disuse, n. nonuse, nonemployment, discontinuance, cessation; desuetude, want of practice, neglect; relinquishment, abrogation, forbearance, abstinence.
ditch, n. 1. trench, dike, Fort, escarp, Fort, scarp; excavation, pit, dugout, abri, foxhole, manhole, hole, furrow; fosse, moat, canal; drain, sewer, gutter, cloaca; conduit, culvert, main, pipe, duct; passage, channel, race, waterway, watercourse.
-v. 2. dig, excavate, burrow, hollow out; scarp, escarp.
3. derail; force or run off the road, sideswipe; crash-land.
4. Slang,
a. discard, jettison, throw away, get rid of.
b. escape, evade, elude, shake.
diurnal, adj. 1. daily, quotidian, circadian, day-to-
day, everyday.
2. day, daytime, nonnocturnal.
divan, n. 1. sofa, couch, lounge, chaise lounge, settee, davenport, dias, ottoman, musnud, love seat, day bed, t€te-&-t€te, siamoise, vis-^-vis.
2. council, cabinet, ministry, congress, committee, commission.
dive, v. 1. plunge, sound, submerge, go underwater, go deep; descend, fall, nose-dive, dip, swoop, pitch, lurch; leap, dart, spring, lunge, dash, scoot, whisk. -n. 2. plunge, Inf. header, jump, cannonball, flip, belly-flop; All Fancy Diving, half twist, full twist; dash, lunge, spring, leap.
diverge, v. 1. spread, spread apart, come apart, open, open up, radiate, fly off, go asunder, divaricate, branch off; divide, separate, subdivide, fork, part, ramify, disunite, divorce; sever, dissever, cleave, rive, split, sunder, bisect, dissect, disconnect.
2. depart, deflect, vary, differ, change, step aside, steer clear of; curve, turn, bend, swerve, tack, slue, slew, yaw, bear off, wheel, wheel about, swing about; divert, sidetrack, shift, switch, shunt.
3. deviate, digress, veer, straggle, turn aside; wander, ramble, meander, stray, drift, rove, divagate, Scot. and North Eng. sklent.
divergence, n. 1. spreading, spreading apart, coming apart, opening, opening up, radiating, flying off, divaricating, forking, parting, branching off; dividing, separating, subdividing, ramifying, disuniting, divorcing; severing, dissevering, cleaving, riving, splitting, sundering, bisecting, dissecting, disconnecting; spread, radiation, divarication; division, subdivision, separation, fork, part, disunion, ramification, divorce; severance, disseverance, dissection, disconnection.
2. departing, deflecting, varying, differing, changing, stepping aside, steering clear of; curving, turning, bending, swerving, tacking, bearing off, wheeling, wheeling about, swinging about; diverting, sidetracking, shifting, switching, shunting; departure, deflection, variation, difference, change; curve, turn, bend, swerve; diversion, shift, switch.
3. deviating, digressing, veering, straggling, turning aside; wandering, rambling, meandering, straying, drifting, roving, divagating; divergency, deviation, digression, divagation.
divergent, adj. 1. centrifugal, radial, spreading, spreading apart, coming apart, opening, opening up, radiating, flying off, divaricating, branching off; dividing, separating, subdividing, forking, parting, branching, branched, furcate, bifurcating, ramifying, ramiform, disuniting; severing, dissevering, cleaving, riving, splitting, bisecting, dissecting, disconnecting.