, university) The study of religion and God; theology: «a Doctor of Divinity».↗ Everyday, meaning 4: (sweets, US) A soft white sweet made with egg whites and sugar (also «divinity fudge»).↗ Example: Christians believe in the divinity of Jesus.↗ · The Romans worshipped many divinities.↗ · My uncle studied divinity before becoming a vicar.↗ · Zeus was the king of the Greek divinities.↗ · The Egyptian temple was built for a sun divinity.↗ · She made divinity sweets for the church bake sale.↗ · This divinity was chiefly worshipped at Lampsacus, his birthplace.↗

divisible — Everyday, meaning 1: In maths, a number is divisible by another number if it can be divided by it exactly, with no remainder.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Divisible means able to be divided or split into parts.↗ Example: 12 is divisible by 3 because 12 ÷ 3 = 4.↗ · 15 is not divisible by 2.↗ · Every even number is divisible by 2.↗ · 135 is divisible by 5 because it ends in 5.↗ · 81 is divisible by 9: 8 + 1 = 9.↗ · Is 100 divisible by 4?↗ Yes, 100 ÷ 4 = 25.↗ · The sweets were divisible equally between the four children.↗

division — Everyday, meaning 1: Division is sharing or grouping into equal parts.↗ 12 divided by 3 is 4.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A division is a part or group that a bigger thing is split into, like a division of a company or a sports league.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: Division is also disagreement that splits people apart.↗ Example: Use division to share 20 sweets among 4 children.↗ · Check the division with multiplication.↗ · Write a division for the story.↗ · 15 ÷ 3 is a division.↗ · In 20 ÷ 4 = 5, 5 is the quotient.↗ · We learned long division this term.↗ · Our team plays in the second division.↗ · Cells make new cells by division.↗ · Then, glaring at the Fox, he bade him make a fresh division.↗ · And I will put a division between My people and thy people — by to-morrow shall this sign be.'↗ (Torah EXO.8.23, JPS 1917)↗ · And the LORD shall make a division between the cattle of Israel and the cattle of Egypt; and there shall nothing die of all that belongeth to the children of Israel.'↗ (Torah EXO.9.4, JPS 1917)↗ · The head was created from fire, the breast from water, and the body from air, which places them in equilibrium.↗ [3:7] First Division.↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Kalisch 1877)↗ · Among the divisions of Reuben there were great resolves of heart.↗ (Prophets JDG.5.15, JPS 1917)↗ · At the divisions of Reuben there were great searchings of heart.↗ (Prophets JDG.5.16, JPS 1917)↗ · And Joshua cast lots for them in Shiloh before the LORD; and there Joshua divided the land unto the children of Israel according to their divisions.↗ (Prophets JOS.18.10, JPS 1917)↗

divisor — Everyday, meaning 1: A divisor is the number you divide by.↗ In 12 ÷ 3, the divisor is 3.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A divisor of a number is also a number that divides it exactly with no remainder; 3 is a divisor of 12.↗ It is also called a factor.↗ Example: In 20 ÷ 4 = 5 the divisor is 4.↗ · List all divisors of 12.↗ · The greatest common divisor of 8 and 12 is 4.↗ · The divisor is 6 and the quotient is 7.↗ What is the number?↗ · 1 is a divisor of every whole number.↗ · 7 has only two divisors, 1 and 7, so it is a prime number.↗ · The remainder must be less than the divisor.↗ · Is 5 a divisor of 32?↗

divorce — Everyday, meaning 1: The legal ending of a marriage, so the husband and wife are no longer married.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: To end your marriage to someone by law.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: To separate two things completely (formal: you can't divorce sport from fun).↗ Example: My parents got divorced when I was five.↗ · A divorce is when a marriage ends by law.↗ · After the divorce, I stay with Dad at weekends.↗ · It is never the child's fault when parents divorce.↗ · Lots of my friends have divorced parents.↗ · They divorced but stayed good friends.↗ · If your family changes, talk to someone you trust about how you feel.↗ · The Voyvode waxed wroth, and demanded a divorce.↗ · But the vow of a widow, or of her that is divorced, even every thing wherewith she hath bound her soul, shall stand against her.↗ (Torah NUM.30.9, JPS 1917)↗ · A widow, or one divorced, or a profaned woman, or a harlot, these shall he not take; but a virgin of his own people shall he take to wife.↗ (Torah LEV.21.14, JPS 1917)↗ · But if a priest's daughter be a widow, or divorced, and have no child, and is returned unto her father's house, as in her youth, she may eat of her father's bread; but there shall no common man eat thereof.↗ (Torah LEV.22.13, JPS 1917)↗

