This page gathers the 4,340 dictionary entries of which at least one sense is labelled “Dated” by Wiktionary. The definition shown is that sense; each word leads to its full entry. Page 11 of 44: from “data processing machine” to “diverting”.
- data processing machine noun An accounting machine or tabulating machine.
- data set noun A modem that connects a device such as a teletype to an ordinary telephone.
- date up verb To have an affair or dalliance with (someone).
- dayee intj An ellipsis of good day.
- dead horse noun The period of work on board ship for which the seamen have been paid in advance (usually a month's wages), the end of this term being…
- deadstart noun A bootup procedure.
- deambulatory noun A covered place in which to walk; an ambulatory.
- dear Sir phrase Used as the salutation at the beginning of a formal letter when addressing persons – assumed to be male – of unknown names.
- dearth verb To cause or produce a scarcity in something.
- death flight noun A form of extrajudicial killing done by military, in which victims are dropped to their death from airplanes or helicopters into oceans…
- death star noun a direct-to-home satellite television satellite (used by the cable television provider industry, to describe their competitors and the…
- deb noun A female member of a gang.
- decayed adj Reduced in circumstances; having lost one's status or fortune.
- decoherence noun The normal condition of sensitiveness in a coherer; reversion to such condition.
- decubital adj Relating to a pressure ulcer (a decubitus ulcer, that is, a bedsore).
- dementive adj Having or describing the worst, most debilitating state of a mental disorder.
- demi-caractère adj Which, in the historical French nomenclature, was halfway between serious (sérieux) and comic (comique); typically, where the protagonists…
- democrat wagon noun A light flatbed farm wagon or ranch wagon that has two or more seats and is usually drawn by one or sometimes two horses.
- democratic noun Synonym of democrat (“a supporter of democracy; an advocate of democratic politics (originally (historical) as opposed to the aristocrats…
- demoralize verb To erode the moral adherence of; to corrupt.
- demountable adj Designed to be removed from the read mechanism.
- dename verb To denominate.
- depauperize verb To free from paupers or pauperism.
- dephlegmate verb To deprive of superabundant water, as by evaporation or distillation; to clear of aqueous matter; to rectify; used of spirits and acids.
- deploy noun Deployment.
- derelict noun An abandoned or forsaken person; an outcast, a waif.
- derm noun Animal skin.
- dermatic adj Of or relating to the skin.
- deserving poor noun Poor people who are incapable of providing for themselves and thus seen as legitimate recipients of charity.
- designed adj Planned; designated.
- deskman noun A subeditor.
- desmodont noun Any of a group of South American blood-sucking bats of the genera Desmodus and Diphylla.
- detort verb to turn from the original or plain meaning.
- deuced adj Damned.
- devil bolt noun A sham, defective or faulty bolt, used to deceive an inspector regarding the quality of the material.
- devil-worshipper noun A Yazidi.
- devilfish noun The octopus.
- devilish adv Devilishly; very; exceedingly.
- Devonian noun A native or inhabitant of the English region of Devon.
- dewdrop noun A slow pitch.
- diagraphics noun The art or science of descriptive drawing, especially by means of mechanical appliances and mathematical rules.
- dial verb To use a dial-up modem to connect a personal computer to the Internet.
- diamide noun hydrazine
- diamond noun The size of type between brilliant and pearl, standardized as 4+¹⁄₂-point.
- diaper bag noun A bag designed specifically to carry soiled diapers for disposal.
- diaperman noun A man who delivers clean cloth diapers and takes soiled ones for washing as part of a diaper service.
- diaphanotype noun A colour photograph produced by superimposing a translucent coloured positive over a strong uncoloured one.
- dibs noun A sweet preparation or treacle of grape juice, much used in the East.
- dick noun A detective.
- Dick's hatband noun Used in similes as an intensifier, indicating someone or something is extremely strange, tight, etc.
- dicky noun A hat, especially (in the US) a stiff hat or derby, and (in the UK) a straw hat.
- diclinous adj unisexual.
- dictyogen noun A plant with net-veined leaves and monocotyledonous embryos, belonging to the class Dictyogenae, proposed by Lindley for the families…
- diet verb To regulate the food of (someone); to put on a diet.
- different story noun Any story featuring elements of science fiction or fantasy (as opposed to typical stories which are set in the real world).
- dig verb To work like a digger; to study ploddingly and laboriously.
- digester noun A medicine or food that aids digestion, or strengthens digestive power.
- digger noun a friendly term of address, especially to a man.
- digging noun Accommodation; lodgings; digs.
- diktat noun A harsh penalty or settlement imposed upon a defeated party by the victor.
- dilection noun love; loving kindness
- dill pickle noun A foolish person.
- dilly noun A kind of stagecoach.
- dinge noun A black person.
- dingleberry noun Any residual irregularity following processing.
- dining table noun Dated form of dining table.
- dink noun A Vietnamese person.
- dinkum noun Truth.
- dionym noun A binomial name; a scientific name at the rank of species, with two terms: a generic name and a specific name.
- diopter noun A lens element attached to the front of a photographic lens to shorten the lens's minimum focus distance; also called a "close-up filter".
- dip noun A pickpocket.
- diploë noun The thin layer of soft, spongy or cancellate tissue between the bone plates which constitute the skull.
- direct verb To address (a letter) to a particular person or place.
- direction noun The body of persons who guide or manage a matter; the directorate.
- directly adv Immediately.
- dirigent noun The line of motion of a describent line or surface that in so moving defines a plane or solid figure; a directrix.
- dirk noun A penis.
- disappoint verb To fail to meet (an expectation); to fail to fulfil (a hope).
- disarrest verb To release something that has been seized.
- disc jockey noun A person who conducts a radio program of recorded music combined with talk, news, commercials, weather, etc.
- discocellular adj Pertaining to a discal cell in the wing of a lepidopteran insect.
- discus noun A chakram.
- disengaged adj Not (socially) engaged; available, free.
- disengagement noun Leisure; relief from responsibilities or onerous activities.
- dish noun Something that fits someone's tastes, interests, or abilities.
- dish up verb To beat up.
- disk noun A vinyl phonograph/gramophone record.
- diskette noun An 8-inch floppy disk.
- dismal noun A dreary swamp in eastern North Carolina or Virginia in the United States.
- disme noun A dime minted in 1792.
- dispensary noun Synonym of pharmacy, particularly one included in a hospital that does not act as a point of sale.
- displacement noun The process of extracting soluble substances from organic material and the like, whereby a quantity of saturated solvent is displaced, or…
- display verb To make conspicuous by using large or prominent type.
- disport verb To amuse oneself divertingly or playfully; in particular, to cavort or gambol.
- dissipate verb To be dissolute in conduct.
- distancer noun A long-distance runner.
- dittohead noun A devotee of Rush Limbaugh, his radio program, or his opinions.
- divan noun An establishment that serves cigars and coffee, and may offer other amenities such as books, newspapers, and chess.
- diver noun A passenger carrying vehicle using an underground route; specially, a diver tram, one using the former Kingsway tramway subway (1906-1952).
- diverting adj Amusing, distracting.