AbstractPhil/geometric-vocab-english-full-a-to-z huggingface dataset:
assimilative: tending to, or characterized by, assimilation; that assimilates or causes assimilation; as, an assimilative process or substance.
assimilatory: tending to assimilate, or produce assimilation; as, assimilatory organs.
assimulate: to feign; to counterfeit; to simulate; to resemble.-to assimilate.
assist: to give support to in some undertaking or effort, or in time of distress; to help; to aid; to succor.-to lend aid; to help.-to be present as a spectator; as, to assist at a public meeting.
assistance: the act of assisting; help; aid; furtherance; succor; support.-an assistant or helper; a body of helpers.-persons present.
assistant: helping; lending aid or support; auxiliary.-of the second grade in the staff of the army; as, an assistant surgeon.-one who, or that which, assists; a helper; an auxiliary; a means of help.-an attendant; one who is present.
assize: an assembly of knights and other substantial men, with a bailiff or justice, in a certain place and at a certain time, for public business.-a special kind of jury or inquest.-a kind of writ or real action.-a verdict or finding of a jury upon such writ.-a statute or ordinance in general. specifically: (1) a statute regulating the weight, measure, and proportions of ingredients and the price of articles sold in the market; as, the assize of bread and other provisions; (2) a statute fixing the standard of weights and measures.-anything fixed or reduced to a certainty in point of time, number, quantity, quality, weight, measure, etc.; as, rent of assize.-a court, the sitting or session of a court, for the trial of processes, whether civil or criminal, by a judge and jury.-the periodical sessions of the judges of the superior courts in every county of england for the purpose of administering justice in the trial and determination of civil and criminal cases; -- usually in the plural.-the time or place of holding the court of assize; -- generally in the plural, assizes.-measure; dimension; size.-to assess; to value; to rate.-to fix the weight, measure, or price of, by an ordinance or regulation of authority.
associable: capable of being associated or joined.-sociable; companionable.-liable to be affected by sympathy with other parts; -- said of organs, nerves, muscles, etc.
associate: to join with one, as a friend, companion, partner, or confederate; as, to associate others with us in business, or in an enterprise.-to join or connect; to combine in acting; as, particles of gold associated with other substances.-to connect or place together in thought.-to accompany; to keep company with.-to unite in company; to keep company, implying intimacy; as, congenial minds are disposed to associate.-to unite in action, or to be affected by the action of a different part of the body.-closely connected or joined with some other, as in interest, purpose, employment, or office; sharing responsibility or authority; as, an associate judge.-admitted to some, but not to all, rights and privileges; as, an associate member.-connected by habit or sympathy; as, associate motions, such as occur sympathetically, in consequence of preceding motions.-a companion; one frequently in company with another, implying intimacy or equality; a mate; a fellow.-a partner in interest, as in business; or a confederate in a league.-one connected with an association or institution without the full rights or privileges of a regular member; as, an associate of the royal academy.-anything closely or usually connected with another; an concomitant.
association: the act of associating, or state of being associated; union; connection, whether of persons of things.-mental connection, or that which is mentally linked or associated with a thing.-union of persons in a company or society for some particular purpose; as, the american association for the advancement of science; a benevolent association.  specifically, as among the congregationalists, a society, consisting of a number of ministers, generally the pastors of neighboring churches, united for promoting the interests of religion and the harmony of the churches.
associational: of or pertaining to association, or to an association.-pertaining to the theory held by the associationists.
associationist: one who explains the higher functions and relations of the soul by the association of ideas; e. g., hartley, j. c. mill.
associative: having the quality of associating; tending or leading to association; as, the associative faculty.
assoil: to set free; to release.-to solve; to clear up.-to set free from guilt; to absolve.-to expiate; to atone for.-to remove; to put off.-to soil; to stain.
assoilment: act of assoiling, or state of being assoiled; absolution; acquittal.-a soiling; defilement.
assonance: resemblance of sound.-a peculiar species of rhyme, in which the last acce`ted vow`l and tnose whioh follow it in one word correspond in sound with the vowels of another word, while the consonants of the two words are unlike in sound; as, calamo and platano, baby and chary.-incomplete correspondence.
