<B>doodle</B> (1), verb, <B>-dled,</B> <B>-dling,</B> noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>v.i., v.t. </I> to make drawings or marks absent-mindedly while talking or thinking. <BR> <I>Ex. He doodled his own face a lot (New Yorker).</I> <DD><I>noun </I> a drawing or mark made absent-mindedly. noun <B>doodler.</B> </DL>
<B>doodlebug</B> (1), noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> (U.S.) the larva of the ant lion. The doodlebug digs a pit to catch other insects. </DL>
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<B>doodlebug</B> (2), noun, verb, <B>-bugged,</B> <B>-bugging.</B><DL COMPACT><DD> (U.S. Informal.) <DD><I>noun </I> <B>1. </B>any one of various devices with which it is claimed mineral and oil deposits can be located. <DD><B> 2. </B><B>=buzz bomb.</B> <DD><I>v.i. </I> to use doodlebugs in prospecting. noun <B>doodlebugger.</B> </DL>
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<B>doohickey, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Informal.) a thing; gadget; dingus. <BR> <I>Ex. The ingenious foreman thought up a doohickey to straighten out the 2,500 wire trash baskets crushed each year (New York Times).</I> </DL>
<B>doolie</B> (2), noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Slang.) a plebe at the United States Air Force Academy. <BR> <I>Ex. As at the older service academies, first-year men--here called "doolies"--are subjected to special discipline (New York Times).</I> </DL>
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<B>dooly, </B>noun, pl. <B>-lies.</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a simple litter used in India. </DL>
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<B>doom, </B>noun, verb.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>noun </I> <B>1. </B>fate. <BR> <I>Ex. Doom stalked his footsteps.</I> (SYN) destiny, lot, portion. <DD><B> 2. </B>an unhappy or terrible fate; ruin or death. <BR> <I>Ex. The soldiers marched to their doom in battle. As the ship sank they faced their doom.</I> (SYN) destruction. <DD><B> 3. </B>a judgment; sentence. <BR> <I>Ex. The judge pronounced the guilty man's doom.</I> (SYN) condemnation. <DD><B> 4. </B>the end of the world; God's final judgment of mankind (in Christian belief). <DD><B> 5. </B>(Obsolete.) a law; statute. <DD><I>v.t. </I> <B>1. </B>to condemn to some fate. <BR> <I>Ex. Poor health doomed him to an inactive life.</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>to destine to an unhappy or terrible fate. <BR> <I>Ex. Keats was doomed to an early death.</I> <DD><B> 3. </B>to condemn (to punishment) by a judgment or sentence. <BR> <I>Ex. The prisoner was doomed to death.</I> <DD><B> 4. </B>to make a bad or unwelcome outcome certain. <BR> <I>Ex. The weather doomed our hopes of a picnic.</I> <DD><B> 5. </B>(Obsolete.) to pronounce as a judgment or sentence; decree. <BR> <I>Ex. The Emperor in his rage will doom her death (Shakespeare).</I> </DL>
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<B>doomer, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Archaic.) a doomster. </DL>
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<B>doomful, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> full of doom; fateful. <BR> <I>Ex. the doomful times of the 1930's.</I> </DL>
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<B>doomlike, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> like doom; fateful. </DL>
<B>doomsayer, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a person who prophesies doom. <BR> <I>Ex. When Charles de Gaulle came to power in France ... doomsayers were quick to compose their epitaphs on European unity (Time).</I> </DL>
<B>doomsday</B> or <B>Doomsday, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> the end of the world; the day of God's final judgment of mankind; Judgment Day. </DL>
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<B>Doomsday Book,</B> <B>=Domesday Book.</B></DL>
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<B>Doomsday Machine,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a hypothetical machine designed to trigger automatic nuclear destruction under certain conditions without anyone being able to stop it. <BR> <I>Ex. the so-called Doomsday Machine that can destroy all human life, will become not only technologically feasible but inexpensive (Herman Kahn and Anthony J. Wiener).</I> </DL>
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<B>doomster, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>a person who predicts calamity; doomsayer. <BR> <I>Ex. With the ... negotiations still in the early stages, the views of both the doomsters and the boosters are solidly founded (Maclean's).</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>(Archaic.) a person who pronounces doom or sentence. <DD><B> 3. </B>(Obsolete.) (in Scotland) the official, usually the executioner, who read or repeated the sentence. </DL>
