| discord | 1. Want of concord or agreement; absence of unity or harmony in sentiment or action; variance leading to contention and strife; disagreement; applied to persons or to things, and to thoughts, feelings, or purposes. "A false witness that speaketh lies, and he that soweth discord among brethren." (Prov. Vi. 19) "Peace to arise out of universal discord fomented in all parts of the empire." (Burke) 2. Union of musical sounds which strikes the ear harshly or disagreeably, owing to the incommensurability of the vibrations which they produce; want of musical concord or harmony; a chord demanding resolution into a concord. "For a discord itself is but a harshness of divers sounds ming." (Bacon) Apple of discord. See Apple. Synonym: Variance, difference, opposition, contrariety, clashing, dissension, contention, strife, disagreement, dissonance. Origin: OE. Discord, descord, OF. Discorde, descorde, F. Discorde, from L. Discordia, fr. Discors, -cordis, discordant, disagreeable; dis- + cor, cordis, heart; cf. F. Discord, n, and OF. Descorder, discorder, F. Discorder, to discord, L. Discordare, from discors. See Heart, and cf. Discord. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
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| discordance | Dissociation of two characteristics in the members of a sample from a population; used as a measure of dependence. Compare: concordance. (05 Mar 2000) |
| discordant | 1. Disagreeing; incongruous; being at variance; clashing; opposing; not harmonious. "The discordant elements out of which the emperor had compounded his realm did not coalesce." (Motley) 2. [See Discord. 2. Dissonant; not in harmony or musical concord; harsh; jarring; as, discordant notes or sounds. "For still their music seemed to start Discordant echoes in each heart." (Longfellow) 3. <geology> Said of strata which lack conformity in direction of bedding, either as in unconformability, or as caused by a fault. Synonym: Disagreeing, incongruous, contradictory, repugnant, opposite, contrary, inconsistent, dissonant, harsh, jarring, irreconcilable. Discord"antly, Discord"antness. Origin: OE. Discordant, descordaunt, OF. Descordant, discordant, F. Discordant, p. Pr. Of discorder, OF. Also, descorder. See Discord. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| discordant alternans | Presence of right ventricular and pulmonary artery alternans with peripheral pulsus alternans, but with the strong beat of the right ventricle coinciding with the weak beat of the left and vice versa. (05 Mar 2000) |
| discordant alternation | The alternation in cardiac activities of either the systemic or the pulmonary circulations, but not of both, or in both but oppositely directed in each. (05 Mar 2000) |
| discordant atrioventricular connections | Connections in which each atrium is connected with a morphologically inappropriate ventricle. (05 Mar 2000) |
| discordant thyroid nodule | <radiology> Hot on Tc-99m pertechnetate, cold on I-123 or I-131, indicates trapping, but no organification, same work-up as cold nodule (12 Dec 1998) |
| discotomy | Synonym: discectomy. Origin: disco-+ G. Tome, incision (05 Mar 2000) |
| discount rate | A rate used to convert future costs or benefits to their present value. (05 Dec 1998) |
| discounting | A method of converting future dollars into present values, accounting for interest costs or forgone investment income. Used to convert a future payment into a value that is equivalent to a payment now. (05 Dec 1998) |
| discourage | 1. To extinguish the courage of; to dishearten; to depress the spirits of; to deprive of confidence; to deject; the opposite of encourage; as, he was discouraged in his undertaking; he need not be discouraged from a like attempt. "Fathers, provoke not your children to anger, lest they be discouraged." (Col. Iii. 21) 2. To dishearten one with respect to; to discountenance; to seek to check by disfavoring; to deter one from; as, they discouraged his efforts. Synonym: To dishearten, dispirit, depress, deject, dissuade, disfavor. Origin: Pref. Dis- + courage: cf. OF. Descoragier, F. Decourager: pref. Des- (L. Dis-) + corage, F. Courage. See Courage. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| discourageable | Capable of being discouraged; easily disheartened. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| discouragement | 1. The act of discouraging, or the state of being discouraged; depression or weakening of confidence; dejection. 2. That which discourages; that which deters, or tends to deter, from an undertaking, or from the prosecution of anything; a determent; as, the revolution was commenced under every possible discouragement. "Discouragements from vice." Origin: Cf. OF. Descouragement, F. Decouragement. