Disgrace Disgrace is a novel by South African author J. M. Coetzee, winner of the 2003 Nobel Prize in Literature; the book itself won the Booker Prize in 1999, the year in which it was published. A film adaptation is slated for release in 2007 in film.
	Dishware Dishware is a general term for objects—dishes—from which people eat or serve food, such as plates and bowls. The term dinnerware is also often used, although the definition also sometimes includes cutlery. tableware is a similar term that is also often used.
	Dishwasher A Dishwasher is a mechanical device for cleaning food utensils for preparation, keeping, serving and eating and drinking. They are found in restaurants and also in many kitchens of homes.
	Dishwashing The term dishwashing refers to cleaning eating and cooking utensils, not just dishes. The correct dishwashing method, like all traditions, vary greatly not only geographically but also due to family tradition. Dishwashing requires an implement for the washer to wield, unless done using an automated dishwasher.
	Disillusion Disillusion is a German people progressive metal band with a unique combination of Black metal, Death metal, progressive metal and thrash metal Heavy metal music. The band recently announced that they are during the recording sessions of their new album, to be called "Gloria".
	Dislocation In materials science, a dislocation is a linear crystallographic defect, or irregularity, within a crystal structure. The presence of dislocations strongly influences many of the properties of real materials. The theory was originally developed by Vito Volterra in 1905. Some types of dislocations can be visualised as being caused by the termination of a plane of atoms in the middle of a crystal.
	Disneyland Disneyland Park, formerly referred to simply as Disneyland from 1955-1998 is an elaborate "theme park" at Disneyland Resort in Anaheim, California, USA . Owned and operated by The Walt Disney Company, The Magic Kingdom of Disneyland has become one of the most famous places on Earth and also one of its most visited sites.
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	Disputation In the scholasticism system of education of the Middle Ages, disputations offered a formalized method of debate designed to uncover and establish "truths" in theology and in other sciences. Fixed rules governed the process: they demanded dependence on traditional written appeal to authority and the thorough understanding of each argument on each side.
	Dissection Dissection is usually the process of disassembling and observing something to determine its internal structure and as an aid to discerning the function and relationships of its components. It may refer also to some spontaneous natural process of dissasembly as in aortic dissection. Dissection is usually applied to the examination of plants and animals.
	Distaff As a noun, a distaff is a tool used in Spinning. It is designed to hold the unspun fibers, keeping them untangled and thus easing the spinning process. It is most commonly used to hold flax, and sometimes wool, but can be used for any type of fiber. The traditional form is a staff, typically mounted as an attachment to a spinning wheel.
	Distance Distance is a numerical description of how far apart things lie. In physics or everyday discussion, distance may refer to a physical length, a period of time, or an estimation based on other criteria . In mathematics, distance must meet more rigorous criteria. Physics According to special relativity, distances through reality's time and space can only be measured as a spacetime interval.
	Distillation Distillation is a method of separation of chemical substances based on differences in their Volatility . Known since Ancient history, the concentration of alcohol by the application of heat to a fermentation liquid solution is perhaps the oldest form of distillation, in the course of producing distilled beverages.
	Distinguished Conduct Medal The Distinguished Conduct Medal was a military decoration awarded to personnel of the British Army and other British Armed Forces, and formerly also to personnel of other Commonwealth of Nations countries, below commissioned officer rank, for conspicuous bravery in battle on land.
	Distinguished Service Order The Distinguished Service Order is a military decoration of the United Kingdom, and formerly of other Commonwealth of Nations countries, awarded for meritorious or distinguished service by officers of the armed forces during wartime, typically in actual combat. It was instituted in 1886 by Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom, the Royal Warrant being published on 9 November.
	Distortion A distortion is the alteration of the original shape of an object, image, sound, waveform or other form of information or representation. Distortion is usually unwanted. In some fields, distortion is desirable, such as electric guitar . The slight distortion of analog magnetic tape and vacuum tubes is considered pleasing in certain situations.
	Distress signal A distress signal is an internationally recognized means of obtaining help. Distress signals are commonly made by using a radio, displaying a visual object, or making noise from a distance. A distress signal indicates that a ship, aircraft, or other vehicle is threatened by grave and imminent danger and requests immediate assistance.
	Distributor The distributor in the ignition system of an internal combustion engine is a device which routes the High voltage in the correct firing order to the spark plugs. It consists of a rotating arm or rotor inside the distributor cap, on top of the distributor shaft, but insulated from it and the body of the vehicle.
	District Local government areas called districts are used, or have been used, in several countries.
	District Line The District Line is a line of the London Underground, coloured green on the Tube map. It is a "sub-surface" line, running through the central area in shallow cut-and-cover tunnels.
