a group of buildings that have been built together at the same time 쑗 a new housing development device device /d vas/ noun a small tool or piece of equipment that is useful for a part
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determined
determined /d
having a strong wish to do something,
and not letting anyone prevent you from
doing it 쑗 She’s a very determined
a very determined expression on his
de-termined to win the prize.
develop
develop /d veləp/ verb 1 to grow and
change 쑗 Eventually, a caterpillar will
something larger 쑗 She cycles in order
illness 쑗 She developed a cold at the
weekend 4 to plan and build something
is developing a chain of motorway
serv-ice stations.
development
development /d veləpmənt/ noun 1.
growth 쑗 The development of the
em-bryo takes place rapidly 2 the planning
and production of a new product 쑗 The
development of new pesticides will take
building on an area of land 쑗 the
devel-opment of property on the site of the
former docks 4 a group of buildings
that have been built together at the same
time 쑗 a new housing development
device
device /d vas/ noun a small tool or
piece of equipment that is useful for a
particular purpose 쑗 He invented a
en-gineers brought in a device for taking
own devices to be allowed to do
what-ever you want
diagonal
diagonal /da 'ən(ə)l/ adjective (of a
line) going straight from one corner to
another 쑗 He drew a diagonal line on
with diagonal lines indicate cultivated
diagram
diagram / daə'rm/ noun a plan or
ac-curate drawing 쑗 She drew a diagram to
book gives a diagram of the circulation
of the blood.
dial
dial / daəl/ noun a round face of a
meas-uring instrument or a old type of
tele-phone 쑗 The pilot sits in front of a
number using the buttons on a telephone
dials – dialling – dialled The US spelling is dialing – dialed.)
dialect
dialect / daəlekt/ noun a variety of a
language spoken in a particular area 쑗
They were speaking in a local dialect.
diameter
diameter /da mtə/ noun the distance across the centre of a circle
diamond
diamond / daəmənd/ noun 1 a very
hard, clear, precious stone 쑗 He gave
spar-kled on her crown 2 one of the red sets
in a pack of cards, shaped like a square
leaning to one side 쑗 He held the ten of
hearts; clubs and spades are the
black suits.) diary
diary / daəri/ noun a description of what
has happened in your life day by day 쑗
diary of the places she visited on
dice
dice /das/ noun a small block with a dif-ferent number of spots on each side,
used for playing games 쑗 Shake the dice
in the cup and then throw them onto the
dictionary
dictionary / dkʃən(ə)ri/ noun a book which lists words in alphabetical order, giving their meanings or translations into other languages (NOTE: The plural
is dictionaries.)
did
did /dd/ past tense of do
die
die /da/ verb 1 to stop living 쑗 His
dying – died) 2. 왍 dying for or to
wanting something very much 쑗 We’re
read his book.
die away phrasal verb to become less noisy
die down phrasal verb to get less
strong 쑗 The wind began to die down 쑗
The government is waiting for the street protests to die down.
die out phrasal verb to disappear grad-ually
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diet
diet / daət/ noun 1 the kind of food you
us because their diet is so simple 2 the
practice of eating only certain types of
food, either in order to become thinner
or to cure an illness 쑗 The doctor told
less food or only one sort of food 쑗 He
dieted for two weeks before going on
holiday.
differ
differ / dfə/ verb 1 not to be the same as
something else 쑗 The two machines
dif-fer considerably – one has an electric
from to be different from 쑗 This car
business differs from ours in one
impor-tant aspect 2 if people differ, they have
different opinions from each other 쑗
accounts of what happened differ in
agree
difference
difference / df(ə)rəns/ noun a way in
which two things are not the same 쑗
Can you tell the difference between an
What is the difference in price between
these two cars?
different
different / df(ə)rənt/ adjective not the
same 쑗 Living in London is very
to three different clothes shops but I
looks different now that he has a beard.
difficult
difficult / dfk(ə)lt/ adjective not easy
to do or achieve 쑗 Finding a parking
it difficult to work when I’m tired.
difficulty
difficulty / dfk(ə)lti/ noun 1 왍 to
have difficulty with or in doing
some-thing to find it hard to do somesome-thing 쑗
with difficulty not easily 쑗 She walks
diffi-culty is that nobody in the group can
She went swimming in the rough sea and
difficulties.)
dig
dig /d'/ verb to make a hole in the
ground with a spade 쑗 She’s been
pris-oners dug a tunnel to try to escape.
