AbstractPhil/geometric-vocab-english-full-a-to-z huggingface dataset:
comparator: an instrument or machine for comparing anything to be measured with a standard measure; -- applied especially to a machine for comparing standards of length.
compare: to examine the character or qualities of, as of two or more persons or things, for the purpose of discovering their resemblances or differences; to bring into comparison; to regard with discriminating attention.-to represent as similar, for the purpose of illustration; to liken.-to inflect according to the degrees of comparison; to state positive, comparative, and superlative forms of; as, most adjectives of one syllable are compared by affixing "- er" and "-est" to the positive form; as, black, blacker, blackest; those of more than one syllable are usually compared by prefixing "more" and "most", or "less" and "least", to the positive; as, beautiful, more beautiful, most beautiful.-to be like or equal; to admit, or be worthy of, comparison; as, his later work does not compare with his earlier.-to vie; to assume a likeness or equality.-comparison.-illustration by comparison; simile.-to get; to procure; to obtain; to acquire
comparison: the act of comparing; an examination of two or more objects with the view of discovering the resemblances or differences; relative estimate.-the state of being compared; a relative estimate; also, a state, quality, or relation, admitting of being compared; as, to bring a thing into comparison with another; there is no comparison between them.-that to which, or with which, a thing is compared, as being equal or like; illustration; similitude.-the modification, by inflection or otherwise, which the adjective and adverb undergo to denote degrees of quality or quantity; as, little, less, least, are examples of comparison.-a figure by which one person or thing is compared to another, or the two are considered with regard to some property or quality, which is common to them both; e.g., the lake sparkled like a jewel.-the faculty of the reflective group which is supposed to perceive resemblances and contrasts.-to compare.
compartition: the act of dividing into parts or compartments; division; also, a division or compartment.
compartment: one of the parts into which an inclosed portion of space is divided, as by partitions, or lines; as, the compartments of a cabinet, a house, or a garden.-one of the sections into which the hold of a ship is divided by water-tight bulkheads.
compass: a passing round; circuit; circuitous course.-an inclosing limit; boundary; circumference; as, within the compass of an encircling wall.-an inclosed space; an area; extent.-extent; reach; sweep; capacity; sphere; as, the compass of his eye; the compass of imagination.-moderate bounds, limits of truth; moderation; due limits; -- used with within.-the range of notes, or tones, within the capacity of a voice or instrument.-an instrument for determining directions upon the earth's surface by means of a magnetized bar or needle turning freely upon a pivot and pointing in a northerly and southerly direction.-a pair of compasses.-a circle; a continent.-to go about or entirely round; to make the circuit of.-to inclose on all sides; to surround; to encircle; to environ; to invest; to besiege; -- used with about, round, around, and round about.-to reach round; to circumvent; to get within one's power; to obtain; to accomplish.-to curve; to bend into a circular form.-to purpose; to intend; to imagine; to plot.
compasses: an instrument for describing circles, measuring figures, etc., consisting of two, or (rarely) more, pointed branches, or legs, usually joined at the top by a rivet on which they move.
compassion: literally, suffering with another; a sensation of sorrow excited by the distress or misfortunes of another; pity; commiseration.-to pity.
compassionate: having a temper or disposition to pity; sympathetic; merciful.-complaining; inviting pity; pitiable.-to have compassion for; to pity; to commiserate; to sympathize with.
compatibility: the quality or power of being compatible or congruous; congruity; as, a compatibility of tempers; a compatibility of properties.
compatible: capable of existing in harmony; congruous; suitable; not repugnant; -- usually followed by with.
compatriot: one of the same country, and having like interests and feeling.-of the same country; having a common sentiment of patriotism.
compeer: an equal, as in rank, age, prowess, etc.; a companion; a comrade; a mate.-to be equal with; to match.-alt. of compeir
compel: to drive or urge with force, or irresistibly; to force; to constrain; to oblige; to necessitate, either by physical or moral force.-to take by force or violence; to seize; to exact; to extort.-to force to yield; to overpower; to subjugate.-to gather or unite in a crowd or company.-to call forth; to summon.-to make one yield or submit.
compendious: containing the substance or general principles of a subject or work in a narrow compass; abridged; summarized.
compendium: a brief compilation or composition, containing the principal heads, or general principles, of a larger work or system; an abridgment; an epitome; a compend; a condensed summary.
compensate: to make equal return to; to remunerate; to recompense; to give an equivalent to; to requite suitably; as, to compensate a laborer for his work, or a merchant for his losses.-to be equivalent in value or effect to; to counterbalance; to make up for; to make amends for.-to make amends; to supply an equivalent; -- followed by for; as, nothing can compensate for the loss of reputation.
