📖 D — The English dictionary · page 58

drumming — Everyday, meaning 1: Drumming is playing a drum or drums.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Drumming is a repeated beating or tapping sound, like rain on a roof or fingers on a table.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (noun) Drumming is the music or skill of playing drums.↗ Example: She is learning drumming at school.↗ · The drumming of the rain kept me awake.↗ · He was drumming his fingers on the desk.↗ · Taiko drumming comes from Japan.↗ · The woodpecker was drumming on the tree.↗ · We heard drumming from the parade.↗ · They are drumming up support for the school fair.↗

drumstick — Everyday, meaning 1: A drumstick is a stick used to hit a drum.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A drumstick is the lower part of the leg of a chicken or turkey, cooked and eaten.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: In some places, drumstick is a long green vegetable, the pod of the moringa tree.↗ Example: He hit the drum with his drumsticks.↗ · The drummer twirled a drumstick in the air.↗ · We had chicken drumsticks for dinner.↗ · A drumstick is the leg of the chicken.↗ · Keep a steady beat with your drumsticks.↗ · Eat the drumstick with your fingers.↗ · Each drummer needs 2 drumsticks, so 5 drummers need 10.↗ · The drumsticks stiffened in Walter’s hands, and he thought now they are coming...!↗

drunk — Everyday, meaning 1: Drunk is the past participle of «drink»: «I have drunk my milk».↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Drunk describes a person who has had too much alcohol and cannot think, speak or move properly.↗ Example: I have drunk all my juice.↗ · Has the cat drunk its milk?↗ · We had drunk the whole bottle of water by lunch.↗ · The man was drunk and fell over.↗ · Drunk driving is very dangerous and against the law.↗ · Alcohol can make people drunk.↗ · Sometimes even greater people than the peasants get drunk.↗ · Ye have not eaten bread, neither have ye drunk wine or strong drink; that ye might know that I am the LORD your God.↗ (Torah DEU.29.6, JPS 1917)↗ · All food therein which may be eaten, that on which water cometh, shall be unclean; and all drink in every such vessel that may be drunk shall be unclean.↗ (Torah LEV.11.34, JPS 1917)↗ · I will make Mine arrows drunk with blood, and My sword shall devour flesh; with the blood of the slain and the captives, from the long-haired heads of the enemy.'↗ (Torah DEU.32.42, JPS 1917)↗ · We have drunk our water for money; our wood cometh to us for price.↗ (Writings LAM.5.4, JPS 1917)↗ · But Ben-hadad was drinking himself drunk in the booths, he and the kings, the thirty and two kings that helped him.↗ (Prophets 1KI.20.16, JPS 1917)↗ · I have digged and drunk water, and with the sole of my feet have I dried up all the rivers of Egypt.↗ (Prophets ISA.37.25, JPS 1917)↗

drunkard — Everyday, meaning 1: A drunkard is a person who drinks too much alcohol again and again, so that they are often drunk.↗ Example: The drunkard staggered home late at night.↗ · Don't become a drunkard, I beg you.↗ · The old drunkard lost his farm and his family.↗ · and they shall say unto the elders of his city: 'This our son is stubborn and rebellious, he doth not hearken to our voice; he is a glutton, and a drunkard.'↗ (Torah DEU.21.20, JPS 1917)↗ · The crown of pride of the drunkards of Ephraim shall be trodden under foot; (Prophets ISA.28.3, JPS 1917)↗ · They that sit in the gate talk of me; and I am the song of the drunkards.↗ (Writings PSA.69.13, JPS 1917)↗ · For the drunkard and the glutton shall come to poverty; and drowsiness shall clothe a man with rags.↗ (Writings PRO.23.21, JPS 1917)↗

drunken — Everyday, meaning 1: Drunk, or often drunk: affected by too much alcohol.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Caused by or happening when people are drunk, like drunken shouting.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (in names of things) Swaying or crooked as if drunk, as in «a drunken sailor».↗ Everyday, meaning 4: Drunken is an old-fashioned past form of «drink», as in «they had drunken their fill», meaning they had drunk all they wanted.↗ Example: Drunken shouting woke us up in the night.↗ · The police stopped the drunken driver.↗ · Sailors sang about a drunken sailor.↗ · The story had a drunken pirate who fell asleep on the deck.↗ · Drunken behaviour at football matches is not allowed.↗ · The old fence leaned at a drunken angle.↗ · But at last one day Isidore drank so much brandy that he fell into a drunken sleep.↗ · And he drank of the wine, and was drunken; and he was uncovered within his tent.↗ (Torah GEN.9.21, JPS 1917)↗ · Therefore hear now this, thou afflicted, and drunken, but not with wine; (Prophets ISA.51.21, JPS 1917)↗ · And Eli said unto her: 'How long wilt thou be drunken? put away thy wine from thee.'↗ (Prophets 1SA.1.14, JPS 1917)↗ · They grope in the dark without light, and He maketh them to stagger like a drunken man.↗ (Writings JOB.12.25, JPS 1917)↗