(NOTE: digging – dug – has dug) dig up phrasal verb 1 to find
some-thing by digging 쑗 We dug up a Roman
coin in the garden 2 to break a solid
surface by digging 쑗 The workmen had
to dig the road up to mend the water main.
digest
digest /da d"est/ verb 1 to break down
food in the stomach 쑗 I find this meat
difficult to digest 2 to think about
something and understand it fully 쑗
Give me time to digest this news.
digestion
digestion /da d"estʃən/ noun the process by which food is broken down
in the stomach digital
digital / dd"t(ə)l/ adjective 1 storing
information in an electronic form 쑗 a
digital radio 2 (of a clock or watch)
showing the time as a set of numbers dim
dim /dm/ adjective (of light) weak 쑗 The
dimmed) 쐽verb to make a light less
bright 쑗 They dimmed the cabin lights
– dimmed)
dime
dime /dam/ noun US a coin that is worth ten cents
dimension
dimension /da menʃən/ noun the
ex-tent of a problem 쑗 the international
task is taking on huge dimensions.
dining room
dining room / room in a house or hotel where you usu-ally eat 쒁 bathroom, bedroom, living room
dinner
dinner / dnə/ noun 1 the main meal of
the day, usually eaten in the evening 쑗
We were having dinner when the
having for dinner? or What’s for
club is organising a dinner and dance
on Saturday.
dinosaur
dinosaur / ture that existed on the Earth millions of
years ago 쑗 At the time when dinosaurs roamed the land, England was covered with tropical forests.
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dip
dip /dp/ noun 1 a sudden drop in an area
of land 쑗 Watch out – there’s a dip in the
road which makes it difficult to see
ap-proaching cars 2 a cold sauce into
which you can dip biscuits or raw
vege-tables 쑗 a bowl of cheese dip 쐽 verb 왍
to dip something into something to put
something quickly into a liquid 쑗 She
dips – dipping – dipped)
diploma
diploma /d pləυmə/ noun a document
which shows that a person has reached a
certain level of skill in a subject
direct
direct /da rekt/ adjective straight,
with-out any changes of direction or stops 쑗
What’s the most direct way of getting to
to-wards a point 쑗 I hope you’re not
direct-ing that gun at me! 2 to say somethdirect-ing
to a particular person 쑗 He directed his
remarks to the manager 3 to tell
some-one how to get to a place 쑗 Can you
ad-verb straight, without stopping 쑗 The
plane flies direct to Anchorage.
direction
direction /da rekʃən/ noun the point
towards which you are going 쑗 You are
going in the wrong direction if you want
directions instructions on how to do
something 앳 in all directions
every-where 쑗 The wind was blowing bits of
old newspapers in all directions.
directly
directly /da rektl/ adverb 1 straight,
without anything or anyone between 쑗
This door opens directly into the
home.
director
director /da rektə/ noun 1 a person
who is in charge of all of, or part of, a
company 쑗 The sales director gave a
directors on the board of the company.
2. a person who organises the making of
a film or play, e.g giving instructions to
the actors, or dealing with the lighting
or sound 쑗 Who was the first female
di-rector to win an Oscar? Compare
pro-ducer
dirt
dirt /
dirty 쑗 a washing powder that removes
mud; earth 쑗 Children were playing in
dirt from handling potatoes.
dirty
Someone has to wash all the dirty
plates 2 not honest, or not done
ac-cording to the rules (NOTE: dirtier – dirtied) 쐽 verb to make something dirty (NOTE: dirties – dirtying – dirtied)
disabled
disabled /ds eb(ə)ld/ adjective not able to use part of your body, e.g
be-cause of long-term illness 쑗 an
left him permanently disabled.
disadvantage
disadvantage /dsəd something which makes someone or
something less likely to succeed 쑗 Her main disadvantage is her lack of
There are certain disadvantages to leav-ing at 5.30 in the mornleav-ing.
