DIS
\dˈɪs], \dˈɪs], \d_ˈɪ_s]\
Definitions of DIS
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1920 - A practical medical dictionary.
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1914 - Nuttall's Standard dictionary of the English language
- 1874 - Etymological and pronouncing dictionary of the English language
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A prefix from the Latin, whence F. des, or sometimes de-, dis-. The Latin dis-appears as di-before b, d, g, l, m, n, r, v, becomes dif-before f, and either dis-or di- before j. It is from the same root as bis twice, and duo, E. two. See Two, and cf. Bi-, Di-, Dia-. Dis-denotes separation, a parting from, as in distribute, disconnect; hence it often has the force of a privative and negative, as in disarm, disoblige, disagree. Also intensive, as in dissever A prefix from Gr. di`s- twice. See Di-.
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A prefix from the Latin, whence F. des, or sometimes de-, dis-. The Latin dis-appears as di-before b, d, g, l, m, n, r, v, becomes dif-before f, and either dis-or di- before j. It is from the same root as bis twice, and duo, E. two. See Two, and cf. Bi-, Di-, Dia-. Dis-denotes separation, a parting from, as in distribute, disconnect; hence it often has the force of a privative and negative, as in disarm, disoblige, disagree. Also intensive, as in dissever A prefix from Gr. di`s- twice. See Di-.
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A prefix from Gr. di`s- twice. See Di-.
By Noah Webster.
By Stedman, Thomas Lathrop
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A name sometimes given to the god Pluto, the god of the lower world.
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Festuca patula, a kind of grass which grows in Tripoli and Tunis, and is largely imported for paper making.
By Daniel Lyons
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Prefix indicating the negation or reversal of the idea expressed in the primitive; as dishonest, not honest; disjoin, to separate.
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
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Apart; asunder. In numerous words having this prefix, dis - has simply a negative force, causing the word to express the contrary of what is implied by the second element.
By James Champlin Fernald
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A Latin prefix denoting separation, a parting from, and having therefore the force of a privative and negative, as in disarm, disoblige, disagree.
By Nuttall, P.Austin.
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A common prefix which, with its forms di and dif, denotes, not; the opposite of; contrary state; asunder or a part; a parting from,-sometimes dis simply acts as an intensive particle; dis signifies two, as in dis-syllable.
By Stormonth, James, Phelp, P. H.
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