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<HTML> <HEAD><TITLE>DICTIONARY: demiworld - demology</TITLE></HEAD> <BODY BGCOLOR="#ffffff"> <A HREF="a.dic">A</A> <A HREF="b.dic">B</A> <A HREF="c.dic">C</A> <A HREF="d.dic">D</A> <A HREF="e.dic">E</A> <A HREF="f.dic">F</A> <A HREF="g.dic">G</A> <A HREF="h.dic">H</A> <A HREF="i.dic">I</A> <A HREF="j.dic">J</A> <A HREF="k.dic">K</A> <A HREF="l.dic">L</A> <A HREF="m.dic">M</A> <A HREF="n.dic">N</A> <A HREF="o.dic">O</A> <A HREF="p.dic">P</A> <A HREF="q.dic">Q</A> <A HREF="r.dic">R</A> <A HREF="s.dic">S</A> <A HREF="t.dic">T</A> <A HREF="u.dic">U</A> <A HREF="v.dic">V</A> <A HREF="w.dic">W</A> <A HREF="x.dic">X</A> <A HREF="y.dic">Y</A> <A HREF="z.dic">Z</A> <A NAME="demiworld"> demiworld, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a world or sphere on the fringes of conventional, wealthy, or reputable society; demimonde. Ex. His impressive set of academic credentials opened the doors of literary society, a demiworld about which Podhoretz writes entertainingly and knowledgeably (Time). </DL> <A NAME="demo"> demo, noun, pl. demos.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Informal.) <DD> 1. a recording for distribution to disk jockeys, agents, etc., to advertise a new song or performing group. <DD> 2. =demonstration. Ex. The nuclear-disarmament marchers were making their demo (Punch). <DD> 3. =demonstrator. Ex. Not a single demonstrator ... was armed with [the] standard "demo" equipment (London Times). </DL> <A NAME="demo"> Demo, noun, pl. Demos.<DL COMPACT><DD> (U.S. Informal.) a Democrat. Ex. The most powerful Demo in the State, Pat Brown (San Francisco Chronicle). </DL> <A NAME="demob"> demob, verb, -mobbed, -mobbing, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Informal.) <DD>v.t. to demobilize. Ex. In 1945, aged 29, he was demobbed from the British army with the rank of major (Time). <DD>noun (Especially British.) demobilization. Ex. After the war, and before my demob, I found myself behind a desk in Belgium (Lord Mancroft). </DL> <A NAME="demobilise"> demobilise, transitive verb, -lised, -lising.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Especially British.) demobilize. </DL> <A NAME="demobilization"> demobilization, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> the act or process of demobilizing or the condition of being demobilized. </DL> <A NAME="demobilize"> demobilize, transitive verb, -lized, -lizing.<DL COMPACT><DD> to remove from military service, status, or control. Ex. When a war is over, the soldiers are demobilized and sent home. Demobilized in 1920, he was appointed secretary of the ... missions in Palestine (London Times). </DL> <A NAME="demochristian"> Demo-Christian, noun, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> Christian Democrat. </DL> <A NAME="democracy"> democracy, noun, pl. -cies.<DL COMPACT><DD> 1. a government that is run by the people who live under it. In a democracy, the people rule either directly through meetings that all may attend, such as the town meetings in New England, or indirectly through the election of certain representatives to attend to the business of running government. Ex. Democracy means the community's governing through its representatives for its own benefit (Thomas P. Thompson). Puritanism ... laid, without knowing it, the egg of democracy (James Russell Lowell). <DD> 2. a country, state, or community in which the government is a democracy. Ex. The United States is a democracy. <DD> 3. the common people, distinguished from the privileged class, or their political power. <DD> 4. the treating of other people as one's equals. Ex. The teacher's democracy made her popular among her pupils. </DL> <A NAME="democracy"> Democracy, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> 1. the Democratic Party in the United States. <DD> 2. its principles and policies. </DL> <A NAME="democrat"> democrat, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> 1. a person who believes that a government should be run by the people who live under it. <DD> 2. a person who treats other people as his equals. <DD> 3. =democrat wagon. </DL> <A NAME="democrat"> Democrat, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a member of the Democratic Party. (Abbr:) Dem. </DL> <A NAME="democratic"> democratic, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> 1. of a democracy; like a democracy. <DD> 2. of or having to do with the common people. <DD> 3. treating other people as one's equals. Ex. The queen's democratic ways made her dear to her people. </DL> <A NAME="democratic"> Democratic, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> of or having to do with the Democratic Party. </DL> <A NAME="democratical"> democratical, adjective. =democratic.</DL> <A NAME="democratically"> democratically, adverb.<DL COMPACT><DD> in a democratic manner; according to the principles of democracy. Ex. Puerto Rico's ... democratically elected government supplies aid and incentives (Time). </DL> <A NAME="democraticparty"> Democratic Party,<DL COMPACT><DD> one of the two main political parties in the United States. It was derived from the Democratic-Republican Party. The other is the Republican Party. </DL> <A NAME="democraticrepublican"> Democratic-Republican, adjective, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD>adj. of or having to do with the Democratic-Republican Party. <DD>noun a member of this party. </DL> <A NAME="democraticrepublicanparty"> Democratic-Republican Party,<DL COMPACT><DD> an American political party of the early 1800's, derived from the Antifederal Party, which opposed a strong central government. </DL> <A NAME="democratise"> democratise, transitive verb, intransitive verb, -tised, -tising.