assonant: having a resemblance of sounds.-pertaining to the peculiar species of rhyme called assonance; not consonant.
assort: to separate and distribute into classes, as things of a like kind, nature, or quality, or which are suited to a like purpose; to classify; as, to assort goods. [rarely applied to persons.]-to furnish with, or make up of, various sorts or a variety of goods; as, to assort a cargo.-to agree; to be in accordance; to be adapted; to suit; to fall into a class or place.
assortment: act of assorting, or distributing into sorts, kinds, or classes.-a collection or quantity of things distributed into kinds or sorts; a number of things assorted.-a collection containing a variety of sorts or kinds adapted to various wants, demands, or purposes; as, an assortment of goods.
assot: to besot; to befool; to beguile; to infatuate.-dazed; foolish; infatuated.
assuage: to soften, in a figurative sense; to allay, mitigate, ease, or lessen, as heat, pain, or grief; to appease or pacify, as passion or tumult; to satisfy, as appetite or desire.-to abate or subside.
assuefaction: the act of accustoming, or the state of being accustomed; habituation.
assume: to take to or upon one's self; to take formally and demonstratively; sometimes, to appropriate or take unjustly.-to take for granted, or without proof; to suppose as a fact; to suppose or take arbitrarily or tentatively.-to pretend to possess; to take in appearance.-to receive or adopt.-to be arrogant or pretentious; to claim more than is due.-to undertake, as by a promise.
assumed: of assume-supposed.-pretended; hypocritical; make-believe; as, an assumed character.
assumpsit: a promise or undertaking, founded on a consideration. this promise may be oral or in writing not under seal. it may be express or implied.-an action to recover damages for a breach or nonperformance of a contract or promise, express or implied, oral or in writing not under seal. common or indebitatus assumpsit is brought for the most part on an implied promise. special assumpsit is founded on an express promise or undertaking.
assumpt: to take up; to elevate; to assume.-that which is assumed; an assumption.
assumption: the act of assuming, or taking to or upon one's self; the act of taking up or adopting.-the act of taking for granted, or supposing a thing without proof; supposition; unwarrantable claim.-the thing supposed; a postulate, or proposition assumed; a supposition.-the minor or second proposition in a categorical syllogism.-the taking of a person up into heaven.-a festival in honor of the ascent of the virgin mary into heaven.
assumptive: assumed, or capable of being assumed; characterized by assumption; making unwarranted claims.
assurance: the act of assuring; a declaration tending to inspire full confidence; that which is designed to give confidence.-the state of being assured; firm persuasion; full confidence or trust; freedom from doubt; certainty.-firmness of mind; undoubting, steadiness; intrepidity; courage; confidence; self-reliance.-excess of boldness; impudence; audacity; as, his assurance is intolerable.-betrothal; affiance.-insurance; a contract for the payment of a sum on occasion of a certain event, as loss or death.-any written or other legal evidence of the conveyance of property; a conveyance; a deed.
assure: to make sure or certain; to render confident by a promise, declaration, or other evidence.-to declare to, solemnly; to assert to (any one) with the design of inspiring belief or confidence.-to confirm; to make certain or secure.-to affiance; to betroth.-to insure; to covenant to indemnify for loss, or to pay a specified sum at death. see insure.
assured: of assure-made sure; safe; insured; certain; indubitable; not doubting; bold to excess.-one whose life or property is insured.
assurer: one who assures. specifically: one who insures against loss; an insurer or underwriter.-one who takes out a life assurance policy.
assyrian: of or pertaining to assyria, or to its inhabitants.-a native or an inhabitant of assyria; the language of assyria.
assyriology: the science or study of the antiquities, language, etc., of ancient assyria.
astacus: a genus of crustaceans, containing the crawfish of fresh-water lobster of europe, and allied species of western north america. see crawfish.
astarte: a genus of bivalve mollusks, common on the coasts of america and europe.
astatic: having little or no tendency to take a fixed or definite position or direction: thus, a suspended magnetic needle, when rendered astatic, loses its polarity, or tendency to point in a given direction.
astay: an anchor is said to be astay, when, in heaving it, an acute angle is formed between the cable and the surface of the water.
asteism: genteel irony; a polite and ingenious manner of deriding another.
