D

Meanings

Noun

• defense.
• Democrat, especially preceding the constituent location.
• drive, the setting of an automatic transmission.
• duodecimo, as adopted by the American Library Association.
• dick; penis.
• data.
• canonical decomposition
• Deutsch number in the Schubert Thematic Catalogue.
• The semicircle on the baulk line, inside which the cue ball must be placed at a break-off.
• The penalty arc on a football pitch.
• 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.

Adverb

• down (direction).

Adjective

• divorced.

Proper Noun

• The City of Detroit.
• A programming language inspired from C++.

Interjection

• Damn

Origin

• From Old English D, a 7th century replacement by Latin upper case letter D of the Anglo-Saxon Futhorc letter ᛞ.
• Various abbreviations
• From the shape of the upper case letter "D"
• From the position (4) of the letter D in the English alphabet.