drunkenness — Everyday, meaning 1: Drunkenness is the state of being drunk, when a person has had too much alcohol and cannot think or walk properly.↗ Example: His drunkenness made him lose his job.↗ · The story warns about the sorrows of drunkenness.↗ · Drunkenness can turn a happy home into a sad one.↗ · Thou shalt be filled with drunkenness and sorrow, with the cup of astonishment and appalment, with the cup of thy sister Samaria.↗ (Prophets EZK.23.33, JPS 1917)↗ · Happy art thou, O land, when thy king is a free man, and thy princes eat in due season, in strength, and not in drunkenness!↗ (Writings ECC.10.17, JPS 1917)↗

dry — Everyday, meaning 1: Not wet; with no water.↗ e.g. "dry clothes".↗ Everyday, meaning 2: With little or no rain.↗ e.g. "a dry summer".↗ Everyday, meaning 3: Thirsty.↗ e.g. "My mouth is dry."↗ Everyday, meaning 4: Boring.↗ e.g. "a dry book".↗ Everyday, meaning 5: Funny in a quiet, serious way.↗ e.g. "dry humour".↗ Everyday, meaning 6: As a verb, to make or become dry.↗ Example: Dry your hands on the towel.↗ · The desert is hot and dry.↗ · The washing dried in the sun.↗ · My throat is dry; I need water.↗ · The river dried up in summer.↗ · Dry grass burns easily.↗ · Keep your feet dry in winter.↗ · We were happy to reach dry land.↗ · My throat is dry and burning.↗ · And in the second month, on the seven and twentieth day of the month, was the earth dry.↗ (Torah GEN.8.14, JPS 1917)↗ · all in whose nostrils was the breath of the spirit of life, whatsoever was in the dry land, died.↗ (Torah GEN.7.22, JPS 1917)↗ · And every meal-offering, mingled with oil, or dry, shall all the sons of Aaron have, one as well as another.↗ (Torah LEV.7.10, JPS 1917)↗ · And wilt Thou pursue the dry stubble?↗ (Writings JOB.13.25, JPS 1917)↗ · His roots shall dry up beneath, and above shall his branch wither.↗ (Writings JOB.18.16, JPS 1917)↗ · Turn our captivity, O LORD, as the streams in the dry land.↗ (Writings PSA.126.4, JPS 1917)↗

dryad — Everyday, meaning 1: A dryad is a spirit that lives inside a tree and is said to die when its tree is cut down.↗ Example: The dryad lived in the old oak tree.↗ · When the axe struck, the dryad sighed.↗ · The dryad prayed that the tree would be saved.↗

dryer — Everyday, meaning 1: A dryer is a machine that dries things, especially a tumble dryer that dries clothes.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A hair dryer blows hot air to dry hair.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: Drier (or dryer) is also the comparative of dry: «more dry».↗ Example: Put the wet clothes in the dryer.↗ · My jumper shrank in the dryer.↗ · Never use a hair dryer near the bath.↗ · The hand dryer in the toilets is loud.↗ · Clean the fluff out of the dryer.↗ · The towels are warm from the dryer.↗ · Today is drier than yesterday.↗ · Don't ever climb into a dryer.↗

dryly — Everyday, meaning 1: Dryly means in a plain, calm way that hides a joke or a little scorn, showing little feeling.↗ Example: "Thank you," said the king dryly.↗ · "Well, that is one way to do it," she said dryly.↗ · He answered dryly, as if he had heard the joke before.↗

dryness — Everyday, meaning 1: Dryness is being dry, having little or no water or wetness.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Dryness of skin, eyes or mouth is when they feel dry and uncomfortable.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: Dryness of humour is a quiet, serious-faced way of being funny.↗ Example: The dryness of the desert means few plants can grow.↗ · The dryness of the soil showed we needed to water the beans.↗ · Lip balm helps with dryness in winter.↗ · The dryness of the air made my eyes itch.↗ · Cacti survive dryness by storing water.↗ · I liked the dryness of his jokes.↗ · His very sorrow and melancholy did but increase the comic dryness of his sharply-cut features, and increased the laughter of the audience, who showered plaudits on their favourite.↗

