📖 D — The English dictionary · page 6

deadpan — Everyday, meaning 1: Deadpan describes a way of telling a joke or saying something funny with a completely serious, blank face and flat voice, as if you do not know it is funny.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (verb) To deadpan means to say something in this serious, expressionless way.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: A deadpan face or look is one that shows no feeling at all.↗ Example: «Oh, it's only a little rain,» Dad said deadpan, as water poured through the roof.↗ · Her deadpan jokes make the whole class laugh.↗ · He kept a deadpan face while the teacher read out his funny poem.↗ · «I'm thrilled,» she deadpanned, looking at the pile of homework.↗ · The comedian's deadpan delivery made the joke twice as funny.↗ · British comedy often uses deadpan humour.↗ · Try telling the joke deadpan, without smiling.↗

deaf — Everyday, meaning 1: Deaf means not able to hear, or not able to hear well.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Deaf to something means not willing to listen to it.↗ e.g. He was deaf to our requests.↗ Example: My aunt is deaf and uses sign language.↗ · Some deaf children wear hearing aids.↗ · Very loud music can make you go deaf.↗ · Face a deaf person when you talk so they can read your lips.↗ · Grandpa is a bit deaf in one ear.↗ · Our advice fell on deaf ears.↗ · Beethoven wrote music even after he became deaf.↗ · So I turned a deaf ear to all he said.↗ · Thou shalt not curse the deaf, nor put a stumbling-block before the blind, but thou shalt fear thy God: I am the LORD.↗ (Torah LEV.19.14, JPS 1917)↗ · And the LORD said unto him: 'Who hath made man's mouth? or who maketh a man dumb, or deaf, or seeing, or blind? is it not I the LORD?↗ (Torah EXO.4.11, JPS 1917)↗ · Or deaf, as My messenger that I send?↗ (Prophets ISA.42.19, JPS 1917)↗ · Hear, ye deaf, and look, ye blind, that ye may see.↗ (Prophets ISA.42.18, JPS 1917)↗ · The blind people that have eyes shall be brought forth, and the deaf that have ears.↗ (Prophets ISA.43.8, JPS 1917)↗

deafen — Everyday, meaning 1: To make so much noise that people cannot hear anything else, or can hardly hear for a while: «The music deafened us».↗ Everyday, meaning 2: To damage someone's hearing or make them deaf: «The explosion deafened him in one ear».↗ Example: The cheers of the crowd deafened us.↗ · The fireworks were so loud they nearly deafened the dog.↗ · Wear ear defenders so the drills don't deafen you.↗ · The explosion deafened him in one ear.↗ · There was a deafening roar as the rocket took off.↗ · When the teacher asked who broke the window, there was a deafening silence.↗ · He next hastened to the aviary, and was almost deafened by the clamour that rose as he shut the door behind him.↗

deafening — Everyday, meaning 1: A deafening noise is extremely loud, so loud you can hardly hear anything else.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (idiom) A deafening silence is a silence that is very noticeable, for example when people refuse to answer.↗ Example: The thunder was deafening.↗ · The crowd's cheer was deafening when we scored.↗ · The music at the concert was deafening, so we wore earplugs.↗ · After the teacher's question there was a deafening silence.↗ · The fire alarm made a deafening ring.↗ · A jet engine is deafening up close.↗ · He, however, convinced them that there was no pig there, and then the applause was deafening.↗

deafness — Everyday, meaning 1: Deafness is being unable to hear, or being able to hear only a little.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (figurative) Deafness can mean refusing to listen to something, as in «deafness to their pleas».↗ Example: Beethoven kept writing music despite his deafness.↗ · Loud music through headphones can cause deafness over time.↗ · Her deafness meant she used sign language at home.↗ · Grandpa has partial deafness and wears a hearing aid.↗ · The doctor tested the baby for deafness.↗ · Ear defenders protect workers from deafness.↗ · The king's deafness to the people's complaints led to trouble.↗

