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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.

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The term "the whole 9 yards" came from WWII fighter pilots in the South Pacific. When arming their airplanes on the ground, the .50 caliber machine gun ammo belts measured exactly 27 feet, before being loaded into the fuselage. If the pilots fired all their ammo at a target, it got "the whole 9 yards."      .. More >>
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