disagree
disagree /dsə you do not have the same opinion as
someone else 쑗 We all disagreed with
about what to do next.
disagreement
disagreement /dsə
an argument 쑗 They had a disagreement
Nothing could be decided because of the disagreement between the chair and the treasurer.
disappear
disappear /dsə pə/ verb 1 to
sudden-ly not be seen any more 쑗 He hit the ball hard and it disappeared into the bushes.
way home from school 2 to leave a
place, often suddenly and without peo-ple noticing or knowing where you have
gone 쑗 Where have the kids
disap-peared already.
disappointed
disappointed /dsə pɔntd/ adjective sad, because things have not happened
as you hoped 쑗 She is disappointed with
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disappoint-ed because his ticket didn’t win a prize.
disappoint-ed expression on his face.
disappointing
disappointing /dsə pɔntŋ/
adjec-tive making you sad because things have
not happened as you hoped
disappointment
disappointment /dsə pɔntmənt/
noun 1 a feeling of sadness that you get
when things have not happened as you
hoped 쑗 She tried hard not to show her
disap-pointment, he didn’t win anything on the
2. something that disappoints someone
disappointments she finally won a prize.
disapprove
disapprove /dsə
that you do not think something is good
members of staff wearing jeans to
school.
disaster
disaster /d
cident 쑗 The disaster was caused by fog
We’re insured against natural disasters
such as hurricanes and earthquakes.
disastrous
disastrous /d
tremely bad
disc
disc /dsk/ noun a round flat object 쑗
The setting sun was a huge orange disc
discipline
discipline / dspln/ noun 1 the
prac-tice of keeping people under control 쑗
The tour leaders are trying to keep
to enforce stricter discipline in the
2. a subject that people study 쑗 biology
punish someone 쑗 As a result of the
in-vestigation, one employee was
She was disciplined for swearing at her
supervisor.
disco
disco / dskəυ/ noun a place or party
where people dance to pop music
(NOTE: The plural is discos.)
discover
discover /d skvə/ verb to find
some-thing new or to learn somesome-thing for the
first time 쑗 Who discovered penicillin?
estate agent had sold the house twice.
discovery
discovery /d skv(ə)ri/ noun 1 the act
of finding something new or learning
something for the first time 쑗 her dis-covery that someone had been in her
con-gratulated him on his discovery of a new
planet 2 a new thing which has been
found 쑗 Look at his latest discovery –
an antique oak table which he found in
discover-ies.)
discuss
discuss /d sks/ verb to talk about a
serious matter or problem 쑗 The point of the meeting is to discuss how to save
the details of the wedding.
discussion
discussion /d skʃ(ə)n/ noun an oc-casion on which people talk about a
se-rious matter or problem 쑗 Most
next programme will feature a discus-sion between environmental experts on
dis-cussion with the bus driver.
disease
disease /d
with antibiotics.
disgraceful
disgraceful /ds 'resf(ə)l/ adjective which people should be ashamed of disguise
disguise /ds 'az/ noun a set of clothes
or something such as false hair or
glass-es that a persons wears to make them
look like someone else 쑗 I didn’t recog-nise him as he was wearing a disguise.
왍 in disguise dressed to look like
some-one else 쑗 The tramp turned out to be a
dress someone or yourself so as to look
like someone else 쑗 He entered the
wore a wig to disguise her hair 2 to
make something look or sound different disgust
disgust /ds 'st/ noun 1 a feeling of
dislike that is so strong that you feel
an-gry or slightly ill 쑗 Seeing the dead
an-imals filled her with disgust 2 a strong
feeling of annoyance 쑗 To my disgust, the examiner passed my friend and
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are upset and annoyed 쑗 She walked out
give someone a strong feeling of dislike
or disapproval 쑗 The smell of cooking
people disgusts me.
dish
dish /dʃ/ noun 1 a large plate for
serv-ing food 쑗 She carefully arranged the
slices of meat on a dish 2 food
pre-pared in a particular way 쑗 We are
try-ing a new Mexican dish 3 a round
aer-ial, shaped like a plate, used to get
sig-nals from satellites (NOTE: The plural is
dishes.)
dish out phrasal verb to give
some-thing out, especially in large quantities
(informal)쑗 He dished out a piece of
bread and a bowl of soup to anyone who
asked for it.
