Doll A doll is a usually small toy for children, often having the likeness of a fashion doll or, more often than not, a baby. But as well as human, dolls can be of an animal, or even of a fictional creature. Dolls can be made out of almost any material, but both cloth and plastic are popular in doll-making.
	Dollar The dollar is the name of the official currency in several countries, dependencies and other regions. The United States dollar is the world's most widely circulated currency.
	Dollar sign The dollar sign is a symbol primarily used to indicate a unit of currency. The dollar symbol is the only currency mark defined in the 7-bit ASCII computer character set. Other character sets like Unicode contain other currency signs in addition to the dollar.
	Dollhouse A dollhouse is a toy home, made in miniature. For the last century, dollhouses have primarily been the domain of children; although their collection and crafting have also fascinated a large number of adults. The very same dollhouses often appeal to both groups, but because of choking hazards, very young children should be restricted from access to the great majority of these domestic replicas.
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	Dolmen Dolmens are a type of single-chamber megalithic tomb, usually consisting of three or more upright stones supporting a large flat horizontal capstone . Most date from the early Neolithic period in Britain . Dolmens were usually covered with earth or smaller stones to form a Tumulus, though in many cases that covering has weathered away, leaving only the stone 'skeleton' of the burial mound intact.
	Dolomite Dolomite is the name of both a carbonate rock and a mineral consisting of calcium magnesium carbonate2) found in crystals. Dolomite rock is composed predominantly of the mineral dolomite. Limestone which is partially replaced by dolomite is referred to as dolomitic limestone, or in old U.S.
	Dolomites The Dolomites are a section of the Alps. They are located in equal parts in the provinces of South Tyrol, Province of Belluno and Trentino and extend from the Adige river in the west to the Pieve valley in the east. The northern and southern borders are defined by the Pustertal and the Valsugana.
	Dolour Dolour is the musical alias of songwriter/producer Shane Tutmarc born in Seattle, Washington. He has released 3 full-lengths, and a handful of independent EPs and 7"s over the years. In late 2005, , a collection of Dolour songs was released by Japanese label Quince Records.
	Dolphin Dolphins are highly intelligent aquatic mammals closely related to whales and porpoises. The name is from Ancient Greek delphis meaning "with a womb", viz. "a 'fish' with a womb". A group of dolphins can be called a "school" or a "pod". The word is used in a few different ways.
	Dome A dome is a common structural element of architecture that resembles the hollow upper half of a sphere. Domes do not have to be perfectly spherical in cross-section, however; a dome may be a section through an ellipse. If the baseline is taken parallel to the shorter of an ellipse's two diameters, a tall dome results, giving a sense of upward reach.
	Domesday Book Domesday Book , was the record of the great survey of England completed in 1086, executed for William the Conqueror. The survey was similar to a census by a government of today. William needed information about the country he had just conquered so he could administer it.
	Domestic goat The domestic goat is a domesticated subspecies of the wild goat of southwest Asia and eastern Europe. Domestic goats are one of the oldest domesticated species. For thousands of years, they have been utilized for their milk, meat, hair, and skins all over the world.
	Domestic sheep The domestic sheep , the most common species of the sheep genus , is a woolly ruminant quadruped which probably descends from the wild mouflon of south-central and south-west Asia. Sheep breeders refer to female sheep as ewes, intact males as rams, Castration males as wethers, yearlings as hoggets, and younger sheep as lambs.
	Domestication Domestication, also called taming, is a phenomenon whereby a wild Biology organism is habituated to survive in the company of, or by the labor of, Human. Domesticated animals, plants, and other organisms are those whose collective Ethology, Biological life cycle, or physiology has been altered as a result of their breeding and living conditions under careful human control for multiple generations.
	Domineering Domineering is a mathematical game played on a sheet of graph paper, with any set of designs traced out. For example, it can be played on a 6×6 square, a checkerboard, an entirely irregular polygon, or any combination thereof. Two players have a collection of dominoes which they place on the grid in turn, covering up squares.
	Dominica Dominica is an island nation in the Caribbean Sea. It should not be confused with the Dominican Republic, another Caribbean nation. The name is pronounced IPA chart for English: dom-i-NEE'-ka . In Latin the name means "Sunday", which was the day of its discovery by Christopher Columbus.
