De-

5 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  De- \De-\
     A prefix from Latin de down, from, away; as in debark,
     decline, decease, deduct, decamp. In words from the French it
     is equivalent to Latin dis- apart, away; or sometimes to de.
     Cf. {Dis-}. It is negative and opposite in derange, deform,
     destroy, etc. It is intensive in deprave, despoil, declare,


     desolate, etc.
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  DE
       n : a Mid-Atlantic state; one of the original 13 colonies [syn:
           {Delaware}, {Diamond State}, {First State}]

From Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms (Version 1.9, June 2002) [vera]:

  DE
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From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [foldoc]:

  de
       
           The {country code} for Germany.
       
          (1999-01-27)
       
       

From Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) [bouvier]:

  DE. A preposition used in many Latin phrases as, de bone esse, de bonis 
  non.