de
IPA: dˈi
noun
- The name of the Cyrillic script letter Д / д.
- A surname from India of Bengali origin.
- (astronomy) dwarf elliptical galaxy
- Abbreviation of Delaware, a state of the United States of America. [A river in the northeastern United States, running from the Catskills into the Atlantic Ocean at Delaware Bay.]
- (computing) Initialism of desktop environment. [(computing) A complete graphical user interface solution to operate a computer.]
- Initialism of diatomaceous earth. [A light soil consisting of siliceous diatom remains and often used as a filtering material or microabrasive.]
- (US, navy) Initialism of destroyer escort, a type of warship of the destroyer subtype, also called a frigate. [(US, military, nautical, historical) A type of warship, lighter in armor and armament, and slower than a destroyer, originally used for convoy escort during World War II; now considered a frigate.]
- Initialism of differential equation. [(calculus) an equation involving the derivatives of a function]
- Initialism of delayed ejaculation. [The occurrence of a male orgasm very late during sexual intercourse.]
verb
- (Northumbria) Alternative form of dee (“to do”). [(Northumbria) To do.]
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Examples of "de" in Sentences
- Beauregard, the name became Toutant de Beauregard, the prefix _de_ having subsequently been dropped.
- "Me go to massa grave, and de water come into me yeye; but me can't help it, massa, _de water will come into me yeye_."
- No está claro si el mundo se acabará o entraremos a una "nueva etapa de florecimiento espiritual", pero ¡de que se destruye, se destruye!
- Describing the insolence of the actors, Gil Blas says, "Bien loin de traiter d'excellence les seigneurs, elles ne leur donnoient pas même _de la seigneurie_."
- If as _balayeur_ he could lay hands on a _morceau de pain_ or _de viande_, he bore it as before to our beds; but Jean was always called over to partake of the forbidden pleasure.
- While in St. Petersburg, she had given him money to buy some gift for Anna, so he planned to take both of them many beautiful things, and _une cave de parfums_ as a gift _de nez a nez_.
- The book is dedicated to Lorillard Ronalds who, the author explains in a few French phrases, asked him to write something "_de très pure et de très chaste, pour une jeunesse, sans doute_."
- In his _Popius_ eam in ludibrium vertit, &c. Sed eximius Poeta neque in veteribus suæ ipsius linguæ, nedum Græcæ monumentis versatus, tantum scilicet de antiqua illa litera vidit, quantum _de Shakespearii_
- But in 1813 Baden joined the coalition, and since then that nation created of odds and ends (_de bric et de broc_) and always handsomely treated by us, had not ceased to take a leading part in the struggles against our country.
- So far as the wholesale declaration of the illusoriness of physical evil -- the ravages and tortures of disease -- is concerned, the implicit belief extended to the pretensions of this creed to master all such ills is proof, if proof were wanted, of the success which rewards those who act on the maxim, "_de l'audace, toujours de l'audace_!"
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