dishonest
dishonest /ds ɒnst/ adjective not
honest
dishonestly
dishonestly /ds ɒnstli/ adverb not
honestly 쑗 They were accused of
dis-honestly obtaining bank loans.
disk
disk /dsk/ noun a round flat piece of
metal in a plastic case, used in
comput-ers to record information 쑗 How much
dislike
dislike /ds lak/ noun 1 a feeling of not
liking something or someone 쑗 She had
a great dislike of noisy parties 2
some-thing which you do not like 쑗 We try to
take account of the likes and dislikes of
something or someone 쑗 He
dislike it when the people behind me at
fa-ther dislikes having to get up early on
Monday mornings.
dismay
dismay /ds me/ noun great
disappoint-ment 쑗 To the dismay of the supporters,
to make someone very upset or shocked
passport had been stolen.
dismiss
dismiss /ds ms/ verb 1 to tell
some-one that they can leave 쑗 At the end of
the interview he dismissed her with a
brief ‘good afternoon’ 2 to refuse to
consider an idea 쑗 Her plan was
his suggestions were dismissed by the
re-move an employee from a job 쑗 He was
found him taking money from the petty cash he was dismissed instantly.
disobey
disobey /dsə be/ verb not to obey
someone or something 쑗 She would never disobey her parents.
display
display /d sple/ noun a show, an
exhi-bition 쑗 a display of local crafts 쑗 They have a fine display of Chinese
dis-play 쑗 She is displaying her collection
of Persian carpets at the antiques fair.
dispute
dispute /d
argument 쑗 He tried to mediate in the
that you strongly believe that something
is not true or correct 쑗 I dispute her
disputing the fact that Sarah is the best player.
dissatisfied
dissatisfied /ds stsfad/ adjective
not satisfied 쑗 We were dissatisfied with the service we got from our bank.
dissolve
dissolve /d zɒlv/ verb to make a solid
substance become part of a liquid 쑗 Dis-solve the sugar in half a litre of boiling
warm water.
distance
distance / dstəns/ noun 1 the space
from one point to another 쑗 The furthest distance I have travelled by train is 800
enough to walk to 쑗 The hotel is within
from a distance seen from some way
away 쑗 From a distance, the mountain
distance a long way away 쑗 I caught
We could hear guns firing in the
from to show that you do not agree with
someone or something distant
distant / dstənt/ adjective far away 쑗
We could hear the sound of distant
not a member of the immediate family 쑗
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She’s a very distant relative – her
grandfather was my grandmother’s
cousin.
distinct
distinct /d stŋkt/ adjective 1 separate
quite distinct from their publishing
com-pany 2 that you can clearly see, hear or
feel 쑗 I got the distinct impression that
the distinct tone of anger in his voice?
distinction
distinction /d stŋkʃən/ noun 1 a
dif-ference 쑗 There is a distinction between
being interested in politics and joining a
political party 2 the highest mark
available in an examination 쑗 She got a
distinction in her exam.
distinctly
distinctly /d stŋktli/ adverb clearly
distinguish
distinguish /d stŋ'wʃ/ verb to see or
hear clearly, or to see details 쑗 We could
easily distinguish houses on the other
least two birds calling to each other.
distract
distract /d strkt/ verb to attract
someone’s attention when they should
be doing something else 쑗 The noise of
the planes is bound to distract the
stu-dents.
distress
distress /d stres/ noun a sad or painful
feeling which is very strong 쑗 I don’t
The whole family was in distress at
someone very sad and worried 쑗 The
news of her grandmother’s death
dis-tressed her very much.
distribute
distribute /d
something between people 쑗 She
The flight attendants came round,
dis-tributing immigration forms to non-EU
all the committee members.
district
district / dstrkt/ noun an area or
re-gion 쑗 It’s a district of the town well
known for its Italian restaurants.
disturb
disturb /d
what someone is doing 쑗 Sorry to
Don’t disturb your mother – she’s
It disturbed me to see that the wheel was
wobbling 3 to change the order or
ar-rangement of something 쑗 The police told us that nothing must be disturbed in the bedroom.