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| discover | 1. To uncover. "Whether any man hath pulled down or discovered any church." (Abp. Grindal) 2. To disclose; to lay open to view; to make visible; to reveal; to make known; to show (what has been secret, unseen, or unknown). "Go, draw aside the curtains, and discover The several caskets to this noble prince." (Shak) "Prosperity doth best discover vice; but adversity doth best discover virtue." (Bacon) "We will discover ourselves unto them." (1 Sam. Xiv. 8) "Discover not a secret to another." (Prov. Xxv. 9) 3. To obtain for the first time sight or knowledge of, as of a thing existing already, but not perceived or known; to find; to ascertain; to espy; to detect. "Some to discover islands far away." (Shak) 4. To manifest without design; to show. "The youth discovered a taste for sculpture." (C. J. Smith) 5. To explore; to examine. Synonym: To disclose, bring out, exhibit, show, manifest, reveal, communicate, impart, tell, espy, find, out, detect. To Discover, Invent. We discover what existed before, but remained unknown, we invent by forming combinations which are either entirely new, or which attain their end by means unknown before. Columbus discovered America, Newton discovered the law of gravitation, Whitney invented the cotton gin, Galileo invented the telescope. Origin: OE. Discoveren, discuren, descuren, OF. Descovrir, descouvrir, F. Decouvrir; des- (L. Dis-) + couvrir to cover. See Cover. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| discoverable | Capable of being discovered, found out, or perceived; as, many minute animals are discoverable only by the help of the microscope; truths discoverable by human industry. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
Synonyms : Diseases in Twin, Twin, Diseases in, Twins, Diseases in, in Twin, Diseases, in Twins, Diseases
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Synonyms : Bauer-Kirby Disk-Diffusion Method, Kirby-Bauer Disk-Diffusion Method, Bauer Kirby Disk Diffusion Method, Disk-Diffusion Method, Bauer-Kirby, Disk-Diffusion Method, Kirby-Bauer, Kirby Bauer Disk Diffusion Method
| disco- |
popular dance music (especially in the late 1970s); melodic with a regular bass beat; intended mainly for dancing at discotheques dance to disco music a public dance hall for dancing to recorded popular music
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| discord |
lack of agreement or harmony disagreement among those expected to cooperate discordance: a harsh mixture of sounds strife resulting from a lack of agreement disagree: be different from one another
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| distortion |
a change for the worse distorted shape: a shape resulting from distortion aberration: an optical phenomenon resulting from the failure of a lens or mirror to produce a good image a change (usually undesired) in the waveform of an acoustic or analog electrical signal; the difference between two measurements of a signal (as between the input and output signal); "heavy metal guitar players use vacuum tube amplifiers to produce extreme distortion" the act of distorting something so it seems to mean something it was not intended to mean the mistake of misrepresenting the facts
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| distress |
psychological suffering; "the death of his wife caused him great distress" a state of adversity (danger or affliction or need); "a ship in distress"; "she was the classic maiden in distress" extreme physical pain; "the patient appeared to be in distress" cause mental pain to; "The news of her child's illness distressed the mother" the seizure and holding of property as security for payment of a debt or satisfaction of a claim; "Originally distress was a landlord's remedy against a tenant for unpaid rents or property damage but now the landlord is given a landlord's lien"
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| discrepancy |
a difference between conflicting facts or claims or opinions; "a growing divergence of opinion" an event that departs from expectations
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| DIS | not approved |
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| DIS | expressing or manifesting disapproval |
| DIS | showing disapproval |
| DIS | remove offensive capability from |
| DIS | take away the weapons from |
| DIS | make less hostile |
| DIS | act of reducing or depriving of arms |
| DIS | someone opposed to violence as a means of settling disputes |
| DIS | act of reducing or depriving of arms |
| DIS | capable of allaying suspicion or hostility and inspiring confidence |
| DIS | capable of allaying hostility |
| DIS | disturb the arrangement of |