📖 D — The English dictionary · page 47

doge — Everyday, meaning 1: (history) The Doge was the elected ruler of the old city states of Venice and Genoa in Italy, for about a thousand years until 1797.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (slang, internet) Doge is a joke internet meme of a Shiba Inu dog with funny broken English like «much wow, very amaze».↗ Everyday, meaning 3: Dogecoin is an online money that started as a joke based on this meme.↗ Example: The Doge of Venice lived in a grand palace.↗ · The Doge was chosen for life.↗ · We visited the Doge's Palace on holiday in Venice.↗ · Venice was ruled by doges for centuries.↗ · My cousin sent me a doge meme: «such homework, very wow».↗ · Dogecoin started as a joke.↗ · The doge meme uses a Shiba Inu dog.↗

dogfish — Everyday, meaning 1: A kind of small shark found in seas around Britain, Europe, North America and elsewhere, often with a spotted skin.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A name for some other fish, such as the bowfin of North American lakes.↗ Example: We saw a dogfish at the sea-life centre.↗ · A dogfish is a small kind of shark.↗ · The fisherman caught a spotted dogfish.↗ · Dogfish eggs come in cases called mermaid's purses.↗ · On the beach we found an empty dogfish egg case.↗ · The dogfish swam slowly along the bottom of the tank.↗ · In biology we looked at the skin of a dogfish.↗ · Dogfish have rough skin like sandpaper.↗

doggedly — Everyday, meaning 1: In a stubborn, determined way; going on and not giving up, even when it is hard.↗ Example: Ben worked doggedly at his long division until he got it right.↗ · The explorers trudged doggedly through the snow.↗ · Mole doggedly followed the path even though the wood frightened him.↗ · She doggedly refused to give up her seat on the team.↗ · The tortoise plodded doggedly on and won the race.↗ · The rescue workers dug doggedly through the night.↗ · He practised his spellings doggedly every evening.↗ · “I’ll swing before I go in there,” replied Starkey doggedly, and again he had the support of the crew.↗

doggie — Everyday, meaning 1: A child's word for a dog, especially a small or cute one.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: doggy bag: a bag for taking home food you did not finish at a restaurant.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: doggy paddle (or doggie paddle): a simple way of swimming, paddling with your hands like a dog.↗ Example: Look at the little doggie in the window!↗ · The toddler pointed and said, «Doggie!»↗ · We asked for a doggy bag for the leftover pizza.↗ · I can only swim doggy paddle so far.↗ · The doggie wagged its tail at us.↗ · My baby cousin hugged her toy doggie.↗ · Don't pat a doggie without asking the owner first.↗ · Good little dog--nice little doggie, then!↗

doggo — Everyday, meaning 1: (internet slang) A dog, said in a cute, playful way: «What a good doggo!».↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (old UK and Australian slang, in «lie doggo») To stay hidden and quiet, not moving, so you are not found.↗ Example: (slang) Look at that fluffy doggo!↗ · (slang) Who's a good doggo?↗ · (slang) The doggo stole my sandwich.↗ · (old UK) The spy lay doggo in the bushes until the guards passed.↗ · (old slang) We'll have to lie doggo till the coast is clear.↗

doggy — Everyday, meaning 1: (informal, child's word) A dog.↗ e.g. Look at the doggy!↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (adjective, informal) Like a dog or to do with dogs; smelling of dog: a doggy smell.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: «doggy bag» — a bag or box to take home the food you did not finish at a restaurant.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: «doggy paddle» — a simple way of swimming like a dog, paddling with hands under the water.↗ Example: Look, Mummy, a big doggy!↗ · Can we have a doggy bag for the leftover pizza?↗ · My little brother can only do doggy paddle.↗ · The car had a doggy smell after the trip.↗ · We put in a doggy door so the dog can go out.↗ · The doggies wagged their tails.↗

doghouse — Everyday, meaning 1: A small shelter built for a dog to sleep in; in everyday talk, «in the doghouse» means being in trouble.↗ Example: The dog slept in its doghouse.↗ · He hid his face and crept near the doghouse.↗

