📖 D — The English dictionary · page 7

debility — Everyday, meaning 1: Debility is great weakness of the body, when someone is ill and has no strength.↗ Example: After the long fever she was in great debility.↗ · The old king lay in debility for a year.↗

debit — Everyday, meaning 1: (money) A debit is money taken out of a bank account.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (money) A debit card is a plastic card you use to pay, which takes the money straight from your own bank account.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (money) To debit an account is to take money out of it.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: In accounting, debit is the side of a record showing money paid out (the opposite of credit).↗ Example: Mum paid for the shopping with her debit card.↗ · The gym fee is paid by direct debit.↗ · The bank debited twenty pounds from Dad's account.↗ · Each debit makes the balance go down.↗ · Never tell anyone your debit card PIN.↗ · On my money sheet, I wrote debits in red and credits in black.↗

debris — Everyday, meaning 1: Broken pieces left after something has been destroyed or has fallen: bits of wood, stone, glass.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Rubbish or small pieces scattered about.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (science) Rock and dust, or pieces of old rockets and satellites in space (space debris).↗ Example: After the storm the road was covered in debris.↗ · Firefighters searched the debris for survivors.↗ · Flying debris can be dangerous in a strong wind.↗ · Space debris circles the Earth very fast.↗ · The beach was full of debris from the shipwreck.↗ · We cleared the debris from the garden.↗

debt — Everyday, meaning 1: A debt is money that you owe to someone.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Debt is the state of owing money (be in debt).↗ Everyday, meaning 3: A debt of gratitude is a feeling that you owe someone thanks for their help.↗ Example: He paid back his debt to his sister.↗ · If you borrow money, you are in debt.↗ · It took them years to get out of debt.↗ · I owe you a debt of gratitude for helping me.↗ · If I have £2 and owe £5, my debt is £3.↗ · Credit cards can lead people into debt.↗ · The company had huge debts.↗ · “We will pay your debts,” they said.↗ · Be thou not of them that strike hands, or of them that are sureties for debts; (Writings PRO.22.26, JPS 1917)↗ · And he said: 'Go, sell the oil, and pay thy debt, and live thou and thy sons of the rest.'↗ (Prophets 2KI.4.7, JPS 1917)↗ · and hath not wronged any, but hath restored his pledge for a debt, hath taken nought by robbery, hath given his bread to the hungry, and hath covered the naked with a garment; (Prophets EZK.18.7, JPS 1917)↗

debtor — Everyday, meaning 1: A debtor is a person who owes money to someone else.↗ Example: The debtor promised to pay back the money.↗ · The miser was a debtor of the village.↗ · The shopkeeper chased his debtor for the money.↗

debug — Everyday, meaning 1: (computers) To find and fix the mistakes (bugs) in a computer program.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: To find and fix problems in any plan or machine.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (rare) To remove insects or hidden listening devices from a place.↗ Example: Our robot kept turning left, so we had to debug the program.↗ · Debugging means finding the mistake and fixing it.↗ · It took me ten minutes to debug my Scratch game.↗ · The teacher showed us how to debug by testing one step at a time.↗ · Good programmers spend lots of time debugging.↗ · We debugged our plan for the school fair after the first test run.↗ · The spy movie showed agents debugging a hotel room.↗

debut — Everyday, meaning 1: The first time someone performs or appears in public, such as a singer's first concert or a player's first game.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: The first time a new product, show or film is shown to the public.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (verb) To appear or be shown for the first time.↗ Example: She made her debut in the school play last night.↗ · The young striker scored on his debut.↗ · The band's debut album came out in spring.↗ · The new game debuts next week.↗ · It was the dog's debut at the agility show.↗ · His debut for the national team was a great success.↗ · The film debuted in cinemas on Friday.↗

dec — Everyday, meaning 1: Short for December, the twelfth and last month of the year (Dec).↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (maths) Short for decimal (as in «2 dec. places»).↗ Everyday, meaning 3: Short for decrease, or for decreased/deceased in lists and records (dec. = deceased in family records).↗ Everyday, meaning 4: A fragment of longer words beginning dec-, such as decide or decorate.↗ Example: Write Dec as short for December.↗ · Round your answer to 2 dec. places.↗ · The bill said «Dec» at the top.↗ · In the family tree, «dec.» means deceased.↗ · The graph label «dec» meant decrease.↗ · Christmas falls in Dec.↗

