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Meaning of D | Babel Free

Noun CEFR A2 Common
diː

Definitions

  1. The City of Detroit.
  2. The semicircle on the baulk line, inside which the cue ball must be placed at a break-off.
  3. A grade awarded for a class, better than outright failure (which can be F or E depending on the institution) and worse than a C.
    Canada, US
  4. A programming language inspired from C++.
  5. The fourth letter of the English alphabet, called dee and written in the Latin script.
  6. A British penny; an old penny (the modern decimal penny being abbreviated p).
  7. Abbreviation of defense.
  8. Abbreviation of Deuteronomist.
    abbreviation, alt-of
  9. The penalty arc on a football pitch.
  10. Die or dice.
  11. Abbreviation of Democrat, especially preceding the constituent location.
  12. The penalty arc on a hockey field.
  13. A penny, a measure of the size of nails.
  14. Abbreviation of drive, the setting of an automatic transmission.
  15. Abbreviation of duodecimo, as adopted by the American Library Association.
  16. Clipping of dick (“penis”)
  17. Abbreviation of data.
  18. Canonical decomposition
  19. Abbreviation of Deutsch number in the Schubert Thematic Catalogue.

Equivalents

Bosanski d
Ελληνικά ρε
Suomi d
Français D
Hrvatski d
Italiano d d
日本語 デニール
Kurdî D
Português D D
Српски d
Українська ре

Examples

“Rupert. I am told so, sir. But then so does the other Cadell. A devastating creature who spells it with two d’s.”
“£sd — “pounds, shillings and pence””
“d20 — a specialized die with twenty sides”
“2d6 — the sum of the roll of two six-sided dice”
“Boxer could not get beyond the letter D. He would trace out A, B, C, D, in the dust with his great hoof […]”
“D-New York”
““I think allowing this moniker, ‘Defund the police,’ to ever get out there, was not a good thing,” Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison (D) told The Washington Post’s Dave Weigel on Thursday.”
“She wants the D!”
“I give her the D, I give her the D, she callin' me zaddy”
“Symphony No. 4 Tragic D 417”
“Dotty my holster, totin on this knocker (Grrah, grrah) If we see the Ds, bitch, move proper”
“Johnson, a late substitute, applied the finishing touch but it was move kickstarted by the again-impressive Neco Williams, who skedaddled forward from halfway with the ball in tow before feeding Aaron Ramsey on the edge of the D.”
“23 min: Fee gets overly intricate near his own D, and gifts the ball to Eze, who attempts a curler towards the top-left corner but gets it all wrong.”

CEFR level

A2
Elementary
This word is part of the CEFR A2 vocabulary — elementary level.
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