dogma — In Jewish tradition, meaning 1: A belief that a group says must be accepted as true.↗ Example: The following interesting comment is from Rabbi Moses Botarel:-"It was Abraham our Father-blessed be he who wrote this book to condemn the doctrine of the sages of his time, who were incredulous of the supreme dogma of the Unity.↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1893)↗

doings — Everyday, meaning 1: Doings are the things a person does or has done, their actions, often ones that get judged as good or bad: the doings of a naughty goblin.↗ Example: These are the doings of our new puppy, who chews everything.↗ · The king told the court about the doings of his brother.↗ · Her kind doings made the whole village happy.↗ · Mum laughed at my doings in the garden.↗ · Thou shalt not bow down to their gods, nor serve them, nor do after their doings; but thou shalt utterly overthrow them, and break in pieces their pillars.↗ (Torah EXO.23.24, JPS 1917)↗ · After the doings of the land of Egypt, wherein ye dwelt, shall ye not do; and after the doings of the land of Canaan, whither I bring you, shall ye not do; neither shall ye walk in their statutes.↗ (Torah LEV.18.3, JPS 1917)↗ · He that fashioneth the hearts of them all, that considereth all their doings.↗ (Writings PSA.33.15, JPS 1917)↗ · I will meditate also upon all Thy work, and muse on Thy doings.'↗ (Writings PSA.77.13, JPS 1917)↗ · Thus were they defiled with their works, and went astray in their doings.↗ (Writings PSA.106.39, JPS 1917)↗

doldrums — Everyday, meaning 1: A feeling of being sad, bored or stuck, with no energy, as in «in the doldrums».↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A time when nothing is happening or growing, as in «the economy is in the doldrums».↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (geography) An area of sea near the equator where there is often very little wind, so sailing ships could be stuck for days.↗ Example: I was in the doldrums all week after my best friend moved away.↗ · Sailing ships were stuck in the doldrums for days with no wind.↗ · The team was in the doldrums after losing five matches.↗ · The doldrums lie close to the equator.↗ · Shops are in the doldrums in January after Christmas.↗ · A sunny walk got me out of the doldrums.↗

dole — Everyday, meaning 1: (informal, UK/Ireland/Australia/NZ) Money that the government pays to people who have no job: «on the dole».↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (verb, «dole out») To give out small amounts of something, such as food, money or jobs, to several people.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (old) A share of food or money given to the poor.↗ Example: (UK) After the factory closed, he was on the dole for a year.↗ · Mum doled out the chocolates, two each.↗ · The teacher doled out the worksheets.↗ · (Ireland) She signed on the dole while looking for work.↗ · The dinner lady doled out the mashed potato.↗ · (Australia) He's been on the dole since leaving school.↗

doleful — Everyday, meaning 1: Very sad and gloomy, looking or sounding miserable.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Causing sadness: «doleful news».↗ Example: The puppy gave me a doleful look.↗ · The Mock Turtle sang a doleful song.↗ · Toad sat in his cell looking doleful.↗ · A doleful bell rang across the valley.↗ · He told the doleful story of his lost kite.↗ · The rain made the day feel doleful.↗ · It was really a doleful garden for a princess.↗ · In that day shall they take up a parable against you, and lament with a doleful lamentation, and say: 'We are utterly ruined; he changeth the portion of my people; how doth he remove it from me!↗ (Prophets MIC.2.4, JPS 1917)↗

dolefully — Everyday, meaning 1: Dolefully means in a sad, mournful way, as if very unhappy: he sighed dolefully.↗ Example: "I lost my ball," he said dolefully.↗ · The dog looked dolefully at the empty bowl.↗ · She sighed dolefully and sat down on the step.↗