	Dominican Order The Order of Preachers , more commonly known as the Dominican Order , or Dominicans is a Roman Catholic Church religious order. In England and some other countries the Dominicans are referred to as Blackfriars on account of the black cappa or cloak they wear over their white Religious habit, just as the Carmelites are known as "Whitefriars" for the same reason.
	Dominican Republic The Dominican Republic, is a country located on the eastern two-thirds of the Caribbean Sea island of Hispaniola, bordering Haiti. Hispaniola is the second-largest of the Greater Antilles islands, and lies west of Puerto Rico and east of Cuba and Jamaica.
	Dominoes Dominoes generally refers to the individual or collective gaming pieces making up a domino set or to the games played with these pieces. Standard domino sets consist of 28 pieces called bones, cards, tiles, stones, spinners or dominoes. Each bone is a rectangular tile with a line dividing its face into two square ends.
	Domitian Titus Flavius Domitianus , commonly known as Domitian, was a Roman Emperor of the gens Flavius. Domitianus was a member of the Flavian Dynasty, being the son of Vespasian, by his wife Domitilla, and brother of Titus, whom he succeeded in 81. For his cruelty, paranoia and general instability, Domitian is sometimes viewed as one the so-called Mad_Roman_emperors .
	Domoic acid Domoic acid, which causes amnesic shellfish poisoning , is an amino acid phycotoxin found associated with certain algal blooms . In 1958, domoic acid was originally isolated from the red alga called "doumoi" or "hanayanagi" in Japan. "Doumoi" is used as an anthelmintic in Tokunoshima, Kagoshima.
	Don Budge John Donald Budge was an American tennis champion who was the World No. 1 Tennis Player Pre-ATP Rankings player for 6 consecutive years, first as an amateur and then as a professional. He is most famous as the first man to win in a single year the four tournaments that compose the Grand Slam in tennis of tennis.
	Don Quixote or is a novel by the Spain author Miguel de Cervantes. The first part was published in 1605 and the second in 1615. It is one of the earliest written novels in a modern European language and is arguably the most influential and emblematic work in the canon of Spanish literature.
	Donald Barthelme Donald Barthelme was an United States author of short story and novels. He also worked as a newspaper reporter for the Houston Post, managing editor of Location magazine, director of the Contemporary Arts Museum in Houston, Texas, co-founder of Fiction Magazine, and a professor at various universities.
	Donald Duck Donald Duck is an animated cartoon and comic book fictional character from The Walt Disney Company. Donald is a white anthropomorphism duck with yellow-orange bill, legs, and feet. He usually wears a sailor shirt and cap — but no pants .
	Donatello Donatello was a famous Florence artist and sculpture of the early Renaissance.
	Donato Bramante Donato Bramante was an Italian architect, who introduced the Early Renaissance style to Milan and the High Renaissance style to Rome, where his most famous design was St. Peter's Basilica.
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	Donetsk Donetsk is a city in eastern Ukraine on the Kalmius river. Administratively, it is a center of Donetsk Oblast, while historically it is the unofficial capital and largest city of the Donets Basin region, or Donbass. The city has 1,131,700 inhabitants and the metropolitan area has 1,566,000 inhabitants.
	Dongle A dongle is a small hardware device that connects to a computer to authenticate some piece of software. This was its primary meaning in the computer industry in the 1980s and 1990s. When the dongle is not present, the software runs in a restricted mode or refuses to run.
	Donkey The donkey or ass, Equus asinus, is a domestication animal of the horse family, Equidae.
	Donner Pass Donner Pass is a mountain pass in the northern Sierra Nevada, close to Lake Tahoe and Reno, Nevada. Its maximum elevation is 7,085 feet above sea level. It is a narrow pass with a very steep approach from the east, and a gradual approach from the west.
	DONUT DONUT was an experiment at Fermilab dedicated to the search for neutrino interactions. Even though the detector operated only during a few months in the summer of 1997, it was largely successful. By detecting the tau neutrino, it confirmed the existence of the last lepton predicted by the Standard Model.
	Doodle A doodle is a mindless sketch, an aimless drawing, while a person's attention is otherwise occupied.
	Doom Doom is a 1993 computer game by id Software that is among the landmark titles in the first-person shooter genre. It is widely recognized for its pioneering use of immersive 3D computer graphics, multiplayer on the PC platform, and the support for players to create custom expansions .
	Door A door is a generally floor-length opening in a wall , often equipped with a hinged or sliding panel which can be moved to leave the opening accessible, or to close it more or less securely. Doors are nearly universal in structures of all kinds , allowing passage between inside and outside, or among internal rooms.
