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(with “The”) The City of Detroit.

(education, chiefly Canada, US) A grade awarded for a class, better than outright failure (which can be F or E depending on the institution) and worse than a C.

(snooker) The semicircle on the baulk line, inside which the cue ball must be placed at a break-off.

(soccer) The penalty arc on a football pitch.

(field hockey) The penalty arc on a hockey field.

(Unicode) Canonical decomposition

(computer languages) A programming language inspired from C++.

Abbreviation of defense. [The action of defending or protecting from attack, danger, or injury.]

(US politics) Abbreviation of Democrat, especially preceding the constituent location. [(politics) A proponent of democracy.]

(automotive) Abbreviation of drive, the setting of an automatic transmission. [Planned, usually long-lasting, effort to achieve something; ability coupled with ambition, determination, and motivation.]

(electronics) Abbreviation of data. [(collective, computing) A representation of information in a computer (as symbols, quantities, sound, images or videos) which is stored, processed or transmitted in the form of electrical signals, records on magnetic tape or punched cards, etc.]

(slang) Alternative form of dee (“a police detective”). [The name of the Latin-script letter D/d.]

(printing) Abbreviation of duodecimo, as adopted by the American Library Association. [(paper, printing) A size of paper, so called because it is originally made by folding and cutting a single sheet from a printing press into 12 leaves; (5 by 7¾ inches): 6.5 to 7.5 inches high, approximately 4.5 inches wide.]

(music) Abbreviation of Deutsch number in the Schubert Thematic Catalogue.

(religion) Abbreviation of Deuteronomist. [(religion) One of the sources identified as underlying much of the Hebrew Bible (or Christian Old Testament), and responsible for material in Deuteronomy and other areas.]

(euphemistic, slang) Clipping of dick (“penis”) [(countable, obsolete) A male person.]

(Malaysia, informal) Abbreviation of already, used in text messages to form the perfect tenses. [Prior to some specified time, either past, present, or future; by this time; previously.]

(crosswording) Abbreviation of down. [(comparable) From a higher position to a lower one; downwards.]

Abbreviation of down (direction). [(comparable) From a higher position to a lower one; downwards.]

(cricket) Abbreviation of declared. [Openly avowed.]

Abbreviation of divorced. [Cut off, or separated.]