	Disturbed Disturbed is a band from Chicago, Illinois, Illinois. It was formed in 1996 when musicians Dan Donegan, Steve Kmak, and Mike Wengren hired singer David Draiman in Chicago, Illinois. Disturbed was originally founded as a Nu Metal band, but are now regarded as Hard Rock , or Heavy metal music.
	Disulfiram Disulfiram is a medication used to support the treatment of chronic alcoholism by producing an acute sensitivity to ethanol. Trade names for disulfiram in different countries are Antabuse and Antabus manufactured by Odyssey Pharmaceuticals. Disulfiram is also being studied as a treatment for cocaine dependence , as it prevents the breakdown of dopamine resulting in increased anxiety, blood pressure, restlessness and other unpleasent symptoms.
	Ditch * For use of the ditch as obstacles for horses, see ditch A ditch is usually defined as a small to moderate depression created to channel water. A ditch can be used for drainage, to drain water from low lying areas, alongside roadways or fields, or to channel water from a more distant source for plant irrigation.
	Dither Dither is a form of noise, or 'erroneous' signal or data which is added to sample data for the purpose of minimizing quantization error. Dither is routinely used in processing of both digital audio and digital video data. Jitter is not synonymous with dither.
	Dive bomber A dive bomber is a bomber aircraft that dives directly at its targets in order to provide greater accuracy and limit the exposure to and effectiveness of anti-aircraft fire. Diving vertically at the target, in the same direction the bombs will take, the aircraft will release the bombs very close to the target at high speed.
	Divi-divi The Divi-divi is a leguminous tree or large shrub native to the Antilles, southern Mexico, Central America and northern South America. It grows to 9 m tall, often much less and very contorted in exposed coastal sites. In other environments it grows into a low dome shape with a clear sub canopy space.
	Divination Divination is the attempt of ascertaining information by interpretation of omens or an alleged supernatural agency. If a distinction is to be made betwen divination and fortune-telling, divination has a formal or ritual and often social character, usually in a religion context; while fortune-telling is a more everyday practice for personal purposes.
	Diving Diving refers to the sport of acrobatics jumping or falling into water. Diving is an internationally-recognized sport that is part of the Olympic Games. In addition, unstructured and non-competitive diving is a common recreational pastime in places where swimming is popular.
	Diving bell A diving bell is a cable-suspended watertight chamber, open at the bottom, that is lowered underwater to operate as a base or a means of transport for a small number of divers. Unlike a submarine it is not designed to move under the control of its occupants, nor to operate independently of its tether.
	Diving petrel The diving petrels are seabirds in the bird order Procellariiformes. There are four very similar species all in the family Pelecanoididae and genus Pelecanoides Bernard Germain tienne de la Ville, Comte de Lacpde, 1799. They are auk-like small petrels of the southern oceans.
	Diving suit A diving suit is a garment or device designed to protect a diving from the underwater environment. Modern diving suits can be divided into two kinds: * "soft" or ambient pressure diving suits - examples are wetsuits, drysuits, semi-dry suits and dive skins * "hard" or atmospheric pressure diving suits - an armored suit that permits a diver to remain at atmospheric pressure whilst operating at depth where the water pressure is high.
	Dixie Dixie is a nickname for the Southern United States.
	Dixie Cup Dixie Cup is the brand name for a line of disposable paper cups that were first developed in the United States in the early 20th century to improve public hygiene. They were developed in 1907 by Lawrence Luellen, a lawyer in Boston, Massachusetts, who was worried about germs being spread by people sharing glasses or dippers at public supplies of drinking water.
	Dixieland Dixieland music is a style of jazz. Dixieland developed in New Orleans, Louisiana at the start of the 20th century, and spread to Chicago, Illinois and New York City, New York by New Orleans bands in the 1910s, and was, for a period, quite popular among the general public.
	Dizzy Gillespie Name = Dizzy Gillespie |Img = Dizzy Gillespie playing horn 1955.jpg |Img_capt = Dizzy Gillespie in 1955 |Background = solo_singer |Birth_name = John Birks Gillespie |Born = October 21, 1917 |Died = January 6, 1993 |Origin = Cheraw, South Carolina |Instrument = Trumpet |Genre = Jazz
	Djibouti Djibouti , officially the Republic of Djibouti, is a small country in eastern Africa, located in the Horn of Africa. Djibouti is bordered by Eritrea in the north, Ethiopia in the west and south, and Somalia in the southeast. The remainder of the border is formed by the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden.
	Dmitri Mendeleev Dimitri Mendeleev , was a Russian chemistry. He is credited as being the primary creator of the first version of the periodic table of Chemical element. Unlike other contributors to the table, Mendeleev predicted the properties of elements yet to be discovered.
