"dee" meaning in English

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Noun

IPA: /ˈdiː/ Forms: dees [plural]
Rhymes: -iː Head templates: {{en-noun}} dee (plural dees)
  1. The name of the Latin-script letter D. Categories (topical): Latin letter names
    Sense id: en-dee-en-noun-WsHM00Ui
  2. Something shaped like the letter D, such as a dee lock.
    Sense id: en-dee-en-noun-W2RWENS8
  3. (colloquial) Police detective. Tags: colloquial
    Sense id: en-dee-en-noun-yy8fnli7
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: de [Northumbria] Derived forms: deejay, ecks dee Translations (name of the letter D, d): دِي (dī) [masculine] (Arabic), ডি (ḍi) (Bengali), ဒီ (di) (Burmese), de [feminine] (Catalan), dog (dok¹) [Cantonese, Hong-Kong] (Chinese Cantonese), do (Esperanto), dee (Finnish), [masculine] (French), de [masculine] (Galician), ντι (nti) [neuter] (Greek), (Hawaiian), डी (ḍī) (Hindi), (Icelandic), de (Ido), (Irish), dair [feminine] (Irish), ディー () (Japanese), (di) (Korean), dē (Latin), di (Malay), डी (ḍī) (Marathi), de [feminine] (Occitan), د (de) (Persian), دی (english) (english: di) (Persian), [masculine] (Portuguese), ди (di) [English, neuter] (Russian), дэ (dɛ) [neuter] (Russian), de [feminine] (Spanish), ดี (dii) (Thai), de (Turkish), (Vietnamese), dờ (Vietnamese), di [feminine] (Welsh)
Etymology number: 2 Related terms: letter [Latin, letter-name], a [Latin, letter-name], bee [Latin, letter-name], cee [Latin, letter-name], e [Latin, letter-name], ef [Latin, letter-name], gee [Latin, letter-name], aitch [Latin, letter-name], i [Latin, letter-name], jay [Latin, letter-name], kay [Latin, letter-name], el [Latin, letter-name], em [Latin, letter-name], en [Latin, letter-name], o [Latin, letter-name], pee [Latin, letter-name], cue [Latin, letter-name], ar [Latin, letter-name], ess [Latin, letter-name], tee [Latin, letter-name], u [Latin, letter-name], vee [Latin, letter-name], double-u [Latin, letter-name], ex [Latin, letter-name], wye [Latin, letter-name], zee [Latin, letter-name], zed [Latin, letter-name], Tweedle-dee, whoop-dee-do, whoop-dee-doo, whoop dee doo, zip-a-dee-doo-dah Disambiguation of 'name of the letter D, d': 54 46 0

Verb

IPA: /ˈdiː/ Forms: diz [present, singular, third-person], deein [participle, present], dyun [participle, past], dyun [past]
Rhymes: -iː Etymology: Variant of do. Etymology templates: {{m|en|do}} do Head templates: {{en-verb|diz|deein|dyun}} dee (third-person singular simple present diz, present participle deein, simple past and past participle dyun)
  1. (Northumbria) To do. Tags: Northumbria
    Sense id: en-dee-en-verb-Xe3-X739 Categories (other): Northumbrian English, English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 6 5 6 83
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: de [Northumbria]
Etymology number: 1

