cardigan | (noun) knitted jacket that is fastened up the front with buttons or a zipper | - |
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dig | (noun) the act of digging | Synonyms: digging, excavation |
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(noun) the act of touching someone suddenly with your finger or elbow | Synonyms: jab |
(noun) a small gouge (as in the cover of a book) | - |
(noun) an aggressive remark directed at a person like a missile and intended to have a telling effect | Synonyms: barb, gibe, jibe, shaft, shot, slam |
(noun) the site of an archeological exploration | Synonyms: archeological site, excavation |
digenesis | (noun) alternation of sexual and asexual generations | Synonyms: metagenesis |
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digest | (noun) something that is compiled (as into a single book or file) | Synonyms: compilation |
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(noun) a periodical that summarizes the news | - |
digester | (noun) autoclave consisting of a vessel in which plant or animal materials are digested | - |
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digestibility | (noun) the property of being easy to digest | Synonyms: digestibleness |
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digestibleness | (noun) the property of being easy to digest | Synonyms: digestibility |
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digestion | (noun) learning and coming to understand ideas and information | - |
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(noun) the organic process by which food is converted into substances that can be absorbed into the body | - |
(noun) the process of decomposing organic matter (as in sewage) by bacteria or by chemical action or heat | - |
digestive | (noun) any substance that promotes digestion | - |
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digger | (noun) a machine for excavating | Synonyms: excavator, power shovel, shovel |
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(noun) a laborer who digs | - |
digging | (noun) the act of digging | Synonyms: dig, excavation |
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diggings | (noun) temporary living quarters | Synonyms: digs, domiciliation, lodgings, pad |
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(noun) an excavation for ore or precious stones or for archaeology | Synonyms: digs |
digit | (noun) a finger or toe in human beings or corresponding body part in other vertebrates | Synonyms: dactyl |
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(noun) one of the elements that collectively form a system of numeration | Synonyms: figure |
(noun) the length of breadth of a finger used as a linear measure | Synonyms: finger's breadth, finger, fingerbreadth |
digitalin | (noun) a powerful cardiac stimulant obtained from foxglove | Synonyms: digitalis, digitalis glycoside |
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digitalis | (noun) any of several plants of the genus Digitalis | Synonyms: foxglove |
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(noun) a powerful cardiac stimulant obtained from foxglove | Synonyms: digitalin, digitalis glycoside |
digitalisation | (noun) the administration of digitalis for the treatment of certain heart disorders | Synonyms: digitalization |
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digitalization | (noun) the administration of digitalis for the treatment of certain heart disorders | Synonyms: digitalisation |
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digitigrade | (noun) an animal that walks so that only the toes touch the ground as e.g. dogs and cats and horses | Synonyms: digitigrade mammal |
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digitisation | (noun) conversion of analog information into digital information | Synonyms: digitization |
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digitiser | (noun) device for converting analogue signals into digital signals | Synonyms: analog-digital converter, analog-to-digital converter, digitizer |
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digitization | (noun) conversion of analog information into digital information | Synonyms: digitisation |
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digitizer | (noun) device for converting analogue signals into digital signals | Synonyms: analog-digital converter, analog-to-digital converter, digitiser |
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digitoxin | (noun) digitalis preparation used to treat congestive heart failure or cardiac arrhythmia | - |
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dignitary | (noun) an important or influential (and often overbearing) person | Synonyms: high-up, high muckamuck, panjandrum, very important person, VIP |
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dignity | (noun) the quality of being worthy of esteem or respect | Synonyms: self-regard, self-respect, self-worth |
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(noun) formality in bearing and appearance | Synonyms: gravitas, lordliness |
(noun) high office or rank or station | - |
digoxin | (noun) digitalis preparation (trade name Lanoxin) used to treat congestive heart failure or cardiac arrhythmia; helps the heart beat more forcefully | Synonyms: Lanoxin |
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digram | (noun) two successive letters (especially two letters used to represent a single sound: `sh' in `shoe') | Synonyms: digraph |
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digraph | (noun) two successive letters (especially two letters used to represent a single sound: `sh' in `shoe') | Synonyms: digram |
