📖 D — The English dictionary · page 48

dome — Everyday, meaning 1: A dome is a round roof shaped like half of a ball.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A dome is anything shaped like half a ball, such as a rounded hill or the top of a head.↗ Example: The cathedral has a huge golden dome.↗ · We looked up at the painted ceiling inside the dome.↗ · An igloo is a dome made of snow blocks.↗ · The tent was shaped like a dome.↗ · A dome is a strong shape because it spreads the weight all round.↗ · The baby's head felt like a soft little dome.↗ · The cake was covered with a clear plastic dome.↗ · He went in, and there was a round cave, like the dome of St. Paul's.↗

domestic — Everyday, meaning 1: To do with the home or family (domestic jobs like cooking and cleaning).↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Tame and kept by people, not wild (domestic animals such as cats, dogs and cows).↗ Everyday, meaning 3: Inside one country, not foreign (domestic flights, domestic news).↗ Everyday, meaning 4: (UK informal) A quarrel at home, especially one the police are called to.↗ Everyday, meaning 5: (old) A servant who works in a house.↗ Example: Cats and dogs are domestic animals.↗ · We took a domestic flight from Sydney to Perth.↗ · Washing up is a domestic chore.↗ · Cows were domestic animals long ago.↗ · The washing machine is a domestic appliance.↗ · The news covered domestic and world events.↗ · (UK informal) The neighbours were having a domestic.↗

domesticated — Everyday, meaning 1: A domesticated animal or plant has been tamed and bred by people over many generations to live with them or be useful, like dogs, cows, sheep and wheat.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Domesticated is the past of «domesticate»: tamed and bred for human use.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (humorous) A domesticated person likes or is good at housework and cooking.↗ Example: Dogs were the first domesticated animals.↗ · People domesticated sheep for wool and meat.↗ · Wheat was domesticated thousands of years ago.↗ · A cat is domesticated, but a fox is wild.↗ · Horses were domesticated on the grasslands of Asia.↗ · Dad's become very domesticated — he even irons now!↗ · Domesticated pigs come from wild boar.↗

domestication — Everyday, meaning 1: Domestication is the long process by which people tamed wild animals and plants over many generations, so they live with or are farmed by people.↗ Example: The domestication of the dog began thousands of years ago.↗ · Domestication of wheat helped people settle in villages.↗ · Horses changed life after their domestication.↗ · Cats may have chosen domestication themselves, by living near farms.↗ · Domestication made cows calmer than their wild ancestors.↗

domesticity — Everyday, meaning 1: Domesticity is home life, the everyday work and comfort of looking after a house and family: he enjoyed domesticity after years of travel.↗ Example: She found great joy in domesticity, baking bread for her children.↗ · The wizard longed for domesticity, a cosy house and a warm fire.↗ · Their domesticity was calm and happy.↗

dominance — Everyday, meaning 1: Dominance is having more power, control or importance than others.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: In sport, dominance means being much better than other teams over a long time.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (science) In genetics, dominance is when one version of a gene shows instead of another.↗ Example: The team showed its dominance by winning every match.↗ · Wolves show dominance with body language.↗ · The dominance of the empire lasted for centuries.↗ · Hand dominance means whether you are left- or right-handed.↗ · The gene for brown eyes shows dominance over the gene for blue eyes.↗ · The big dog tried to show dominance over the puppy.↗

dominant — Everyday, meaning 1: Dominant means the strongest, most important or most powerful in a group.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Dominant can mean the most noticeable, the thing you see most, like a dominant colour.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (science) A dominant gene is one whose feature shows up even if you got it from only one parent.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: (music) The dominant is the fifth note of a scale.↗ Example: Lions are the dominant animals on the savannah.↗ · My dominant hand is my left hand.↗ · Red is the dominant colour in the painting.↗ · The dominant wolf eats first.↗ · Our team was dominant in the second half.↗ · The gene for brown eyes is usually dominant.↗ · English is the dominant language on the internet.↗

dominate — Everyday, meaning 1: To have power or control over someone or something.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: To be the biggest, strongest or most important part of something.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (sport) To play much better than the other team for most of a game.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: To be the tallest or most noticeable thing in a place.↗ Example: The castle dominated the little town.↗ · Our team dominated the match but still lost 1–0.↗ · One loud boy tried to dominate the group.↗ · The story of the flood dominated the news.↗ · Rome dominated much of Europe for centuries.↗ · Bright red dominates the painting.↗ · Lions dominate the African grassland food chain.↗