doll — Everyday, meaning 1: A doll is a toy shaped like a baby, child or person.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (informal, old-fashioned) Doll is a word for a pretty or kind person: «You're a doll.».↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (informal) To get dolled up means to dress up nicely for a special event.↗ Example: My little sister plays with her doll every day.↗ · Gran made me a rag doll.↗ · The doll's house has six rooms.↗ · Mia has 4 dolls and gets 3 more; how many does she have now?↗ · They got all dolled up for the wedding.↗ · Thanks for helping, you're a doll.↗ (informal)↗ · Why, it was her doll that helped Vasilissa.↗

dollar — Everyday, meaning 1: A dollar is a unit of money used in the United States, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and some other countries.↗ A dollar is 100 cents.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A dollar is a coin or note worth one dollar.↗ Example: A book costs 6 dollars.↗ · She had 20 dollars and spent 8.↗ · He earns 5 dollars an hour.↗ · How many dollars did they spend in all?↗ · A dollar is 100 cents.↗ · I found a dollar coin in my pocket.↗ · The tickets cost $4 each.↗ · She saved 2 dollars a week for 10 weeks.↗

dolly — Everyday, meaning 1: A dolly is a child's word for a doll.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A dolly is a small low platform with wheels for moving heavy things or for moving a film camera smoothly.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (UK, cricket) A dolly or dolly catch is a very easy catch.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: (old UK slang, sexist) A «dolly bird» was a rude-ish old word for a pretty young woman; it is not polite now.↗ Example: My little sister carries her rag dolly everywhere.↗ · The movers used a dolly to wheel the fridge out.↗ · The camera moved on a dolly along the track.↗ · (UK, cricket) He dropped a dolly and the crowd groaned.↗ · We bought a bag of dolly mixtures at the shop.↗ · She tucked her dolly into the toy pram.↗

dolorous — Everyday, meaning 1: Dolorous means full of sorrow or pain; sad and mournful, often said of a sound or cry (old use, formal).↗ Example: The owl gave a dolorous hoot in the dark wood.↗ · After the storm there was a dolorous silence in the village.↗ · Her dolorous song made everyone cry.↗

dolphin — Everyday, meaning 1: A dolphin is a clever sea mammal with a long snout and a curved fin, that lives in groups and breathes air through a blowhole.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Some kinds of dolphin live in rivers.↗ Example: A pod of dolphins swam beside our boat.↗ · Dolphins breathe through a blowhole on their head.↗ · A dolphin is a mammal, not a fish.↗ · Dolphins use echolocation to find fish.↗ · The dolphins leapt out of the water.↗ · Baby dolphins are called calves.↗ · Some dolphins live in rivers.↗ · Dolphins are very playful and clever.↗ · His usual attributes are the trident, horse, and dolphin.↗

dolt — Everyday, meaning 1: A dolt is a stupid person who is slow to understand things; a fool (old use or rude).↗ Example: Stop being a dolt and look at the map!↗ · The clever girl laughed at the dolt who lost the race.↗ · Don't be such a dolt; read the sign first.↗

domain — Everyday, meaning 1: A domain is an area of land that a king, lord or person owns or rules.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A domain is an area of knowledge, work or activity, as in «maths is her domain».↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (internet) A domain or domain name is the address of a website, like example.com.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: (maths) The domain of a function is the set of numbers you are allowed to put into it.↗ Everyday, meaning 5: Public domain is a book, song or picture that anyone may use freely, because no one owns its copyright any more.↗ Example: The castle and forest were the king's domain.↗ · The kitchen is Dad's domain on Sundays.↗ · Check the domain name before you type your password.↗ · The website's domain ends in .org.↗ · Space science is her domain.↗ · Old stories in the public domain are free to share.↗ · The lion guarded his domain on the savanna.↗ · This text, which matches the 1911 original publication, is in the public domain in the US.↗ · New York, 1877↗ · license: Public Domain↗ · versionSource: https://archive.org/details/sketchoftalmudwo02kali (Sefer Yetzirah, Kalisch 1877)↗ · Whether a book is in the public domain may vary country to country.↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1893)↗ · Public domain books belong to the public and we are merely their custodians.↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1893)↗