June 6, 1944, the day the Allies invaded France in World War II. D-day plus 1 means June 7, 1944, etc.

See Leonardo da Vinci.

A trademark for a polyester fiber.

No space or hyphen in DaimlerChrysler. The company has group headquarters in Stuttgart, Germany, and Auburn Hills, Mich.

The traditional high priest of Lamaism, a form of Buddhism practiced in Tibet and Mongolia. The Dalai Lama is understood by Tibetan Buddhists to be a reincarnation of Avalokitesvara, the Buddha of compassion. Dalai Lama is a title rather than a name, but is all that is used when referring to the man and is capitalized. (The same rule applies to Pachen Lama and Karmapa Lama.)

The city in Texas stands alone in datelines.

A city in Oregon. In datelines: THE DALLES, Ore., April 23 (UPI) --

Capitalize as part of a proper name: Hoover Dam.

Damage is destruction, Damages are compensation for injury or loss: Authorities said damage from the storm would total more than $1 billion. The woman received $25,000 in damages.

The equivalent for women of a knighthood for men. If used, it must always be with a given name and capitalized: Dame Agatha Christie, Dame Agatha. See honorary titles.

Use instead of dammit, but like other profanity it should be avoided unless there is a compelling reason to use it. See obscenities.

Avoid modifiers (participles) that do not refer clearly and logically to some word in the sentence.

Dangling: Taking our seats, the game started. (Taking does not refer to the subject game, or to any other word in the sentence.)

Correct: Taking our seats, we watched the opening of the game. (Taking refers to we, the subject of the sentence.)

Not the Dardanelles Strait.

The period beginning with the sack of Rome and ending with the early Renaissance (A.D. 476 to about 1450), a period in Europe characterized by intellectual stagnation, widespread ignorance and poverty.

No hyphen: a dark horse candidate.

Indicate the dash by striking the hyphen key twice (--) Do not use the longer (underscore) dash, which is usually on the same key.

Put a space on both sides of a dash in all uses.

1. A dash is a strong punctuation mark that should not be used in lieu of a comma. Reserve the dash to denote an abrupt change in thought or an emphatic pause: We will fly to Paris in June -- if I get a raise. Smith offered a plan -- it was unprecedented -- to raise revenues.

But be wary of the damage this does to the flow of a sentence.

2. When a phrase that would otherwise be set off with commas contains a series of words that must be separated by commas, use dashes to set off the full phrase: He listed the qualities -- intelligence, charm, beauty, independence -- that he liked in women.

3..Use a dash before an author's name at the end of a quotation: "Who steals my purse steals trash." -- Shakespeare.

4. A dash is used in datelines: NEW YORK, Nov. 1 (UPI) -- The city is broke.

5. Use dashes, with spaces before and after, to introduce individual sections of a list. Capitalize the first word following the dash. Jones gave the following reasons:

-- He never ordered the package.

-- If he did, it didn't come.

-- If it did, he sent it back.

A plural noun that normally takes plural verbs and pronouns. See collective nouns for exceptions.

Two words for the imaginary line that separates one day from another. See international date line.

A dateline, one word, should tell the reader that the basic information for the story came from the dateline community.

Do not, for example, use a Washington dateline on a story written primarily from information that a newspaper reported under a Washington dateline. Use the home city of the newspaper instead.

A dateline written in capital letters contains the name of a community, often followed by a country, state or territory , the date the story was written and the UPI identifier.

TAEGU, South Korea, Oct. 19 (UPI) --

MIAMI, Oct. 19 (UPI) --

BETHESDA, Md., Oct. 19 (UPI) --

Note the space before and after the dash: HILO, Hawaii, Oct. 19 (UPI) -- Snow fell today.

Do not use here, this town, etc., to refer back to a dateline. It slows reading. If a reference must be made, repeat the name of the community.

When a story has been assembled from sources in widely separated areas, use no dateline. (Instead, use By United Press International or a writer's byline and UPI affiliation: By AL SWANSON, United Press International, By IAN CAMPBELL, UPI Chief Economics Correspondent.)

From rural areas, use the name of the nearest community.

Use a byline over a dateline only if a reporter was in the dateline community to gather the information reported.

The authority for spelling of domestic communities is the National Five-Digit ZIP Code & Post Office Directory.

