📖 D — The English dictionary · page 49

donor — Everyday, meaning 1: A person or group that gives money, goods or help to a charity or a cause.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (medicine) A person who gives blood, an organ or another part of the body to help someone else: «a blood donor», «an organ donor».↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (science) Something that gives up a part, such as an atom giving an electron.↗ Example: An anonymous donor gave the school a new piano.↗ · Grandad is a blood donor and gives blood twice a year.↗ · The donor card says she wants to help others after she dies.↗ · Thanks to a kidney donor, my cousin is healthy again.↗ · The charity thanked all its donors.↗ · The food bank depends on generous donors.↗ · Delighted with the delicious beverage the giant inquired the name of the donor.↗

donut — Everyday, meaning 1: A donut is a small, sweet, fried cake, often shaped like a ring with a hole in the middle or a ball filled with jam or cream.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Something shaped like a ring can be called a donut shape (in maths, a torus).↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (informal, mainly US) Doing donuts means driving a car round and round in tight circles, leaving round skid marks.↗ Example: I'd like a chocolate donut with sprinkles, please.↗ · A box holds 12 donuts.↗ · The jam donut squirted when I bit into it.↗ · We shared 18 donuts among 6 friends, so each got 3.↗ · A ring-shaped donut has a hole in the middle.↗ · Dad bought a dozen donuts for the class party.↗ · The cake was shaped like a giant donut.↗

doodle — Everyday, meaning 1: verb To draw little pictures or patterns without thinking much, often while doing something else.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: noun A little drawing made like this.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (Google Doodle) A special changing logo on the Google page.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: A short form of «Labradoodle» or other «-doodle» dogs (informal).↗ Everyday, meaning 5: A doodle-doo is the sound a rooster makes when it crows.↗ Example: I doodled stars all over my rough book.↗ · Stop doodling and finish your sums!↗ · Her doodle of a cat was really cute.↗ · Grandpa doodles while he talks on the phone.↗ · Today's Google Doodle is about a famous scientist.↗ · Our neighbour has a fluffy doodle called Biscuit.↗ · And as she went into the yard the cock cried: "Cock-a-doodle-doo!↗

doom — Everyday, meaning 1: (noun) Death, ruin or a terrible fate that cannot be avoided.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (verb) To make something certain to fail or suffer: «The plan was doomed from the start».↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (noun, informal) «doom and gloom» — a feeling that everything will go wrong.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: (old, Bible) Judgement, especially the Last Judgement: «Doomsday» or «the crack of doom».↗ Example: The ship was doomed when it hit the iceberg.↗ · The knight rode bravely to meet his doom.↗ · Too much rain could spell doom for the picnic.↗ · A feeling of doom came over me before the test.↗ · Stop the doom and gloom — it might be sunny tomorrow!↗ · Without water, the plants were doomed.↗ · The dragon roared, "Your doom is near!"↗ · “Heavy is my doom!” he groaned.↗

doomsday — Everyday, meaning 1: Doomsday is the end of the world, or a day of terrible disaster.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (Bible, church) Doomsday is an old name for the Day of Judgement, when Christians believe God will judge all people.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (history) The Domesday Book (1086) was William the Conqueror's survey of England; the name is linked to «doomsday».↗ Everyday, meaning 4: Till doomsday means for an extremely long time.↗ Example: The film was about a comet heading for Earth on doomsday.↗ · You could wait till doomsday and he still wouldn't say sorry.↗ · Christians believe in a day of judgement, once called Doomsday.↗ · The Domesday Book listed pigs, cows and mills in every village.↗ · The news gave a doomsday warning about the storm, but it was only windy.↗ · The doomsday clock is a symbol of how close the world might be to disaster.↗ · ‘I am an evil spirit,’ said the voice, ‘shut up here till Doomsday, unless a man sets me free.↗

