dec | (noun) (astronomy) the angular distance of a celestial body north or to the south of the celestial equator; expressed in degrees; used with right ascension to specify positions on the celestial sphere | Synonyms: celestial latitude, declination |
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decade | (noun) the cardinal number that is the sum of nine and one; the base of the decimal system | Synonyms: 10, ten, tenner, X |
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(noun) a period of 10 years | Synonyms: decennary, decennium |
decadence | (noun) the state of being degenerate in mental or moral qualities | Synonyms: decadency, degeneracy, degeneration |
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decadency | (noun) the state of being degenerate in mental or moral qualities | Synonyms: decadence, degeneracy, degeneration |
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decadent | (adjective) marked by excessive self-indulgence and moral decay | Synonyms: fin-de-siecle |
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(adjective) luxuriously self-indulgent | - |
(noun) a person who has fallen into a decadent state (morally or artistically) | - |
decaf | (noun) coffee with the caffeine removed | Synonyms: decaffeinated coffee |
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decaffeinate | (verb) remove caffeine from (coffee) | - |
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decagon | (noun) a polygon with 10 sides and 10 angles | - |
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decagram | (noun) 10 grams | Synonyms: dag, dekagram, dkg |
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decahedron | (noun) any polyhedron having ten plane faces | - |
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decal | (noun) either a design that is fixed to some surface or a paper bearing the design which is to be transferred to the surface | Synonyms: decalcomania |
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decalcification | (noun) loss of calcium from bones or teeth | - |
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decalcify | (verb) remove calcium or lime from | - |
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(verb) lose calcium or calcium compounds | - |
decalcomania | (noun) the art of transferring designs from specially prepared paper to a wood or glass or metal surface | - |
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(noun) either a design that is fixed to some surface or a paper bearing the design which is to be transferred to the surface | Synonyms: decal |
decalescence | (noun) phenomenon that occurs when a metal is being heated and there is a sudden slowing in the rate of temperature increase; slowing is caused by a change in the internal crystal structure of the metal | - |
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decalescent | (adjective) absorbing heat without increase in temperature when heated beyond a certain point | - |
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decaliter | (noun) a metric unit of volume or capacity equal to 10 liters | Synonyms: dal, decalitre, dekaliter, dekalitre, dkl |
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decalitre | (noun) a metric unit of volume or capacity equal to 10 liters | Synonyms: dal, decaliter, dekaliter, dekalitre, dkl |
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decameter | (noun) a metric unit of length equal to ten meters | Synonyms: dam, decametre, dekameter, dekametre, dkm |
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decametre | (noun) a metric unit of length equal to ten meters | Synonyms: dam, decameter, dekameter, dekametre, dkm |
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decamp | (verb) leave suddenly | Synonyms: skip, vamoose |
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(verb) run away; usually includes taking something or somebody along | Synonyms: abscond, absquatulate, bolt, go off, make off, run off |
(verb) leave a camp | Synonyms: break camp |
decampment | (noun) breaking camp | - |
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(noun) the act of running away secretly (as to avoid arrest) | Synonyms: abscondment |
decant | (verb) pour out gradually, so as to separate out sediment | Synonyms: pour, pour out |
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decantation | (noun) the act of gently pouring off a clear liquor (as from its original bottle) without disturbing the lees | - |
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decanter | (noun) a bottle with a stopper; for serving wine or water | Synonyms: carafe |
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decapitate | (verb) cut the head of | Synonyms: behead, decollate |
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decapitated | (adjective) having had the head cut off | Synonyms: beheaded |
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decapitation | (noun) killing by cutting off the head | Synonyms: beheading |
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(noun) execution by cutting off the victim's head | Synonyms: beheading |
decapod | (noun) crustaceans characteristically having five pairs of locomotor appendages each joined to a segment of the thorax | Synonyms: decapod crustacean |
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(noun) cephalopods having eight short tentacles plus two long ones | - |
decarbonate | (verb) remove carbon dioxide from | - |
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decarbonise | (verb) remove carbon from (an engine) | Synonyms: decarbonize, decarburise, decarburize, decoke |
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decarbonize | (verb) remove carbon from (an engine) | Synonyms: decarbonise, decarburise, decarburize, decoke |
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decarboxylase | (noun) any of the enzymes that hydrolize the carboxyl group | - |
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decarboxylate | (verb) lose a carboxyl group | - |
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(verb) remove a carboxyl group from (a chemical compound) | - |
decarboxylation | (noun) the process of removing a carboxyl group from a chemical compound (usually replacing it with hydrogen) | - |
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decarburise | (verb) remove carbon from (an engine) | Synonyms: decarbonise, decarbonize, decarburize, decoke |