These domestic cities stand alone in datelines:

ALBUQUERQUE, ATLANTA, BALTIMORE, BOSTON, CHICAGO, CINCINNATI, CLEVELAND, COLORADO SPRINGS, DALLAS, DENVER, DETROIT, HOLLYWOOD, HONOLULU, HOUSTON, INDIANAPOLIS, LAS VEGAS, LOS ANGELES, MEMPHIS, MIAMI, MILWAUKEE, MINNEAPOLIS, NASHVILLE, NEW ORLEANS, NEW YORK, OKLAHOMA CITY, OMAHA, PHILADELPHIA, PHOENIX, PITTSBURGH, SACRAMENTO, ST. LOUIS, SALT LAKE CITY, SAN ANTONIO, SAN DIEGO, SAN FRANCISCO, SEATTLE, TUCSON, WASHINGTON.

Spell out Alaska, Hawaii, Idaho, Iowa, Maine, Ohio, Texas and Utah. Abbreviate others as listed in this book under the full name of each state.

In Hawaii, use Hawaii with all communities outside Honolulu. Specify the island in the text if needed.

Follow the same practice for communities on islands within the boundaries of other states: EDGARTOWN, Mass., for example, not EDGARTOWN, Martha's Vineyard.

If there is no community on an island, use the island name followed by the state: Portsmouth Island, N.C.

Datelines from U.S. possessions follow the same guidelines as those from foreign nations.

Use a specific foreign dateline only if the basic information in a story was obtained by a full- or part-time correspondent physically present in the dateline community.

If a radio broadcast monitored in another city was the source of information, use the dateline of the city where the monitoring took place and mention the fact in the story.

Webster's New World College Dictionary is the main source for foreign place names not listed in this book. The backup is the National Geographic Atlas of the World. See geographic names.

These foreign locations stand alone in datelines:

BAGHDAD, BANGKOK, BEIJING, BERLIN, BOGOTA, BRUSSELS, BUENOS AIRES, CAIRO, GAZA, GIBRALTAR, GUATEMALA CITY, HAVANA, HONG KONG, JAKARTA, JERUSALEM, KUWAIT CITY, LIMA, LONDON, LUXEMBOURG, MACAO, MADRID, MELBOURNE, MEXICO CITY, MONTREAL, MOSCOW, MUMBAI, NEW DELHI, OTTAWA, PARIS, QUEBEC CITY, RIO DE JANEIRO, ROME, SAN MARINO, SAO PAULO, SEOUL, SHANGHAI, SINGAPORE, SYDNEY, TEHRAN, TOKYO, TORONTO, VATICAN CITY, VIENNA.

Do not, however, use a country's name if it would repeat exactly the dateline community: MONACO, for example. Not: MONACO, Monaco. But: MONTE CARLO, Monaco; PANAMA CITY, Panama.

In Canada, Montreal, Ottawa, Quebec City and Toronto stand alone. All other cities are followed by the province or territory. Do not abbreviate any province or territory name.

In the Commonwealth of Independent States, Moscow stands alone but all other former Soviet cities are followed by the republic: MINSK, Belarus, Dec. 16 (UPI) --

Stories from other foreign cities that do not stand alone in datelines should contain the name of the country or territory spelled out.

In most cases, use the conventionally accepted short name: Argentina, for example. Not: Republic of Argentina.

Note these special cases:

--Instead of United Kingdom, use England, Northern Ireland, Scotland or Wales.

--For divided nations, use the commonly accepted names based on geographic distinctions: North Korea, South Korea.

--Use an article in a country's name only with El Salvador. Others: Netherlands, Philippines.

From island nations and territories, use the general name. Specify an individual island, if needed, in the text. If there is no community on an island, use the island name, followed by the name of the territory.

British Virgin Islands, Indonesia, Philippines, Cyprus.

Use the commonly accepted separate names for areas that have them, even though they are not independent nations:

Bermuda, Canal Zone, Canary Islands, Corsica, Faeroe Islands, Gibraltar, Greenland, Guadeloupe, Guam, Martinique, Puerto Rico, Sardinia, Sikkim, Sicily, Tibet

When a datelined story contains supplementary information obtained in another city, make that point clear. Do not put parentheses around such material, however, unless the correspondent in the dateline community was cut off from incoming communications.

