Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- A prefix of Greek origin, meaning in Greek, and so, with modifications, in modern speech, ‘through, right through, in different directions, asunder, between,’ etc.: often intensive, ‘thoroughly, utterly,’ etc.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- A prefix denoting through; also, between, apart, asunder, across. Before a vowel
dia- becomesdi-
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- prefix
Through ,across .
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- noun an intelligence agency of the United States in the Department of Defense; is responsible for providing intelligence in support of military planning and operations and weapons acquisition
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Examples
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100 Marable has praise for Harold Washington as well.101 For Marable, properly calibrated leftist political gradualism in the present promises to undo the entire American system in the future: “The revolt for reforms within the capitalist state today transcends itself dia- lectically to become a revolution against the racist/capitalist system tomorrow.”
Radical-In-Chief Stanley Kurtz 2010
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100 Marable has praise for Harold Washington as well.101 For Marable, properly calibrated leftist political gradualism in the present promises to undo the entire American system in the future: “The revolt for reforms within the capitalist state today transcends itself dia- lectically to become a revolution against the racist/capitalist system tomorrow.”
Radical-In-Chief Stanley Kurtz 2010
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