Dictionary: DI-AL-O-GIST'IC – DI-A-PA'SON, or DI'A-PASE

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DI-AL-O-GIST'IC, a.

Having the form of a dialogue.

DI-AL-O-GIST'IC-AL-LY, adv.

In the manner of dialogue.

DI-AL'O-GIZE, v.i. [See Dialogue.]

To discourse in dialogue. – Fotherby.

DI'A-LOGUE, n. [di'alog; Fr. dialogue; It. dialogo; Sp. id.; from Gr. διαλογος, from διαλεγομαι, to dispute; δια and λεγω, to speak.]

  1. A conversation or conference between two or more persons; particularly, a formal conversation in theatrical performances; also, an exercise in colleges and schools, in which two or more persons carry on a discourse.
  2. A written conversation, or a composition in which two or more persons are represented as conversing on some topic; as, the dialogues of Cicero de Oratore, and de Natura Deorum.

DI'A-LOGUE, v.i.

To discourse together; to confer. [Not used.] – Shak.

DI'A-LOGUE-WRI-TER, n.

A writer of dialogues or feigned conversations.

DI'AL-PLATE, n.

The plate of a dial on which the lines are drawn, to show the hour or time of the day.

DI-AL'Y-SIS, n. [Gr. διαλυσις; διαλυω, to dissolve; δια, and λυω, to dissolve.]

  1. A mark in writing or printing, consisting of two points placed over one of two vowels, to dissolve a diphthong, or to show that the two vowels are to be separated in pronunciation; as, aër, mosaïc.
  2. In medicine, debility; also, a solution of continuity. – Parr.

DI-A-MAN'TINE, a.

For Adamantine. [Not in use.]

DI-AM'E-TER, n. [Gr. διαμετρος, δια and μετρον, measure through.]

  1. A right line passing through the center of a circle or other curvilinear figure, terminated by the circumference, and dividing the figure into two equal parts.
  2. A right line passing through the center of a piece of timber, a rock or other object, from one side to the other; as, the diameter of a tree or of a stone.

DI-AM'E-TRAL, a.

Diametrical – which see.

DI-AM'E-TRAL-LY, adv.

Diametrically.

DI-A-MET'RIC-AL, a.

  1. Describing a diameter.
  2. Observing the direction of a diameter; direct; as, diametrical opposition.

DI-A-MET'RIC-AL-LY, adv.

In a diametrical direction; directly; as, diametrically opposed.

DI'A-MOND, a.

Resembling a diamond, as a diamond color; or consisting of diamonds, as, a diamond chain.

DI'A-MOND, n. [di'mond; Fr. diamant; It. and Sp. diamante; G. and D. diamant; L. adamas; Gr. αδαμας, αδαμαντος, whence adamant, from the Celtic; W. ehedvaen, moving stone; ehed, to fly or move, and maen, stone; a name first given to the lode-stone. See Adamant.]

  1. A mineral, gem, or precious stone, of the most valuable kind, remarkable for its hardness, as it scratches all other minerals. When pure, the diamond is usually clear and transparent, but it is sometimes colored. In its rough state, it is commonly in the form of a roundish pebble, or of octahedral crystals. It consists of pure carbon, and when heated to 14º Wedgwood, and exposed to a current of air, it is gradually, but completely combustible. When pure and transparent, it is said to be of the first water. – Encyc. Kirwan. Cleaveland.
  2. A very small printing letter.
  3. A figure, otherwise called a rhombus.

DI'A-MOND-ED, a.

Having the figure of an oblique-angled parallelogram, or rhombus. Fuller.

DI'A-MOND-HILT-ED, a.

Having a hilt with diamonds.

DI'A-MOND-MINE, n.

A mine in which diamonds are found.

DI'A-MOND-SHAP-ED, a.

Having the shape of a diamond.

DI-AN'DER, n. [Gr. δις, δι, twice, and ανηρ a male.]

In botany, a plant having two stamens.

DI-AN'DRI-AN, a.

Having two stamens.

DI-AN'DROUS, a.

Having two stamens like plants of the class Diandria.

DI'A-PASM, n. [Gr. διαπασσω, to sprinkle.]

A perfume. [Obs.] – B. Jonson.

DI-A-PA'SON, or DI'A-PASE, n. [Gr. δια πασων, through all.]

  1. In music, the octave or interval which includes all the tones.
  2. Among musical instrument-makers, a rule, or scale by which they adjust the pipes of organs, the holes of flutes, &c., in due proportion for expressing the several tones and semitones. – Busby. Diapáson-diapen'te, a compound consonance in a triple ratio, as 3 to 9, consisting of 9 tones and a semitone, or 19 semitones; a twelfth. – Encyc. Busby. Diapáson-diates'saron, a compound concord, founded on the proportion of 8 to 3, consisting of eight tones and a semitone. Diapáson-ditone, a compound concord, whose terms are as 10 to 4, or 5 to 2. Diapáson-semiditone, a compound concord, whose terms are in the proportion of 12 to 5. – Encyc.