deal — Everyday, meaning 1: A deal is an agreement between people, often in buying, selling or swapping.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: To deal cards is to give them out to players.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: To deal with something is to take action to sort out a problem or job.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: To deal with someone is to have contact with them or handle how they behave.↗ Everyday, meaning 5: «A great deal» or «a good deal» means a lot.↗ Everyday, meaning 6: A deal can be a bargain, a good price.↗ Example: Let's make a deal: you help me, and I'll help you.↗ · It's your turn to deal the cards.↗ · Deal out seven cards to each player.↗ · We learned how to deal with anger.↗ · The shop has a great deal on apples: three for one dollar.↗ · She spent a great deal of time on her project.↗ · It's no big deal if you spill a little water.↗ · Teachers deal with lots of questions every day.↗ · And they said: 'Should one deal with our sister as with a harlot?'↗ (Torah GEN.34.31, JPS 1917)↗ · In like manner thou shalt deal with thy vineyard, and with thy oliveyard.↗ (Torah EXO.23.11, JPS 1917)↗ · Ye shall not steal; neither shall ye deal falsely, nor lie one to another.↗ (Torah LEV.19.11, JPS 1917)↗ · Deal courageously, and the LORD be with the good.'↗ (Writings 2CH.19.11, JPS 1917)↗ · Wherefore are all they secure that deal very treacherously?↗ (Prophets JER.12.1, JPS 1917)↗ · The treacherous deal treacherously; yea, the treacherous deal very treacherously.↗ (Prophets ISA.24.16, JPS 1917)↗

dealer — Everyday, meaning 1: A dealer is a person or business that buys and sells a particular kind of thing, such as cars, art or antiques.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: In card games, the dealer is the person who hands out the cards.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: A drug dealer is a person who sells illegal drugs.↗ Example: Dad bought our car from a dealer.↗ · The dealer shuffled the cards and dealt five each.↗ · The art dealer sold the painting for a lot of money.↗ · It's your turn to be the dealer.↗ · Never take anything from a drug dealer — tell an adult.↗ · The antique dealer said the clock was 200 years old.↗ · Then the horse-dealers came together and began to bargain for it.↗ · A grievous vision is declared unto me: 'The treacherous dealer dealeth treacherously, and the spoiler spoileth.↗ (Prophets ISA.21.2, JPS 1917)↗ · Yea, moreover, wine is a treacherous dealer; the haughty man abideth not; he who enlargeth his desire as the nether-world, and is as death, and cannot be satisfied, but gathereth unto him all nations, and heapeth unto him all peoples.↗ (Prophets HAB.2.5, JPS 1917)↗

dealings — Everyday, meaning 1: The business or contact that people or groups have with each other: «my dealings with the bank».↗ Everyday, meaning 2: The way someone behaves when doing business: «honest dealings», «shady dealings».↗ Example: I've had no dealings with that company.↗ · The detective looked into the mayor's secret dealings.↗ · He was always honest in his dealings with customers.↗ · Their business dealings made them rich.↗ · We had friendly dealings with the shop next door.↗ · (formal) The report examines the firm's financial dealings.↗ · We of the jungle have no dealings with them.↗ · How can I repay unto the LORD all His bountiful dealings toward me?↗ (Writings PSA.116.12, JPS 1917)↗ · And there was no deliverer, because it was far from Zidon, and they had no dealings with any man; and it was in the valley that lieth by Beth-rehob.↗ (Prophets JDG.18.28, JPS 1917)↗

dean — Everyday, meaning 1: A dean is a person who is in charge of a part of a college or university, or of students.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A dean is also a leader of priests in a large church.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: Dean is a boy's name or a family name.↗ Example: Dean has 14 marbles.↗ · The dean gave prizes to 6 students.↗ · Dean ran 3 miles.↗ · Dean and his sister share 20 cookies.↗ · The dean of the college spoke at the ceremony.↗ · My friend Dean lives next door.↗

dear — Everyday, meaning 1: Dear means loved or very much liked: «my dear friend».↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Dear is the polite word at the start of a letter: «Dear Grandma».↗ Everyday, meaning 3: In shops (mostly UK), dear means costing a lot.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: «Dear» is a kind word for a person you love: «Thank you, dear».↗ Everyday, meaning 5: «Oh dear!» shows you are sorry or worried.↗ Example: Dear Grandma, I have 5 new books.↗ · The red bag is dearer than the blue one.↗ · Apples are $2 dearer this week.↗ · Which toy is the dearest?↗ · Dear Sir or Madam, I am writing to ask about the club.↗ · She is a dear friend of my mother's.↗ · Oh dear, I've spilt my juice!↗ · Thank you, dear, that is very kind.↗ · "That is for Hereafterthis, my dear."↗

dearly — Everyday, meaning 1: Very much.↗ e.g. I love you dearly; she would dearly like a puppy.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: At a high cost, with suffering or loss: they paid dearly for their mistake.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (formal) Dearly beloved: words used at the start of a church wedding or funeral to greet people.↗ Example: I love my grandma dearly.↗ · She would dearly love to visit Australia.↗ · The team paid dearly for that mistake and lost the match.↗ · (euphemism) We remember our dearly departed friend.↗ · Dearly beloved, we are gathered here today...↗ · He missed his dog dearly.↗ · “I am indeed,” she replied, “and I love you dearly.”↗ · I have forsaken My house, I have cast off My heritage; I have given the dearly beloved of My soul into the hand of her enemies.↗ (Prophets JER.12.7, JPS 1917)↗