disturbance
disturbance /d
casion on which someone is disturbed 쑗
I need to work somewhere where there won’t be any disturbance.
ditch
ditch /dtʃ/ noun a long narrow hole cut
into the ground for taking away water 쑗
After the storm, the ditches were full of
dive
dive /dav/ verb to jump into water head
first 쑗 He dived in and swam across the pool under water.
diver
diver / davə/ noun 1 a person who
dives 쑗 the Australian Olympic diver 2.
a person who swims under water,
espe-cially as a job 쑗 Police divers searched the canal.
divide
divide /d vad/ verb 1 to cut something
into parts 쑗 The cake was divided
two companies agreed to divide the
office is divided up with low partitions.
2. to calculate how many times one
number fits in another 쑗 Ten divided by
usu-ally shown by the sign ÷ : 10 ÷ 2 = 5:
say ‘ten divided by two equals five’
Note also divides – dividing – divid-ed.)
division
division /d v"(ə)n/ noun 1 an
impor-tant part of a large organisation 쑗 The
She is the head of the production
divi-sion 2 a calculation, where one figure
is divided by another 쑗 My little sister is just learning how to do division.
divorce
divorce /d
of a husband and wife where each is free
to marry again 쑗 Her parents are
to break off a marriage legally 쑗 They
divorced last year 2 to separate from
your husband or wife 쑗 She divorced her husband and married the man next door.
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divorced
divorced /d
married 쑗 They’re both divorced, with
children from their previous marriages.
dizzy
dizzy / dzi/ adjective having a feeling
that you might fall down, and that
eve-rything seems to turn round 쑗 Can we
standing in the sun, he became dizzy
dizziest)
DJ
DJ abbr 1 dinner jacket 2 disc jockey
do
do /
make questions 쑗 Does this train go to
used with other verbs and ‘not’ to make
the negative 쑗 They didn’t laugh at the
parents don’t live in London 3 used to
make a verb stronger 쑗 Can I sit down?
you tell me? – I did tell you! 4 used in
place of another verb in short answers to
questions using the word ‘do’ 쑗 Do you
parents don’t live there, do they? – No
concert after all? – Yes I did 5 used in
place of another verb at the end of a
question or statement 쑗 The Russians
to the pub before we did 6 telling
someone not to do something 쑗 Don’t
coffee cups on the computer! 7 with
nouns ending in -ing 쑗 She’s doing the
to work at something, to arrange
some-thing or to clean somesome-thing 쑗 She’s
They’re a difficult company to do
your business doing? 10 to finish
cook-ing somethcook-ing 쑗 The carrots aren’t
this size do? 12 used when greeting
someone 쑗 How do you do? (NOTE: I do; you do; he/she/it does /dz/;
they do; doing – did / dd/ – has done
/dn/; negative: do not usually don’t
/dəυnt/; does not usually doesn’t
/ dz(ə)nt/; did not usually didn’t
/ ddn(ə)t/) 앳 that will do that’s
enough 앳 to make do with to accept
something which is not as good as you
wanted 쑗 The ordinary plates are all dirty, so we will have to make do with paper ones.
do away with phrasal verb to get rid of something
do up phrasal verb 1 to attach
some-thing 쑗 He’s still a baby and he can’t do
up the zip at the back of my dress? 2 to
repair something and make it like new 쑗
They bought an old cottage and did it
to do up.
do with phrasal verb 1 to be related or
connected to 쑗 It has nothing to do with
What have you done with the
The car could do with a wash.
do without phrasal verb not to have something, to manage without some-thing
dock
dock /dɒk/ noun 1 왍 the docks a
har-bour where ships are loaded and
to go down to the docks to watch the
ships come in 2 a place in a law court
where the prisoner sits 쑗 She was in the
a ship) to arrive in a port 쑗 The ship
dock in Bermuda.
doctor
doctor / dɒktə/ noun a person whose job
is to look after people who are ill 쑗 I
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have a ten o’clock appointment to see
went to the doctor’s last Friday.
document
document 1 / dɒkjυmənt/ noun 1 a
piece of paper with something official
or important printed on it 쑗 File all the
documents away carefully as we may
document carefully and sign at the
bot-tom of page two 2 a separate file in a
computer 쑗 The letter was saved as a
Word document.
