English Dictionary: diethylstilbesterol | by the DICT Development Group |
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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
d8Adelaster \[d8]Ad*e*las"ter\, n. [Gr. [?] not manifest + [?] a star.] (Bot.) A provisional name for a plant which has not had its flowers botanically examined, and therefore has not been referred to its proper genus. | |
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d8Ateles \[d8]At"e*les\, n. [Gr. [?] incomplete; 'a priv. + [?] completion.] (Zo[94]l.) A genus of American monkeys with prehensile tails, and having the thumb wanting or rudimentary. See {Spider monkey}, and {Coaita}. | |
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d8Edelweiss \[d8]E"del*weiss\, n. [G., fr. edel noble + weiss white.] (Bot.) A little, perennial, white, woolly plant ({Leontopodium alpinum}), growing at high elevations in the Alps. | |
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d8Odalisque \[d8]O`da`lisque"\, n. [F., fr. Turk. odaliq chambermaid, fr. oda chamber, room.] A female slave or concubine in the harem of the Turkish sultan. [Written also {odahlic}, {odalisk}, and {odalik}.] Not of those that men desire, sleek Odalisques, or oracles of mode. --Tennyson. | |
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d8Odelsthing \[d8]O"dels*thing\, n. [Norw. odel odal + ting parliament.] The lower house of the Norwegian Storthing. See {Legislature}. | |
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d8Otalgia \[d8]O*tal"gi*a\, n. [NL., fr. Gr. [?]; o'y^s, 'wto`s, the ear + [?] pain: cf. F. otalgie.] (Med.) Pain in the ear; earache. | |
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Dateless \Date"less\, a. Without date; having no fixed time. | |
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Deadlight \Dead"light`\, n. (Naut.) A strong shutter, made to fit open ports and keep out water in a storm. | |
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Deadlock \Dead"lock`\, n. 1. A lock which is not self-latching, but requires a key to throw the bolt forward. 2. A counteraction of things, which produces an entire stoppage; a complete obstruction of action. Things are at a deadlock. --London Times. The Board is much more likely to be at a deadlock of two to two. --The Century. | |
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Deathless \Death"less\, a. Not subject to death, destruction, or extinction; immortal; undying; imperishable; as, deathless beings; deathless fame. | |
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Deathlike \Death"like`\, a. 1. Resembling death. A deathlike slumber, and a dead repose. --Pope. 2. Deadly. [Obs.] [bd]Deathlike dragons.[b8] --Shak. | |
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Dedalous \Ded"a*lous\, a. See {D[91]dalous}. | |
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Deedless \Deed"less\, a. Not performing, or not having performed, deeds or exploits; inactive. Deedless in his tongue. --Shak. | |
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Detteles \Dette"les\, a. Free from debt. [Obs.] --Chaucer. | |
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Dittology \Dit*tol"o*gy\, n. [Gr. dittologi`a. Attic form of dissologi`a repetition of words: [?] twofold + [?] to speak.] A double reading, or twofold interpretation, as of a Scripture text. [R.] | |
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Doodlesack \Doo"dle*sack`\, n. [Cf. G. dudelsack.] The Scotch bagpipe. [Prov. Eng.] | |
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Dot Lake, AK (CDP, FIPS 19720) Location: 63.62912 N, 144.09512 W Population (1990): 70 (30 housing units) Area: 95.5 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 99737 | |
From Jargon File (4.2.0, 31 JAN 2000) [jargon]: | |
deadlock n. 1. [techspeak] A situation wherein two or more processes are unable to proceed because each is waiting for one of the others to do something. A common example is a program communicating to a server, which may find itself waiting for output from the server before sending anything more to it, while the server is similarly waiting for more input from the controlling program before outputting anything. (It is reported that this particular flavor of deadlock is sometimes called a `starvation deadlock', though the term `starvation' is more properly used for situations where a program can never run simply because it never gets high enough priority. Another common flavor is `constipation', in which each process is trying to send stuff to the other but all buffers are full because nobody is reading anything.) See {deadly embrace}. 2. Also used of deadlock-like interactions between humans, as when two people meet in a narrow corridor, and each tries to be polite by moving aside to let the other pass, but they end up swaying from side to side without making any progress because they always move the same way at the same time. | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
deadlock {processes} are unable to proceed because each is waiting for one of the others to do something. A common example is a program waiting for output from a server while the server is waiting for more input from the controlling program before outputting anything. It is reported that this particular flavour of deadlock is sometimes called a "starvation deadlock", though the term "starvation" is more properly used for situations where a program can never run simply because it never gets high enough priority. Another common flavour is "constipation", in which each process is trying to send stuff to the other but all buffers are full because nobody is reading anything). See {deadly embrace}. Another example, common in {database} programming, is two processes that are sharing some resource (e.g. read access to a {table}) but then both decide to wait for exclusive (e.g. write) access. The term "deadly embrace" is mostly synonymous, though usually used only when exactly two processes are involved. This is the more popular term in Europe, while {deadlock} predominates in the United States. Compare: {livelock}. See also {safety property}, {liveness property}. [{Jargon File}] (2000-07-26) |