📖 D — The English dictionary · page 8

decently — Everyday, meaning 1: Decently means in a polite, fair and respectable way that people think is right.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Decently can mean well enough or fairly well: «decently paid».↗ Everyday, meaning 3: Decently can mean wearing enough clothes, not showing too much.↗ Example: Please treat everyone decently.↗ · She did decently in the test.↗ · The workers wanted to be decently paid.↗ · Are you decently dressed?↗ We have visitors.↗ · He behaved decently after losing.↗ · The town looked after its poor decently.↗ · Some say it was the fatigue that killed her, but whichever it was, Mrs. Connor was decently buried with her own people.↗

deception — Everyday, meaning 1: Making someone believe something that is not true; tricking or lying.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A trick or lie that fools someone.↗ Example: The thief got in by deception, pretending to be a plumber.↗ · Camouflage is a kind of deception in nature.↗ · The magician's trick was clever deception.↗ · Online scams depend on deception.↗ · Her friendly smile was a deception.↗ · The fox used deception to trick the crow.↗ · By their advice she wrapped a stone in baby-clothes, and Cronus, in eager haste, swallowed it, without noticing the deception.↗

deceptive — Everyday, meaning 1: Giving a false idea or impression, so that something seems different from what it really is.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Meant to trick or mislead people: «deceptive advertising».↗ Example: The calm sea was deceptive; there were strong currents.↗ · Appearances can be deceptive — the tiny dog was very fierce.↗ · The question looked easy, but it was deceptive.↗ · The ad was deceptive because the toy looked much bigger on TV.↗ · The tall glass is deceptive: it holds the same as the short wide one.↗ · The slope looked gentle, but it was deceptive and very icy.↗

deceptively — Everyday, meaning 1: Deceptively means in a way that makes something seem different from what it really is.↗ e.g. "the question looks deceptively easy" means it seems easy but is actually hard.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: In house adverts, "deceptively spacious" means the house is bigger inside than it looks from outside.↗ Example: The puzzle looked deceptively easy, but nobody solved it.↗ · The river looks deceptively calm, but the current is strong.↗ · The house is deceptively spacious inside.↗ · The little dog is deceptively strong.↗ · It was a deceptively simple question with a trick.↗ · The ice looked deceptively thick, so we stayed off it.↗

decibel — Everyday, meaning 1: (science) A decibel is a unit for measuring how loud a sound is.↗ Example: A whisper is about 30 decibels.↗ · The concert reached 110 decibels.↗ · Sounds above 85 decibels can harm your hearing over time.↗ · We measured the playground noise in decibels with an app.↗ · The teacher's whistle was very high in decibels.↗ · Lower the volume on your headphones to keep the decibels down.↗

decide — Everyday, meaning 1: To decide is to make up your mind, to choose after thinking.↗ e.g. I decided to stay.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: To decide is to settle something, to make the result clear.↗ e.g. One goal decided the game.↗ Example: First decide: are things coming together, or going away?↗ · Decide what the question asks before you work.↗ · Tim decides to give 4 cards to Ben.↗ · We decided to go to the beach.↗ · I can't decide between pizza and pasta.↗ · The class voted to decide the name of our fish.↗ · One goal decided the match.↗ · She decided to tell the truth.↗ · So he decided to take a wife.↗ · Heat was created from Fire, and cold from Water, and satiation from Wind deciding between them.↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Sefaria community translation)↗ · Three—Fire, Water, and Wind; Fire above and Water below, with Wind the edict deciding between them.↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Sefaria community translation)↗ · The Second sect admitted Three great Powers ; two of them as in the first case, and a third Power whose function was to decide between (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1893)↗ · But to them that decide justly shall be delight, and a good blessing shall come upon them.↗ (Writings PRO.24.25, JPS 1917)↗ · And as thy servant was busy here and there, he was gone.'↗ And the king of Israel said unto him: 'So shall thy judgment be; thyself hast decided it.'↗ (Prophets 1KI.20.40, JPS 1917)↗ · And his delight shall be in the fear of the LORD; and he shall not judge after the sight of his eyes, neither decide after the hearing of his ears; (Prophets ISA.11.3, JPS 1917)↗

decidedly — Everyday, meaning 1: Clearly and without any doubt; very much: it was decidedly colder.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: In a firm way, showing you have made up your mind: «No,» she said decidedly.↗ Example: It was decidedly colder this morning.↗ · «I'm not going,» said Alice decidedly.↗ · The new playground is decidedly better than the old one.↗ · The Rat was decidedly cross with Toad.↗ · The cake looked decidedly odd.↗ · She shook her head decidedly.↗ · This maths test was decidedly harder.↗ · The weather was decidedly against a picnic.↗ · No, decidedly she was not at all like Lizina.↗