Examples:

-- Material from another area with communications intact:

LONDON, June 1 (UPI) -- Prime Minister Wilson submitted his resignation Monday.

In Washington, a State Department spokesman said the change in government leadership would have no effect on negotiations involving the Common Market.

-- Material from another area was not available to the correspondent in the dateline city because communications from the outside world were cut off:

PHNOM PENH, Cambodia, Oct. 19 (UPI) -- Khmer Rouge troops pushed into Phnom Penh Monday, barely hours after the United States ran down the Stars and Stripes and abandoned Cambodia to the Communists.

(In Washington, the State Department said Americans evacuated in a mass airlift had arrived safely aboard aircraft carriers and at bases in Thailand.)

If the reporter is aboard a ship, aircraft, spacecraft, etc.:

ABOARD THE USS FORRESTAL, Oct. 19 (UPI) --

ABOARD AIR FORCE ONE, Oct. 19 (UPI) --

ABOARD THE SPACE SHUTTLE ENTERPRISE, Oct. 19 (UPI) --

Use figures without letters: April 1, not April 1st.

When a month is used with a specific date, use the abbreviations Jan., Feb., Aug., Sept., Oct., Nov. and Dec. Spell out other months.

When a phrase lists only a month and a year, do not separate with commas. When a phrase refers to a month, day and year, set off the year with commas. January 1972 was a cold month. Jan. 2 was the coldest day of the month. Feb. 14, 1976, was the target date. His birthday is May 15.

Not daughter-in-laws.

DAR is acceptable on second reference. Headquarters is in Washington.

Not savings. When linking the term with a time zone: Eastern Daylight Time, Pacific Daylight Time, etc. Lowercase daylight saving time in all uses and daylight time standing alone.

A federal law specifies that daylight time applies from 2 a.m. on the second Sunday of March until 2 a.m. on the first Sunday of November in all areas that do not specifically exempt themselves. See time.

Capitalize them: Monday, Tuesday, etc. Other guidelines:

1 . Spell out days of the week in all stories . Do not use today, tonight, yesterday or tomorrow.

2. Avoid an unnecessary use of last or next. Past, present or future tense are an adequate indication of which day is meant.

Wordy: It happened last Tuesday.

Better: It happened Tuesday.

3. Do not abbreviate, except in tabular format (three letters, without periods): Sun, Mon, Tue, Wed, Thu, Fri, Sat.

See time and release times.

Preferred in all references for the insecticide dichloro diphenyl trichloroethane.

See foreign particles for instructions on how to handle names such as de Gaulle.

Acceptable on second reference for Drug Enforcement Administration.

Deacon John Jones, the deacon.

A dead-end street has a dead end.

This term may be used, but it is preferred to say a person cannot hear or speak. Do not use deaf and dumb.

Capitalize as a formal title before a name: Dean Shane Smith, Deans Shane Smith and Susan Smith. Lowercase in other uses: Shane Smith, dean of the college; the dean.

Lowercase, no hyphen: He is on the dean's list. She is a dean's list student.

See loan terminology.

The outlay necessary to meet all interest and principal payments on outstanding debt during a given period.

Do not convert this noun to a verb.

Use figures to indicate decades of history. Use an apostrophe to indicate numerals that are left out; show plural by adding s: the 1890s, the '90s, the Gay '90s, the 1920s, the mid-1930s.

See months.

A prefix meaning one-tenth: A decigram is one-tenth of a gram; about .0035 ounces. See metric system.

Use a period and figures to indicate decimal amounts. Carry decimals to two places unless there are special circumstances, as in this example: The company’s net profit was $4.644 billion, up from $4.642 billion in the same quarter last year. In this case, rounding the figure off to two places would make a comparison meaningless because it would give the same total of $4.64 billion. See fractions.

The literal meaning is to destroy one out of 10. Do not use as a general term for destruction.

Lowercase the declaration.

See awards.

Capitalize both words when referring to the region that encompasses Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi and South Carolina.

Slang for dispose of. Use only in quotes.

A trademark for a home freezer. Use two words for something postponed indefinitely: The project is in the deep freeze.

In computing, an automatic setting that will be used unless the user specifies a different one. In a financial sense, see loan terminology.

Not defendent.

Always lowercase. Never abbreviate.

Overused as a vague intensifier. Avoid it.

A decrease in price levels resulting from a decrease in total spending relative to the supply of available goods.

