<B>durable, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>able to withstand wear or decay. <BR> <I>Ex. Work clothes are made of durable fabric.</I> (SYN) strong. <DD><B> 2. </B>lasting or existing a long time; not soon injured or worn out; lasting. <BR> <I>Ex. a durable marriage. Another war destroyed all hopes of a durable peace between the two nations.</I> (SYN) permanent, stable, enduring, persistent. <BR><I>expr. <B>durables,</B> </I>durable goods. <BR> <I>Ex. "Durables" like household furnishings and appliances have become available in mass quantities for the first time in Mexico (Harper's).</I> noun <B>durableness.</B> </DL>
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<B>durable goods,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> manufactured goods not consumed by the purchaser, such as machinery, appliances, furniture, or hardware. <BR> <I>Ex. Behind autos and homes, appliances rank as the third biggest ... durable goods item (Wall Street Journal).</I> </DL>
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<B>durable press,</B><DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>a textile-manufacturing process in which creases, pleats, and seams are set into fabric by the use of chemicals. <BR> <I>Ex. Durable press ... permits clothes to be taken out of the dryer and worn without a touch of the iron(Time).</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>the pressed condition of textiles treated by this process. <BR> <I>Ex. Fabrics containing a durable press ... have been widely used in men's and boys' apparel (New York Times).</I> <DD> Also, <B>permanent press.</B> </DL>
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<B>durably, </B>adverb.<DL COMPACT><DD> in a durable manner; so as to withstand wear or decay; lastingly. </DL>
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<B>durain, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a hard, dull layer of bituminous coal, composed chiefly of decayed plant matter and clay. </DL>
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<B>dural, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> of or having to do with the dura mater. </DL>
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<B>Duralumin, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>(Trademark.) a light alloy of aluminum containing copper, manganese, magnesium, and sometimes silicon or iron, comparable in strength and hardness to soft steel. <DD><B> 2. </B><B>duralumin.</B> any one of various alloys of this kind. </DL>
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<B>dura mater,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> (Anatomy.) the tough, fibrous membrane forming the outermost of the three coverings of the brain and spinal cord. </DL>
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<B>duramen, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Botany.) the central wood or heartwood of an exogenous tree. </DL>
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<B>durance, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>forced confinement; imprisonment. <BR> <I>Ex. In durance vile here must I wake and weep (Robert Burns).</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>(Archaic.) endurance. <BR> <I>Ex. the durance of a granite ledge (Emerson).</I> </DL>
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<B>Durani, </B>noun, pl. <B>-ni</B> or <B>-nis.</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a member of a large Pathan tribe in Afghanistan. </DL>
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<B>durante vita,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> (Latin.) during life. </DL>
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<B>duration, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> length of time; the time during which anything continues. <BR> <I>Ex. The storm was of short duration.</I> (SYN) term, period. <BR><I>expr. <B>for the duration,</B> </I>until the end, especially of a war. <BR> <I>Ex. He enlisted in the army for the duration of the war.</I> </DL>
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<B>durative, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> designating a verb aspect in Russian and other languages which marks action as going on. </DL>
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<B>durbar, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>an official audience or reception held by a native prince of India or, formerly, by a British governor or viceroy in India. <BR> <I>Ex. The festivities center on Mysore City, the capital of the state, where the maharaja holds a ten-day durbar with all the splendid panoply of his ancestors (Santha Rama Rau).</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>the court of a native prince or ruler. <BR> <I>Ex. Then, one morning Gopal came to the durbar with the golden box (Times of India).</I> <DD><B> 3. </B>a hall or place where a durbar is held. </DL>
<B>dure</B> (2), intransitive verb, transitive verb, <B>dured,</B> <B>during.</B><DL COMPACT><DD> (Archaic.) to endure; last. </DL>
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<B>Dureresque, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> in the manner or style of Albrecht Durer, 1471-1528, the famous German painter, engraver, and designer. </DL>
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<B>duress, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>the use of force; compulsion. <BR> <I>Ex. A person cannot be legally forced to fulfill a contract signed under duress.</I> (SYN) constraint, coercion, force. <DD><B> 2. </B>imprisonment; confinement. </DL>
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<B>Durga, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a Hindu goddess, a wife of Siva, embodying or representing an aspect of female energy, also called Kali and other names. </DL>
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<B>Durham, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a breed of shorthorned cattle; shorthorn. </DL>
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<B>Durham boat,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a long, narrow kind of keelboat used on North American rivers in the 1700's and 1800's. </DL>
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<B>Durham Rule,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> (U.S.) the rule that an accused person is not criminally responsible if his crime was the product of a diseased or defective mental condition. </DL>
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<B>durian, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>the bad-smelling but edible fruit of a tree of the bombax family of southeastern Asia, with a hard, prickly rind and cream-colored pulp. <BR> <I>Ex. Piles of fruit--mangosteens, smelly durians, big green pomelos--lay about partly sheltered by banana leaves (New Yorker).</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>the tree itself. </DL>
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<B>during, </B>preposition.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>throughout the whole time of; throughout. <BR> <I>Ex. The boys played inside during the storm.</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>at some time in; in the course of. <BR> <I>Ex. Come to see me during my office hours. During the night the rain turned to snow.</I> </DL>
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<B>Duriron, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Trademark.) an acid-resisting alloy of steel containing about 14 per cent silicon. It is cast into pipes, valves, fittings, etc., for use in industries handling acids. </DL>
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<B>durmast, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a European oak with a dark, heavy, elastic wood, used in making furniture and in building. </DL>
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<B>durn, </B>transitive verb, noun, adverb, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Dialect or Informal.) darn. <BR> <I>Ex. It may not win any Oscars, but durn if it don't take the blue ribbon for country corn (Time).</I> </DL>
<B>duro, </B>noun, pl. <B>-ros.</B><DL COMPACT><DD> an old Spanish silver dollar, worth a peso. </DL>
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<B>Duroc, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> any one of an American breed of large, quick-maturing red hogs with drooping ears. </DL>
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<B>Duroc-Jersey, </B>noun. =Duroc.</DL>
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<B>durometer, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> an instrument for determining the hardness of substances. </DL>
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<B>durra, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a cereal grass, a species of sorghum, with slender stalks, widely cultivated in the Mediterranean region and the Orient for food and for fodder; Indian millet; Guinea corn. Also, <B>dura,</B> <B>doura,</B> <B>dourah.</B> </DL>
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<B>durst, </B>verb.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Archaic.) dared; a past tense of <B>dare.</B> </DL>
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<B>durum, </B>noun, or <B>durum wheat,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a species of wheat from whose hard grain or kernels the flour used in macaroni, spaghetti, and the like, is made. </DL>
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<B>dusk, </B>noun, adjective, verb.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>noun </I> <B>1. </B>the darker stage of twilight before it is quite dark at night; time just before dark. <BR> <I>Ex. We saw the evening star at dusk. In the dusk of the evening (James Mabbe).</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>shade; gloom. <BR> <I>Ex. the dusk of a forest.</I> <DD><I>adj. </I> dusky; dark-colored. <DD><I>v.t. </I> to make dusky; darken; obscure; dim. <BR> <I>Ex. That shadow which dusketh the light of the moon (Josiah G. Holland).</I> <DD><I>v.i. </I> to grow dusky or dim. </DL>
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<B>dusken, </B>transitive verb, intransitive verb.<DL COMPACT><DD> to make or become dusk. </DL>
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<B>duskily, </B>adverb.<DL COMPACT><DD> in a dusky manner; with partial darkness. </DL>
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<B>duskiness, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> dusky condition or state; partial darkness. </DL>