astel: an arch, or ceiling, of boards, placed over the men's heads in a mine.
aster: a genus of herbs with compound white or bluish flowers; starwort; michaelmas daisy.-a plant of the genus callistephus. many varieties (called china asters, german asters, etc.) are cultivated for their handsome compound flowers.
asteridea: a class of echinodermata including the true starfishes. the rays vary in number and always have ambulacral grooves below. the body is star-shaped or pentagonal.
asteridian: of or pertaining to the asterioidea.-a starfish; one of the asterioidea.
asterion: the point on the side of the skull where the lambdoid, parieto-mastoid and occipito-mastoid sutures.
asteriscus: the smaller of the two otoliths found in the inner ear of many fishes.
asterisk: the figure of a star, thus, /, used in printing and writing as a reference to a passage or note in the margin, to supply the omission of letters or words, or to mark a word or phrase as having a special character.
asterism: a constellation.-a small cluster of stars.-an asterisk, or mark of reference.-three asterisks placed in this manner, /, to direct attention to a particular passage.-an optical property of some crystals which exhibit a star-shaped by reflected light, as star sapphire, or by transmitted light, as some mica.
astern: in or at the hinder part of a ship; toward the hinder part, or stern; backward; as, to go astern.-behind a ship; in the rear.
asteroid: a starlike body; esp. one of the numerous small planets whose orbits lie between those of mars and jupiter; -- called also planetoids and minor planets.
asterolepis: a genus of fishes, some of which were eighteen or twenty feet long, found in a fossil state in the old red sandstone.
asterophyllite: a fossil plant from the coal formations of europe and america, now regarded as the branchlets and foliage of calamites.
astert: to start up; to befall; to escape; to shun.-to escape.
asthenic: characterized by, or pertaining to, debility; weak; debilitating.
asthma: a disease, characterized by difficulty of breathing (due to a spasmodic contraction of the bronchi), recurring at intervals, accompanied with a wheezing sound, a sense of constriction in the chest, a cough, and expectoration.
asthmatical: of or pertaining to asthma; as, an asthmatic cough; liable to, or suffering from, asthma; as, an asthmatic patient.
astigmatic: affected with, or pertaining to, astigmatism; as, astigmatic eyes; also, remedying astigmatism; as, astigmatic lenses.
astigmatism: a defect of the eye or of a lens, in consequence of which the rays derived from one point are not brought to a single focal point, thus causing imperfect images or indistinctness of vision.
astonish: to stun; to render senseless, as by a blow.-to strike with sudden fear, terror, or wonder; to amaze; to surprise greatly, as with something unaccountable; to confound with some sudden emotion or passion.
astonishing: of astonish-very wonderful; of a nature to excite astonishment; as, an astonishing event.
astonishment: the condition of one who is stunned. hence: numbness; loss of sensation; stupor; loss of sense.-dismay; consternation.-the overpowering emotion excited when something unaccountable, wonderful, or dreadful is presented to the mind; an intense degree of surprise; amazement.-the object causing such an emotion.
astony: to stun; to bewilder; to astonish; to dismay.
astound: of astone-stunned; astounded; astonished.-of astound-to stun; to stupefy.-to astonish; to strike with amazement; to confound with wonder, surprise, or fear.
astounding: of astound-of a nature to astound; astonishing; amazing; as, an astounding force, statement, or fact.
astraddle: in a straddling position; astride; bestriding; as, to sit astraddle a horse.
astraean: pertaining to the genus astraea or the family astraeidae.-a coral of the family astraeidae; a star coral.
astragal: a convex molding of rounded surface, generally from half to three quarters of a circle.-a round molding encircling a cannon near the mouth.
astragalus: the ankle bone, or hock bone; the bone of the tarsus which articulates with the tibia at the ankle.-a genus of papilionaceous plants, of the tribe galegeae, containing numerous species, two of which are called, in english, milk vetch and licorice vetch. gum tragacanth is obtained from different oriental species, particularly the a. gummifer and a. verus.-see astragal, 1.
astrakhan: of or pertaining to astrakhan in russia or its products; made of an astrakhan skin.-the skin of stillborn or young lambs of that region, the curled wool of which resembles fur.
astral: pertaining to, coming from, or resembling, the stars; starry; starlike.