decade — Everyday, meaning 1: A decade is a period of ten years.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A decade is also a group of ten, like ten beads on a rosary.↗ Example: A decade is ten years.↗ · My grandparents have lived in this house for five decades.↗ · The old tree has grown a lot over the last decade.↗ · Two decades equal twenty years.↗ · My mum hasn't seen her cousin for a decade.↗ · The town has changed a lot in the past decade.↗ · If a tree grows 30 centimetres a year, it grows 300 centimetres in a decade.↗ · The decade out of nothing has the following ten infinitudes: (Sefer Yetzirah, Kalisch 1877)↗ · They consist of a decade out of nothing [5] and of twenty-two fundamental letters.↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Kalisch 1877)↗ · The disciples of Pythagoras looked upon the decade as a holy number, and swore by it and by the Tetraktys which contain the number ten, (Sefer Yetzirah, Kalisch 1877)↗

decapod — Everyday, meaning 1: (science) A decapod is a crustacean with ten legs, such as a crab, lobster, shrimp, prawn or crayfish.↗ Example: A crab is a decapod because it has ten legs.↗ · Lobsters and prawns are decapods too.↗ · The front two legs of many decapods are claws.↗ · Decapods have a hard shell called an exoskeleton.↗ · We counted the legs to prove the crayfish was a decapod.↗ · Some squids are also called decapods because they have ten arms.↗

decay — Everyday, meaning 1: To rot or break down slowly, as dead plants, animals and food do.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: To become weaker or worse over time, like an old building.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: As a noun, the process of rotting; "tooth decay" is holes in teeth caused by germs and sugar.↗ Example: Leaves decay and turn into soil.↗ · Brush your teeth to stop tooth decay.↗ · The old log was decaying in the forest.↗ · Worms and fungi help things decay.↗ · The castle has fallen into decay.↗ · Sugary drinks cause tooth decay.↗ · But he feared nothing, except that his plums should decay, and this never happened.↗ · Notwithstanding the decay of the individual, the genus is produced by the antithesis of man and wife.↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Kalisch 1877)↗ · And Judah said: 'The strength of the bearers of burdens is decayed, and there is much rubbish; so that we are not able to build the wall.'↗ (Writings NEH.4.4, JPS 1917)↗

deceased — Everyday, meaning 1: (formal) Dead: her deceased grandfather.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (the deceased, noun) The person (or people) who has died, especially recently: the family of the deceased.↗ Example: (formal) The deceased left all her money to the animal shelter.↗ · The form asks for the names of any deceased parents.↗ · The police informed the family of the deceased.↗ · Her grandfather is deceased, but she has his old watch.↗ · (formal) The deceased was a well-known teacher in the town.↗ · In the story, the detective searched the deceased man's study.↗ · It was not so, however; there was a being standing before his bed, and looking like the ghost of his deceased wife.↗

deceit — Everyday, meaning 1: Deceit is making someone believe something that is not true, to trick them.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A deceit is a trick or lie.↗ Example: The wolf's deceit fooled Little Red Riding Hood.↗ · Friendships can't last with deceit.↗ · His deceit was discovered.↗ · Jacob won his father's blessing by deceit, the Bible tells.↗ · She hated lies and deceit.↗ · Honesty is the opposite of deceit.↗ · The evil doer often comes to harm through his own deceit.↗ · They hold fast deceit, they refuse to return.↗ (Prophets JER.8.5, JPS 1917)↗ · They conceive mischief, and bring forth iniquity, and their belly prepareth deceit.↗ (Writings JOB.15.35, JPS 1917)↗ · He that breatheth forth truth uttereth righteousness; but a false witness deceit.↗ (Writings PRO.12.17, JPS 1917)↗

deceitful — Everyday, meaning 1: A deceitful person often lies or tricks people to make them believe things that are not true.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A deceitful action or word is meant to trick someone.↗ Example: The deceitful fox pretended to be the hen's friend.↗ · It was deceitful to copy his homework and say it was yours.↗ · The scam email was deceitful: it pretended to come from a bank.↗ · She was hurt by her friend's deceitful words.↗ · The villain hid his deceitful plan behind a smile.↗ · Being deceitful can break people's trust.↗ · The queen, who did not imagine that any person could be so deceitful, bade her stepmother welcome, and kept her beside her.↗ · Thou lovest all devouring words, the deceitful tongue.↗ (Writings PSA.52.6, JPS 1917)↗ · Be not desirous of his dainties; seeing they are deceitful food.↗ (Writings PRO.23.3, JPS 1917)↗ · O LORD, deliver my soul from lying lips, from a deceitful tongue.↗ (Writings PSA.120.2, JPS 1917)↗

