| declaration |
the act of declaring. [4 definitions] |
| Declaration of Independence |
the public document by which the United States of America was declared to be free and independent of England in 1776. |
| Declaration of Sentiments |
the document signed in 1848 by 68 women and 32 men in connection with the first women's rights convention. |
| declarative |
making a statement, assertion, or declaration. |
| declarative sentence |
a sentence that makes a statement. There are many examples of declarative sentences, such as, "It is raining outside." |
| declare |
to proclaim or formally announce (the fact of something happening or existing). [7 definitions] |
| declared war |
an armed conflict that is precipitated by a formal declaration of war. |
| declare war on |
to formally state an intention to wage war against. [2 definitions] |
| declassify |
to remove the security classification, such as "top secret," from (an official document, information, or the like). |
| declension |
in grammar, the process of listing systematically the inflected forms of an adjective, a noun, or a pronoun by categories such as case, gender, and number. [3 definitions] |
| declination |
a movement, bend, or slope downward. [5 definitions] |
| decline |
to refuse in a civil or polite way (to do or to give something). [10 definitions] |
| declivity |
a downward or descending slope. (Cf. acclivity.) |
| decoct |
to extract a flavor or essence from, by boiling. |
| decode |
to convert (a coded message) into ordinary language; decipher. [2 definitions] |
| décolletage |
a low neckline, esp. at the front of a woman's garment. [2 definitions] |
| décolleté |
of a garment, having a low neckline, esp. at the front. [2 definitions] |
| decolonization |
the process or act of freeing a colony or eliminating colonialism. |
| decolonize |
to set free (a colony or colonies) from colonial rule. |
| decompose |
to break down (a substance) into simpler compounds or component elements. [3 definitions] |
| decompose a number |
in mathematics education, to separate a number into its component place values. For example, to decompose the number 231 you would write "200+30+1". |