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

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          "ref": "2004, Will Rogers, The Stonking Steps, page 170",
          "text": "I have drunk en-ee-cee-tee-ay-ar from the ef-ell-oh-doubleyou-ee-ar-ess in his gee-ay-ar-dee-ee-en many a time.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2016, CCEB, Communications Instructions Radiotelephone Procedures: ACP125 (G), pages 3–5",
          "text": "IED [is spoken] as \"eye-ee-dee\" instead of \"I SPELL India Echo Delta Romeo\".",
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          "text": "the dees are about.",
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          "ref": "2022 October 31, “Doomsday” (track 7, 1:53 from the start), in Kay Flock (lyrics), F L O C K A",
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    {
      "_dis1": "54 46 0",
      "code": "ar",
      "lang": "Arabic",
      "roman": "dī",
      "sense": "name of the letter D, d",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
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      "word": "دِي"
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    {
      "_dis1": "54 46 0",
      "code": "bn",
      "lang": "Bengali",
      "roman": "ḍi",
      "sense": "name of the letter D, d",
      "word": "ডি"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "54 46 0",
      "code": "my",
      "lang": "Burmese",
      "roman": "di",
      "sense": "name of the letter D, d",
      "word": "ဒီ"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "54 46 0",
      "code": "ca",
      "lang": "Catalan",
      "sense": "name of the letter D, d",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "de"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "54 46 0",
      "code": "yue",
      "lang": "Chinese Cantonese",
      "sense": "name of the letter D, d",
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Hong-Kong"
      ],
      "word": "dog (dok¹)"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "54 46 0",
      "code": "eo",
      "lang": "Esperanto",
      "sense": "name of the letter D, d",
      "word": "do"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "54 46 0",
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "name of the letter D, d",
      "word": "dee"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "54 46 0",
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "name of the letter D, d",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "dé"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "54 46 0",
      "code": "gl",
      "lang": "Galician",
      "sense": "name of the letter D, d",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "de"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "54 46 0",
      "code": "el",
      "lang": "Greek",
      "roman": "nti",
      "sense": "name of the letter D, d",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "ντι"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "54 46 0",
      "code": "haw",
      "lang": "Hawaiian",
      "sense": "name of the letter D, d",
      "word": "dē"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "54 46 0",
      "code": "hi",
      "lang": "Hindi",
      "roman": "ḍī",
      "sense": "name of the letter D, d",
      "word": "डी"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "54 46 0",
      "code": "is",
      "lang": "Icelandic",
      "sense": "name of the letter D, d",
      "word": "dé"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "54 46 0",
      "code": "io",
      "lang": "Ido",
      "sense": "name of the letter D, d",
      "word": "de"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "54 46 0",
      "code": "ga",
      "lang": "Irish",
      "sense": "name of the letter D, d",
      "word": "dé"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "54 46 0",
      "code": "ga",
      "lang": "Irish",
      "sense": "name of the letter D, d",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "dair"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "54 46 0",
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "dī",
      "sense": "name of the letter D, d",
      "word": "ディー"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "54 46 0",
      "code": "ko",
      "lang": "Korean",
      "roman": "di",
      "sense": "name of the letter D, d",
      "word": "디"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "54 46 0",
      "code": "la",
      "lang": "Latin",
      "sense": "name of the letter D, d",
      "word": "dē"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "54 46 0",
      "code": "ms",
      "lang": "Malay",
      "sense": "name of the letter D, d",
      "word": "di"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "54 46 0",
      "code": "mr",
      "lang": "Marathi",
      "roman": "ḍī",
      "sense": "name of the letter D, d",
      "word": "डी"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "54 46 0",
      "code": "oc",
      "lang": "Occitan",
      "sense": "name of the letter D, d",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "de"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "54 46 0",
      "code": "fa",
      "lang": "Persian",
      "roman": "de",
      "sense": "name of the letter D, d",
      "word": "د"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "54 46 0",
      "code": "fa",
      "english": "di",
      "lang": "Persian",
      "roman": "english",
      "sense": "name of the letter D, d",
      "word": "دی"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "54 46 0",
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "name of the letter D, d",
      "tags": [
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      ],
      "word": "dê"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "54 46 0",
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "di",
      "sense": "name of the letter D, d",
      "tags": [
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        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "ди"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "54 46 0",
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "dɛ",
      "sense": "name of the letter D, d",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "дэ"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "54 46 0",
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "name of the letter D, d",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "de"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "54 46 0",
      "code": "th",
      "lang": "Thai",
      "roman": "dii",
      "sense": "name of the letter D, d",
      "word": "ดี"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "54 46 0",
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "name of the letter D, d",
      "word": "de"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "54 46 0",
      "code": "vi",
      "lang": "Vietnamese",
      "sense": "name of the letter D, d",
      "word": "dê"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "54 46 0",
      "code": "vi",
      "lang": "Vietnamese",
      "sense": "name of the letter D, d",
      "word": "dờ"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "54 46 0",
      "code": "cy",
      "lang": "Welsh",
      "sense": "name of the letter D, d",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "di"
    }
  ],
  "word": "dee"
}
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    "English verbs",
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    {
      "form": "deein",
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      "form": "dyun",
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      ],
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        {
          "text": "What are ye deein man!",
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        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To do."
      ],
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        "(Northumbria) To do."
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  "synonyms": [
    {
      "tags": [
        "Northumbria"
      ],
      "word": "de"
    }
  ],
  "word": "dee"
}