deceitfully — In Jewish tradition, meaning 1: In a tricky way, by lying or cheating so that someone is fooled.↗ Example: If she please not her master, who hath espoused her to himself, then shall he let her be redeemed; to sell her unto a foreign people he shall have no power, seeing he hath dealt deceitfully with her.↗ (Torah EXO.21.8, JPS 1917)↗ · Thy tongue deviseth destruction; like a sharp razor, working deceitfully.↗ (Writings PSA.52.4, JPS 1917)↗ · Will ye speak unrighteously for God, and talk deceitfully for Him?↗ (Writings JOB.13.7, JPS 1917)↗ · My brethren have dealt deceitfully as a brook, as the channel of brooks that overflow, (Writings JOB.6.15, JPS 1917)↗

deceive — Everyday, meaning 1: To deceive someone means to make them believe something that is not true, in order to trick them.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: To deceive yourself means to refuse to believe a truth you don't like.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: Things can deceive us too: «Looks can deceive.».↗ Example: The fox deceived the crow to get the cheese.↗ · Scam emails try to deceive people into sending money.↗ · Don't be deceived by the small size — it's heavy.↗ · Looks can be deceiving.↗ · He deceived his friends about where he was.↗ · Never try to deceive your parents about your safety.↗ · ‘I know everything--you have deceived me.↗ · Take heed to yourselves, lest your heart be deceived, and ye turn aside, and serve other gods, and worship them; (Torah DEU.11.16, JPS 1917)↗ · With Him is strength and sound wisdom; the deceived and the deceiver are His.↗ (Writings JOB.12.16, JPS 1917)↗ · Let him not trust in vanity, deceiving himself; for vanity shall be his recompense.↗ (Writings JOB.15.31, JPS 1917)↗ · Be not a witness against thy neighbour without cause; and deceive not with thy lips.↗ (Writings PRO.24.28, JPS 1917)↗

deceiver — Everyday, meaning 1: A deceiver is a person who deceives, that is, tricks people into believing something false.↗ Example: The deceiver promised gold but gave only stones.↗ · In the fable, the fox was a clever deceiver.↗ · Christians believe the devil is «the great deceiver».↗ · The online deceiver pretended to be a child.↗ · The queen soon discovered the deceiver's lies.↗ · A deceiver hides the truth to get what they want.↗ · Then the son of the king of Tisean was thrown into prison, and the next day they put down a great fire, and the deceiver was burned to ashes.↗ · With Him is strength and sound wisdom; the deceived and the deceiver are His.↗ (Writings JOB.12.16, JPS 1917)↗

decelerate — Everyday, meaning 1: To slow down; to go less fast.↗ Example: The car decelerated as it reached the corner.↗ · Friction makes the sledge decelerate.↗ · The rocket decelerated before landing.↗ · A parachute helps a skydiver decelerate.↗ · The train decelerated into the station.↗ · The ball decelerated as it rolled up the hill.↗

deceleration — Everyday, meaning 1: (science) Deceleration is slowing down; the rate at which something's speed gets smaller.↗ Example: The car's deceleration was quick when the driver braked.↗ · Friction causes the deceleration of the rolling ball.↗ · A parachute causes a big deceleration.↗ · Seatbelts protect you during sudden deceleration.↗ · The rocket's deceleration let it land gently.↗ · We measured the trolley's deceleration on the carpet.↗

december — Everyday, meaning 1: December is the twelfth and last month of the year.↗ It has 31 days.↗ It comes after November; January follows it.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: In the north (USA, UK, Canada, Ireland) December is in winter; in Australia and New Zealand it is in summer.↗ Example: December has 31 days.↗ · She saved $1 every day in December.↗ · How many days of December are left after the first 20?↗ · It snowed on 12 days in December.↗ · In December we decorate the Christmas tree.↗ · In Australia, December is hot and sunny.↗ · December is the last month of the year.↗ · The school term ends in the middle of December.↗ · Vacation begins on the first of January and ends on the last day of December.↗

decent — Everyday, meaning 1: Decent means good enough, of an acceptable or fairly good quality.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A decent person is honest, kind and fair to others.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: Decent means polite and respectable, following what people think is proper.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: (informal) Are you decent? means "Are you dressed?"↗ (so someone can come in).↗ Example: We had a decent lunch at the café.↗ · He's a decent kid; he always helps others.↗ · It was decent of you to share your crisps.↗ · Get a decent night's sleep before the test.↗ · "Can I come in?↗ Are you decent?" "↗ Yes, I'm dressed!"↗ · The decent thing would be to say sorry.↗ · She got a decent mark in maths.↗ · He then asked that the heads should be removed from the battlements and given decent burial.↗