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decarburize | (verb) remove carbon from (an engine) | Synonyms: decarbonise, decarbonize, decarburise, decoke |
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decasyllabic | (adjective) having or characterized by or consisting of ten syllables | - |
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decasyllable | (noun) a verse line having ten syllables | - |
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decathlon | (noun) an athletic contest consisting of ten different events | - |
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decay | (noun) the organic phenomenon of rotting | Synonyms: decomposition |
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(noun) a gradual decrease; as of stored charge or current | Synonyms: decline |
(noun) the process of gradually becoming inferior | - |
(noun) the spontaneous disintegration of a radioactive substance along with the emission of ionizing radiation | Synonyms: disintegration, radioactive decay |
(noun) an inferior state resulting from the process of decaying | - |
(verb) fall into decay or ruin | Synonyms: crumble, dilapidate |
(verb) lose a stored charge, magnetic flux, or current | Synonyms: decompose, disintegrate |
(verb) undergo decay or decomposition | - |
decayable | (adjective) liable to decay or spoil or become putrid | Synonyms: putrefiable, putrescible, spoilable |
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decayed | (adjective) damaged by decay; hence unsound and useless | Synonyms: rotted, rotten |
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decease | (noun) the event of dying or departure from life | Synonyms: death, expiry |
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(verb) pass from physical life and lose all bodily attributes and functions necessary to sustain life | Synonyms: buy the farm, cash in one's chips, choke, conk, croak, die, drop dead, exit, expire, give-up the ghost, go, kick the bucket, pass, pass away, perish, pop off, snuff it |
deceased | (adjective) dead | Synonyms: asleep, at peace, at rest, departed, gone |
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(noun) someone who is no longer alive | Synonyms: dead person, dead soul, deceased person, decedent, departed |
decedent | (noun) someone who is no longer alive | Synonyms: dead person, dead soul, deceased, deceased person, departed |
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deceit | (noun) the act of deceiving | Synonyms: deception, dissembling, dissimulation |
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(noun) the quality of being fraudulent | Synonyms: fraudulence |
(noun) a misleading falsehood | Synonyms: deception, misrepresentation |
deceitful | (adjective) marked by deliberate deceptiveness especially by pretending one set of feelings and acting under the influence of another | Synonyms: ambidextrous, double-dealing, double-faced, double-tongued, duplicitous, Janus-faced, two-faced |
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(adjective) involving deception | Synonyms: fallacious, fraudulent |
deceitfully | (adverb) in a corrupt and deceitful manner | Synonyms: dishonestly, venally |
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deceitfulness | (noun) the quality of being deceitful | - |
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deceive | (verb) cause someone to believe an untruth | Synonyms: betray, lead astray |
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(verb) be false to; be dishonest with | Synonyms: cozen, delude, lead on |
deceiver | (noun) someone who leads you to believe something that is not true | Synonyms: beguiler, cheat, cheater, slicker, trickster |
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deceivingly | (adverb) in a misleading way | Synonyms: deceptively, misleadingly |
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decelerate | (verb) lose velocity; move more slowly | Synonyms: retard, slow, slow down, slow up |
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(verb) reduce the speed of | Synonyms: slow down |
deceleration | (noun) the act of decelerating; decreasing the speed | - |
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(noun) a decrease in rate of change | Synonyms: retardation, slowing |
(noun) (physics) a rate of decrease in velocity | - |
decency | (noun) the quality of conforming to standards of propriety and morality | - |
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(noun) the quality of being polite and respectable | - |
decennary | (noun) a period of 10 years | Synonyms: decade, decennium |
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decennium | (noun) a period of 10 years | Synonyms: decade, decennary |
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decent | (adjective) conforming to conventions of sexual behavior | - |
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(adjective) meeting requirements | Synonyms: acceptable, satisfactory |
(adjective) observing conventional sexual mores in speech or behavior or dress | - |
(adjective) in harmony with the spirit of particular persons or occasion | Synonyms: fitting |
(adjective) socially or conventionally correct; refined or virtuous | Synonyms: nice |
(adjective) sufficiently clothed to see visitors or appear in public | - |
(adverb) in the right manner; correctly; suitably | Synonyms: decently, properly, right |
decentalisation | (noun) the social process in which population and industry moves from urban centers to outlying districts | Synonyms: decentralization |
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decentering | (noun) Jean Piaget's theory of cognitive development where a child slowly moves away from an egocentric world to a world shared with others. | Synonyms: decentration |
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decently | (adverb) in a decent manner | - |
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(adverb) in the right manner; correctly; suitably | Synonyms: decent, properly, right |
decentralisation | (noun) the spread of power away from the center to local branches or governments | Synonyms: decentralization |
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decentralise | (verb) make less central | Synonyms: decentralize, deconcentrate |
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decentralised | (adjective) withdrawn from a center or place of concentration; especially having power or function dispersed from a central to local authorities | Synonyms: decentralized |