divorcement — In Jewish tradition, meaning 1: The act of divorcing, or the ending of a marriage.↗ Example: and the latter husband hateth her, and writeth her a bill of divorcement, and giveth it in her hand, and sendeth her out of his house; or if the latter husband die, who took her to be his wife; (Torah DEU.24.3, JPS 1917)↗ · Thus saith the LORD: Where is the bill of your mother's divorcement, wherewith I have put her away?↗ (Prophets ISA.50.1, JPS 1917)↗ · And I saw, when, forasmuch as backsliding Israel had committed adultery, I had put her away and given her a bill of divorcement, that yet treacherous Judah her sister feared not; but she also went and played the harlot; (Prophets JER.3.8, JPS 1917)↗

divulge — Everyday, meaning 1: To reveal a secret or private information.↗ Example: He would not divulge the name of the thief.↗ · Do not divulge our plan to anyone.↗

divvy — Everyday, meaning 1: (informal) To divvy up something is to share it out between people.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (UK slang) A divvy is a silly or foolish person; it is a mild insult.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (informal, older) A divvy is a share or dividend, a part of the money that people get.↗ Example: Let's divvy up the sweets so everyone gets five.↗ · We divvied the chores between the three of us.↗ · (UK slang) Don't be a divvy, you've got your shoes on the wrong feet!↗ · They divvied out the pizza slices.↗ · The pirates divvied up the treasure.↗ · (UK slang) My brother called me a divvy for forgetting my bag.↗

dizziness — Everyday, meaning 1: Dizziness is the feeling that you or the things around you are spinning, or that you might fall.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: It can come from spinning round, standing up too fast, being hot, hungry or ill, or from a head injury.↗ Example: Spinning round and round gives me dizziness.↗ · She felt dizziness after standing up too quickly.↗ · Dizziness can be a sign of dehydration.↗ · Tell the teacher if you have dizziness after a fall.↗ · The medicine may cause dizziness.↗ · His dizziness went away after a rest and a drink.↗ · The ride gave me a moment of dizziness.↗ · Sit down if you feel dizziness.↗ · Oh! were I but loose; my dizziness would then cease; oh, were my head but loose!”↗ · The LORD hath mingled within her a spirit of dizziness; and they have caused Egypt to stagger in every work thereof, as a drunken man staggereth in his vomit.↗ (Prophets ISA.19.14, JPS 1917)↗

dizzy — Everyday, meaning 1: Dizzy means feeling as if everything is spinning and you might fall over.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Dizzy can describe something that makes you feel that way: dizzy heights.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: Informally, a dizzy person is silly or forgetful.↗ Example: I spun round and round until I felt dizzy.↗ · If you feel dizzy, sit down at once.↗ · Standing up too fast made her dizzy.↗ · The heat made me feel dizzy, so I drank some water.↗ · Looking down from the tower made him dizzy.↗ · Tell an adult if you feel dizzy after bumping your head.↗ · She was dizzy with excitement on her birthday.↗ · Spinning rides make me dizzy.↗ · Soon he became dizzy and faint.↗

dj — Everyday, meaning 1: (abbreviation) A DJ, short for disc jockey, is a person who plays recorded music for people at a party, club or on the radio.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (informal verb) To DJ is to be the DJ at an event.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (UK, informal, older) DJ can also stand for dinner jacket, a smart black jacket worn at formal events.↗ Example: The DJ played my favourite song at the school disco.↗ · My uncle is a radio DJ in the mornings.↗ · She wants to DJ at her cousin's wedding.↗ · The DJ asked everyone to put their hands up.↗ · He DJed for the class party with a laptop.↗ · (UK) Dad wore a DJ and bow tie to the ball.↗ · Happiness y or a good end, or simply g(H>dj TUBH.↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1893)↗