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<B>door, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>a movable part to close an opening in a wall. A door turns on hinges or about a post; some doors slide open and shut. A room usually has one door; a house or building may have many doors. <DD><B> 2. </B>any movable part that suggests a door. <BR> <I>Ex. Some ground spiders make a door to their nests like a hinged lid.</I> <DD><B> 3. </B>an opening where a door is; doorway. <BR> <I>Ex. He walked into the room through the door. The salesman had a foot in the door. I will not kill one grasshopper vain Though he eats a hole in my shirt like a door (Vachel Lindsay).</I> <DD><B> 4. </B>the room, house, or building to which a door belongs. <BR> <I>Ex. His house is three doors down the street.</I> <DD><B> 5. </B>(Figurative.) a way to go in or out; way to get something; access. <BR> <I>Ex. a door to opportunity. The door to knowledge is study. Always leave the door open to further negotiation (New York Times).</I> <BR><I>expr. <B>darken one's door,</B> </I>to appear on one's threshold; come to see or visit one. <BR> <I>Ex. Rose did not want to turn away from Hubert and tell him never to darken her door again (New Yorker).</I> <BR><I>expr. <B>in doors,</B> </I>in a house or building; inside. <BR> <I>Ex. You had better remain in doors (Edward White).</I> <DD> See <B>indoors.</B> <BR><I>expr. <B>lay at the door of,</B> </I>to blame on; impute to. <BR> <I>Ex. The ... grievances he listed have long been laid principally at the door of Washington by other French officials (New York Times).</I> <BR><I>expr. <B>lie</B> (or <B>be</B>) <B>at one's door,</B> </I>to be imputable or chargeable to one. <BR> <I>Ex. Lady Clara Vere de Vere, ... The guilt of blood is at your door (Tennyson).</I> <BR><I>expr. <B>next door to,</B> <DD><B> a. </B>in or at the house next to. </I> <I>Ex. The preacher lives next door to the church.</I> <DD><B> b. </B>almost; very close to. <BR> <I>Ex. Cheating is an act next door to a crime. To be next door to starving (Daniel Defoe).</I> <BR><I>expr. <B>out of doors,</B> </I>not in a house or building; outside. <BR> <I>Ex. They pawned everything at one time or another, including the children's shoes and Marx's coat--which prevented them from going out of doors (Edmund Wilson).</I> <BR><I>expr. <B>show the door,</B> </I>to ask to leave. <BR> <I>Ex. Show that persistent salesman the door.</I> <BR><I>expr. <B>slam</B> (or <B>close</B>) <B>the door,</B> </I>(Informal.) to reject, exclude, or shut off any opening. <BR> <I>Ex. The rejection ... slammed the door on any reapproachment between Peking and Moscow (New York Times). The N.U.R. executive did not completely close the door yesterday. They said they were ready to continue talks (London Times).</I> adj. <B>doorlike.</B> </DL>
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<B>doorbell, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a bell to be rung as a signal that someone wishes to have the door opened. A doorbell is usually inside a house and connected to a button or handle outside the door. </DL>
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<B>door chain,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a chain for locking a door from the inside of a room. </DL>
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<B>do-or-die, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> that must be successfully done or met for survival. <BR> <I>Ex. [He] recognized the directive for what it was: a do-or-die order to solve a problem that had already become desperate (Time).</I> </DL>
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<B>doored, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> having a door or doors. </DL>
<A NAME="doorframe">
<B>doorframe, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> the frame in a doorway in which a door is set. </DL>
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<B>doorjamb, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> the upright piece forming the side of a doorway; doorpost. </DL>
<A NAME="doorkeeper">
<B>doorkeeper, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>a person who guards a door. <DD><B> 2. </B><B>=doorman.</B> </DL>
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<B>doorknob, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a handle on a door, used for opening or closing the door. </DL>
<A NAME="doorless">
<B>doorless, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> having no door. </DL>
<A NAME="doorman">
<B>doorman, </B>noun, pl. <B>-men.</B><DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>a man whose work is opening the door of a hotel, store, apartment house, or other building, for people going in or out. <DD><B> 2. </B>a person who guards a door or an entrance; doorkeeper. </DL>
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<B>doormat, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>a mat placed near a door for wiping off the dirt from the bottoms of one's shoes before entering. <DD><B> 2. </B>(Informal, Figurative.) a person or group that is easily taken advantage of, used, defeated, etc. <DD><B> 3. </B><B>=knotgrass.</B> </DL>
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<B>doornail, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a nail with a large head. <BR><I>expr. <B>dead as a doornail,</B> </I>entirely dead. <BR> <I>Ex. Without tourism the town would be as dead as a doornail (London Times).</I> </DL>
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<B>door-opener, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Informal.) a means of entrance, access, or admission. <BR> <I>Ex. One [course] is Government auto insurance, which only the industry dreads as a door-opener to further Government intervention in the insurance business (Time).</I> </DL>
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<B>doorpiece, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>a thing to be attached to or hung on a door. <BR> <I>Ex. I didn't like traveling on streetcars with large wreaths or floral doorpieces for funerals (Saul Bellow).</I> <DD><B> 2. </B><B>=doorframe.</B> </DL>
<A NAME="doorplate">
<B>doorplate, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a metal plate on a door with a name, number, or the like, on it. </DL>
<A NAME="doorpost">
<B>doorpost, </B>noun. <B>=doorjamb.</B><BR><I>expr. <B>between you,</B> <B>me,</B> <B>and the doorpost,</B> </I>(Informal.) as a secret; confidentially. <BR> <I>Ex. Between you, me, and the doorpost, our friend is in trouble.</I> </DL>