astray: out of the right, either in a literal or in a figurative sense; wandering; as, to lead one astray.
astrict: to bind up; to confine; to constrict; to contract.-to bind; to constrain; to restrict; to limit.-to restrict the tenure of; as, to astrict lands. see astriction, 4.-concise; contracted.
astriction: the act of binding; restriction; also, obligation.-a contraction of parts by applications; the action of an astringent substance on the animal economy.-constipation.-astringency.-an obligation to have the grain growing on certain lands ground at a certain mill, the owner paying a toll.
astride: with one leg on each side, as a man when on horseback; with the legs stretched wide apart; astraddle.
astringe: to bind fast; to constrict; to contract; to cause parts to draw together; to compress.-to bind by moral or legal obligation.
astringency: the quality of being astringent; the power of contracting the parts of the body; that quality in medicines or other substances which causes contraction of the organic textures; as, the astringency of tannin.
astringent: drawing together the tissues; binding; contracting; -- opposed to laxative; as, astringent medicines; a butter and astringent taste; astringent fruit.-stern; austere; as, an astringent type of virtue.-a medicine or other substance that produces contraction in the soft organic textures, and checks discharges of blood, mucus, etc.
astro-: the combining form of the greek word 'a`stron, meaning star.
astrography: the art of describing or delineating the stars; a description or mapping of the heavens.
astrolabe: an instrument for observing or showing the positions of the stars. it is now disused.-a stereographic projection of the sphere on the plane of a great circle, as the equator, or a meridian; a planisphere.
astrologer: one who studies the stars; an astronomer.-one who practices astrology; one who professes to foretell events by the aspects and situation of the stars.
astrology: in its etymological signification, the science of the stars; among the ancients, synonymous with astronomy; subsequently, the art of judging of the influences of the stars upon human affairs, and of foretelling events by their position and aspects.
astromantic: of or pertaining to divination by means of the stars; astrologic.
astrometeorology: the investigation of the relation between the sun, moon, and stars, and the weather.
astrometry: the art of making measurements among the stars, or of determining their relative magnitudes.
astronomer: an astrologer.-one who is versed in astronomy; one who has a knowledge of the laws of the heavenly orbs, or the principles by which their motions are regulated, with their various phenomena.
astronomy: astrology.-the science which treats of the celestial bodies, of their magnitudes, motions, distances, periods of revolution, eclipses, constitution, physical condition, and of the causes of their various phenomena.-a treatise on, or text-book of, the science.
astrophotography: the application of photography to the delineation of the sun, moon, and stars.
astroscope: an old astronomical instrument, formed of two cones, on whose surface the constellations were delineated.
astrut: sticking out, or puffed out; swelling; in a swelling manner.-in a strutting manner; with a strutting gait.
asturian: of or pertaining to asturias in spain.-a native of asturias.
asunder: apart; separate from each other; into parts; in two; separately; into or in different pieces or places.
asylum: a sanctuary or place of refuge and protection, where criminals and debtors found shelter, and from which they could not be forcibly taken without sacrilege.-any place of retreat and security.-an institution for the protection or relief of some class of destitute, unfortunate, or afflicted persons; as, an asylum for the aged, for the blind, or for the insane; a lunatic asylum; an orphan asylum.
asymmetrical: incommensurable.-not symmetrical; wanting proportion; esp., not bilaterally symmetrical.
asymmetry: want of symmetry, or proportion between the parts of a thing, esp. want of bilateral symmetry.-incommensurability.
asymptote: a line which approaches nearer to some curve than assignable distance, but, though infinitely extended, would never meet it. asymptotes may be straight lines or curves. a rectilinear asymptote may be conceived as a tangent to the curve at an infinite distance.
asyndeton: a figure which omits the connective; as, i came, i saw, i conquered. it stands opposed to polysyndeton.