See academic degrees and temperatures.

Lowercase. See religion.

A prefix meaning 10: a dekameter is 10 meters, one-tenth of a hectometer. A dekagram is 10 grams, one-tenth of a hectogram. A dekare is 10 ares, one-tenth of a hectare. Use dek- before a vowel, as in dekare, and deka- before a consonant, as in dekameter. See metric system and hecto-.

Abbreviation: Del. See state(s).

The title for members of the lower houses of some legislatures. Do not abbreviate. Capitalize before a name. Lowercase other uses: convention delegate Robert Jones.

Sometimes called the Eastern Shore, it is the peninsula between Chesapeake Bay and the Atlantic Ocean. It consists of parts of the states of Delaware, Maryland and Virginia.

In the computer industry, Delphi is a programming language created by Borland International Inc.

Headquarters is in Atlanta.

Note the u.

DMZ is acceptable on second reference.

Lowercase unless the reference is to the Democratic Party or its members. Do not use Democrat as an adjective:

Wrong: Democrat Sen. Lea Smith; Democrat leaders in Washington; the Democrat Party.

Right: Democratic Sen. Lea Smith; Democratic leaders in Washington; the Democratic Party.

See political parties.

Note the apostrophe.

Both mean to do away with completely. It is redundant to say totally demolished or totally destroyed.

See the connote, denote entry.

The city in Colorado stands alone in datelines.

It requires a preposition. He will depart from LaGuardia. She will depart at 11:30 p.m. Do not drop the preposition as some airline dispatchers do. In most cases, leave is a better choice.

Do not abbreviate. Capitalize as part of a government: the Department of Defense.

The of may be dropped and the title flip-flopped and capitalization retained: the Defense Department.

Lowercase department standing alone, in plural uses or as part of an internal element: department officials said, the Labor, Justice and Homeland Security departments, the departments of Labor, Justice and Homeland Security, the sports department of the Daily Planet. See academic departments and Cabinet departments.

Not dependant.

Capitalize Depression and Great Depression for the worldwide economic collapse that began with the stock market collapse of Oct. 28-29, 1929. Lowercase other uses: the depression of the 1970s.

See dimensions.

Capitalize as a formal title before a name.

Do not use derogatory terms such as Kraut except in direct quotes and when their use is an essential part of the story

Hyphenate. Capitalize only the first word as a formal title before a name: Chairman-designate Susan Smith.

Frequently superfluous journalese, as in: Congress passed a law designed to outlaw racial discrimination. The infinitive to outlaw clearly implies intent.

The use of a computer, special software and a printer to produce typeset-quality text and graphics for newsletters, brochures and other documents.

See demolish, destroy.

Do not abbreviate; always lowercase unless it is a formal title: police detective Frank Serpico, private detective Nero Wolfe, Detective Sgt. Mary Smith.

See prison, jail.

The city in Michigan stands alone in datelines.

But capitalize Satan.

A trademark for an appetite depressant.

There are some words and phrases in everyone’s vocabulary that are typical of a particular region or group. Quoting dialect, unless used carefully, implies substandard or illiterate usage. Avoid dialect, even in quoted matter, unless it is clearly pertinent.

When there is a compelling reason to use dialect, use phonetic spellings. Apostrophes show missing letters and sounds: "Din't ya yoosta live at Toidy-Toid Street and Sekun Amya? Across from da moom pitchers?"

See quotations in the news

The verb forms: dialogue, dialogued, dialoguing.

Two r's.

A trademark for a dictation recorder.

For spelling, style and usage questions not covered in this stylebook, consult Webster’s New World College Dictionary. See geographic names

Use the first spelling listed. If spellings differ in separate entries (tee shirt and T-shirt, for example), use the spelling that has a full definition (T-shirt). If each entry has a full definition (although or though, for example), either is acceptable.

For spelling and usage not covered in this book or in Webster's New World, consult Webster's Third New International Dictionary, which has more entries.

The Japanese Parliament. See foreign legislative bodies.

Not dietician.

To differ from means to be unlike. To differ with means to disagree.

Not synonymous with problem. It means a choice between two, and only two, equally distasteful alternatives.