{
  "categories": [
    "English 1-syllable words",
    "English countable nouns",
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English lemmas",
    "English nouns",
    "English terms with IPA pronunciation",
    "Rhymes:English/iː",
    "Rhymes:English/iː/1 syllable"
  ],
  "derived": [
    {
      "word": "deejay"
    },
    {
      "word": "ecks dee"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_number": 2,
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "dees",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "dee (plural dees)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "related": [
    {
      "tags": [
        "Latin",
        "letter-name"
      ],
      "word": "letter"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Latin",
        "letter-name"
      ],
      "word": "a"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Latin",
        "letter-name"
      ],
      "word": "bee"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Latin",
        "letter-name"
      ],
      "word": "cee"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Latin",
        "letter-name"
      ],
      "word": "e"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Latin",
        "letter-name"
      ],
      "word": "ef"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Latin",
        "letter-name"
      ],
      "word": "gee"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Latin",
        "letter-name"
      ],
      "word": "aitch"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Latin",
        "letter-name"
      ],
      "word": "i"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Latin",
        "letter-name"
      ],
      "word": "jay"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Latin",
        "letter-name"
      ],
      "word": "kay"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Latin",
        "letter-name"
      ],
      "word": "el"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Latin",
        "letter-name"
      ],
      "word": "em"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Latin",
        "letter-name"
      ],
      "word": "en"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Latin",
        "letter-name"
      ],
      "word": "o"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Latin",
        "letter-name"
      ],
      "word": "pee"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Latin",
        "letter-name"
      ],
      "word": "cue"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Latin",
        "letter-name"
      ],
      "word": "ar"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Latin",
        "letter-name"
      ],
      "word": "ess"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Latin",
        "letter-name"
      ],
      "word": "tee"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Latin",
        "letter-name"
      ],
      "word": "u"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Latin",
        "letter-name"
      ],
      "word": "vee"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Latin",
        "letter-name"
      ],
      "word": "double-u"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Latin",
        "letter-name"
      ],
      "word": "ex"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Latin",
        "letter-name"
      ],
      "word": "wye"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Latin",
        "letter-name"
      ],
      "word": "zee"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Latin",
        "letter-name"
      ],
      "word": "zed"
    },
    {
      "word": "Tweedle-dee"
    },
    {
      "word": "whoop-dee-do"
    },
    {
      "word": "whoop-dee-doo"
    },
    {
      "word": "whoop dee doo"
    },
    {
      "word": "zip-a-dee-doo-dah"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned",
        "en:Latin letter names"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2004, Will Rogers, The Stonking Steps, page 170",
          "text": "I have drunk en-ee-cee-tee-ay-ar from the ef-ell-oh-doubleyou-ee-ar-ess in his gee-ay-ar-dee-ee-en many a time.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2016, CCEB, Communications Instructions Radiotelephone Procedures: ACP125 (G), pages 3–5",
          "text": "IED [is spoken] as \"eye-ee-dee\" instead of \"I SPELL India Echo Delta Romeo\".",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "The name of the Latin-script letter D."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "D",
          "D#English"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with usage examples"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "the pommel is furnished with dees.",
          "type": "example"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Something shaped like the letter D, such as a dee lock."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "dee lock",
          "dee lock"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English colloquialisms",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English terms with usage examples"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "the dees are about.",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2022 October 31, “Doomsday” (track 7, 1:53 from the start), in Kay Flock (lyrics), F L O C K A",