document
document 2 / dɒkjυ ment/ verb to note
something in official writing 쑗 Cases of
this disease are well documented in
Af-rica.
documentary
documentary /dɒkjυ ment(ə)ri/
noun a film which shows facts about a
real subject 쑗 Did you see the
adjec-tive referring to documents
dodge
dodge /dɒd"/ noun a clever trick 쑗 He
told me a dodge to avoid paying on the
some-thing, to get out of the way 쑗 He ran
She dodged behind a parked car hoping
he wouldn’t see her 2 to avoid doing
something you should do, in a dishonest
li-cence fee
does
does /dz/ 3rd person singular present of
do
doesn’t
doesn’t / dz(ə)nt/ 쏡 do
dog
dog /dɒ'/ noun an animal kept as a pet,
or used for hunting 쑗 Can you take the
were hunting the gang of escaped
pris-oners.
doing
doing /
doll
doll /dɒl/ noun a child’s toy which looks
like a baby
dollar
dollar / dɒlə/ noun 1 the money system
used in the United States 쑗 a 5-dollar
dollars to the pound 2 a similar money
system used in many other countries 쑗
What is the price in Australian dollars?
(NOTE: usually written $ before figures:
$250 The currencies used in different
countries can be shown by the initial letter of the country: Can$ (Canadian dollar) Aus$ (Australian dollar).) dolphin
dolphin / dɒlfn/ noun a large animal with a long nose, that lives in the sea (NOTE: A group of them is a school of dolphins.)
dome
dome /dəυm/ noun a round roof shaped like half of a ball
domestic
domestic /də mestk/ adjective 1
re-lating to the home 쑗 She hated having to
do all the domestic work 2 inside a
country 쑗 Sales in the domestic market
(old )쑗 When the fire broke out all the domestics ran into the house to rescue the furniture.
donate
donate /dəυ net/ verb to give some-thing, especially money, to a charity or
similar organisation 쑗 He donated a lot
of money to a charity for the homeless.
done
done /dn/ past participle of do
donkey
donkey / dɒŋki/ noun a farm animal with long ears, used for riding or pulling carts
don’t
don’t /dəυnt/ 쏡 do
door
door / plastic or metal which closes an
en-trance 쑗 He went into his office and
opened the car door and hit a passing
cyclist 2 used to show where a building
is in a street 쑗 They live a few doors away from us.
dot
dot /dɒt/ noun 1 a small round spot 쑗 A
blue tie with white dots 2 a printing
sign (.) used in email addresses 쑗 My email address is jane@supertek.com
1 to mark with a spot 2 to be or be put
in many different parts 쑗 Vases of
– dotted)
double
double / db(ə)l/ adjective 1 containing
two of something 쑗 The word
invoice number is six double five double
the size of that which is considered
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ten-nis game for two people on either side 쐽
verb to multiply something by two 쑗
Think of a number and then double it.
double figures
double figures /db(ə)l f'əz/ plural
noun the numbers with two figures,
from 10 to 99
doubt
doubt /daυt/ noun 1 not being sure 쑗
Everyone sometimes has doubts about
doubt on something to make people
feel less sure about something 쑗 He cast
doubt certainly 쑗 No doubt they will be
not yet known or definite, or not yet sure
about whether I should take the job or
you ever doubt that we would win?
doubtful
doubtful / daυtf(ə)l/ adjective not sure
that something is right or good, or not
likely 쑗 I am doubtful about whether we
race will take place because of the snow.
down
down /daυn/ preposition 1 towards the
bottom of 쑗 He fell down the stairs and
hill 2 away from where the person
speaking is standing 쑗 He went down
towards the bottom, towards a lower
po-sition 쑗 Put the box down in the corner.
policeman took down her address 3.
used for showing criticism 쑗 Down with
(NOTE: Down is often used with verbs,
e.g to go down, to fall down, to sit
down, to lie down.)
downhill
downhill /daυn hl/ adverb towards the
bottom of a hill 쑗 The road goes
down-hill for a while and then crosses the
riv-er.
downstairs
downstairs /daυn steəz/ adverb on or
to the lower part of a building 쑗 He
heard a noise in the kitchen and went
the ground floor of a building 쑗 The
ground floor of a building 쑗 The
down-stairs of the house is larger than the
up-stairs Compare upstairs
downwards
downwards / daυnwədz/ adverb to-wards the bottom
doze
doze /dəυz/ verb to sleep a little 쑗 She
short sleep dozen
dozen / dz(ə)n/ noun 1 쑗 I need a
twelve 왍 half a dozen six 쑗 half a dozen
been to New York dozens of times.
