Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A small secluded wooded valley.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A small valley between hills; a little dale; a glen; a ravine.
- n. A young girl; a wench.
Wiktionary
- n. valley
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. A small, retired valley; a ravine.
- n. A young woman; a wench.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a small wooded hollow
Etymologies
- Middle English del, from Old English dell.
Examples
“The problem with dell is they will not ship to mexico.”
“I'm going to get myself a dell laptop soon, just wondering if dell is a good buy? or acer?”
“I can tell you, the only upgrade you can do on my dell is replace the ram and the hard drive/optical drive”
“The sun now lit the eastern sky, but the mountain dell in which the four figures stood remained dark.”
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“Happy to see that dell is going retail this way I can get accessories for my dell and get repairs done quick”
“What goes around comes around … … … dell is paying the price now.”
“Well …. my experience with dell is nothing to boost about.”
“August 11, 2006 at 5: 17 am yaa .. dell is SUCKS!!”
“Seems no one is able to press the enter button anywhere in dell .. or perhaps their computers have gone down.”
“I guess it depends on the way we use the PC. dell is a great company and I wish to say that I would make sure to promote it between my friends.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘dell’.
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Archaic
abide, abjure, abroad, adamant, afield, aforetime, aghast, anon, apace, argent, assuage, aught and 327 more...
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The Pain of Texting
Words that are a pain in the ass to type in on a numerical keypad on a cell phone because they have consecutive letters that share the same button:
2 - ABC
3 - DEF
4 - GHI...defcon, hi, no, attitude, xylophone, on, monday, monkey, mono, dig, back, babble and 212 more...
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Geology Words
The descriptive science described.
earth, lithosphere, mineral, convection, heat flow, ore, deep time, fossil, formation, rock, tectonics, extinction and 256 more...
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Water always flows downhill
The path of least resistance, watercourses, plumbing....
swale, hollow, creek, crick, depression, holler, draw, ditch, corrie, cwm, continental divide, stream and 66 more...
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November Words-10031
Godspeed, odious, affinity, cicatrix, air lift, domino, dominance, eggplant, donkey, tug boat, trifle, sculpture and 8 more...
rolig There is a lovely little park in the Charles Village neighborhood of Baltimore, in front of the art museum, which has been known for decades simply as the Dell. It's a favorite of sun-bathers and dog-walkers, as well as being the site of various festivals. This word conjures very pleasant memories for me. Dec 7, 2007