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dl

Syllables: D·L/ˌdiːˈɛl/

dl noun: download; Alternative form of DL.

Noun (1)

dl (plural dls)

  1. Download; Alternative form of DL.

Verb (1)

dl (third-person singular simple present dls, present participle dling, simple past and past participle dled)

  1. Download; Alternative form of DL.

Noun (2) capitalized: DL

DL (countable and uncountable, plural DLs)

  1. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of download.
    Antonyms:
    UL
  2. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of light destroyer, a variant of the destroyer type of warship.
  3. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of destroyer leader, a variant of the destroyer type of warship.
    Synonyms:
    DDL
  4. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of driver's license.
  5. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of disabled list.
  6. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of down low.
  7. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of distribution list.
  8. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of diaper lover.
  9. (abbreviation, initialism, machine learning) Initialism of deep learning.
    • Before Transformer models, the attention mechanism was proposed as a helper for improving conventional DL models such as RNNs.2021, Savas Yildirim, Meysam Asgari-Chenaghlu, Mastering Transformers […] , Packt Publishing Ltd, →ISBN, page 26
  10. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of day letter.
  11. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of datalink

Proper noun capitalized: DL

DL

  1. (abbreviation) Abbreviation of Delhi: a union territory of India.

Verb (2) capitalized: DL

DL (third-person singular simple present DLs, present participle DLing, simple past and past participle DLed or DL'd)

  1. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of download.
    Antonyms:
    UL
  2. (informal, transitive) To place on the disabled list.
    • After 7 years of being in a rot league, I have learned that "day to day" in baseballese means "at least a week, maybe more, and maybe after the week, then we may DL him."1996 June 3, Joe in MA [username], “Re: Jim Edmonds' return date?”, in rec.sport.baseball.fantasy (Usenet)

Noun (3) capitalized: Dl

Dl (plural not attested)

  1. (abbreviation, no plural) Abbreviation of dale.
    • We live at 14 Oak Dl.

dl meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu

dl in Hindi

डीएल

dl in Tamil

டி. எல், டிஎல்

dl in Marathi

डीएल

dl in Urdu

ڈی ایل
More languagesFewer languages
dl in Bengali
ডিএল
dl in Telugu
డిఎల్, డీఎల్
dl in Malayalam
ഡിഎൽ
dl in Kannada
ಡಿಎಲ್
dl in Punjabi
ਡੀ. ਐਲ, ਡੀ. ਐੱਲ
dl in Gujarati
ડીએલ
dl in Odia
ଡିଏଲ
dl in Nepali
डीएल, डिएल

Synonyms of dl

Antonyms

Forms of dl

Noun
pluraldls
pluralDLs
alternative formD.L.
alternative formD. L.
alternative formdl
Verb
third-person singular presentdls
present participledling
past participledled
pastdled
alternative formDL
alternative formd/l
alternative formD/L
third-person singular presentDLs
present participleDLing
past participleDLed
pastDLed
past participleDL'd
pastDL'd

Plural of dl: dls

Origin of dl

Abbreviation.

Phrases with dl

Words that rhyme with dl

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Questions about dl

What does dl mean?
Dl means download; Alternative form of DL.
What is dl in Hindi?
Dl in Hindi is डीएल. See Dl meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is dl?
Dl can be a noun, a verb or a proper noun.
How do you pronounce dl?
Dl is pronounced /ˌdiːˈɛl/.
What is the plural of dl?
The plural of dl is dls.

Words near dl in the dictionary

  1. DKIM
  2. DKM
  3. DKNF
  4. DKP
  5. DKr
  6. dl
  7. DL trade
  8. dl trades
  9. DL'd
  10. DLA
  11. DLAB

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: dl (page history and authors); DL (page history and authors); Dl (page history and authors); dl (Hindi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); dl (Tamil, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); dl (Marathi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); dl (Urdu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); dl (Bengali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); dl (Telugu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); dl (Malayalam, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); dl (Kannada, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); dl (Punjabi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); dl (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); dl (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); dl (Nepali, 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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