door|step /dɔː r step/ (doorsteps )
1 N‑COUNT A doorstep is a step in front of a door on the outside of a building.
2 PHRASE If a place is on your doorstep , it is very near to where you live. If something happens on your doorstep , it happens very close to where you live. □ It is all too easy to lose sight of what is happening on our own doorstep.
door|stop /dɔː r stɒp/ (doorstops ) N‑COUNT A doorstop is a heavy object that you use to keep a door open.
doo r-to-doo r → see door
door|way /dɔː r we I / (doorways )
1 N‑COUNT A doorway is a space in a wall where a door opens and closes. □ Hannah looked up to see David and another man standing in the doorway.
2 N‑COUNT A doorway is a covered space just outside the door of a building. □ …homeless people sleeping in shop doorways.
dope /doʊ p/ (dopes , doping , doped )
1 N‑UNCOUNT Dope is a drug, usually an illegal drug such as marijuana or cocaine. [INFORMAL ]
2 VERB If someone dopes a person or animal or dopes their food, they put drugs into their food or force them to take drugs. □ [V n] Anyone could have got in and doped the wine. □ [be V -ed + with ] I'd been doped with Somnolin. □ [V -ed] They've got him doped to the eyeballs. [Also V n with n]
3 N‑COUNT If someone calls a person a dope , they think that the person is stupid. [INFORMAL , DISAPPROVAL ]
do ped u p ADJ [usu v-link ADJ ] If someone is doped up , they are in a state where they cannot think clearly because they are under the influence of drugs. [INFORMAL ] □ I feel a bit doped up, but I'm okay.
dopey /doʊ pi/
1 ADJ Someone who is dopey is sleepy, as though they have been drugged. □ The medicine always made him feel dopey and unable to concentrate.
2 ADJ If you describe someone as dopey , you mean that they are rather stupid. [INFORMAL , DISAPPROVAL ]
dork /dɔː r k/ (dorks ) N‑COUNT If you say that someone is a dork , you think they dress badly in old-fashioned clothes and behave very awkwardly in social situations. [AM , INFORMAL , DISAPPROVAL ] □ …their unshakeable conviction that family holidays were strictly for dorks.
dorm /dɔː r m/ (dorms ) N‑COUNT A dorm is the same as a dormitory . [INFORMAL ]
dor|mant /dɔː r mənt/ ADJ Something that is dormant is not active, growing, or being used at the present time but is capable of becoming active later on. □ The virus remains dormant in nerve tissue until activated. ● dor|man|cy /dɔː r mənsi/ N‑UNCOUNT □ During dormancy the plants must be kept very dry.
dor|mer /dɔː r mə r / (dormers ) N‑COUNT A dormer or dormer window is a window that is built upright in a sloping roof.
dor|mi|tory /dɔː r m I tri, [AM ] -tɔːri/ (dormitories )
1 N‑COUNT A dormitory is a large bedroom where several people sleep, for example in a boarding school. □ …the boys' dormitory.
2 N‑COUNT A dormitory is a building in a college or university where students live. [AM ] □ She lived in a college dormitory. in BRIT, use hall of residence 3 ADJ [ADJ n] If you refer to a place as a dormitory suburb or town, you mean that most of the people who live there travel to work in another, larger town a short distance away. [BRIT ]
dor|mouse /dɔː r maʊs/ (dormice /dɔː r ma I s/) N‑COUNT A dormouse is a small animal that looks like a mouse. It is found in southern England and Wales.
dor|sal /dɔː r s ə l/ ADJ [ADJ n] Dorsal means relating to the back of a fish or animal. [TECHNICAL ] □ …a dolphin's dorsal fin.
DOS /dɒ s/ N‑UNCOUNT DOS is the part of a computer operating system that controls and manages files and programs stored on disk. DOS is an abbreviation for 'disk operating system'. [COMPUTING , TRADEMARK ] □ Where do I find the instructions to load DOS programs from Windows XP?
dos|age /doʊ s I dʒ/ (dosages ) N‑COUNT A dosage is the amount of a medicine or drug that someone takes or should take. □ He was put on a high dosage of vitamin C.
dose /doʊ s/ (doses , dosing , dosed )
1 N‑COUNT A dose of medicine or a drug is a measured amount of it which is intended to be taken at one time. □ [+ of ] One dose of penicillin can wipe out the infection.
2 N‑COUNT You can refer to an amount of something as a dose of that thing, especially when you want to emphasize that there is a great deal of it. [EMPHASIS ] □ The West is getting a heavy dose of snow and rain today.
3 VERB If you dose a person or animal with medicine, you give them an amount of it. □ [V n + with ] The doctor fixed the rib, dosed him heavily with drugs, and said he would probably get better. □ [V pron-refl + with ] I dosed myself with quinine. ● PHRASAL VERB Dose up means the same as dose . □ [V n P + with ] I dosed him up with Valium.
dosh /dɒ ʃ/ N‑UNCOUNT Dosh is money. [BRIT , INFORMAL ] □ …a chap who'd made lots of dosh.
doss /dɒ s/ (dosses , dossing , dossed ) VERB If someone dosses somewhere, they sleep in a place which is uncomfortable, usually because they have nowhere else to live. [BRIT , INFORMAL ] □ [V prep/adv] …young people dossing in the streets of our cities. ● PHRASAL VERB Doss down means the same as doss . □ [V P prep/adv] When we had eaten, we dossed down in the lounge.