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di

/diː/US/di/

di interjection: a meaningless syllable used when singing a tune or indicating a rhythm.

Interjection

  1. A meaningless syllable used when singing a tune or indicating a rhythm.
    • The chorus goes like this: "di di di di dum, da di da".

Noun (1) capitalized: DI

DI (countable and uncountable, plural DIs)

  1. (Commonwealth, abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of detective inspector; a police rank.
  2. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of dens invaginatus.
  3. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of diabetes insipidus.
  4. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of disposition index.
  5. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of diffused illumination.
  6. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of dependency injection.
  7. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of direct injection (“fuel injection”).
  8. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of ductile iron.
  9. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of direct input.
    • DI unit
  10. (abbreviation, ellipsis) Ellipsis of DI unit.
    • recorded with a DI
  11. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of directional influence (“the ability to change one's direction of movement while falling”).

Proper noun (1) capitalized: Di

IPA/daɪ/

Di

  1. A diminutive of the female given names Diana and Diane.

Proper noun (2) capitalized: Di

Di (plural Dis)

  1. A surname from Chinese.

Noun (2) capitalized: dI

dI (plural dIs)

  1. dwarf irregular galaxy
    Synonyms:
    DIG

di meaning in Punjabi and Gujarati

di in Punjabi

ਡੀ. ਆਈ

Examples of di in a sentence

  • Small pastas like orzo, acini di pepe, pastina, alfabeto, and ditalini are perfect for adding to soups.
  • The loss of welfare for vie ferrate in Pale di S.
  • Is it bouillabaisse, bourride, burrida, cacciucco, solianka, matelote, sancochos, opera de pescado, or zuppa di pesce?

All 33 example sentences with di

Synonyms of di

Forms of di

Noun
pluralDIs
pluraldIs
Proper noun
pluralDis

Origin of di

imitative.

Borrowed from Chinese 狄 (Dí).

Words formed from di

Phrases with di

23 more phrasesFewer phrases

Words that rhyme with di

48 more rhymesFewer rhymes

Questions about di

What does di mean?
Di means a meaningless syllable used when singing a tune or indicating a rhythm.
What is di in Punjabi?
Di in Punjabi is ਡੀ. ਆਈ. See Di meaning in Punjabi.
What part of speech is di?
Di can be an interjection, a noun or a proper noun.
How do you pronounce di?
Di is pronounced /diː/ (UK).

Words near di in the dictionary

  1. dhye
  2. Dhye Khola
  3. dhyes
  4. DHZ
  5. Dhārawaḍa
  6. di
  7. Di Carlo
  8. di di mau
  9. Di Donato
  10. di ex machina
  11. di ex machinis

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: di (page history and authors); DI (page history and authors); Di (page history and authors); dI (page history and authors); di (Punjabi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); di (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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