də-ˈnir də-ˈnyā : a small originally silver coin formerly used in western Europe
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ˈde-nyər : a unit of fineness for yarn equal to the fineness of a yarn weighing one gram for each 9000 meters
100-denier yarn is finer than 150-denier yarn
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Nearly 100 are running this year to challenge election deniers, or to stand up for election integrity in several of the aforementioned battleground states.—Mark Barabak, The Mercury News, 6 July 2024 The story references such people, as well as deniers, as common folk of different opinions.—Cressida Leyshon, The New Yorker, 30 June 2024 Among other things, Alito voted to let Texas’s Republican legislature seize control over content moderation at sites like Twitter and YouTube, then tried to prohibit the Biden administration from asking those same sites to voluntarily remove content from anti-vaxxers and election deniers.—Ian Millhiser, Vox, 21 May 2024 Get Citation Request Reprint Permissions Play Download Article Among the many takeaways of the U.S. midterms, one of the most striking is the alarming number of election deniers that were on the ballot, often in uncontested districts.—Sheri Berman, Foreign Affairs, 11 Nov. 2022 See all Example Sentences for denier
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Middle English denere, from Anglo-French dener, denier, from Latin denarius, coin worth ten asses, from denarius containing ten, from deni ten each, from decem ten — more at ten
: a unit of fineness for silk, rayon, or nylon yarn
Etymology
Noun
deny and -er (noun suffix)
Noun
Middle English denere "small silver coin formerly used in Europe," from early French denier (same meaning), from Latin denarius "coin valued at 10 asses," derived from deni "ten each," from decem "ten"
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