dominated — Everyday, meaning 1: Controlled or ruled by someone more powerful, as in «The country was dominated by its neighbour».↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Was the strongest or best in something, as in «Our team dominated the match».↗ Everyday, meaning 3: Was the biggest or most noticeable thing, as in «The castle dominated the skyline».↗ Everyday, meaning 4: (adjective) Mostly made of or run by one group, as in «a male-dominated job».↗ Example: The Romans dominated much of Europe.↗ · Our team dominated the second half.↗ · The news was dominated by the storm.↗ · A tall church dominated the little village.↗ · Engineering used to be a male-dominated job.↗ · One loud boy dominated the group discussion.↗ · Weeds dominated the old garden.↗

domineering — Everyday, meaning 1: Domineering describes someone who tries to control other people all the time and tells them what to do without listening.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: It means bossy in a strong, unpleasant way.↗ Example: The domineering captain never let anyone else choose the game.↗ · Her domineering older cousin decided everything.↗ · In the story the domineering queen ruled with fear.↗ · Nobody liked working with the domineering boy.↗ · He realised he was being domineering and asked what others thought.↗ · A domineering friend can make you feel small.↗

dominican — Everyday, meaning 1: (a name of a country) From or connected with the Dominican Republic, a country in the Caribbean sharing an island with Haiti; also a person from there.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (a name of a country) From or connected with Dominica, a small different island country in the Caribbean.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (church) A Dominican is a friar or nun of the Dominican Order, a Catholic religious order started by Saint Dominic in the 1200s.↗ Example: The Dominican Republic is on the island of Hispaniola.↗ · Many famous baseball players are Dominican.↗ · Dominica and the Dominican Republic are two different countries.↗ · A Dominican friar wears a white habit with a black cloak.↗ · Our neighbour is Dominican and speaks Spanish at home.↗ · The Dominicans were founded to preach and teach.↗

dominion — Everyday, meaning 1: Power or control over people, land or things: «have dominion over».↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A land or territory ruled by a king or government.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (history) «Dominion» was the name for some self-governing countries of the British Empire, such as Canada, Australia and New Zealand.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: (Bible) In Genesis, God gives people dominion over the animals, which many Christians understand as a duty to care for creation.↗ Example: The king had dominion over all the land.↗ · In Genesis, God gives people dominion over the fish, birds and animals.↗ · Many Christians believe dominion means caring for creation, not harming it.↗ · Canada was once called a Dominion.↗ · The emperor's dominions stretched across the sea.↗ · The dragon held dominion over the mountain.↗ · And out of Jacob shall one have dominion, and shall destroy the remnant from the city.↗ (Torah NUM.24.19, JPS 1917)↗ · And his brethren said to him: 'Shalt thou indeed reign over us? or shalt thou indeed have dominion over us?'↗ And they hated him yet the more for his dreams, and for his words.↗ (Torah GEN.37.8, JPS 1917)↗ · Seven [34] double letters, ,בגד כפרת shall, as it were, symbolize wisdom, wealth, fruitfulness, life, dominion, peace and beauty.↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Kalisch 1877)↗ · Judah became His sanctuary, Israel His dominion.↗ (Writings PSA.114.2, JPS 1917)↗ · Canst thou establish the dominion thereof in the earth?↗ (Writings JOB.38.33, JPS 1917)↗ · Dominion and fear are with Him; He maketh peace in His high places.↗ (Writings JOB.25.2, JPS 1917)↗

domino — Everyday, meaning 1: A small flat rectangular tile with spots (0 to 6) on each half, used in a game.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: dominoes: the game played with these tiles.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: domino effect: when one event causes a chain of other events, like a line of falling dominoes.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: A domino is also a loose hooded cloak worn with a mask at a masked party.↗ Example: Grandpa and I play dominoes after tea.↗ · We set up 500 dominoes and knocked them all down.↗ · Add the spots on each domino to find the total.↗ · One late bus caused a domino effect, and everyone was late.↗ · A full domino set has 28 tiles.↗ · The dominoes fell one after the other.↗ · Match the domino ends with the same number.↗ · The domino raised his mask, and it was George.↗