	Dmitri Shostakovich Dmitri Dmitrievich Shostakovich listen was a Russian composer of the Soviet Union period. He had a complex relationship with the Soviet government, suffering two official denunciations of his music in 1936 and 1948 and the periodic banning of his work. At the same time, he remained the most popular Soviet composer of his generation and received a number of accolades and state awards, and served in the Supreme Soviet.
	DNA Deoxyribonucleic acid is a nucleic acid that contains the genetics instructions for the developmental biology of a Cell form of life or a virus. All known cellular life and some viruses have DNAs. DNA is a long polymer of nucleotides that encodes the sequence of amino acid residues in proteins, using the genetic code: each amino acid is represented by three consecutive nucleotides .
	Dnieper River The Dnieper River is a river which flows from Russia through Belarus and then Ukraine. In all three countries it has essentially the same name, albeit pronounced differently, ; ; . The river is mentioned by the Ancient Greece historian Herodotus in the fifth century BC as Borysthenes; the late Ancient Greece and Roman Empire authors called it Danapris and Danaper respectively.
	Dnipropetrovsk Dnipropetrovsk is Ukraine's third largest citywith 1.1 million inhabitants. It is located in the south-central section of the country, south of Kiev on the Dnieper River. Dnipropetrovsk is also the administrative centre of the Dnipropetrovsk Oblast. A vital industrial center of Ukraine, Dnipropetrovsk was one of the key centers of the Nuclear power, Arms industry, and Soviet space program industries of the former Soviet Union.
	Dobrich Dobrich is a town in northeastern Bulgaria and the administrative centre of Dobrich Province. Dobrich is the eighth most populated town in Bulgaria, being the centre of the historical region of Southern Dobruja, and is located 30 kilometre west of the Bulgarian Black Sea Coast, not far from resorts such as Albena, Balchik, and Golden Sands.
	Dobsonfly The name dobsonfly refers to any species of the genus Corydalus. The most well-known of the numerous species is Corydalus cornutus, a long, dark-colored insect of North America and Central America, that spends most of its life in its larva.
	Dockers Dockers is a brand name of Levi Strauss & Co. In 1986, the Dockers brand introduced khakis as an alternative to dress pants and jeans to American men. One year later, the womans line was established. In the mid 1990s the Dockers marketing tagline "Nice Pants™" became one of the most popular taglines in advertising history and from that point forward, the Dockers brand led the business casual revolution.
	Docosahexaenoic acid Docosahexaenoic acid is an omega-3 fatty acid essential fatty acid. Chemically, DHA is a carboxylic acid with a 22-carbon chain and six cis double bonds; the first double bond is located at the third carbon from the omega end. DHA is most often found in fish oil.
	Doctor of Divinity Doctor of Divinity is an academic degree in Divinity. Historically, it identified one who had been licensed by a university to teach Christianity theology or related religion subjects. In the United Kingdom, D.D. has traditionally been the highest doctorate granted by universities, usually conferred upon a religious scholar of standing and distinction.
	Doctorate A doctorate is an academic degree of the highest level. Traditionally, the award of a doctorate implies recognition of the candidate as an equal by the university faculty under which he or she studied. There are three types of doctorates: research/terminal, professional, and honorary.
	Documentary film Documentary film is a broad category of cinematic expression united by the intent, or stated intent, to remain factual or non-fictional. History Pre-1900 The French used the term documentary to refer to any non-fiction film medium, including travelogues and instructional videos.
	Dodecagon In geometry, a dodecagon is a polygon with exactly twelve sides. When spelled uppercase, the outlines of the letters E and H are all dodecagons. A regular polygon dodecagon is a dodecagon with all sides having equal length and all interior angles having the same size of 150 degrees.
	Dodecahedron A dodecahedron is any polyhedron with twelve faces, but usually a regular dodecahedron is meant: a Platonic solid composed of twelve regular pentagonal faces, with three meeting at each vertex. It has twenty vertices and thirty edges. Its dual polyhedron is the icosahedron.
	Dodge Dodge is a brand name of automobiles and light to heavy-duty trucks. From 1914 to 1927, the company was named the Dodge Brothers Motor Vehicle Company. The Chrysler Corporation acquired the Dodge company in 1928. In 1998, Dodge, along with all other Chrysler subsidiaries merged with Daimler-Benz.
	Dodgem Dodgem is a simple abstract strategy game invented by Colin Vout and described in the book Winning Ways. It is played on an n×n board with n-1 cars for each playertwo cars each on a 3×3 board is enough for an interesting game, but larger sizes are also possible.
	Dodo The Mauritius Dodo , more commonly just dodo, was a metre-high flightless bird of the island of Mauritius. The dodo, which is now extinct birds, lived on fruit and nested on the ground.
	Dodoma Dodoma [translation: "It has sunk"], population 324,347 , is the national capital of Tanzania, third biggest city in the country, and also the capital of the Dodoma Region. In 1973, plans were made to move the capital to Dodoma. Tanzania's National Assembly moved there in February 1996, but many government offices remain in the original national capital, Dar es Salaam.
