📖 D — The English dictionary · page 50

dorsal — Everyday, meaning 1: (science) Dorsal means on or to do with the back of an animal or the upper side of something.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: The dorsal fin is the fin on the back of a fish, shark, dolphin or whale.↗ Example: The shark's dorsal fin cut through the water.↗ · Dolphins have a curved dorsal fin.↗ · Label the dorsal fin on your fish diagram.↗ · The dorsal side of a frog is green and spotty.↗ · Some whales have a tiny dorsal fin.↗ · The dorsal fin stops the fish from rolling over.↗

dorsum — Everyday, meaning 1: (science, anatomy) The back or upper surface of a body part, like the back of the hand or the top of the foot or tongue.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (science) The back of an animal.↗ Example: The doctor looked at the dorsum of my hand.↗ · The dorsum of the foot is the top side.↗ · The fish has a spiny dorsum.↗ · Label the dorsum and the belly side on the diagram.↗ · The dorsum of the tongue helps us taste food.↗ · A frog has a green dorsum and a pale belly.↗

dory — Everyday, meaning 1: A dory is a flat, thin sea fish; the John Dory is one eaten as food.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A dory is a small, light boat with high sides and a flat bottom, used for fishing.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: Dory is the name of a forgetful blue fish in the animated films Finding Nemo and Finding Dory.↗ Example: We had John Dory and chips at the harbour.↗ · The John Dory has a dark spot on its side.↗ · Fishermen rowed out in a dory.↗ · The dories were stacked on the deck of the big ship.↗ · Dory keeps forgetting things in the film.↗ · Just keep swimming, says Dory.↗

dose — Everyday, meaning 1: A dose is the amount of medicine you take at one time.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A dose of something is an amount of it, like a dose of sunshine or a dose of flu.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: To dose someone means to give them medicine.↗ Example: Take one dose of medicine twice a day.↗ · Mum checked the dose on the bottle.↗ · Never take more than the dose on the label.↗ · The dose for children is smaller than for adults.↗ · A dose of fresh air will do you good.↗ · He had a bad dose of flu.↗ · The vet dosed the dog with worm medicine.↗ · His mother put him to bed, and made some camomile tea; and she gave a dose of it to Peter!↗

dost — Early Modern English, meaning 1: Do something, with "thou" as the subject.↗ Example: Thou shalt stand without, and the man to whom thou dost lend shall bring forth the pledge without unto thee.↗ (Torah DEU.24.11, JPS 1917) · "What dost thou want with me now?"↗ (More English Fairy Tales) · When thou dost lend thy neighbour any manner of loan, thou shalt not go into his house to fetch his pledge.↗ (Torah DEU.24.10, JPS 1917)

dot — Everyday, meaning 1: A dot is a very small round mark.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A dot is the point in a web or email address, said «dot».↗ Everyday, meaning 3: Dotted means with many small marks, or with things scattered here and there.↗ Example: A die shows 5 dots.↗ · Draw 4 rows of 3 dots.↗ · How many dots are on the domino?↗ · Join the dots in order.↗ · Don't forget the dot on the i.↗ · She has a dress with white dots.↗ · Be there at 3 o'clock on the dot.↗ · Houses are dotted along the hill.↗ · Then the child was to take the apple and be led into a room where the twenty men with the black dots were sitting in a ring.↗ · were also symbolized by ten dots (Mordell, The Origin of Letters and Numerals according to Sefer Yetzirah (1914))↗ · The figure 1 originated apparently from a circle and a stroke, and a dot indicated a zero.↗ (Mordell, The Origin of Letters and Numerals according to Sefer Yetzirah (1914))↗ · And as soon as she saw them she doted upon them, and sent messengers unto them into Chaldea.↗ (Prophets EZK.23.16, JPS 1917)↗ · And Oholah played the harlot when she was Mine; and she doted on her lovers, on the Assyrians, warriors, (Prophets EZK.23.5, JPS 1917)↗ · Wherefore I delivered her into the hand of her lovers, into the hand of the Assyrians, upon whom she doted.↗ (Prophets EZK.23.9, JPS 1917)↗

doth — Early Modern English, meaning 1: Does something, with "he" or "she" or "it" as the subject.↗ Example: And wherefore doth the LORD bring us unto this land, to fall by the sword?↗ (Torah NUM.14.3, JPS 1917) · Under me doth lie Another much richer than I.↗ (More English Fairy Tales) · The Third Path is the Sanctifying Intelligence, and is the basis of foundation of Primordial Wisdom, which is called the Former of faith, and its roots, Amen; and it is the parent of Faith, from which virtues doth Faith emanate.↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1887)

