Des Meaning in Spanish
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• D
Definition & Meaning
- () The nominal of the second tone in the model major scale (that in C), or of the fourth tone in the relative minor scale of C (that in A minor), or of the key tone in the relative minor of F.
- () The fourth letter of the English alphabet, and a vocal consonant. The English letter is from Latin, which is from Greek, which took it from Ph/nician, the probable ultimate origin being Egyptian. It is related most nearly to t and th; as, Eng. deep, G. tief; Eng. daughter, G. tochter, Gr. qyga`thr, Skr. duhitr. See Guide to Pronunciation, ├178, 179, 229.
- () As a numeral D stands for 500. in this use it is not the initial of any word, or even strictly a letter, but one half of the sign / (or / ) the original Tuscan numeral for 1000.
• Descant
Definition & Meaning
- (v. i.) To sing a variation or accomplishment.
- (v. i.) A discourse formed on its theme, like variations on a musical air; a comment or comments.
- (v. i.) The upper voice in part music.
- (v. i.) Originally, a double song; a melody or counterpoint sung above the plain song of the tenor; a variation of an air; a variation by ornament of the main subject or plain song.
- (v. i.) The canto, cantus, or soprano voice; the treble.
- (v. i.) To comment freely; to discourse with fullness and particularity; to discourse at large.
• Descanted
Definition & Meaning
- (imp. & p. p.) of Descant
• Descanter
Definition & Meaning
- (n.) One who descants.
• Descanting
Definition & Meaning
- (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Descant
• Descend
Definition & Meaning
- (v. i.) To come down to a lower, less fortunate, humbler, less virtuous, or worse, state or station; to lower or abase ones self; as, he descended from his high estate.
- (v. i.) To pass from the more general or important to the particular or less important matters to be considered.
- (v. i.) To come down, as from a source, original, or stock; to be derived; to proceed by generation or by transmission; to fall or pass by inheritance; as, the beggar may descend from a prince; a crown descends to the heir.
- (v. t.) To go down upon or along; to pass from a higher to a lower part of; as, they descended the river in boats; to descend a ladder.
- (v. i.) To fall in pitch; to pass from a higher to a lower tone.
- (v. i.) To make an attack, or incursion, as if from a vantage ground; to come suddenly and with violence; -- with on or upon.
- (v. i.) To enter mentally; to retire.
- (v. i.) To pass from a higher to a lower place; to move downwards; to come or go down in any way, as by falling, flowing, walking, etc.; to plunge; to fall; to incline downward; -- the opposite of ascend.
- (v. i.) To move toward the south, or to the southward.
• Descendant
Definition & Meaning
- (n.) One who descends, as offspring, however remotely; -- correlative to ancestor or ascendant.
- (a.) Descendent.
• Descended
Definition & Meaning
- (imp. & p. p.) of Descend
• Descendent
Definition & Meaning
- (a.) Descending; falling; proceeding from an ancestor or source.
• Descender
Definition & Meaning
- (n.) One who descends.
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