duad — In Jewish tradition, meaning 1: the number two, or a group of two.↗ Example: But the duad is air, the triad is (Mordell, The Origin of Letters and Numerals according to Sefer Yetzirah (1914))↗ · The Triad, composed of llie Monad and Duad, partakes of the nature of both.↗ (Mordell, The Origin of Letters and Numerals according to Sefer Yetzirah (1914))↗

dual — Everyday, meaning 1: Having two parts, uses or sides; double.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: dual nationality / dual citizenship: being a citizen of two countries at the same time.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (maths) In some topics, dual means a matching partner shape or idea (for example, a cube and an octahedron are duals).↗ Example: My cousin has dual citizenship: Irish and Australian.↗ · This book is dual-language, English on one page and French on the other.↗ · Driving schools use cars with dual controls.↗ · The road becomes a dual carriageway after the roundabout.↗ · This tool has a dual purpose: a torch and a whistle.↗ · The game has a dual-screen mode.↗ · It is the Consummation of the Truth of indivi- dual spiritual things.↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1893)↗

dualism — In Jewish tradition, meaning 1: the belief that the world is made of two opposite forces or parts.↗ Example: The "one" in the Pythagorean dualism is the Symbol, I. (Mordell, The Origin of Letters and Numerals according to Sefer Yetzirah (1914))↗ · A solution to this question will be found in the Pythagorean dualism.↗ (Mordell, The Origin of Letters and Numerals according to Sefer Yetzirah (1914))↗ · The Philosophy and religion of Dualism apparentl)' arose from an interpretation of the symbols one, 1 and zero, 0.↗ (Mordell, The Origin of Letters and Numerals according to Sefer Yetzirah (1914))↗

duality — In Jewish tradition, meaning 1: the state of being two, or having two parts.↗ Example: S3, 140, 148) made it clear that the Pythagorean infinity which is identical with infinite duality is not a number at all.↗ (Mordell, The Origin of Letters and Numerals according to Sefer Yetzirah (1914))↗ · Contrary to the prevailing opinion, I believe that the Pythag- oreans regarded the Zero, 0, as the second element which was called the infinite, indeterminate duality, infinite binary, etc. (Mordell, The Origin of Letters and Numerals according to Sefer Yetzirah (1914))↗ · The Pythagoreans could not have meant by infinite duality the number two, as many writers believe, for as the one is finite, so the number two and every other number must also be finite.↗ (Mordell, The Origin of Letters and Numerals according to Sefer Yetzirah (1914))↗

dub — Everyday, meaning 1: To dub a film or TV show means to replace the voices with voices in another language, or to add sounds to it.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: To dub someone means to give them a nickname or a name: «They dubbed him the Wizard».↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (history) To dub a knight means to make someone a knight by touching his shoulders with a sword.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: (music) Dub is a kind of reggae music from Jamaica with lots of echo and bass.↗ Everyday, meaning 5: Dub can also be a word that copies the sound of a drum beating.↗ Example: The film was dubbed into French.↗ · Newspapers dubbed her «the Queen of the Court».↗ · The king dubbed him Sir Lancelot.↗ · Do you prefer anime dubbed or with subtitles?↗ · The actor dubbed the voice of the lion.↗ · The class dubbed our hamster «Mr Fluff».↗ · Dub music has a deep, booming bass.↗ · "Fool!" thought the Fire-drum; but it only said, "Dub, dub, dub, rub-a-dub!"↗

dubbing — Everyday, meaning 1: Dubbing is replacing the spoken words of a film or show with words in another language, said by new voice actors.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Dubbing is giving someone or something a nickname.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (history) Dubbing is the ceremony of making someone a knight.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: (old) Dubbing (also «dubbin») is a grease for making leather boots soft and waterproof.↗ Example: The dubbing in this cartoon is really good.↗ · Dubbing actors must match the mouth movements.↗ · My dad hates dubbing and prefers subtitles.↗ · They are dubbing the film into Spanish.↗ · The dubbing of a knight was a special ceremony.↗ · Fans were dubbing him «the Flash».↗ · Rub some dubbing on your football boots to keep them soft.↗

dubiously — Everyday, meaning 1: In a doubtful way, showing you are not sure something is true, good or safe.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: In a way that is not quite honest or that people suspect.↗ Example: Mia looked dubiously at the green soup.↗ · «Are you sure this is the right way?» asked Dad dubiously.↗ · The cat sniffed the new food dubiously and walked away.↗ · Rat eyed Toad's shiny new cart dubiously.↗ · Alice looked dubiously at the bottle marked «DRINK ME».↗ · He was dubiously quiet when Mum asked who had eaten the cake.↗ · The teacher dubiously accepted the excuse about the dog eating the homework.↗ · "Well, no," replied the little boy, dubiously.↗