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decentralising | (adjective) tending away from a central point | Synonyms: decentralizing |
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decentralization | (noun) the spread of power away from the center to local branches or governments | Synonyms: decentralisation |
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(noun) the social process in which population and industry moves from urban centers to outlying districts | Synonyms: decentalisation |
decentralize | (verb) make less central | Synonyms: decentralise, deconcentrate |
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decentralized | (adjective) withdrawn from a center or place of concentration; especially having power or function dispersed from a central to local authorities | Synonyms: decentralised |
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decentralizing | (adjective) tending away from a central point | Synonyms: decentralising |
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decentration | (noun) Jean Piaget's theory of cognitive development where a child slowly moves away from an egocentric world to a world shared with others. | Synonyms: decentering |
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deception | (noun) the act of deceiving | Synonyms: deceit, dissembling, dissimulation |
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(noun) an illusory feat; considered magical by naive observers | Synonyms: conjuration, conjuring trick, illusion, legerdemain, magic, magic trick, thaumaturgy, trick |
(noun) a misleading falsehood | Synonyms: deceit, misrepresentation |
deceptive | (adjective) designed to deceive or mislead either deliberately or inadvertently | Synonyms: misleading |
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(adjective) causing one to believe what is not true or fail to believe what is true | Synonyms: delusory |
deceptively | (adverb) in a misleading way | Synonyms: deceivingly, misleadingly |
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deceptiveness | (noun) the quality of being deceptive | Synonyms: obliquity |
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decerebrate | (verb) remove the cerebrum from (a human body) | - |
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decertify | (verb) cause to be no longer approved or accepted | Synonyms: derecognise, derecognize |
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dechlorinate | (verb) remove chlorine from (water) | - |
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deciban | (noun) a unit of information, one tenth of a ban. | - |
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decibel | (noun) a logarithmic unit of sound intensity; 10 times the logarithm of the ratio of the sound intensity to some reference intensity | Synonyms: dB |
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decide | (verb) reach, make, or come to a decision about something | Synonyms: determine, make up one's mind |
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(verb) bring to an end; settle conclusively | Synonyms: adjudicate, resolve, settle |
(verb) cause to decide | - |
(verb) influence or determine | - |
decideable | (adjective) capable of being decided as following or not following from the axioms of a logical system | - |
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decided | (adjective) recognizable; marked | Synonyms: distinct |
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decidedly | (adverb) without question and beyond doubt | Synonyms: by all odds, definitely, emphatically, in spades, unquestionably |
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deciding | (adjective) having the power or quality of deciding | Synonyms: determinant, determinative, determining |
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(noun) the cognitive process of reaching a decision | Synonyms: decision making |
decidua | (noun) the epithelial tissue of the endometrium | - |
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deciduous | (adjective) (of plants and shrubs) shedding foliage at the end of the growing season | - |
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(adjective) (of teeth, antlers, etc.) being shed at the end of a period of growth | - |
decigram | (noun) 1/10 gram | Synonyms: dg |
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decile | (noun) (statistics) any of nine points that divided a distribution of ranked scores into equal intervals where each interval contains one-tenth of the scores | - |
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deciliter | (noun) a metric unit of volume equal to one tenth of a liter | Synonyms: decilitre, dl |
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decilitre | (noun) a metric unit of volume equal to one tenth of a liter | Synonyms: deciliter, dl |
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decimal | (adjective) numbered or proceeding by tens; based on ten | Synonyms: denary |
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(noun) a proper fraction whose denominator is a power of 10 | Synonyms: decimal fraction |
(noun) a number in the decimal system | - |
decimalisation | (noun) the act of changing to a decimal system | Synonyms: decimalization |
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decimalise | (verb) change to the decimal system | Synonyms: decimalize |
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(verb) change from fractions to decimals | Synonyms: decimalize |
decimalization | (noun) the act of changing to a decimal system | Synonyms: decimalisation |
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decimalize | (verb) change to the decimal system | Synonyms: decimalise |
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(verb) change from fractions to decimals | Synonyms: decimalise |
decimate | (verb) kill in large numbers | Synonyms: annihilate, carry off, eliminate, eradicate, extinguish, wipe out |
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(verb) kill one in every ten, as of mutineers in Roman armies | - |
decimation | (noun) destroying or killing a large part of the population | - |
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decimeter | (noun) a metric unit of length equal to one tenth of a meter | Synonyms: decimetre, dm |
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decimetre | (noun) a metric unit of length equal to one tenth of a meter | Synonyms: decimeter, dm |
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