dec

IPA: dˈɛk

Root Word: Dec

A diminutive of the male given name Declan.
Digital Equipment Corporation, a defunct American computer and technology company.
Abbreviation of December. [The twelfth and last month of the Gregorian calendar, following November and preceding the January of the following year, containing the southern solstice.]
Initialism of diethylcarbamazine. [A synthetic anthelmintic drug.]
Initialism of diethyl carbonate. [(organic chemistry) an ester of carbonic acid and ethanol with the formula OC(OCH₂CH₃)₂]
(dermatology) Initialism of desquamated epithelial cell.
(programming) Abbreviation of decrement. [(countable) A small quantity removed or lost; one of a series of regular subtractions.]
Abbreviation of declaration. [A written or oral indication of a fact, opinion, intention, belief, etc.]
Abbreviation of decoration. [The act of adorning, embellishing, or honoring; ornamentation.]

(knitting) Abbreviation of decrease. [(intransitive) Of a quantity, to become smaller.]

Examples of "dec" in Sentences

If doe numbers need reducing and you have a tag in dec/jan, I say take em.
When game look upward thru the branches in dec it will see brown branches and either light blue or grey sky.
SanDiegoInjury: @walterolson @Chris_Davis says the OK law would be better if it also required a dec from the Dr that he wasn't negligent.
I went to an overstocked pond in dec/jan one a sunny day and pulled out 7 or 8 half pounders in about an hour and a half on a rat-l-trap but other than that havent had too much success bass fishin in the winter
You will find the hornady sst and sockwaves to be just about the same, because hornady makes the sockwaves for TC. I killed a 143 whitetail in dec. this year with the bonded sockwave 250gr. a pass thu shot in the rib cage.
I had a look into stty to see if I could work out what was going on. stty controls your terminal line settings, and it has a slightly alarming array of options (see the man page for full details). stty - a shows the current settings. stty dec is shorthand for setting several options at once: echoe: Echo erase characters as backspace-space-backspace.