Same as Di/resis.

The separation or resolution of one syllable into two; -- the opposite of syn/resis.

small genus of low deciduous shrubs; the bush honeysuckles.

plural of diesis.

An engraver of dies for stamping coins, medals, etc.

The process of engraving dies.

A small interval, less than any in actual practice, but used in the mathematical calculation of intervals.

A stock to hold the dies used for cutting screws.

in a period of sexual inactivity; -- of animals that have several estrous cycles in one breeding season.

same as diestrus.

a state or interval of sexual inactivity or quiescence between periods of activity; -- of animals having several estrous cycles in one breeding season.

A legislative or administrative assembly in Germany, Poland, and some other countries of Europe; a deliberative convention; a council; as, the Diet of Worms, held in 1521. Any of various national or local assemblies; Occasionally, the Reichstag of the German Empire, Reichsrath of the Austrian Empire, the federal legislature of Switzerland, etc. The legislature of Denmark, Sweden, Japan, or Hungary. The state assembly or any of various local assemblies in the states of the German Empire, as the legislature (Landtag) of the kingdom of Prussia, and the Diet of the Circle (Kreistag) in its local government. The local legislature (Landtag) of an Austrian province. The federative assembly of the old Germanic Confederation (1815 -- 66). In the old German or Holy Roman Empire, the great formal assembly of counselors (the Imperial Diet or Reichstag) or a small, local, or informal assembly of a similar kind (the Court Diet, or Hoftag).

One who lives in accordance with prescribed rules for diet; a dieter.

A rule of diet; a fixed allowance of food, as in workhouse, prison, etc.

One who diets; one who prescribes, or who partakes of, food, according to hygienic rules.

Of or performance to diet, or to the rules for regulating the kind and quantity of food to be eaten.

In a dietetical manner.

That part of the medical or hygienic art which relates to diet or food; rules for diet.

A physician who applies the rules of dietetics to the cure of diseases.

A colorless, volatile, alkaline liquid, NH(C2H5)2, having a strong fishy odor resembling that of herring or sardines. Cf. Methylamine.

Dietetic.

Dietetic.

A subordinate or local assembly; a diet of inferior rank.

One skilled in dietetics.

Evil name; bad reputation; defamation.

A form of divorce, among the ancient Romans, in which a cake was used. See Confarreation.

To cause to be different or unlike; to set at variance.

To cause to differ; to make different; to mark as different; to distinguish.

Distinct; separate; not the same; other.

The formal or distinguishing part of the essence of a species, by which it is distinguished from other members of its genus; the characteristic attribute of a species; specific difference; as, a proper definition must have both genus and differentia.

possessing a differential coefficient or derivative; -- of a mathematical expression.

Relating to or indicating a difference; creating a difference; discriminating; special; as, differential characteristics; differential duties; a differential rate.

An increment, usually an indefinitely small one, which is given to a variable quantity.

In the way of differentiation.

To acquire a distinct and separate character.

made different (especially in the course of development) or shown to be different; as, the differentiated markings of butterflies; the regionally differentiated results. Opposite of undifferentiated.

The act of differentiating.

One who, or that which, differentiates.

In a different manner; variously.

In a differing or different manner.

Difficult; hard to manage; stubborn.

To make difficult.

To render difficult; to impede; to perplex.

To render difficult; to difficilitate.

With difficulty.

Difficulty.

The state of being difficult, or hard to do; hardness; arduousness; -- opposed to easiness or facility; as, the difficulty of a task or enterprise; a work of difficulty.

To be distrustful.

The state of being diffident; distrust; want of confidence; doubt of the power, ability, or disposition of others.

See Diffidence.

Wanting confidence in others; distrustful.

In a diffident manner.

To split.

To define.

Definitive; determinate; final.

Act of cleaving or splitting.

A blowing apart or away.

A flowing off on all sides; fluidity.

Flowing apart or off; dissolving; not fixed.

Irregular in form; -- opposed to uniform; anomalous; hence, unlike; dissimilar; as, to difform corolla, the parts of which do not correspond in size or proportion; difform leaves.

To break or separate into parts; to deflect, or decompose by deflection, a/ rays of light.

The deflection and decomposition of light in passing by the edges of opaque bodies or through narrow slits, causing the appearance of parallel bands or fringes of prismatic colors, as by the action of a grating of fine lines or bars.

That produces diffraction.

Material which, in the process of catalysis, has diffused or passed through the separating membrane.

Poured out; widely spread; not restrained; copious; full; esp., of style, opposed to concise or terse; verbose; prolix; as, a diffuse style; a diffuse writer.

Spread abroad; dispersed; loose; flowing; diffuse.