Use figures and spell out inches, feet, yards, etc. to indicate depth, height, length and width. Hyphenate adjectival forms before nouns. He is 5 feet 6 inches tall, the 5-foot-6-inch man, the 5-foot-6 man, the 5-foot man, the basketball team signed a 7-footer, the 6-3 guard fouled out. The car is 17 feet long, 6 feet wide and 5 feet high. The rug is 9 feet by 12 feet, the 9-by-12 rug. The storm left 5 inches of snow. The trench was 3 feet deep. The building has 4,000 square feet of office space. It was a 100 square-foot storage room.

Use an apostrophe to indicate feet and quotation marks to indicate inches (5'6") only in very technical contexts.

No apostrophe. Headquarters is in New York.

The district under a bishop's jurisdiction. Lowercase unless part of a proper name: the diocese of Rochester, the Rochester diocese, the diocese. But: the Eastern Diocese of the Armenian Church of America. See Episcopal Church and Roman Catholic Church.

Always lowercase compass points (north, south, northeast, northern, etc.) that indicate direction: He drove west. The cold front is moving east. Elsewhere:

1. Capitalize compass points that designate regions of the world or United States: The North was victorious. The South will rise again. Settlers from the East went west in search of new lives.

Also: the Far East, the Eastern establishment, Eastern bloc nations, the Eastern Hemisphere, the Middle East, the Mideast, the Midwest, the Northeast, a Northerner, the North Woods, a Northern liberal, Southeast Asia, a Southern strategy, the South Pacific, the West, a Western businessman, Western Europe, the Western Hemisphere, the Western United States, the West Coast (the region; lowercase west coast for the physical coastline itself -- see coast .

2. Capitalize compass points as part of a proper name: North America, the South Pole, North Dakota, Northern Ireland, West Virginia, the Eastern Shore.

3 . Lowercase compass points with other nations except to designate a politically divided nation: northern France, eastern Canada. But: East Germany, South Korea.

4. In general, lowercase compass points to describe a section of a state or city: western Texas, south Atlanta. But capitalize them if a particular section has a widely known popular name: Southern California, Southside (Chicago), Lower East Side (New York). If in doubt, use lowercase.

Capitalize as a formal title before a name: FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover. Lowercase as a job description: company director Barbara Warren.

No hyphen.

No hyphen: dismember, dissemble, disservice.

See passenger lists.

This spelling is generally used in non-computer references. Examples: laserdisc, disc brakes. See disk.

DJ is acceptable on second reference in a column or other special context. Use announcer in other contexts.

Discreet is prudent; discrete is detached, separate: "I'm afraid I was not very discreet," she wrote. There are four discrete sounds in a quadraphonic system.

The disk thrown in track and field events.

Lowercase arthritis, emphysema, leukemia, malaria, migraine, pneumonia, etc. Capitalize only when a disease bears the name of a person or group identified with it: Bright's disease, Parkinson's disease, etc.

Disinterested means unbiased or impartial. Uninterested means bored or indifferent.

See floppy disk and hard disk.

See DOS and MS-DOS.

May be used in all references to floppy disk. See floppy disk.

Preferred to disassociate.

Use figures. We walked 3 miles.

Do not abbreviate. Use a figure and capitalize to form a proper name: District 3, the 2nd District, the 1st Congressional District. Lowercase standing alone: the district, the congressional district.

Do not abbreviate. Capitalize as a formal title before a name: District Attorney Hamilton Burger.

See court names.

If used with Washington, abbreviate as D.C. Spell out when used alone. Use the district, not D.C., on second reference.

A technique in which a bomb is aimed by the pilot diving his plane steeply toward his target.

Not dove for the past tense.

See profit terminology.

See organizations and institutions and political divisions.

A U.S. Army formation comprising two or more brigades. In the U.S. Navy, a division is a subdivision of a squadron. In the U.S. Air Force, a division is composed of two or more wings.

Capitalize with a numerical designation: 1st Infantry Division, 4th Armored Division, 2nd Marine Division. Otherwise, lowercase: the division, the division commander.

See military units, corps, brigade and wing.

Report that a person is divorced only if it is clearly pertinent. Even when relevant, it seldom belongs in the lead. Avoid stories that begin: A 35-year-old divorcee, etc. If relevant, report in the body of the story that someone is divorced.

A trademark for a paper drinking cup.

Acceptable on second reference for demilitarized zone.

