dia-, di-

1. Manner of speaking, language, speech; especially a manner of speech peculiar to, or characteristic of, a particular person or class; phraseology, idiom.
2. One of the subordinate forms or varieties of a language arising from local peculiarities of vocabulary, pronunciation, and idiom.
3. Any form of speech considered a deviation from real or imaginary standard speech.

In relation to modern languages, usually specifically, a variety of speech differing from the standard or literary language; a provincial method of speech; such as, in speakers of dialect.

Also in a wider sense applied to a particular language in its relation to the family of languages to which it belongs.

1. The art of critical examination into the truth of an opinion; the investigation of truth by discussion: in earlier English use, a synonym of logic as applied to formal rhetorical reasoning; logical argumentation or disputation.
2. In modern Philosophy; specifically applied by Kant to the criticism which shows the mutually contradictory character of the principles of science, when they are employed to determine objects beyond the limits of experience (i.e. the soul, the world, God); by Hegel (who denies that such contradictions are ultimately irreconcilable) the term is applied
(a) to the process of thought by which such contradictions are seen to merge themselves in a higher truth that comprehends them; and
(b) to the world-process, which, being in his view but the thought-process on its objective side, develops similarly by a continuous unification of opposites.

1. A talking together, a conversation.
2. An interchange and discussion of ideas.

The separation of impurities by mechanical elimination from the blood during kidney failure.

1. Relating to a substance that is repelled by a magnet.
2. A reference to a class of substances; such as, bismuth and copper, whose permeability is less than that of a vacuum.

In a magnetic field, their induced magnetism is in a direction opposite to that of iron.

A phenomenon exhibited by materials like copper or bismuth that become magnetized in a magnetic field with a polarity opposite to the magnetic force; unlike iron they are slightly repelled by a magnet.

1. Very sheer and light; almost completely transparent or translucent.
2. So fine and gauzy in texture as to be transparent or translucent.
3. Delicately hazy.

Relating to, of the nature of, or referring to, a diaphragm.