	Doorbell A doorbell is a signaling device commonly found near a door.
	Doorhandle A doorhandle is the device mounted on the exterior and interior of automobile doors for the purpose of opening them. Doorhandles might portrude from the vehicle's exterior surfact or be streamlined into the vehicle's contour. In some automobiles, especially luxury vehicles, the doorhandles might be decorated with chrome and feature a key less entry pad ultilizing either a numerical code or thumb scan.
	Doorknob A doorknob is a popular type of :wikt:Handle#Noun used for opening and closing a door. In its simplest form, a doorknob provides only a place to grab so that the door may be pulled toward oneself. On most modern doors, however, doorknobs can be turned to operate a Latching mechanism, which normally holds the door closed.
	Dopamine Dopamine is a chemical naturally produced in the body. In the brain, dopamine functions as a neurotransmitter, activating dopamine receptors. Dopamine is also a neurohormone released by the hypothalamus. Its main function as a hormone is to inhibit the release of prolactin from the anterior lobe of the pituitary.
	Dope Sheet The "Dope Sheet" was the official press release and game program for the Green Bay Packers from 1921-24. It was written by George Whitney Calhoun, the club's first publicity director. Recently, the Packers have re-introduced the Dope Sheet as a downloadable guide to the upcoming game on their website, Packers.com.
	Doppler effect The Doppler effect, named after Christian Andreas Doppler, is the apparent change in frequency and wavelength of a wave that is perceived by an observer moving relative to the source of the waves. For waves, such as sound waves, that propagate in a wave medium, the velocity of the observer and the source are reckoned relative to the medium in which the waves are transmitted.
	Doppler radar Doppler radar uses the Doppler effect to measure the relative velocity information from a radar system. The Doppler effect shifts the frequency of the radar reflection based on the relative velocity of the "target", allowing for the direct and highly accurate measurement of speed. Doppler radars were originally developed for military radar systems, but have since become a part of almost all radar systems, including weather radar and radar guns for traffic police and sports.
	Doric order The Doric order was one of the Classical order of Architecture of Ancient Greece or classical architecture; the other two orders were the Ionic order and the Corinthian order. The Greek Doric order was the earliest of these, known from the 7th century BC and reaching its mature form in the 5th century BC.
	Doris Lessing Doris Lessing, CH, OBE, is a Britain writer, born Doris May Taylor in Kermanshah, Persia. Her family moved to the British colony of Southern Rhodesia in 1925, to live a rough life farming maize. Unfortunately, the thousand acres of bush failed to yield wealth, thwarting her mother's desire to live the life of a Victorian in "savage lands".
	Dorking Dorking is a market town nestling under the North Downs approximately 25 miles south of London, in Surrey in England.
	Dormer A dormer window is a window set Vertical in a structure projecting from a Slope roof. Dormer windows are used to create a usable area in the roof of a building. Like skylights, Dormer windows are a source of light and ventilation for top floors, but unlike skylights they increase the amount of headroom in and allow the room more usable space.
	Dormitory Many colleges and universities are now using the term residence hall instead of dormitory. This is based on the concept that if a dormitory is a place to sleep, then the term "residence hall" better describes a living and learning community that is part of the larger academic institution.
	Dormouse Dormice are Old World mammals in the Scientific classification Gliridae, part of the rodent order.. Dormice are mostly found in Europe, although some live in Africa and Asia. Dormice were considered a delicacy in Roman_eating_and_drinking, either as a savory appetizer or as a dessert.
	Dorothea Dix Dorothea Lynde Dix was an activist on behalf of the indigent insane who, through a vigorous program of lobbying state legislatures and the United States Congress, created the first generation of American mental asylums. Growing up in Worcester, Massachusetts, then in her wealthy grandmother's home in Boston, Massachusetts, Dix struggled to find a career in traditional female occupations: schoolteacher, governess, writer.
	Dorothea Lange Dorothea Lange was an influential documentary photographer. Lange is best known for her Depression-era work for the Farm Security Administration. Lange's photographs humanized the tragic consequences of the Great Depression and profoundly influenced the development of documentary photography.
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	Dorothy Parker Dorothy Parker was an United States writer and poet, best known for her caustic wit, wisecracks, and sharp eye for 20th century Urban area foibles. Also known as Dot or Dottie, Parker was born Dorothy Rothschild in the West End district of Long Branch, New Jersey, where her parents had a summer home.