	Dodonaea Dodonaea is a genus of about 70 species of flowering plants in the family Sapindaceae, with a cosmopolitan distribution in tropical, subtropical and warm temperate regions of Africa, the Americas, southern Asia and Australasia. By far the highest species diversity is in Australia.
	Dog The dog is a mammal in the order Carnivora. Dogs were Domestication from Gray Wolf as recently as 15,000 years agoor perhaps as early as 100,000 years ago based upon recent genetic fossil and DNA evidence Vilà, C. et al.. Other research suggests that dogs have only been domesticated for a much shorter amount of time.
	Dog breeding Dog breeding is the vocation of mating carefully selected specimens of the same breed to reproduce specific, consistently replicable qualities and characteristics. At its best, breeding is a blend of science and art. The skilled breeder has at least general knowledge of genetics and health, and in-depth knowledge of the breed standard and Conformation point of his chosen breed.
	Dog collar A dog collar is a collar worn by dogs; usually with a dog tag with the owner's telephone number or the dog's vaccination information on it. Dog collar is also an informal term for a clerical collar and for a necklace similar to a wide choker, popular in the Edwardian period; see Collar.
	Dog food Dog food is plant or animal material intended for consumption by dogs or other canids. Special dog foods given as a reward, and not as a staple, are known as dog treats. Some people make their own dog food or feed their dogs meals made from ingredients purchased in grocery or health-food stores; many others rely on commercially manufactured dog food.
	Dog racing Dog racing is both a gambling event as well as a fund-raising event, depending on the breed and location. "Dog racing" usually refers to Greyhound racing, which is the largest and most widespread type of canine competition. In the United States, greyhound racing has been banned in all but a few states, where its popularity is in decline as the typical dog track attendees grow older.
	Dog Rose The Dog Rose is a variable scrambling rose species native to Europe, northwest Africa and western Asia. It has also been introduced to other temperate latitudes. It normally ranges in height from 1-5 m, though sometimes it can scramble into the crowns of even taller trees. Its stems are covered with small sharp spines, which aid it in climbing.
	Dog sled A dog sled is a sled pulled by one or more sled dogs used to travel over ice and through snow. Numerous types of sleds are used, depending on their function. A basket sled has a bed raised several inches above the surface of the snow. This type of sled is used in dogsled racing.
	Dog tag A dog tag is a small flat tag worn on dog collars or dog harness by dogs, usually with identifying information such as the owner's telephone number so that the owner can be notified if the dog is lost. Dog tags were traditionally worn on a chain, rope, or collar around the dog's neck.
	Dog's Mercury Dog's Mercury is a spring flower found across Europe, but almost absent from Ireland, Orkney and Shetland. It is a hairy dioecious perennial with erect stems bearing simple, serrate leaves. The inflorescence is green bearing inconspicuous flowers in March and April. It is frequently found covering large areas in dense stands as an understory plant in woodlands, especially, but not exclusively, on calcareous soils.
	Dogfight A dogfight or dog fight is a common term used to describe close-range aerial combat between military aircraft. The term originated during World War I, and probably derives from the preferred fighter tactic of positioning one's aircraft behind the enemy aircraft. From this position, a pilot could fire his guns on the enemy without having to lead the target, and the enemy aircraft could not effectively fire back.
	Doghouse A doghouse or a kennel is a small shed, often built in the shape of a little house, in which a dog is kept or can run into for shelter from the Weather. The expression "in the doghouse" means to be in trouble; often used of a Marriage who is figuratively sent to the doghouse in the same way that a dog is removed from the human habitation.
	Dogleg In auto racing or motorcycle racing a dogleg refers to a corner on the race track that has a shallow angle, not a sharp one, like the bend in the middle of a dog's leg. A dogleg is usually taken quickly and can be a challenge for both car and driver. In golf, "dogleg" is a reference for the direction of a golf hole.
	Dogwood The Dogwoods comprise a group of 30-50 species of deciduous woody plants in the family Cornaceae, divided into one to nine genera or subgenera. Four subgenera are enumerated here. *Flower clusters semi-showy, usually white or yellow, in cymes without large showy bracts, fruit red, blue or white:
	Doha Doha , population 400,051 , is the capital city of Qatar, and is at , on the Persian Gulf. Doha is located in the Ad Dawhah municipality, sometimes also known as the capital municipality. The city is Qatar's largest city, with over 80% of the population residing in Doha or its suburbs, and is the economic centre of the country.
	Doily A doily is a small ornamental mat usually made of cotton or linen placed underneath a dish or bowl. Openwork allows the table surface to show through. In addition to their decorative function, doilies have a Utilitarianism role, protecting fine wood furniture from scratches from crockery.