Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- The symbol for the isotope deuterium.
- The symbol for the Roman numeral 500.
- abbreviation dative
- abbreviation day
- abbreviation defender
- abbreviation defense
- abbreviation defensive
- abbreviation Democrat
- abbreviation divorced
- abbreviation down
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- noun The fourth letter of the
basic modern Latin alphabet . - noun mathematics
cardinal number five hundred (500). - noun snooker The
semicircle on thebaulk line , inside which thecue ball must be placed at a break-off. - noun a grade awarded for a class, better than outright failure (which can be
F orE depending on the institution) and worse than aC - noun chemistry
Deuterium , when it needs to be distinguished from ordinaryhydrogen . - noun computing
Hexadecimal symbol for thirteen. - noun A standard size of
dry cell battery larger thanC . - noun Vehicle-distinguishing sign for
Germany . (clarification of this Translingual definition is being sought) - noun biochemistry
IUPAC one-letter abbreviation foraspartic acid . - noun mathematics The
differential operator in calculus and analysis. - abbreviation
Defense . - abbreviation US politics
Democrat , especially preceding the constituent location. - abbreviation
Divorced . - abbreviation
Down (direction). - abbreviation
Drive , the setting of an automatic transmission. - abbreviation printing
Duodecimo , as adopted by the American Library Association. - abbreviation
Dutch language . - abbreviation with “The” The City of
Detroit . - noun The fourth
letter of the Englishalphabet , calleddee and written in theLatin script . - noun The
ordinal numberfourth , derived from thisletter of the Englishalphabet , calleddee and written in theLatin script .
Etymologies
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Examples
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In our latest Congressional Report Card the average Democratic grade was an A - in the House and Senate while Republicans averaged a D in the House and a D+ in the Senate.
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In addition, aging skin produces less vitamin D-- the average 70-year-old person creates only 25 percent of the vitamin D that a 20 year-old does.
Vitamin D: Why You Are Probably NOT Getting Enough and How That Makes You Sick 2010
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In addition, aging skin produces less vitamin D-- the average 70-year-old person creates only 25 percent of the vitamin D that a 20 year-old does.
Mark Hyman, MD: Vitamin D: Why You Are Probably NOT Getting Enough and How That Makes You Sick 2010
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There has been much excitement lately about the discovery that most modern people suffer a deficit in Vitamin D-- but in reality this Vitamin D deficiency is just part of the larger Vitamin N deficiency.
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There has been much excitement lately about the discovery that most modern people suffer a deficit in Vitamin D-- but in reality this Vitamin D deficiency is just part of the larger Vitamin N deficiency.
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GUPTA: Well, it's hard to -- there's been a couple of studies talking, for example, about vitamin D and how using vitamin D-- just a normal dose is about 400 international units a day can actually reduce your pancreatic cancer significantly.
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The problem with that is other studies I've read indicate bodies don't process dietary vitamin D the same way as sunlight vitamin D--and it doesn't have the same health benefits.
Vitamin D in babies Becca 2008
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The problem with that is other studies I've read indicate bodies don't process dietary vitamin D the same way as sunlight vitamin D--and it doesn't have the same health benefits.
Archive 2008-06-01 Becca 2008
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David, why did the administration get a D, almost an F-- a D-- as far as securing nuclear materials and weapons of mass destruction around the world?
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My transcription is the standard followed by both Szczurowski 1954 and Patkanyi 1963, in which g is understood as a voiced obstruent of unknown/indeterminate value and many perhaps most scholars interpretet it as dental [d] or even interdental fricative [D]!
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January 2, 2010