	Dorsal fin A dorsal fin is a fin located on the backs of fishes, whales, dolphins and porpoises, as well as the ichthyosaurs. Its main purpose is to stabilise the animal against rolling and assist in sudden turns. Some animals have developed dorsal fins with protective functions, such as spines or venom.
	Dortmund Dortmund is a city in Germany, located in the States of Germany of North Rhine-Westphalia, in the Ruhr area. Its population of 587,830 makes it the largest city in the region, 7th-largest in Germany, and 35th-largest in the European Union. The Ruhr flows south of the city, and the small river Emscher flows through the municipal area.
	Dory A dory is a small, shallow-draft boat of approximately 5 to 7 metre in length. Variant spellings are doree and dorey. The British Navy spells it 'dorey'. Lightweight and versatile, these boats are used in the open sea for commercial fishing applications, as well as in whitewater rafting on interior rivers.
	DOS DOS commonly refers to the family of closely related operating systems which dominated the IBM PC compatible market between 1981 and 1995 : PC-DOS, MS-DOS, FreeDOS, DR-DOS, Novell-DOS, OpenDOS, PTS-DOS, ROM-DOS and several others. They are single user, single task systems.
	Dot matrix A dot matrix is an array of dots used to generate characters, symbols and images. Typical uses include: all modern computer printers and many digital display devices. In printers, the dots are usually the darkened areas of the paper. In displays, the dots may light up, as in an light-emitting diode or cathode ray tube display, or darken, as in an liquid crystal display, however multicolor LCDs are sometimes initially dark and light up.
	Dot matrix printer A dot matrix printer or impact matrix printer refers to a type of computer printer with a print head that runs back and forth on the page and prints by impact, striking an ink-soaked cloth ribbon against the paper, much like a typewriter. Unlike a typewriter or daisy wheel printer, letters are drawn out of a dot matrix, and thus, varied fonts and arbitrary graphics can be produced.
	Dot product In mathematics, the dot product, also known as the scalar product, is a binary operation which takes two vector over the real numbers R and returns a real-valued scalar quantity. It is the standard inner product space of the Euclidean space.
	Double bass The double bass is the largest and lowest-pitched Bow string instrument used in the modern orchestra. It is used extensively in European classical music as a standard member of the string section of orchestras and smaller string ensembles.
	Double Digits Double Digits was a List of retired The Price Is Right pricing games on the United States television game show, The Price Is Right.It was played for a car, and used small prizes.
	Double Eagle For the device in heraldry, see Double-headed eagle. A Double Eagle is a gold coin of the United States with a denomination of $20. Although the "eagle"-based nomenclature for gold U.S. coinage is often assumed to be a nickname, the "eagle," "half-eagle" and "quarter-eagle" were specifically given these names in the Act of Congress that originally authorized them.
	Double entendre A double entendre is a figure of speech similar to the pun, in which a spoken phrase can be understood in either of two ways. The first, literal meaning is an innocent one, while the second meaning is often irony or risqu and requires the hearer to have some additional knowledge.
	Double helix In geometry a double helix typically consists of two congruent helix with the same axis, differing by a translation along the axis, which may or may not be half-way. In modern pop culture, the double helix shape is strongly associated with DNA. That the double helix is the structure of DNA was first published by James D. Watson and Francis Crick in 1953.
	Double Indemnity Double Indemnity is a 1944 film noir. It stars Fred MacMurray, Barbara Stanwyck and Edward G. Robinson. The movie was adapted by Billy Wilder and Raymond Chandler from the novella of the same title by James M. Cain that first appeared in 1935 in abridged, 8-part serial form in Liberty Magazine.
	Double play In baseball, a double play is the act of making two outs during the same continuous playing action. In baseball slang, making a double play is referred to as "turning two."
	Double reed A double reed is a type of reed by means of which the sound is originated in various musical instrument. The term double reed comes from the fact that there are two pieces of cane vibrating against each other. A reed consists of one piece of cane which vibrates against a mouthpiece which is more or less rigid, being made of metal or hardened rubber or resin.
	Double Star Double Star is a science fiction novel by Robert A. Heinlein, first serialized in Astounding Science Fiction and published in hardcover the same year. At the 1957 Worldcon it received the Hugo Award for Hugo Award for Best Novel of the previous year.