at: primarily, this word expresses the relations of presence, nearness in place or time, or direction toward; as, at the ninth hour; at the house; to aim at a mark. it is less definite than in or on; at the house may be in or near the house. from this original import are derived all the various uses of at.-a relation of proximity to, or of presence in or on, something; as, at the door; at your shop; at home; at school; at hand; at sea and on land.-the relation of some state or condition; as, at war; at peace; at ease; at your service; at fault; at liberty; at risk; at disadvantage.-the relation of some employment or action; occupied with; as, at engraving; at husbandry; at play; at work; at meat (eating); except at puns.-the relation of a point or position in a series, or of degree, rate, or value; as, with the thermometer at 80¡; goods sold at a cheap price; a country estimated at 10,000 square miles; life is short at the longest.-the relations of time, age, or order; as, at ten o'clock; at twenty-one; at once; at first.-the relations of source, occasion, reason, consequence, or effect; as, at the sight; at this news; merry at anything; at this declaration; at his command; to demand, require, receive, deserve, endure at your hands.-relation of direction toward an object or end; as, look at it; to point at one; to aim at a mark; to throw, strike, shoot, wink, mock, laugh at any one.
at one: in concord or friendship; in agreement (with each other); as, to be, bring, make, or set, at one, i. e., to be or bring in or to a state of agreement or reconciliation.-of the same opinion; agreed; as, on these points we are at one.-together.
atabal: a kettledrum; a kind of tabor, used by the moors.
atacamite: an oxychloride of copper, usually in emerald-green prismatic crystals.
ataunto: fully rigged, as a vessel; with all sails set; set on end or set right.
atavism: the recurrence, or a tendency to a recurrence, of the original type of a species in the progeny of its varieties; resemblance to remote rather than to near ancestors; reversion to the original form.-the recurrence of any peculiarity or disease of an ancestor in a subsequent generation, after an intermission for a generation or two.
ataxic: characterized by ataxy, that is, (a) by great irregularity of functions or symptoms, or (b) by a want of coordinating power in movements.
ataxy: disorder; irregularity.-irregularity in disease, or in the functions.-the state of disorder that characterizes nervous fevers and the nervous condition.
ate: the preterit of eat.-the goddess of mischievous folly; also, in later poets, the goddess of vengeance.-of eat
ateles: a genus of american monkeys with prehensile tails, and having the thumb wanting or rudimentary. see spider monkey, and coaita.
atellan: of or pertaining to atella, in ancient italy; as, atellan plays; farcical; ribald.-a farcical drama performed at atella.
athalamous: not furnished with shields or beds for the spores, as the thallus of certain lichens.
athanasian: of or pertaining to athanasius, bishop of alexandria in the 4th century.
athanor: a digesting furnace, formerly used by alchemists. it was so constructed as to maintain uniform and durable heat.
athecata: a division of hydroidea in which the zooids are naked, or not inclosed in a capsule. see tubularian.
atheism: the disbelief or denial of the existence of a god, or supreme intelligent being.-godlessness.
atheist: one who disbelieves or denies the existence of a god, or supreme intelligent being.-a godless person.
atheistical: pertaining to, implying, or containing, atheism; -- applied to things; as, atheistic doctrines, opinions, or books.-disbelieving the existence of a god; impious; godless; -- applied to persons; as, an atheistic writer.
atheize: to render atheistic or godless.-to discourse, argue, or act as an atheist.
atheling: an anglo-saxon prince or nobleman; esp., the heir apparent or a prince of the royal family.
athenaeum: a temple of athene, at athens, in which scholars and poets were accustomed to read their works and instruct students.-a school founded at rome by hadrian.-a literary or scientific association or club.-a building or an apartment where a library, periodicals, and newspapers are kept for use.
athenian: of or pertaining to athens, the metropolis of greece.-a native or citizen of athens.
atherine: a small marine fish of the family atherinidae, having a silvery stripe along the sides. the european species (atherina presbyter) is used as food. the american species (menidia notata) is called silversides and sand smelt. see silversides.
atheroma: an encysted tumor containing curdy matter.-a disease characterized by thickening and fatty degeneration of the inner coat of the arteries.
athetosis: a variety of chorea, marked by peculiar tremors of the fingers and toes.
athirst: wanting drink; thirsty.-having a keen appetite or desire; eager; longing.
athlete: one who contended for a prize in the public games of ancient greece or rome.-any one trained to contend in exercises requiring great physical agility and strength; one who has great activity and strength; a champion.-one fitted for, or skilled in, intellectual contests; as, athletes of debate.