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digression | (noun) a turning aside (of your course or attention or concern) | Synonyms: deflection, deflexion, deviation, divagation, diversion |
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(noun) wandering from the main path of a journey | Synonyms: excursion |
(noun) a message that departs from the main subject | Synonyms: aside, divagation, excursus, parenthesis |
digressiveness | (noun) The characteristic quality of poetry that is marked by departure from the subject, course, or idea at hand; or by an exploration of a different or unrelated concern. | - |
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digs | (noun) temporary living quarters | Synonyms: diggings, domiciliation, lodgings, pad |
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(noun) an excavation for ore or precious stones or for archaeology | Synonyms: diggings |
gravedigger | (noun) a person who earns a living by digging graves | - |
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indigen | (noun) an indigenous person who was born in a particular place | Synonyms: aboriginal, aborigine, indigene, native |
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indigence | (noun) a state of extreme poverty or destitution | Synonyms: need, pauperism, pauperization, penury |
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indigene | (noun) an indigenous person who was born in a particular place | Synonyms: aboriginal, aborigine, indigen, native |
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indigenousness | (noun) nativeness by virtue of originating or occurring naturally (as in a particular place) | Synonyms: autochthony, endemism |
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indigestibility | (noun) the property of being difficult to digest | Synonyms: indigestibleness |
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indigestibleness | (noun) the property of being difficult to digest | Synonyms: indigestibility |
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indigestion | (noun) a disorder of digestive function characterized by discomfort or heartburn or nausea | Synonyms: dyspepsia, stomach upset, upset stomach |
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indignation | (noun) a feeling of righteous anger | Synonyms: outrage |
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indignity | (noun) an affront to one's dignity or self-esteem | - |
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indigo | (noun) a blue-violet color | - |
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(noun) deciduous subshrub of southeastern Asia having pinnate leaves and clusters of red or purple flowers; a source of indigo dye | Synonyms: indigo plant, Indigofera tinctoria |
(noun) a blue dye obtained from plants or made synthetically | Synonyms: anil, indigotin |
indigotin | (noun) a blue dye obtained from plants or made synthetically | Synonyms: anil, indigo |
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paradigm | (noun) a standard or typical example | Synonyms: epitome, image, prototype |
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(noun) the generally accepted perspective of a particular discipline at a given time | - |
(noun) the class of all items that can be substituted into the same position (or slot) in a grammatical sentence (are in paradigmatic relation with one another) | Synonyms: substitution class |
(noun) systematic arrangement of all the inflected forms of a word | - |
pedigree | (noun) ancestry of a purebred animal | Synonyms: bloodline |
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(noun) the hereditary derivation of an individual | Synonyms: ancestry, blood, blood line, bloodline, descent, line, line of descent, lineage, origin, parentage, stemma, stock |
(noun) line of descent of a purebred animal | - |
prestidigitation | (noun) manual dexterity in the execution of tricks | Synonyms: sleight of hand |
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prestidigitator | (noun) someone who performs magic tricks to amuse an audience | Synonyms: conjurer, conjuror, illusionist, magician |
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prodigal | (noun) a recklessly extravagant consumer | Synonyms: profligate, squanderer |
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prodigality | (noun) the activity of excessive spending | Synonyms: extravagance, high life, highlife, lavishness |
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(noun) the trait of spending extravagantly | Synonyms: extravagance, profligacy |
prodigy | (noun) an impressive or wonderful example of a particular quality | - |
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(noun) a sign of something about to happen | Synonyms: omen, portent, presage, prognostic, prognostication |
(noun) an unusually gifted or intelligent (young) person; someone whose talents excite wonder and admiration | - |
secundigravida | (noun) a woman who is pregnant for the second time | Synonyms: gravida II |
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shindig | (noun) a large and noisy party of people | Synonyms: shindy |
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tardigrade | (noun) an arthropod of the division Tardigrada | - |
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verdigris | (noun) a green patina that forms on copper or brass or bronze that has been exposed to the air or water for long periods of time | - |
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(noun) a blue or green powder used as a paint pigment | Synonyms: cupric acetate |