(deoxyribonucleic acid) is a chemical structure that carries the genetic code. It is the primary genetic material in all living organisms. DNA fingerprinting is a study of DNA patterns and is often used as evidence in criminal cases. Also called DNA profiling, or typing. No two people (except for identical twins) have the same DNA profile.

Spell out if not a title. An apple a day keeps the doctor away. Use Dr. (or Drs. in plural) as a title before the name of a physician, including direct quotations: Dr. Jonas Salk. Drop the title after first reference.

People are inclined to identify Dr. only with practitioners of the healing professions: physicians, dentists, veterinarians, etc. In general, confine Dr. to these groups and avoid it in referring to academics and clerics.

If it is necessary to indicate that a person such as an expert witness holds a doctorate in a certain field, explain it like this: James Green, who has a Ph.D. in chemistry from Harvard University, testified the substance was not flammable.

In cases where it is pertinent, Dr. may also be used with the Rev. in first reference to Protestant clergy who have doctor of divinity degrees: the Rev. Dr. Norman Vincent Peale.

Never use Dr. for those who hold only honorary doctorates.

See academic degrees.

Always lowercase. Use figures and the $ sign in all except casual references or amounts without a figure: The book cost $4. Dad, please give me a dollar. Dollars are flowing overseas.

For amounts of more than $1 million, use the $ and figures up to two decimal places. Do not use hyphens: He is worth $4.35 million. He is worth exactly $4,351,242. He proposed a $300 billion budget.

The form for amounts less than $1 million: $4, $6.35, $25, $500, $1,000, $650,000.

In the Internet system of domains, a domain name most often refers to an address or URL of a Web site, or to the wording after the at sign in an e-mail address. For example: In UPI’s Web address (www.upi.com) and e-mail addresses (jdoe@upi.com), the domain name is upi.com. See URL.

Acronym for disk operating system. See MS-DOS and operating system.

A term gaining popularity as a nickname for Internet companies or their personnel.

Avoid them before names. Instead, set them off from a name with commas: Gen. John Johnson, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, rather than Chairman Gen. John Johnson, etc. See titles.

Not donut.

The company publishes The Wall Street Journal, Barron's and other publications. It also operates Dow Jones Newswires and compiles stock market indexes including the Dow Jones industrial average, the Dow Jones transportation average, the Dow Jones utility average, and the Dow Jones composite average. Headquarters is in New York.

Use only to refer to Maine.

Australia, New Zealand and their surroundings.

An organization of former Unipressers. See Unipressers .

Transfer a file from another computer to your computer. See upload and FTP.

Lowercase unless part of a proper name: downstate Illinois. But: the Downstate Medical Center.

A trademark for a soft drink. No period.

See doctor.

Not draught beer.

See composition titles.

A trademark for a motion sickness remedy.

Draperies are curtains. Drapes is a verb.

The air is drier, it has been the driest month, etc. Use dryer for a machine or device that dries things: clothes dryer, hair dryer.

Do not abbreviate. See addresses.

If a person suffocates in water or other fluid, say the victim drowned. To say that someone was drowned implies that another person caused the death by holding the victim's head under the water.

Not agency. DEA is acceptable on second reference.

Because drugs is often used as a synonym for narcotics, medicine is often better for references to medication.

Use drunk after the verb: He was drunk. Use drunken before a noun: a drunken driver. Note that some organizations erroneously use drunk in their titles, e.g., Mothers Against Drunk Driving, otherwise known as MADD. See Mothers Against Drunk Driving.

For digital subscriber line. See ISDN.

The U.S. industrialist born in France. Use du Pont to refer to the family but DuPont (capitalized, no space) for the company named for him, the E.I. du Pont de Nemours Co. of Wilmington, Del.

See nobility and royal titles.

A contest between two persons. Three persons cannot duel.

Not duffle.

See nobility and royal titles.

Trademark for a large steel trash bin handled by a specially equipped truck. Use a generic term instead, trash bin or garbage container, etc.

Not Dunkerque. In datelines: DUNKIRK, France, June 2 (UPI) _

Journalese for two. Avoid it.

Visibility of one-half mile or less due to dust, wind speeds of 30 mph or more.

Acceptable in all references for digital video disk. (Also called digital versatile disk.) Similar to a CD-ROM but with much greater capacity.

Dyeing refers to changing colors. Dying refers to death.