door — Everyday, meaning 1: A door is a part of a wall that opens and closes so people can go in and out of a room, house or car.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A door is also a small hinged part of a cupboard, oven or fridge.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: «Next door» means in the house beside yours; «door to door» means from one house to the next or all the way.↗ Example: A car has 4 doors.↗ · Each room has 1 door and 2 windows.↗ · The school has 3 floors with 10 doors on each.↗ · How many doors do 5 cars have?↗ · Please close the door quietly.↗ · Someone is knocking at the door.↗ · Our neighbours next door have a trampoline.↗ · In a fire, close the door behind you.↗ · Do not open the door to strangers when you are home alone.↗ · At midnight the cottage door opened.↗ · And he put the screen of the door to the tabernacle.↗ (Torah EXO.40.28, JPS 1917)↗ · and assemble thou all the congregation at the door of the tent of meeting.'↗ (Torah LEV.8.3, JPS 1917)↗ · And Lot went out unto them to the door, and shut the door after him.↗ (Torah GEN.19.6, JPS 1917)↗ · Who can open the doors of his face?↗ (Writings JOB.41.6, JPS 1917)↗ · Then open the door, and flee, and tarry not.'↗ (Prophets 2KI.9.3, JPS 1917)↗ · And Berechiah and Elkanah were door-keepers for the ark.↗ (Writings 1CH.15.23, JPS 1917)↗

doorbell — Everyday, meaning 1: A bell or button by a front door that you press so the people inside know you are there.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: The sound it makes (I heard the doorbell).↗ Example: The doorbell rang — it was the pizza!↗ · Ring the doorbell and wait for someone to come.↗ · If you're home alone, don't open the door to strangers when the doorbell rings.↗ · Our doorbell plays a little tune.↗ · The video doorbell shows who is at the door on Mum's phone.↗ · Pressing the doorbell closes the circuit and the bell rings.↗ · Ringing doorbells and running away annoys people.↗

doorkeeper — Everyday, meaning 1: A doorkeeper is a person whose job is to guard a door, check who comes in and go out, and open the door for people.↗ Example: The doorkeeper asked for our tickets before we went in.↗ · Only the king's friends could pass the doorkeeper.↗ · The doorkeeper locked the gate at night.↗ · For the courses of the doorkeepers: of the Korahites: Meshelemiah the son of Kore, of the sons of Asaph.↗ (Writings 1CH.26.1, JPS 1917)↗ · These were the courses of the doorkeepers; of the sons of the Korahites, and of the sons of Merari.↗ (Writings 1CH.26.19, JPS 1917)↗ · and four thousand were doorkeepers; and four thousand praised the LORD 'with the instruments which I made to praise therewith.'↗ (Writings 1CH.23.5, JPS 1917)↗

doormat — Everyday, meaning 1: A thick mat by a door where people wipe the mud off their shoes before they go in.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (informal) A person who lets others treat them badly and never stands up for themselves.↗ Example: Please wipe your feet on the doormat.↗ · The doormat says «Welcome».↗ · The dog likes to sleep on the doormat.↗ · A parcel was left on the doormat.↗ · Hiding a key under the doormat is not safe.↗ · Don't let people treat you like a doormat.↗

doorpost — Everyday, meaning 1: A doorpost is one of the upright posts on either side of a door, which hold up the top part of the frame.↗ Example: She hung her coat on the doorpost.↗ · He knocked three times on the wooden doorpost.↗ · The cat rubbed against the doorpost and purred.↗

doorstep — Everyday, meaning 1: A doorstep is the step or flat spot just outside the front door of a house.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: «On your doorstep» means very close to where you live.↗ Example: The parcel was left on the doorstep.↗ · A little kitten was crying on our doorstep.↗ · Gran waved goodbye from the doorstep.↗ · Wipe your feet on the doorstep before you come in.↗ · We have a beautiful beach right on our doorstep.↗ · The milkman used to leave bottles on the doorstep.↗ · Never open the door to strangers on the doorstep without a grown-up.↗ · When he got home his mother was on the doorstep.↗

doorway — Everyday, meaning 1: A doorway is the opening in a wall where a door is.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A doorway can mean the space just inside or outside a door.↗ Example: Mum stood in the doorway and called us in.↗ · Don't block the doorway with your bag.↗ · A shadow appeared in the doorway.↗ · The cat sat in the doorway, watching.↗ · The doorway was too low, so he ducked.↗ · We hung a curtain across the doorway.↗ · The fire exit doorway must stay clear.↗ · She waved from the kitchen doorway.↗ · So she went up to the doorway, and over it she found written:↗

dope — Everyday, meaning 1: (informal) A dope is a silly or foolish person.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (slang) Dope is an illegal drug, especially cannabis.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: Doping is giving drugs to an athlete or animal to cheat in sport or to make someone sleepy.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: (slang, US) Dope means great or cool.↗ Everyday, meaning 5: (informal) The dope on something is the inside information about it.↗ Example: Don't be such a dope, the door says «pull»!↗ · Athletes are tested to stop doping.↗ · The cyclist was banned for doping.↗ · The police found dope in the car.↗ · (slang) Those trainers are dope!↗ · Give me the dope on the new teacher.↗ · The racehorse had been doped, so it was disqualified.↗