In a diffuse manner.

The quality of being diffuse; especially, in writing, the use of a great or excessive number of word to express the meaning; copiousness; verbosity; prolixity.

One who, or that which, diffuses.

The quality of being diffusible; capability of being poured or spread out.

Capable of flowing or spreading in all directions; that may be diffused.

Diffusibility.

The act of diffusing, or the state of being diffused; a spreading; extension; dissemination; circulation; dispersion.

Having the quality of diffusing; capable of spreading every way by flowing; spreading widely; widely reaching; copious; diffuse.

In a diffusive manner.

The quality or state of being diffusive or diffuse; extensiveness; expansion; dispersion. Especially of style: Diffuseness; want of conciseness; prolixity.

Tendency to become diffused; tendency, as of heat, to become equalized by spreading through a conducting medium.

A thrust; a punch; a poke; as, a dig in the side or the ribs. See Dig, v. t., 4.

To understand; as, do you dig me?.

One who marries a second time; a deuterogamist.

A letter (/, /) of the Greek alphabet, which early fell into disuse.

Having the digamma or its representative letter or sound; as, the Latin word vis is a digammated form of the Greek 'i`s.

Pertaining to a second marriage, that is, one after the death of the first wife or the first husband.

Act, or state, of being twice married; deuterogamy.

Having two bellies; biventral; -- applied to muscles which are fleshy at each end and have a tendon in the middle, and esp. to the muscle which pulls down the lower jaw. Pertaining to the digastric muscle of the lower jaw; as, the digastric nerves.

A division of Trematoda in which alternate generations occur, the immediate young not resembling their parents.

The faculty of multiplying in two ways; -- by ova fecundated by spermatic fluid, and asexually, as by buds. See Parthenogenesis.

Sexually reproductive.

That which is digested; especially, that which is worked over, classified, and arranged under proper heads or titles A compilation of statutes or decisions analytically arranged. The term is applied in a general sense to the Pandects of Justinian (see Pandect), but is also specially given by authors to compilations of laws on particular topics; a summary of laws; as, Comyn's Digest; the United States Digest.

In a digested or well-arranged manner; methodically.

One who digests.

The quality of being digestible.

Capable of being digested.

The quality of being digestible; digestibility.

The act or process of digesting; reduction to order; classification; thoughtful consideration.

That which aids digestion, as a food or medicine.

See Digester.

Digestion.

Capable of being dug.

One who, or that which, digs.

A degraded tribe of California Indians; -- so called from their practice of digging roots for food.

The act or the place of digging or excavating.

temporary living quarters.

To prepare; to put in order; hence, to dress, or put on; to array; to adorn.

One who dights.

To point at or out with the finger.

Of or pertaining to the fingers; done with the fingers; as, digital compression; digital examination.

a computer that represents information by numerical digits with a fixed number of values; -- most commonly each piece of information is internally represented in binary code, as an array of bits, which are information units each of which can take only two values. The possible values of each bit are conventionally represented as the numbers 1 or 0.

Any one of several extracts of foxglove (Digitalis), as the /French extract,/ the /German extract,/ etc., which differ among themselves in composition and properties. Both Digitalis lanata and Digitalis purpurea have been used to prepare such extracts. the distinctive chemical substance, a steroid glycoside, which is the essential ingredient of the extracts of foxglove. It is a white, crystalline substance (C36H56O14), and is a 3-substituted diglucoside of a steroid. It is a powerful cardiac stimulant and is used as a cardiotonic for treatment of certain heart conditions, such as congestive heart failure. Chemically it is (3/,5/,16/)-3-[6-Deoxy-4-O-/-D-glucopyranosyl-3-O-methyl-/-D-galactopyranosyl)oxy]-14,16-dihyroxy-card-20(22)-enolide. The related compounds digitoxin and digoxin are also extracted from the foxglove. The class of steroid glycosides having cardiotonic properties are refered to as the cardiac glycosides.

A genus of plants of the family Schrophulariaceae, including the foxglove.

same as digitalization.

the administration of digitalis for the treatment of certain heart disorders.

to record digitally, e. g. on digital tape or compact disks.

a genus of plants including the crab grass (Digitaria sanguinalis); finger grass.

To point out as with the finger.

Having several leaflets arranged, like the fingers of the hand, at the extremity of a stem or petiole. Also, in general, characterized by digitation.

A division into fingers or fingerlike processes; also, a fingerlike process.

Formed like a finger or fingers; finger-shaped; as, a digitiform root.

An animal that walks on its toes, as the cat, lion, wolf, etc.; -- distinguished from a plantigrade, which walks on the palm of the foot.

Parted like the fingers.