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Especially British.) democratize. </DL> <A NAME="democratism"> democratism, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> the theory or system of democracy. </DL> <A NAME="democratist"> democratist, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a person who favors or supports democracy. </DL> <A NAME="democratization"> democratization, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a democratizing or being democratized. Ex. It is a period of the democratization of all institutions (James Bryce). </DL> <A NAME="democratize"> democratize, transitive verb, intransitive verb, -tized, -tizing.<DL COMPACT><DD> to make or become democratic. Ex. ... today's new era of democratized monarchy (Time). </DL> <A NAME="democratwagon"> democrat wagon,<DL COMPACT><DD> a two-seated, open wagon; democrat. </DL> <A NAME="democritean"> Democritean, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> of or having to do with Democritus or with the atomic theory associated with his name. </DL> <A NAME="demode"> demode, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> (French.) outmoded. Ex. France's demode industry and old-fashioned agricultural system can run only another three or four years (New Yorker). </DL> <A NAME="demodecticmange"> demodectic mange,<DL COMPACT><DD> (Veterinary Medicine.) a skin disease (mange) caused by a parasitic mite. </DL> <A NAME="demoded"> demoded, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> out of fashion; outmoded. Ex. His cult of aristocratic individualism would secretly have been disdained as demoded (New York Times). </DL> <A NAME="demodocus"> Demodocus, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> (in Homer's Odyssey) a famous bard at the court at Phaeacia. </DL> <A NAME="demodulate"> demodulate, transitive verb, -lated, -lating.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Electronics.) to obtain from a modulated wave or current a signal which reproduces the original signal wave or current; detect. </DL> <A NAME="demodulation"> demodulation, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> the act or process of demodulating; detection. </DL> <A NAME="demodulator"> demodulator, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a device, such as a rectifier, used in demodulating; detector. </DL> <A NAME="demogorgon"> Demogorgon, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> (in medieval mythology) a mysterious and dreadful god or demon. </DL> <A NAME="demographer"> demographer, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a person who studies demography. Ex. As projected by some demographers, the explosion point--i.e., the time when the earth's known resources no longer can feed all human life--could be reached in 1987 (Newsweek). </DL> <A NAME="demographic"> demographic, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> of or having to do with demography. Ex. Migration offers little by way of a solution of the world's demographic problem (Wall Street Journal). adv. demographically. </DL> <A NAME="demographical"> demographical, adjective. =demographic. Ex. demographical studies of population changes. </DL> <A NAME="demographics"> demographics, noun pl.<DL COMPACT><DD> demographic data. </DL> <A NAME="demographist"> demographist, noun. =demographer.</DL> <A NAME="demography"> demography, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> the science dealing with statistics of human populations, including size, distribution, diseases, births and deaths. Ex. The analysis of fluctuations of animal populations has importance for human demography (F. S. Bodenheimer). </DL> <A NAME="demoid"> demoid, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> characteristic of a region or period or of a particular geological formation (used of fossils that are so common as to be typical). </DL> <A NAME="demoiselle"> demoiselle, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> 1. a young girl; damsel. <DD> 2. a crane of Asia, Europe, and Africa, having long, white plumes behind the eyes; Numidian crane. <DD> 3. a dragonfly with a slender body that holds its wings vertically when at rest. <DD> 4. =damselfish. <DD> 5. =tiger shark. </DL> <A NAME="demolish"> demolish, transitive verb.<DL COMPACT><DD> 1. to pull or tear down; reduce to ruin. Ex. Shells and bombs demolished the fortress. The slums were demolished before the town was extended. (SYN) ruin, raze. <DD> 2. (Figurative:) Ex. Princeton demolished ... one of the best Dartmouth teams (New Yorker). Professor Lattimore ... demolishes several of the accepted legends about early Mongolian history (Manchester Guardian Weekly). noun demolisher. </DL> <A NAME="demolishment"> demolishment, noun. =demolition.</DL> <A NAME="demolition"> demolition, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a demolishing or being demolished; destruction; ruin. Ex. The demolition of several buildings with explosives cleared the land for a new highway. </DL> <A NAME="demolitionbomb"> demolition bomb,<DL COMPACT><DD> a bomb with a relatively large explosive charge, used especially for destroying buildings and other important objects. </DL> <A NAME="demolitionderby"> demolition derby,<DL COMPACT><DD> (U.S.) a contest in which old cars are driven against each other until all are wrecked except the winner's. </DL> <A NAME="demolitionist"> demolitionist, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a person who seeks to demolish existing social and political institutions. </DL> <A NAME="demology"> demology, noun. =demography.</DL> <A HREF="demon.dic">NEXT</A>