djinn — Everyday, meaning 1: In Arab and Muslim stories and beliefs, a spirit made of smokeless fire that can be good or bad and can sometimes take the shape of people or animals.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A genie, like the magic spirit in a lamp in the story of Aladdin.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: In the Just So Story «How the Camel Got His Hump», the Djinn in charge of All Deserts gives the lazy Camel a hump because he only says «Humph!» and will not work.↗ Example: The Djinn rolled across the desert in a cloud of dust.↗ · «Humph!» said the Camel, and the Djinn made his back puff up into a hump.↗ · In the old tale, a djinn came out of the bottle.↗ · The Djinn in charge of All Deserts was riding on a whirlwind.↗ · Aladdin's genie is a kind of djinn.↗ · Some people tell stories of djinn who live in empty places.↗ · The Djinn said, «You've had three days off; now work.»↗

dm — Everyday, meaning 1: dm is the short way to write decimeter.↗ A decimeter is 10 centimeters, and a meter is 10 dm.↗ Example: The stick is 5 dm long.↗ · 3 dm = 30 cm.↗ · Add 4 dm and 6 dm.↗ · Which is longer, 1 m or 8 dm?↗ · A cube with 1 dm sides holds 1 liter.↗ · The book is 2 dm tall.↗

dmd — Everyday, meaning 1: Duchenne muscular dystrophy: a rare illness, passed on in families and found mostly in boys, in which the muscles slowly get weaker.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Doctor of Dental Medicine: a degree held by some dentists, especially in the USA.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (rare) Other technical meanings, such as a part in some projectors (digital micromirror device).↗ Example: Our school ran a fun run to raise money for DMD research.↗ · DMD makes the muscles grow weaker over time.↗ · The sign said «Dr Lee, DMD», so she was a dentist.↗ · Children with DMD may use a wheelchair.↗ · DMD is short for Duchenne muscular dystrophy.↗

dna — Everyday, meaning 1: DNA is the chemical inside the cells of every living thing that carries the instructions for how it grows, works and what it looks like.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: DNA is passed from parents to children, which is why children often look like their parents.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (figurative) Something's «DNA» is the most basic part of what it is: «kindness is in our school's DNA».↗ Example: DNA is like a recipe book inside every cell.↗ · You got half your DNA from your mum and half from your dad.↗ · DNA is shaped like a twisted ladder called a double helix.↗ · The detectives found DNA on the cup.↗ · Identical twins have almost the same DNA.↗ · Scientists can read the DNA of plants and animals.↗ · Rosalind Franklin's pictures helped scientists see the shape of DNA.↗ · Being curious is part of our family's DNA.↗

do — Everyday, meaning 1: To do is to carry out an action: do your homework.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Do helps make questions and «not» sentences.↗ e.g. Do you like cats?↗ I don't know.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: Do can stand for a verb already said: «Who ate it?»↗ «I did.».↗ Everyday, meaning 4: To do well or badly is to get on well or badly.↗ Everyday, meaning 5: «Will do» or «That will do» means that is enough or that is fine.↗ Everyday, meaning 6: (casual, UK, Ireland, Australia) A do is a party: a birthday do.↗ Everyday, meaning 7: (rough) «Do» can mean hurt or punish: «I'll do you!», «he got done for speeding» (caught by the police); «done in» means very tired.↗ Everyday, meaning 8: (formal) The exam voice says «perform», «carry out», «execute», «undertake», «complete» where a child would say «do».↗ Example: How many cards does Ben have now?↗ · How many cards did Anna find altogether?↗ · Do you have more pens than Ali?↗ · Did you do your homework?↗ · I don't like spinach.↗ · Let's do a puzzle.↗ · Do your best in the race!↗ · She does karate after school.↗ · «Who wants cake?»↗ «I do!»↗ · We're having a do for nan's 80th, need 20 chairs↗ · Touch my bike and I'll do you.↗ · Perform the indicated operation and state the result: 17 − 9.↗ · And they did eat there by the heap.↗ (Torah GEN.31.46, JPS 1917)↗ · Now then, whatsoever God hath said unto thee, do.'↗ (Torah GEN.31.16, JPS 1917)↗ · And also unto thy bondwoman thou shalt do likewise.↗ (Torah DEU.15.17, JPS 1917)↗ · Thus shalt thou do six days.↗ (Prophets JOS.6.3, JPS 1917)↗ · And the people did yet corruptly.↗ (Writings 2CH.27.2, JPS 1917)↗ · Why did the knees receive me?↗ (Writings JOB.3.12, JPS 1917)↗