<B>doctrinaire </B>adjective, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>adj. </I> stubbornly trying to apply a theory without considering the actual circumstances; impractical; stubbornly theoretical. <BR> <I>Ex. We might ... allow considerations of our own survival to take precedence over doctrinaire ideas (Observer).</I> <DD><I>noun </I> a doctrinaire person; impractical theorist. </DL>
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<B>doctrinairism, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> the principles or practice of a doctrinaire. <BR> <I>Ex. I was suffering from doctrinairism on the part of some interior decorator (New Yorker).</I> </DL>
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<B>doctrinal, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> of or having to do with doctrine. <BR> <I>Ex. We heard a doctrinal sermon on baptism.</I> adv. <B>doctrinally.</B> </DL>
<B>doctrinarily, </B>adverb.<DL COMPACT><DD> in a doctrinary manner; doctrinally. </DL>
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<B>doctrinary, </B>adjective. =doctrinal.</DL>
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<B>doctrine, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>what is taught as the belief of a church, a nation, or a group of persons; belief; principle. <BR> <I>Ex. Christian doctrine. ... the doctrine of the equality of all men (Edmund Burke).</I> (SYN) dogma, tenet. <DD><B> 2. </B>what is taught; teachings. <BR> <I>Ex. I wish to preach, not the doctrine of ignoble ease, but the doctrine of the strenuous life (Theodore Roosevelt).</I> <DD><B> 3. </B>(Obsolete.) the act of teaching; lesson. </DL>
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<B>docu-,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> (combining form.) a documentary. <BR> <I>Ex. a new kind of historical production--docuhistory (Manchester Guardian).</I> </DL>
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<B>docudrama, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a television dramatization based on facts. <BR> <I>Ex. Popular novels play breezily with the lives of public and semipublic figures. Popular television has followed into the same area, calling the results "docudramas" (New Yorker).</I> </DL>
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<B>document, </B>noun, verb.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>noun </I> <B>1. </B>something written or printed that gives information and can be used as proof of some fact; any object used as evidence. Letters, maps, and pictures are documents. <BR> <I>Ex. A constitution is a precious document in a democracy, guaranteeing as it does the civil liberties of the people (Andreas G. Papandreou).</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>old or historical fabric or design, of the kind found in museums, used or copied by fashion and interior designers. <BR> <I>Ex. He has fabrics created to suit him, frequently taking the pattern from a piece of antique cloth known as a "document" (Maclean's).</I> <DD><B> 3. </B>(Obsolete.) evidence; proof. <DD><B> 4. </B>(Obsolete.) a lesson; teaching. <DD><I>v.t. </I> <B>1. </B>to prove or support by means of documents or the like. <BR> <I>Ex. Can you document your theory with facts?</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>to provide (a book, deed, or other document or account) with references as proof of the facts stated in it. <BR> <I>Ex. He documented all his quotations with copies of the original sources.</I> <DD><B> 3. </B>to provide with official papers or documents. <DD><B> 4. </B>(Obsolete.) to teach. noun <B>documenter.</B> </DL>
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<B>documentable, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> that can be documented. </DL>
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<B>documental, </B>adjective. =documentary.</DL>
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<B>documentalist, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a person, usually a librarian, who specializes in the gathering, classifying, and organization of documents, especially for research or use in archives. </DL>
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<B>documentarian, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a writer, producer, or director of documentaries. </DL>
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<B>documentarist, </B>noun. =documentarian.</DL>
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<B>documentary, </B>adjective, noun, pl. <B>-ries.</B><DL COMPACT><DD><I>adj. </I> <B>1. </B>consisting of documents; in writing, print, or on film. <BR> <I>Ex. The man's own letters were documentary evidence of his guilt.</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>presenting or recording factual information without fictionalizing but in an artistic fashion. <BR> <I>Ex. a documentary film about the history of Boston.</I> <DD><I>noun </I> a documentary book, motion picture, or radio or television program. <BR> <I>Ex. ... something of the immediacy of a documentary (New York Times).</I> </DL>
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<B>documentation, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>the preparation and use of documentary evidence. <DD><B> 2. </B>the documents used. <BR> <I>Ex. The noncritical air that pervades this book is somewhat compensated by the full documentation (Edward D. Goldberger).</I> <DD><B> 3. </B>the collection, classification, processing, and transmission of information, especially through computers and other automatic equipment. </DL>
