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devote [divóut] prehodni glagol (to)
posvetiti se; odrediti; žrtvovati

to devote o.s. to s.th. ukvarjati se s čim; vdajati se čemu

devoted [divóutid] pridevnik (devotedly prislov) (to)
vdan, zvest, podvržen, navdušen; obsojen

his is a devoted head obsojen je na propad

devotion [divóušən] samostalnik
vdanost; pobožnost; posvetitev; požrtvovalnost
množina molitve

to be at one's devotions moliti

devour [diváuə] prehodni glagol
pogoltniti, goltati, (po)žreti, pohrustati
figurativno uničiti, pobrati

poetično to devour the way brzeti, hiteti

dèž rain

močan, hud dèž heavy rain, pelting rain; (ploha) shower, downpour
silen dèž torrential rain
droben dèž drizzle, mizzle
dèž granat, udarcev a rain of shells, of blows
dèž pepela a rain of ashes
množina dèž ja rainfall
dèž gre, pada it rains, it is raining
dèž lije it is pouring with rain (ali pouring down)
dèž lije kot iz škafa it is raining cats and dogs, it is bucketing down
kar naprej gre dèž it keeps raining
na dèž kaže it looks like rain, it's probably going to rain, we're in for rain
dèž se je izlil it has rained itself out
dèž je ponehal it has stopped raining
priti z dèžja pod kap (figurativno) to fall out of the frying pan into the fire, to go from bad to worse
stati v dèžju to stand in the rain
za dèžjem pride sonce after rain comes sunshine (ali comes fair weather)
ustvarjanje umetnega dèžja cloud seeding
govori kot dèž he's chattering (ali he chatters) away nineteen to the dozen

dežêla country; land; province

na dežêli in the country
na dežêlo to the country
deveta dežêla fairyland, land of milk and honey, Cockaigne, wonderland, lotusland, land of plenty
obljubljena dežêla the Promised Land
dežêla podpisnica signatory country
dežêla v razvoju developing country, underdeveloped country
sveta dežêla the Holy Land
hiša na dežêli country house, villa, (manjša) cottage, country home
dežêla, v kateri se cedita med in mleko a land flowing with milk and honey
življenje kot v deveti dežêli a life of idleness and luxury
iti na dežêlo to go on a trip to the country
tuje dežêle foreign countries
preseliti se na dežêlo to move to the country
iti v krtovo dežêlo (figurativno) to die
živeti na dežêli to live in the country

dežník umbrella; pogovorno brolly, gamp

zložljiv, žepni dežník folding umbrella, telescopic umbrella
stojalo za dežníke umbrella stand
odpreti dežník to put up one's umbrella

diagnóza medicina diagnosis, pl diagnoses; diagnostic

napraviti diagnózo to diagnose (bolniku a patient's condition)

diagrám diagram; graph

prikazati z diagrámom to diagrammatize

diamánt diamond

surov diamánt rough (ali uncut) diamond
steklarjev diamánt glazier's (ali cutting) diamond
vsebujoč diamánte diamantiferous, diamondiferous
okrasiti z diamánti to diamond
brušen diamánt cut diamond

diametrálen diametrical; diametral

v diametrálnem nasprotju z in diametrical opposition to
diametrálno nasproten diametrically opposed

diárij diary

pisati diárij to keep a diary

diary [dáiəri] samostalnik
dnevnik; žepni koledarček

to keep a diary pisati dnevnik

dib¹ [dib] samostalnik
sadilo, sadilni klin
sleng kovanec
množina denar
množina igra s kamenčki, s koščicami, žetoni

to be after the dibs biti lakomen denarja

dice¹ [dais] samostalnik
množina (ednina die) kocke

to lose everything at dices kockanjem vse zgubiti
the dice are loaded against the poor revežu sreča ni naklonjena
no dice nesmiselno, jalovo, nekoristno

dick² [dik] samostalnik

sleng to take one's dick rotiti se, zatrjevati
up to dick imeniten

dictation [diktéišən] samostalnik
narek, diktat

to write from dictation pisati po diktatu

diddle [dídl] neprehodni glagol & prehodni glagol
pogovorno majati, zibati se
sleng slepariti, varati

to diddle s.o. out of his money oslepariti koga za denar

dido [dáidou] samostalnik
pogovorno norčija, šala; kozolec

to cut didoes prevračati kozolce

die¹ [dai] neprehodni glagol (of od, zaradi)
umreti, izdihniti, poginiti; ugasniti, ugašati; umiriti se; (o)veneti
pogovorno hrepeneti

to die in one's boots, to die with the boots (ali shoes) on umreti nasilne smrti
to die in the last ditch vzdržati do konca
to die game hrabro umreti; ostati zvest
to die hard biti trdoživ
to die in harness umreti sredi dela
to die in one's bed umreti naravne smrti
never say die nikoli ne obupuj
to be dying for s.th. hrepeneti po čem
to die by one's hand narediti samomor
to die of laughing počiti od smeha
a die wish zadnja želja (pred smrtjo)
were I to die for it četudi bi moral z življenjem poplačati