          "text": "Dotty my holster, totin on this knocker (Grrah, grrah)\nIf we see the Ds, bitch, move proper",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Police detective."
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(colloquial) Police detective."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "colloquial"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈdiː/"
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-iː"
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "tags": [
        "Northumbria"
      ],
      "word": "de"
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "ar",
      "lang": "Arabic",
      "roman": "dī",
      "sense": "name of the letter D, d",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "دِي"
    },
    {
      "code": "bn",
      "lang": "Bengali",
      "roman": "ḍi",
      "sense": "name of the letter D, d",
      "word": "ডি"
    },
    {
      "code": "my",
      "lang": "Burmese",
      "roman": "di",
      "sense": "name of the letter D, d",
      "word": "ဒီ"
    },
    {
      "code": "ca",
      "lang": "Catalan",
      "sense": "name of the letter D, d",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "de"
    },
    {
      "code": "yue",
      "lang": "Chinese Cantonese",
      "sense": "name of the letter D, d",
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Hong-Kong"
      ],
      "word": "dog (dok¹)"
    },
    {
      "code": "eo",
      "lang": "Esperanto",
      "sense": "name of the letter D, d",
      "word": "do"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "name of the letter D, d",
      "word": "dee"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "name of the letter D, d",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "dé"
    },
    {
      "code": "gl",
      "lang": "Galician",
      "sense": "name of the letter D, d",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "de"
    },
    {
      "code": "el",
      "lang": "Greek",
      "roman": "nti",
      "sense": "name of the letter D, d",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "ντι"
    },
    {
      "code": "haw",
      "lang": "Hawaiian",
      "sense": "name of the letter D, d",
      "word": "dē"
    },
    {
      "code": "hi",
      "lang": "Hindi",
      "roman": "ḍī",
      "sense": "name of the letter D, d",
      "word": "डी"
    },
    {
      "code": "is",
      "lang": "Icelandic",
      "sense": "name of the letter D, d",
      "word": "dé"
    },
    {
      "code": "io",
      "lang": "Ido",
      "sense": "name of the letter D, d",
      "word": "de"
    },
    {
      "code": "ga",
      "lang": "Irish",
      "sense": "name of the letter D, d",
      "word": "dé"
    },
    {
      "code": "ga",
      "lang": "Irish",
      "sense": "name of the letter D, d",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "dair"
    },
    {
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "dī",
      "sense": "name of the letter D, d",
      "word": "ディー"
    },
    {
      "code": "ko",
      "lang": "Korean",
      "roman": "di",
      "sense": "name of the letter D, d",
      "word": "디"
    },
    {
      "code": "la",
      "lang": "Latin",
      "sense": "name of the letter D, d",
      "word": "dē"
    },
    {
      "code": "ms",
      "lang": "Malay",
      "sense": "name of the letter D, d",
      "word": "di"
    },
    {
      "code": "mr",
      "lang": "Marathi",
      "roman": "ḍī",
      "sense": "name of the letter D, d",
      "word": "डी"
    },
    {
      "code": "oc",
      "lang": "Occitan",
      "sense": "name of the letter D, d",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "de"
    },
    {
      "code": "fa",
      "lang": "Persian",
      "roman": "de",
      "sense": "name of the letter D, d",
      "word": "د"
    },
    {
      "code": "fa",
      "english": "di",
      "lang": "Persian",
      "roman": "english",
      "sense": "name of the letter D, d",
      "word": "دی"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "name of the letter D, d",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "dê"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "di",
      "sense": "name of the letter D, d",
      "tags": [
        "English",
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "ди"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "dɛ",
      "sense": "name of the letter D, d",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "дэ"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "name of the letter D, d",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "de"
    },
    {
      "code": "th",
      "lang": "Thai",
      "roman": "dii",
      "sense": "name of the letter D, d",
      "word": "ดี"
    },
    {
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "name of the letter D, d",
      "word": "de"
    },
    {
      "code": "vi",
      "lang": "Vietnamese",
      "sense": "name of the letter D, d",
      "word": "dê"
    },
    {
      "code": "vi",
      "lang": "Vietnamese",
      "sense": "name of the letter D, d",
      "word": "dờ"
    },
    {
      "code": "cy",
      "lang": "Welsh",
      "sense": "name of the letter D, d",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "di"
    }
  ],
  "word": "dee"
}

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