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<B>docutainment, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> (U.S.) television or other entertainment based on or including documentary material. <BR> <I>Ex. "I call it 'variety docutainment'," says the production's executive producer ... "We'll be using documentary inserts combined on stage with drama, song, and dance" (Washington Post).</I> </DL>
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<B>DOD</B> (no periods),<DL COMPACT><DD> Department of Defense. </DL>
<B>dodder</B> (1), intransitive verb.<DL COMPACT><DD> to be unsteady; shake or tremble from frailty; totter. <BR> <I>Ex. The old man doddered from his chair to the door.</I> noun <B>dodderer.</B> </DL>
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<B>dodder</B> (2), noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> any one of a genus of slender, yellowish or reddish plants without chlorophyll, that live as parasites by twining their threadlike stems around flax, clover, thyme, and other plants and absorbing food from them by means of special roots called suckers or haustoria; goldthread; love vine. The dodder belongs to the morning-glory family. </DL>
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<B>doddered, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>that has lost its branches through age or decay. <BR> <I>Ex. a doddered oak.</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>doddering; feeble; frail. <BR> <I>Ex. a doddered old man.</I> </DL>
<B>doddy, </B>noun, pl. <B>-dies.</B><DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>a cow or bull without horns. <DD><B> 2. </B>Aberdeen Angus. </DL>
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<B>dodecagon, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a plane figure having 12 angles and 12 sides. </DL>
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<B>dodecagonal, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> having 12 angles and 12 sides. </DL>
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<B>dodecahedral, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> like a dodecahedron; having 12 surfaces. </DL>
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<B>dodecahedron, </B>noun, pl. <B>-drons,</B> <B>-dra.</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a solid figure having 12 surfaces. </DL>
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<B>Dodecanese, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> of or having to do with the Dodecanese Islands (group of islands in the Aegean Sea near the coast of Turkey). </DL>
<B>dodecaphonist, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a musician who specializes in music written in a twelve-tone scale. <BR> <I>Ex. Like the majority of dodecaphonists, he presents music governed by strict logic and organization (New York Times).</I> </DL>
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<B>dodecaphony, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>music employing a twelve-tone scale. <DD><B> 2. </B>theory or use of the twelve-tone scale. <BR> <I>Ex. Twentieth-century chromaticism, [was] simplified about 1926 by Schonberg into a rule of thumb known as serial dodecaphony (or the twelve-tone row technique) (Atlantic).</I> </DL>
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<B>dodecastyle, </B>adjective, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Architecture.) <DD><I>adj. </I> having 12 columns in front, as a temple or portico. <DD><I>noun </I> a dodecastyle structure. </DL>
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<B>dodecasyllabic, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> having 12 syllables. </DL>
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<B>dodecasyllable, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a verse or a word of 12 syllables. </DL>
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<B>dodecatheon, </B>noun. <B>=shooting star </B>(def. 2).</DL>
<B>dodge, </B>verb, <B>dodged,</B> <B>dodging,</B> noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>v.i. </I> <B>1. </B>to move or jump quickly to one side. <BR> <I>Ex. As I looked around, the squirrel dodged behind a bush. The boy dodged just in time to avoid the speeding truck.</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>to move quickly in order to get away from a person, a blow, or something thrown. <BR> <I>Ex. When he saw the other's raised fist, he dodged.</I> <DD><B> 3. </B>to use evasive methods; use trickery; be deceitful. (SYN) prevaricate. <DD><B> 4. </B>(Photography.) to lighten a part of a print by shading it during enlarging. <DD><I>v.t. </I> <B>1. </B>to move quickly in order to get away from (a person, a blow, or something thrown). <BR> <I>Ex. He dodged the snowball that came toward him. The pioneer dodged the Indian's arrow.</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>to avoid by cleverness; get away from by some trick. <BR> <I>Ex. He dodged our questions by changing the subject.</I> (SYN) elude. <DD><B> 3. </B>(Photography.) to lighten (a part of a print) by shading while enlarging it. <DD><I>noun </I> <B>1. </B>a sudden movement to one side. <BR> <I>Ex. With a quick dodge into the brush the deer was hidden from the hunters.</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>a trick to cheat. <BR> <I>Ex. a clever dodge. Some American film people have been accused of taking up Swiss residence as a tax dodge (Esquire).</I> (SYN) contrivance. <DD><B> 3. </B>(U.S. Slang.) a line of business. <BR> <I>Ex. The pictures sold so well that now Sears is in the art dodge big (Time).</I> <BR><I>expr. <B>on the dodge,</B> </I>(Slang.) hiding from the police. <BR> <I>Ex. The bank robbers were on the dodge for a month, going from town to town, until they were finally caught.</I> </DL>