deciduous — Everyday, meaning 1: Deciduous trees and bushes lose all their leaves every autumn (fall) and grow new ones in spring.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Deciduous teeth are baby teeth, which fall out to make room for adult teeth.↗ Example: Oak trees are deciduous, so they lose their leaves in autumn.↗ · In winter the deciduous trees in the park look bare.↗ · Pine trees are evergreen, not deciduous.↗ · Canada's deciduous forests turn red and gold in the fall.↗ · Your deciduous teeth start falling out when you are about six.↗ · We sorted the leaves into deciduous and evergreen.↗ · Many deciduous trees grow new leaves in spring.↗

decimal — Everyday, meaning 1: (noun, maths) A decimal (or decimal number) is a number written with a decimal point, such as 3.5 or 0.25, to show parts smaller than one.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (adjective) Decimal system: counting in tens, using the ten digits 0 to 9, where each place is worth ten times the place to its right.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (adjective) Decimal money: money in which 100 small coins make one big unit, like 100 pence = £1 or 100 cents = $1.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: Decimal place: one digit after the decimal point.↗ Example: 0.5 is the decimal for one half.↗ · Round 3.476 to two decimal places: it's 3.48.↗ · Put the decimal point in the right place!↗ · Our money is decimal: 100 pence make one pound.↗ · The sprinter ran 100 metres in 9.58 seconds, a decimal number.↗ · One third as a decimal is 0.333…, a recurring decimal.↗ · We counted in tens because the decimal system uses ten digits.↗ · Gran remembers when Britain went decimal in 1971.↗ · He tried it by decimals and by compound interest.↗ · It should probably be understood on one level as a reference to the ten digits of the decimal numeral system, though as we shall see, these Sefirot Belimah are imbued with metaphysical significance beyond mere numerals.↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Sefaria community translation)↗ · astronomy, etc.; for ordinary purposes there was a decimal system of notation, without tiie principle of position.↗ (Mordell, The Origin of Letters and Numerals according to Sefer Yetzirah (1914))↗ · We know now that even the decimal system of notation originated from the two symbols the one, I, and the Zero, 0.↗ (Mordell, The Origin of Letters and Numerals according to Sefer Yetzirah (1914))↗

decimeter — Everyday, meaning 1: A decimeter is a unit of length.↗ A decimeter is 10 centimeters, and a meter is 10 decimeters.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: It is about the width of a grown-up's hand.↗ Example: The pencil is 2 decimeters long.↗ · 1 decimeter is 10 centimeters.↗ · How many decimeters are in 3 meters?↗ · The ribbon is 15 decimeters long.↗ · A ruler 30 cm long is 3 decimeters.↗ · A hand is about 1 decimeter wide.↗

decimetre — Everyday, meaning 1: A decimetre is a unit of length equal to 10 centimetres, or one tenth of a metre.↗ It is written dm.↗ Example: A decimetre is 10 centimetres long.↗ · There are 10 decimetres in a metre.↗ · My pencil is about 1.5 decimetres long.↗ · Convert 3 dm into centimetres: 30 cm.↗ · A cube with 1 dm sides holds exactly 1 litre.↗ · The ruler is 3 decimetres long.↗ · 25 cm = 2.5 dm.↗ · We rarely use decimetres in everyday life.↗

deciphered — Everyday, meaning 1: Worked out the meaning of a secret code and turned it into plain words.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Managed to read writing that is very hard to read, like messy handwriting or an old script.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: Understood something puzzling.↗ Example: The detectives deciphered the secret message.↗ · Champollion deciphered Egyptian hieroglyphs in 1822.↗ · I finally deciphered my brother's messy handwriting.↗ · We deciphered the code by shifting each letter back by one.↗ · The old map had faded and could barely be deciphered.↗ · She deciphered the meaning of his strange look.↗ · Code-breakers deciphered enemy messages during the war.↗

decipherment — Everyday, meaning 1: Decipherment is working out the meaning of a code, secret message or old writing that is hard to read.↗ Example: The decipherment of hieroglyphs took many years.↗ · The Rosetta Stone helped with the decipherment of Egyptian writing.↗ · The code-breakers worked on the decipherment of secret messages.↗ · Some ancient scripts still wait for decipherment.↗ · Our puzzle club practised decipherment of simple codes.↗ · The decipherment of the old letter revealed a hidden treasure map.↗