Dr
Dr abbr doctor draft
draft /
ument 쑗 He quickly wrote out a draft of
a rough plan of something
draft in phrasal verb to ask someone to
do something 쑗 The Boy Scouts were drafted in to dig the garden.
drag
drag /dr'/ verb to pull something heavy
along the ground 쑗 She dragged her
dragged the men away from the gate.
(NOTE: drags – dragging – dragged)
쐽 noun a boring thing, which stops you
doing things you really want to do 쑗 It’s
a drag, having to write all the Christmas cards.
drag on phrasal verb (of time or an event) to seem to pass slowly 쑗 The dinner party seemed to drag on for hours.
drain
drain /dren/ noun a pipe for carrying
waste water away 쑗 In the autumn the
to phone the council to come and clear
liquid from something 쑗 Boil the pota-toes for ten minutes, drain and leave to cool.
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drama
drama /
formance in a theatre 쑗 a new TV drama
‘Globe’ has put on an unknown
drama student or She’s studying drama.
2. a series of serious and exciting events
always makes a drama out of
every-thing.
dramatic
dramatic /drə mtk/ adjective sudden,
unexpected and very noticeable 쑗 the
dramatic moment in the film, when the
door was thrown open and she made a
showed dramatic pictures of the
disas-ter.
drank
drank /drŋk/ past tense of drink
draught
draught /
into a room 쑗 Don’t sit in a draught.
draw
draw /
tion which ends with both teams having
the same number of points 쑗 The match
was a draw: 2–2 2 a competition in
which the winner is chosen by a person
who takes a ticket out of a container
with a name on it 쑗 The draw is held on
verb 1 to make a picture with a pen or
pencil 쑗 He drew a picture of the house.
to have a winner in a game 쑗 The teams
drew 2 – 2 3 to pull curtains open or
closed 쑗 She drew the curtains and let
– I don’t want anyone to see us in here.
(NOTE: draws – drawing – drew /
– has drawn /
draw up phrasal verb 1 (of a vehicle)
to come close and stop 쑗 As I was
stand-ing at the bus stop, a car drew up and
the driver asked if I wanted a lift 2 to
write down something, e.g a plan 쑗
They have drawn up a plan to save
you want to invite to the party?
drawer
drawer /
cupboard like an open box which slides
in and out when you pull its handle 쑗 I
keep my cheque book in the top drawer
of my desk.
drawing
drawing /
has been drawn 쑗 I’ve bought an old
drawing of the church 2 the activity or
skill of making pictures with a pencil or
drawn
She looked drawn after spending all
partici-ple of draw
dread
dread /dred/ noun great fear 쑗 The sound of her voice filled him with dread.
much 쑗 I’m dreading taking my driving
doctor.
dreadful
dreadful / dredf(ə)l/ adjective very bad
or unpleasant 쑗 What a dreadful film!
dreadfully
dreadfully / dredf(ə)li/ adverb ex-tremely¸ in a way that is not good or pleasant
dream
dream / events that you think about while you
are sleeping 쑗 She had a dream about
a story or series of events while you are
sleeping 쑗 He was dreaming of white
– dreaming – dreamed or dreamt
/dremt/) 쐽 adjective referring to
some-thing that is the best you could have 쑗
They found their dream house in a small
team for the World Cup.
dress
dress /dres/ noun a piece of clothing usually worn by women or girls,
cover-ing the body and part or all of the legs 쑗
The plural is dresses.) 쐽 verb 1 to put
clothes on someone 쑗 She dressed her
little girl all in blue 2 to get dressed
to put clothes on yourself 쑗 He got up,
got dressed and left the house 3 to
clean an injury and cover it with a
your knee.
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are upset and annoyed 쑗 She walked out
give