doric — Everyday, meaning 1: (architecture) The oldest and plainest style of ancient Greek columns, thick and strong with a simple round top, as on the Parthenon in Athens.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (Scotland) Doric is the name of the Scots dialect spoken in the north-east of Scotland, around Aberdeen.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (history) To do with the Dorians, one of the ancient Greek peoples, and their dialect of Greek.↗ Example: The Parthenon has Doric columns.↗ · Doric columns have a plain, round top.↗ · We drew Doric, Ionic and Corinthian columns in history.↗ · My granny in Aberdeen speaks Doric.↗ · In Doric, a boy is a «loon» and a girl is a «quine».↗ · The museum front has six Doric columns.↗ · Thus the Doric style of architecture was sacred to Zeus, Ares, and Heracles; the Ionic to Apollo, Artemis, and Dionysus; and the Corinthian to Hestia.↗

dork — Everyday, meaning 1: (slang) A person who seems silly, awkward or uncool, often because they are very keen on something.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (slang, friendly) Used jokingly between friends to mean a lovable goof.↗ Example: (slang) «You're such a dork,» laughed Emma when I fell off my chair.↗ · (slang) He wore a dorky hat with a propeller on top.↗ · (slang) I don't care if people think I'm a dork; I love maths.↗ · (slang) Calling someone a dork just to hurt them is unkind.↗ · (slang) My dad did a dorky dance at the wedding.↗ · (slang) The main character in the film is a lovable dork.↗

dorm — Everyday, meaning 1: (informal) Short for dormitory: a big bedroom with many beds, for example at a boarding school, camp or hostel.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (US) A building at a college where students live.↗ Example: On the school trip, eight of us shared a dorm.↗ · The boys had a midnight feast in the dorm.↗ · My cousin lives in a college dorm in Boston.↗ · Lights out in the dorm was at nine o'clock.↗ · The camp had four dorms and a big dining hall.↗ · We decorated our dorm with posters.↗

dormancy — Everyday, meaning 1: A time when a living thing is alive but not active or growing, as in seeds waiting to sprout or animals hibernating.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A time when a volcano or other thing is quiet but could become active again.↗ Example: The seeds stayed in dormancy until the spring rain.↗ · Trees lose their leaves and enter dormancy in winter.↗ · The volcano woke up after centuries of dormancy.↗ · Bears are in a kind of dormancy during winter.↗ · Cold weather helps some bulbs break their dormancy.↗ · After years of dormancy, the old club started meeting again.↗

dormant — Everyday, meaning 1: Not active or growing for a time, but able to become active again, like a sleeping volcano.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Resting, as plants and seeds do in winter or animals in hibernation.↗ Example: Mount Fuji is a dormant volcano.↗ · The seeds lay dormant all winter.↗ · The tree is dormant in the cold months.↗ · A dormant volcano could erupt again.↗ · Bears are not fully dormant when they hibernate.↗ · His talent lay dormant until he tried painting.↗

dormitory — Everyday, meaning 1: A large bedroom with many beds, such as in a boarding school, camp or hostel.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (US) A college or university building where students live; often shortened to «dorm».↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (UK, also «dormitory town») A town where people live but travel elsewhere to work.↗ Example: We slept in a dormitory with twelve bunk beds on camp.↗ · The girls had a midnight feast in the dormitory.↗ · My cousin lives in a university dormitory.↗ · Lights out in the dormitory is at nine.↗ · The boarding school has a dormitory for each year group.↗ · Many commuters live in the dormitory town and work in the city.↗

dormouse — Everyday, meaning 1: A dormouse is a small furry animal like a mouse with a long fluffy tail, which lives in woods and sleeps through the winter (hibernates).↗ Example: The dormouse sleeps all through the winter.↗ · A dormouse has a fluffy tail.↗ · Dormice eat hazelnuts and berries.↗ · In Alice in Wonderland, the dormouse falls asleep at the tea party.↗ · Dormice are rare in Britain.↗ · The dormouse curled up into a tiny ball.↗ · The dormouse, of course, was the biggest of all the creatures.↗