decision — Everyday, meaning 1: A decision is a choice you make after thinking about what to do: a hard decision.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Decision (uncountable) is the ability to decide quickly and firmly.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: In sport, a decision is the referee's or judge's ruling.↗ Example: I have to make a decision: football or swimming?↗ · It was a hard decision to give away my old toys.↗ · The class voted and came to a decision.↗ · The referee's decision was final.↗ · Think about the results before you make a decision.↗ · Moving house was a big decision for our family.↗ · Use a decision tree to sort the animals.↗ · They agreed to appoint Momus as judge, and to abide by his decision.↗ · Multitudes, multitudes in the valley of decision!↗ (Prophets JOL.4.14, JPS 1917)↗ · For the day of the LORD is near in the valley of decision.↗ (Prophets JOL.4.14, JPS 1917)↗

decisive — Everyday, meaning 1: Decisive describes a person who can make decisions quickly and firmly.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Decisive means having the biggest effect on the result: «the decisive goal», «a decisive moment».↗ Everyday, meaning 3: Decisive means clear, with no doubt: «a decisive victory».↗ Example: Our captain is decisive and makes quick plans.↗ · Her goal in the last minute was decisive.↗ · The battle was decisive and ended the war.↗ · Be decisive: pick a book and start reading!↗ · He acted decisively and called for help.↗ · Winning 10–0 was a decisive victory.↗

deck — Everyday, meaning 1: A deck is a set of playing cards.↗ A usual deck has 52 cards.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A deck is a floor of a ship or bus, like the top deck.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: A deck is a wooden floor outside a house.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: To deck is to decorate, as in «deck the halls».↗ Example: A deck has 52 cards.↗ · She dealt the deck equally to 4 players.↗ · He paints a deck that is 10 feet by 12 feet.↗ · They have 3 decks of cards.↗ · We sat on the top deck of the bus.↗ · The sailors stood on the deck.↗ · Shuffle the deck before you deal.↗ · Deck the halls with holly.↗ · Ralph the Rover walked the deck.↗ · Deck thyself now with majesty and excellency, and array thyself with glory and beauty.↗ (Writings JOB.40.10, JPS 1917)↗ · I have decked my couch with coverlets, with striped cloths of the yarn of Egypt.↗ (Writings PRO.7.16, JPS 1917)↗ · I decked thee also with ornaments, and I put bracelets upon thy hands, and a chain on thy neck.↗ (Prophets EZK.16.11, JPS 1917)↗

declaration — Everyday, meaning 1: A declaration is an official or important statement that says something clearly to everyone.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A declaration is a written document that states something formally, like a declaration of independence.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: A declaration of love is when someone says that they love another person.↗ Example: The king made a declaration that the war was over.↗ · The country signed a declaration of independence.↗ · At the airport, Dad filled in a customs declaration.↗ · His declaration of love made her blush.↗ · The headteacher read a declaration about the new school rules.↗ · The friends wrote a declaration of friendship and signed it.↗ · A declaration of war is a very serious event.↗ · Such an invitation is a challenge; it is almost, among boys, a declaration of war.↗ · Hear diligently my speech, and let my declaration be in your ears.↗ (Writings JOB.13.17, JPS 1917)↗

declare — Everyday, meaning 1: To declare is to say something clearly, firmly or officially, so everyone knows.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: To declare war is to announce officially that a war is starting.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: To declare something at customs means to tell officials about goods you are bringing into a country.↗ Example: The judge declared her the winner.↗ · «I will never eat broccoli!» he declared.↗ · The country declared independence.↗ · The headteacher declared the new playground open.↗ · You must declare food at the airport.↗ · The mayor declared a state of emergency after the flood.↗ · She declared that she was going to become an astronaut.↗ · Now he declares that I am healed.↗ · And I told it unto the magicians; but there was none that could declare it to me.'↗ (Torah GEN.41.24, JPS 1917)↗ · Remember the days of old, consider the years of many generations; ask thy father, and he will declare unto thee, thine elders, and they will tell thee.↗ (Torah DEU.32.7, JPS 1917)↗ · I declare unto you this day, that ye shall surely perish; ye shall not prolong your days upon the land, whither thou passest over the Jordan to go in to possess it.↗ (Torah DEU.30.18, JPS 1917)↗ · Declare, if thou hast the understanding.↗ (Writings JOB.38.4, JPS 1917)↗ · Declare, if thou knowest it all.↗ (Writings JOB.38.18, JPS 1917)↗ · But who shall declare his way to his face?↗ (Writings JOB.21.31, JPS 1917)↗