dearth — Everyday, meaning 1: A dearth is a shortage, a time when there is not enough of something, such as food.↗ Example: There was a dearth of rain that summer and the crops failed.↗ · Our town had a dearth of doctors.↗ · In the dearth of bread, the family grew hungry.↗ · Some also there were that said: 'We are mortgaging our fields, and our vineyards, and our houses; let us get corn, because of the dearth.'↗ (Writings NEH.5.3, JPS 1917)↗

death — Everyday, meaning 1: The end of life; when a person, animal or plant dies and stops living for ever.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A case of someone dying.↗ e.g. "There were no deaths in the accident."↗ Everyday, meaning 3: Used to exaggerate.↗ e.g. "bored to death", "scared to death".↗ Everyday, meaning 4: A death can also be the hidden object or place that a villain's life depends on, as in old fairy tales.↗ Example: The death of our old dog made us very sad.↗ · Every living thing has a life and a death.↗ · Wearing a seatbelt helps prevent death in crashes.↗ · It's OK to cry and talk about a death in the family.↗ · I was scared to death by the thunder.↗ · Seatbelts are a matter of life and death.↗ · "Whereabouts is your death, O Koshchei?"↗ · Whosoever lieth with a beast shall surely be put to death.↗ (Torah EXO.22.19, JPS 1917)↗ · And he that smiteth any man mortally shall surely be put to death.↗ (Torah LEV.24.17, JPS 1917)↗ · He that smiteth a man, so that he dieth, shall surely be put to death.↗ (Torah EXO.21.12, JPS 1917)↗ · Shall I redeem them from death?↗ (Prophets HOS.13.14, JPS 1917)↗ · For the waves of Death compassed me.↗ (Prophets 2SA.22.5, JPS 1917)↗ · In those days was Hezekiah sick unto death.↗ (Prophets 2KI.20.1, JPS 1917)↗

deathless — Everyday, meaning 1: Deathless means that something never dies or never ends; it lasts for ever.↗ Example: Koshchei the Deathless could not be killed.↗ · The poet wrote deathless words.↗ · The hero's deathless fame lives on in the story.↗

deathly — Everyday, meaning 1: Deathly means like death, cold and still.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: «Deathly pale» means very white and ill-looking, as if dying.↗ Example: A deathly chill ran down his back.↗ · The island was in deathly silence.↗ · She went deathly pale when she saw the ghost.↗

debar — In Jewish tradition, meaning 1: Here only a part of a place name.↗ e.g. Lo-debar, a town in Gilead east of the Jordan.↗ The word "debar" means "to shut out".↗ Example: Then king David sent, and fetched him out of the house of Machir the son of Ammiel, from Lo-debar.↗ (Prophets 2SA.9.5, JPS 1917)↗ · And the king said unto him: 'Where is he?'↗ And Ziba said unto the king: 'Behold, he is in the house of Machir the son of Ammiel, in Lo-debar.'↗ (Prophets 2SA.9.4, JPS 1917)↗ · And it came to pass, when David was come to Mahanaim, that Shobi the son of Nahash of Rabbah of the children of Ammon, and Machir the son of Ammiel of Lo-debar, and Barzillai the Gileadite of Rogelim, (Prophets 2SA.17.27, JPS 1917)↗

debate — Everyday, meaning 1: A debate is a formal discussion where people give arguments for and against an idea, often with rules and a vote at the end.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Debate is discussion and disagreement about something.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: To debate is to discuss something carefully, or to think hard about which choice to make.↗ Example: Our class held a debate about school uniform.↗ · The two sides took turns in the debate.↗ · There is a lot of debate about the best way to learn.↗ · The council debated the new park for hours.↗ · I debated whether to have pizza or pasta.↗ · She joined the school debating team.↗ · Whether cats are better than dogs is open to debate.↗ · But when the Mice further debated who among them should thus “bell the Cat,” there was no one found to do it.↗ · Debate thy cause with thy neighbour, but reveal not the secret of another; (Writings PRO.25.9, JPS 1917)↗

debater — Everyday, meaning 1: A person who takes part in a debate: a formal argument where speakers give reasons for and against an idea.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Anyone who is good at arguing a point clearly with reasons.↗ Example: Maya is the best debater in our class.↗ · Each debater had three minutes to speak.↗ · The debaters on our team argued that school should start later.↗ · A good debater listens to the other side carefully.↗ · The judge praised both debaters for their politeness.↗ · He is a fierce debater at the dinner table.↗ · Our school's debaters won the regional final.↗