DIL1
abbreviation Electronics
Dual in-line (package). See DIP.
DIL2
noun informal
A person’s daughter-in-law: my son and DIL are both primary school teachers...
- I have a boy and three girls and my DIL will be treated exactly the same as my daughters.
- I really respect and like my DIL and think she is excellent mother.
- Appreciate the fact that your DIL has parents/family of her own and will most likely be a bit closer to them, especially her mum.
Origin
1960s: abbreviation.
- well-saved
- well-scented
- well-schemed
- well-scrubbed
- Wellsean
- well-seasoned
- we'll see about that
- well-seeing
- well-seeming
- well seen
- well-selected
- well-selling
- well-served
- well set
- well set on
- well-settled
- Wells, Fargo & Co.
- well-shading
- well-shaped
- well-shapen
- well-sharpened
- well-shaved
- well-shaven
- well-sheltered
- Wells, H. G.