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de

  [duh; Fr. duh; Sp. de; Port. di]
Use de in a Sentence
–preposition
from; of (used in French, Spanish, and Portuguese personal names, originally to indicate place of origin): Comte de Rochambeau; Don Ricardo de Aragón.
Origin:
< F, Sp, Pg < L dē
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de-

 
a prefix occurring in loanwords from Latin (decide); also used to indicate privation, removal, and separation (dehumidify), negation (demerit; derange), descent (degrade; deduce), reversal (detract), intensity (decompound). Compare di- 2 , dis- 1 .
Origin:
ME < L dē-, prefixal use of dē (prep.) from, away from, of, out of; in some words, < F < L dē- or dis- dis- 1

DE

 
1. Delaware (approved esp. for use with zip code).
2. destroyer escort.

de'

  [duh; It. de]
–preposition
dei (used in Italian names as an elided form of dei): de' Medici.

D.E.

 
1. Doctor of Engineering.
2. driver education.

D & E

 
dilation and extraction.
Also, D and E

Del⋅a⋅ware

  [del-uh-wair]
–noun, plural -wares, (especially collectively) -ware for 5.
1. Baron. De La Warr, 12th Baron.
2. a state in the eastern United States, on the Atlantic coast. 595,225; 2057 sq. mi. (5330 sq. km). Capital: Dover. Abbreviation: DE (for use with zip code), Del.
3. a city in central Ohio. 18,780.
4. a river flowing S from SE New York, along the boundary between Pennsylvania and New Jersey into Delaware Bay. 296 mi. (475 km) long.
5. a member of a grouping of North American Indian peoples, comprising the Munsee, Unami, and Unalachtigo, formerly occupying the drainage basin of the Delaware River, the lower Hudson River valley, and the intervening area.
6. the Eastern Algonquian language of any of the Delaware peoples.
7. Horticulture.
a. a red vinifera grape grown for table use that yields a white wine.
b. the vine bearing this fruit.

destroyer escort

 
–noun
a warship somewhat smaller than a destroyer, designed esp. for antisubmarine action. Abbreviation: DE
Origin:
1940–45
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abbr.  Delaware
Del·a·ware 2   (děl'ə-wâr')   
A state of the eastern United States on the Atlantic Ocean. It was admitted as the first of the original Thirteen Colonies in 1787. Settled by the Dutch in 1631 and by Swedes in 1638, the region passed to England in 1664. It was part of William Penn's Pennsylvania grant from 1682 until 1776. Dover is the capital and Wilmington the largest city. Population: 865,000.
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Cultural Dictionary

Delaware

State in the eastern United States bordered by Pennsylvania to the north, Delaware Bay and the Atlantic Ocean to the east, and Maryland to the west and south. Its capital is Dover, and its largest city is Wilmington.

Note: One of the thirteen colonies.
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Word Origin & History

de 
L. adv. and prep. meaning "down from, off, concerning." Used as a prefix in Eng., as in defrost (1895), defuse (1943), decaffeination (1927), etc. Usually felt as meaning "down," but in L. it could also be completive in intensive (cf. demerit), perhaps with a sense of "down to the bottom, totally." Also in de facto "in fact" (1602), which is usually contrasted with de jure "of right, according to law" (1611), both now used as adjs. in Eng.

Delaware 
U.S. state, river, Indian tribe, named for the bay, which was named for Baron (commonly "Lord") De la Warr (Thomas West, 1577-1618), first Eng. colonial governor of Virginia. The family name is attested from 1201, from Delaware in Brasted, Kent, probably ult. from de la werre "of the war" (a warrior), from O.Fr. werre/guerre "war."
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Medical Dictionary

de- pref.

  1. Do or make the opposite of; reverse: decomposition.

  2. Remove or remove from: deoxygenation.

  3. Reduce; degrade: decholesterolization.

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Computing Dictionary

de networking
The country code for Germany.
(1999-01-27)

The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing, © 1993-2007 Denis Howe
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Abbreviations & Acronyms
de
German
DE

  1. defensive end

  2. Delaware

  3. Doctor of Engineering

  4. donor eggs

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