dominoes — Everyday, meaning 1: Dominoes are small flat rectangular tiles, each with two halves marked with spots from 0 to 6.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Dominoes is the game played with these tiles, matching ends.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: Dominoes stood up in a row can be knocked over one after another.↗ Example: We played dominoes after dinner.↗ · Line up the dominoes and push the first one.↗ · The dominoes fell one after another.↗ · This domino has three spots on one side and five on the other.↗ · Add the spots on the domino to find the total.↗ · A standard set has 28 dominoes.↗ · One late bus caused a domino effect of late trains.↗

don — Everyday, meaning 1: In this dictionary «don» usually comes from «don't» split at the apostrophe: «don't» = «do not».↗ Everyday, meaning 2: To don clothes is an old-fashioned way to say put them on.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: Don is a man's name, and a «don» is a teacher at Oxford or Cambridge University.↗ Example: Don't touch the hot oven.↗ · I don't like spinach.↗ · Don't forget your lunch box.↗ · The knight donned his helmet.↗ · She donned her raincoat and went out.↗ · Don is my uncle's name.↗ · "I don't like dancing," he said.↗

donate — Everyday, meaning 1: To donate is to give money, things or time to help people, a charity or a school, without being paid back.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: To donate blood or an organ is to let doctors take it so it can save someone else.↗ Example: Our class donated tins of food to the food bank.↗ · Mum donates blood twice a year.↗ · I donated my old bike to a younger cousin.↗ · The shop donated a prize for the school raffle.↗ · People donated money to help the families after the flood.↗ · Can we donate these clothes that are too small?↗ · Each pupil donated two dollars, so the class raised forty dollars.↗

donation — Everyday, meaning 1: A donation is something you give to help others, like money, food, clothes or toys, without being paid.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A donation can be giving blood or an organ to help someone else.↗ Example: We made a donation to the animal shelter.↗ · Put your coins in the donation box.↗ · Our class collected tins of food as donations.↗ · Thank you for your kind donation!↗ · Dad gives blood donations to help people in hospital.↗ · We collected 25 dollars on Monday and 30 on Tuesday, so the donations total 55 dollars.↗

dong — Everyday, meaning 1: A dong is the deep ringing sound of a large bell.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: The dong is the money of Vietnam.↗ Example: The doorbell went ding-dong.↗ · The church bell rang: dong, dong, dong.↗ · The big clock struck twelve dongs at midnight.↗ · In Vietnam, people pay with dong.↗ · Ding, dong, merrily on high!↗ · The heavy bell made a deep dong.↗ · Not even now, for the bell is ringing and singing its loud Ding-dong, ding-dong!'↗

donkey — Everyday, meaning 1: An animal like a small horse with long ears and a loud bray, used to carry loads or give rides.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (informal, mildly rude) A silly or stupid person.↗ e.g. Don't be a donkey!↗ Everyday, meaning 3: «donkey's years» (UK, informal) = a very long time.↗ Example: We had a donkey ride on the beach.↗ · The donkey carried bags of rice up the hill.↗ · A donkey says «hee-haw».↗ · I haven't seen her in donkey's years.↗ · Who does all the donkey work around here?↗ · Three donkeys have 12 legs altogether.↗ · You silly donkey, you've put your shoes on the wrong feet!↗ · ‘Here on the shoulders of a donkey.’↗

donna — Everyday, meaning 1: (a name) Donna is a woman's first name.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (Italian) The Italian word for «woman» or «lady», and an old title of respect for a lady, like «Madam».↗ Everyday, meaning 3: In the phrase «prima donna»: the main woman singer in an opera, and (informal) a person who is vain and expects special treatment.↗ Example: Donna is my mum's best friend.↗ · Stop acting like a prima donna and help tidy up!↗ · The prima donna sang the final song beautifully.↗ · In Italian, «donna» means woman.↗ · Madonna, which means «my lady», is a name for Mary in Christian art.↗ · He threw a prima-donna tantrum when he lost the game.↗ · The 'prima donna' would only act when the lights were red, for she declared that a blue light did not suit her complexion.↗