dotted — Everyday, meaning 1: Dotted means marked with small dots or made of dots, like a dotted line.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Dotted with means having small things spread here and there, as in a field dotted with sheep.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (music) A dotted note lasts half as long again as the plain note.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: Sign on the dotted line means agree to and sign an official paper.↗ Example: Cut along the dotted line.↗ · Trace the dotted letters to practise writing.↗ · The hillside was dotted with sheep.↗ · Draw a dotted line to show the line of symmetry.↗ · Islands are dotted around the coast.↗ · A dotted crotchet lasts one and a half beats.↗ · Mum signed on the dotted line to join the gym.↗ · Beneath him lay the meadows, covered with velvety green, with the murmuring river flowing through them, and dotted here and there were small wooden houses.↗

double — Everyday, meaning 1: To double is to make or become two times as many or as much.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Double as an adjective means two of the same, or twice the size: «a double bed», «double letters».↗ Everyday, meaning 3: A double is a person who looks just like someone else.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: In games, a double is two dice showing the same number.↗ Everyday, meaning 5: To be bent double means to be bent over tightly, folded in half at the middle.↗ Example: Lily doubles her shells.↗ · Tom had 6 cards, and then his cards doubled.↗ · A double scoop has 2 scoops.↗ · Double 8 is 16.↗ · The number of rabbits doubled in a year.↗ · «Apple» has a double p.↗ · Please double-check your answers.↗ · We rode on top of a double-decker bus in London.↗ · She was very old and almost bent double.↗ · Four-square it shall be and double: a span shall be the length thereof, and a span the breadth thereof.↗ (Torah EXO.28.16, JPS 1917)↗ · If the theft be found in his hand alive, whether it be ox, or ass, or sheep, he shall pay double.↗ (Torah EXO.22.4, JPS 1917)↗ · that they might be double beneath, and in like manner they should be complete unto the top thereof unto the first ring.↗ (Torah EXO.36.29, JPS 1917)↗ · Who shall come within his double bridle?↗ (Writings JOB.41.5, JPS 1917)↗ · I hate them that are of a double mind; but Thy law do I love.↗ (Writings PSA.119.113, JPS 1917)↗ · They speak falsehood every one with his neighbour; with flattering lip, and with a double heart, do they speak.↗ (Writings PSA.12.3, JPS 1917)↗

doubler — Everyday, meaning 1: Something or someone that doubles an amount or size.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (games and sport) A move or score that counts twice, or a player who scores twice.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (horse racing, betting) A bet on two races where you only win if both win (usually called a «double»).↗ Example: In our function machine, the doubler turns 5 into 10.↗ · The quiz had a doubler round where points counted twice.↗ · Land on the doubler square and your coins double!↗ · The engineer built a voltage doubler.↗ · If you put 7 into the doubler, what comes out?↗ · The doubler round helped our team win.↗

doublet — Everyday, meaning 1: A doublet is a close-fitting jacket with a short skirt, worn by men in the past (old use, from the 1500s–1600s).↗ Example: The prince wore a red velvet doublet.↗ · His doublet was torn when he fell from the horse.↗ · The old king's doublet had gold buttons.↗

doubly — Everyday, meaning 1: Twice as much; in two ways.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Even more, or especially.↗ Example: Make doubly sure the door is locked.↗ · It is doubly important to wear a helmet on a busy road.↗ · She was doubly happy: she won and her friend won too.↗ · Check your work doubly carefully.↗ · The cake was doubly sweet with icing and jam.↗ · It's doubly hard when it's cold and wet.↗ · And, with help, she laid beside him the load of three men of doubly refined gold.↗

doubt — Everyday, meaning 1: (noun) A feeling of not being sure if something is true or will happen.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (verb) To feel unsure that something is true, or to think it is probably not true.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (verb) Not to trust or believe someone.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: "No doubt" means probably or certainly.↗ Example: I doubt it will snow today — it's too warm.↗ · Without a doubt, she's the best singer in the class.↗ · If you are in doubt, ask the teacher.↗ · He had doubts about climbing so high.↗ · Nobody doubted his story.↗ · No doubt you're hungry after that long walk.↗ · When in doubt, check your answer with the inverse operation.↗ · I never doubted that you could do it.↗ · No doubt he will soon come.↗ · And he knew it, and said: 'It is my son's coat; an evil beast hath devoured him; Joseph is without doubt torn in pieces.'↗ (Torah GEN.37.33, JPS 1917)↗ · And thy life shall hang in doubt before thee; and thou shalt fear night and day, and shalt have no assurance of thy life.↗ (Torah DEU.28.66, JPS 1917)↗ · But Isaac Myer states that there are un- doubted traces of pointing in Hebrew MSS. of the second century.↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1893)↗ · No doubt but ye are the people, and wisdom shall die with you.↗ (Writings JOB.12.2, JPS 1917)↗

