# DC
## English
### Proper noun

DC
* Initialism of District of Columbia, a federal district of the United States of America.
* (aviation) Initialism of Douglas Commercial, used in the names of airliners designed by the Douglas Aircraft Company.
* Initialism of Dubai City, to distinguish it from Dubai Emirate.
* Initialism of Dreamcast. A home videogaming console from SEGA.
* Ellipsis of DC Comics.: Initialism of Detective Comics.
    Coordinate terms: DCU, DCEU, DCAU, DCverse
* Initialism of Dictionary of Canadianisms on Historical Principles; Clipping of DCHP.
* (informal) Abbreviation of Discord.

### Noun

DC (countable and uncountable, plural DCs)
* (law) Initialism of district court.
* (electrical) Initialism of direct current.
* (degree) Initialism of doctor of chiropractic.
** 2024 June 21, Danielle Sinay, “Is Sunscreen Bad for You? TikTok’s Anti-SPF Movement, Explained”, in Glamour‎:Dr. Keith Kimberlin for example, who recently shared video in which he claimed that most sunscreen “is toxic” and “more dangerous than [sun]burning,” is a chiropractor with a doctorate of chiropractic degree (DC).
* (banking) Initialism of debit card.
* (law enforcement) Initialism of detective constable, a police rank used in Commonwealth countries.
* (UK, pensions) Initialism of defined contributions.
* (computing, Microsoft Windows) Initialism of device context.
* (roleplaying games) Initialism of difficulty class.
* (computing) Initialism of disconnection.
** 2012 February 6, "u n risr@optonline.net IYM", “Re: Random DC to Login since patch”, in alt.games.warcraft‎ (Usenet):I am getting huge lag spikes […] they are bad and long enough where you think it's a DC.
* (Kenya) Initialism of district commissioner.
** 2011, Emily Boyd, Carl Folke, Adapting Institutions, page 62:The DC reasoned that since it was only the ancestrals who had a problem with the incident, they should supply the bulls necessary to purify the forest.

#### Antonyms

* AC

#### Coordinate terms

* PC
* supt.
* WPC

#### Derived terms

* AC/DC
* WDC

#### Related terms

* DCI
* DI
* DS

#### Translations
### Adverb

DC
* (music) Initialism of da capo.
* (dance) Initialism of diagonally to the center.

#### Related terms

* BDC
* BDW
* DW
* FDC
* FDW

### Adjective

DC (not comparable)
* (video coding) Initialism of direct coded.

### Verb

DC (third-person singular simple present DCs, present participle DCing, simple past and past participle DCed or DC'd)
* (computing) To become disconnected from a network.
** 2012 February 3, "ToolPackinMama", “Random DC to Login since patch”, in alt.games.warcraft‎ (Usenet):Since the patch I have been randomly DCing and it's at times completely game-breaking. For example,just now my Paladin was questing in Thou Needles, and I DC'd several times within a few minutes.
* (medicine) Abbreviation of discontinue.
    med dc'd

### See also

* Llanarmon DC

### Anagrams

* C&D, cD, C.D., CD, 🄭

## Chinese
### Etymology

From English Discord.

### Pronunciation

* Cantonese (Jyutping): di$^1$ si$^1$
* Cantonese
** (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
*** Jyutping: di$^1$ si$^1$
*** Yale: dī sī
*** Cantonese Pinyin: di$^1$ si$^1$
*** Guangdong Romanization: di$^1$ xi$^1$
*** Sinological IPA : /tiː⁵⁵ siː⁵⁵/
* This entry needs pronunciation information. If you are familiar with the IPA then please add some! Particularly: “Mandarin?”

### Proper noun

DC
* (Hong Kong, Taiwan) Short for Discord.

## Italian
### Alternative forms

* D.C.

### Proper noun

DC f
* Initialism of Democrazia Cristiana (Christian Democracy)

## Portuguese
### Pronunciation

* (Brazil) IPA: /ˌdeˈse/
* (Portugal) IPA: /ˌdeˈse/

### Adverb

DC (not comparable)
* AD (after the birth of Christ)