dee

¹ American  

[dee] / di /

noun

1. a metal loop attached to tack, for fastening gear.

   The wire cutters hung from a dee on her saddle.

2. Physics. a hollow electrode for accelerating particles in a cyclotron.

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Dee ² American  

[dee] / di /

noun

1. John, 1527–1608, English mathematician and astrologer.

2. a river in NE Scotland, flowing E into the North Sea at Aberdeen. 90 miles (145 km) long.

3. a river in N Wales and W England, flowing E and N into the Irish Sea. About 70 miles (110 km) long.

4. a male or female given name.

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Dee ¹ British  

/ diː /

noun

1. a river in N Wales and NW England, rising in S Gwynedd and flowing east and north to the Irish Sea. Length: about 112 km (70 miles)

2. a river in NE Scotland, rising in the Cairngorms and flowing east to the North Sea. Length: about 140 km (87 miles)

3. a river in S Scotland, flowing south to the Solway Firth. Length: about 80 km (50 miles)

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Dee ² British  

/ diː /

noun

1. John. 1527–1608, English mathematician, astrologer, and magician: best known for his preface (1570) to the first edition of Euclid in English

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dee ³ British  

/ diː /

verb

1. a Scot word for die 1

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Etymology

Origin of dee

First recorded in 1785–95; so called from its shape, which resembles the letter D

Example Sentences

Dee and Ash provide a genuinely puzzling angle amid all the people running and searching and scheming and waiting for the disparate parts of Mr. Coben’s 19th-century-style plotting to intersect in Dickensian fashion.

From The Wall Street Journal

Given the reduction of roughly 370 involuntary psychiatric holds over the course of two years, researchers Tom Dee and Jaymes Pyne estimated an annual cost savings of roughly $300,000 to $800,000.

From Los Angeles Times

Those reforms are so nascent that not much is known about them, Dee said, and his study is one of a handful that provides a credible evaluation.

From Los Angeles Times

The at-large defendants are Larry Castillo, 42, aka “Lil Dee,” of Victorville; Soo Kang, 31, aka “Easy,” of Koreatown; and Bryan Gordian-Padilla, 24, aka “Goon,” of West Covina.

From Los Angeles Times

Ms. Smith’s band—lead guitarist Lenny Kaye, pianist Richard Sohl, guitarist and bassist Ivan Král, and drummer Jay Dee Daugherty—weave them in deftly.

From The Wall Street Journal