From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
1. One who does not speak, whether from physical inability, unwillingness, or other cause. Specifically: (a) One who, from deafness, either congenital or from early life, is unable to use articulate language; a deaf-mute. (b) A person employed by undertakers at a funeral. (c) A person whose part in a play does not require him to speak. (d) Among the Turks, an officer or attendant who is selected for his place because he can not speak.
2. (Phon.) A letter which represents no sound; a silent letter; also, a close articulation; an element of speech formed by a position of the mouth organs which stops the passage of the breath; as, {p}, {b}, {d}, {k}, {t}.
3. (Mus.) A little utensil made of brass, ivory, or other material, so formed that it can be fixed in an erect position on the bridge of a violin, or similar instrument, in order to deaden or soften the tone.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
D \D\ (d[=e])
1. The fourth letter of the English alphabet, and a vocal consonant. The English letter is from Latin, which is from Greek, which took it from Ph[oe]nician, the probable ultimate origin being Egyptian. It is related most nearly to t and th; as, Eng. deep, G. tief; Eng. daughter, G. tochter, Gr. qyga'thr, Skr. duhitr. See Guide to Pronunciation, [root]178, 179, 229.
2. (Mus.) The nominal of the second tone in the model major scale (that in C), or of the fourth tone in the relative minor scale of C (that in A minor), or of the key tone in the relative minor of F.
3. As a numeral D stands for 500. in this use it is not the initial of any word, or even strictly a letter, but one half of the sign ? (or ? ) the original Tuscan numeral for 1000.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
d
adjective
1: denoting a quantity consisting of 500 items or units [syn: {five hundred}, {500}]
noun
1: a fat-soluble vitamin that prevents rickets [syn: {vitamin D}, {calciferol}, {viosterol}, {ergocalciferol}, {cholecarciferol}]
2: the cardinal number that is the product of one hundred and five [syn: {five hundred}, {500}]
3: the 4th letter of the Roman alphabet
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [foldoc]:
D
1. "The Data Language." {MS-DOS} 4GL. 2. A {Haskell}-like language, with {type class}es. E-mail: .
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