doubtful — Everyday, meaning 1: If you are doubtful about something, you are not sure it is true or that it will happen.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: If something is doubtful, it probably will not happen or probably is not true.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: Doubtful can describe something that seems not quite honest or good, like a doubtful excuse.↗ Example: Sam looked doubtful when I said the ice was safe.↗ · It is doubtful that the match will go ahead in this rain.↗ · I'm doubtful about this map; it looks very old.↗ · The teacher gave a doubtful smile at my excuse.↗ · The result was doubtful, so we did the experiment again.↗ · Whether the ferry will run tomorrow is doubtful.↗ · Grandpa was doubtful the little tree would survive the winter.↗ · But he was doubtful whether the crocodile would consent to do what wanted.↗ · The meaning of Belimah is more doubtful.↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1893)↗ · But it is very doubtful what Mohammed ben Musa meant by Indians.↗ (Mordell, The Origin of Letters and Numerals according to Sefer Yetzirah (1914))↗

doubtfully — Everyday, meaning 1: In a way that shows you are not sure about something, or do not quite believe it.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: In a way that is uncertain or unlikely.↗ Example: «Is this the right way?» asked Alice doubtfully.↗ · Mum looked doubtfully at the burnt toast.↗ · He doubtfully tasted the strange green soup.↗ · «I suppose it might work,» she said doubtfully.↗ · The Mole looked doubtfully at the wobbly boat.↗ · The dog sniffed the new food doubtfully.↗ · “There is a way,” said the servant doubtfully.↗

doubtless — Everyday, meaning 1: Doubtless means certainly, or very probably, as far as one can tell: they will doubtless arrive soon.↗ Example: You will doubtless be hungry after the long walk.↗ · Doubtless the bus is late again.↗ · The witch was doubtless hiding somewhere in the wood.↗ · In essence the work was, doubtless, the crystallization of centuries of tradition by one writer, and it has been added to from time to time, by later authors, who have also revised it.↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1893)↗ · '"The invention of Signs to represent numbers is doubtless much older than any form ol writing" (Chambers Encyclopaedia, 1893, Vol. (Mordell, The Origin of Letters and Numerals according to Sefer Yetzirah (1914))↗ · In this passage tlie author doubtless refers again to the Sefer Yetzirah, which was revealed or handed down by the prophet Jeremiah to Joseph ben Uziel.↗ (Mordell, The Origin of Letters and Numerals according to Sefer Yetzirah (1914))↗

dough — Everyday, meaning 1: A thick soft mixture of flour, water and other things, for making bread, pizza, pastry or biscuits before baking.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (informal, old slang) Money.↗ Example: We kneaded the dough for ten minutes.↗ · Leave the dough in a warm place so it can rise.↗ · Roll out the dough and cut out star shapes.↗ · Pizza dough is stretched into a circle.↗ · The yeast makes bubbles that make the dough rise.↗ · Don't eat raw cookie dough with raw egg or flour in it.↗ · My little sister made a dinosaur out of play dough.↗ · "I haven't got enough dough for that," joked Dad.↗ · Vasilissa took flour, kneaded dough, and made a pie.↗ · Of the first of your dough ye shall give unto the LORD a portion for a gift throughout your generations.↗ (Torah NUM.15.21, JPS 1917)↗ · And the people took their dough before it was leavened, their kneading-troughs being bound up in their clothes upon their shoulders.↗ (Torah EXO.12.34, JPS 1917)↗ · Of the first of your dough ye shall set apart a cake for a gift; as that which is set apart of the threshing-floor, so shall ye set it apart.↗ (Torah NUM.15.20, JPS 1917)↗ · And she took dough, and kneaded it, and made cakes in his sight, and did bake the cakes.↗ (Prophets 2SA.13.8, JPS 1917)↗ · They are all adulterers, as an oven heated by the baker, who ceaseth to stir from the kneading of the dough until it be leavened.↗ (Prophets HOS.7.4, JPS 1917)↗ · The children gather wood, and the fathers kindle the fire, and the women knead the dough, to make cakes to the queen of heaven, and to pour out drink-offerings unto other gods, that they may provoke Me.↗ (Prophets JER.7.18, JPS 1917)↗