compensation: the act or principle of compensating.-that which constitutes, or is regarded as, an equivalent; that which makes good the lack or variation of something else; that which compensates for loss or privation; amends; remuneration; recompense.-the extinction of debts of which two persons are reciprocally debtors by the credits of which they are reciprocally creditors; the payment of a debt by a credit of equal amount; a set-off.-a recompense or reward for some loss or service.-an equivalent stipulated for in contracts for the sale of real estate, in which it is customary to provide that errors in description, etc., shall not avoid, but shall be the subject of compensation.
compensator: one who, or that which, compensates; -- a name applied to various mechanical devices.-an iron plate or magnet placed near the compass on iron vessels to neutralize the effect of the ship's attraction on the needle.
compete: to contend emulously; to seek or strive for the same thing, position, or reward for which another is striving; to contend in rivalry, as for a prize or in business; as, tradesmen compete with one another.
competency: the state of being competent; fitness; ability; adequacy; power.-property or means sufficient for the necessaries and conveniences of life; sufficiency without excess.-legal capacity or qualifications; fitness; as, the competency of a witness or of a evidence.-right or authority; legal power or capacity to take cognizance of a cause; as, the competence of a judge or court.
competent: answering to all requirements; adequate; sufficient; suitable; capable; legally qualified; fit.-rightfully or properly belonging; incident; -- followed by to.
competition: the act of seeking, or endeavoring to gain, what another is endeavoring to gain at the same time; common strife for the same objects; strife for superiority; emulous contest; rivalry, as for approbation, for a prize, or as where two or more persons are engaged in the same business and each seeking patronage; -- followed by for before the object sought, and with before the person or thing competed with.
competitive: of or pertaining to competition; producing competition; competitory; as, a competitive examination.
competitor: one who seeks what another seeks, or claims what another claims; one who competes; a rival.-an associate; a confederate.
compilation: the act or process of compiling or gathering together from various sources.-that which is compiled; especially, a book or document composed of materials gathering from other books or documents.
compile: to put together; to construct; to build.-to contain or comprise.-to put together in a new form out of materials already existing; esp., to put together or compose out of materials from other books or documents.-to write; to compose.
complacency: calm contentment; satisfaction; gratification.-the cause of pleasure or joy.-the manifestation of contentment or satisfaction; good nature; kindness; civility; affability.
complacent: self-satisfied; contented; kindly; as, a complacent temper; a complacent smile.
complain: to give utterance to expression of grief, pain, censure, regret. etc.; to lament; to murmur; to find fault; -- commonly used with of. also, to creak or squeak, as a timber or wheel.-to make a formal accusation; to make a charge.-to lament; to bewail.
complainant: one who makes complaint.-one who commences a legal process by a complaint.-the party suing in equity, answering to the plaintiff at common law.
complainer: one who complains or laments; one who finds fault; a murmurer.
complaint: expression of grief, regret, pain, censure, or resentment; lamentation; murmuring; accusation; fault-finding.-cause or subject of complaint or murmuring.-an ailment or disease of the body.-a formal allegation or charge against a party made or presented to the appropriate court or officer, as for a wrong done or a crime committed (in the latter case, generally under oath); an information; accusation; the initial bill in proceedings in equity.
complaisance: disposition to please or oblige; obliging compliance with the wishes of others; a deportment indicative of a desire to please; courtesy; civility.
complaisant: desirous to please; courteous; obliging; compliant; as, a complaisant gentleman.
complement: that which fills up or completes; the quantity or number required to fill a thing or make it complete.-that which is required to supply a deficiency, or to complete a symmetrical whole.-full quantity, number, or amount; a complete set; completeness.-a second quantity added to a given quantity to make it equal to a third given quantity.-something added for ornamentation; an accessory.-the whole working force of a vessel.-the interval wanting to complete the octave; -- the fourth is the complement of the fifth, the sixth of the third.-a compliment.-to supply a lack; to supplement.-to compliment.
complemental: supplying, or tending to supply, a deficiency; fully completing.-complimentary; courteous.
complementary: serving to fill out or to complete; as, complementary numbers.-one skilled in compliments.
complete: filled up; with no part or element lacking; free from deficiency; entire; perfect; consummate.-finished; ended; concluded; completed; as, the edifice is complete.-having all the parts or organs which belong to it or to the typical form; having calyx, corolla, stamens, and pistil.-to bring to a state in which there is no deficiency; to perfect; to consummate; to accomplish; to fulfill; to finish; as, to complete a task, or a poem; to complete a course of education.
completion: the act or process of making complete; the getting through to the end; as, the completion of an undertaking, an education, a service.-state of being complete; fulfillment; accomplishment; realization.
complex: composed of two or more parts; composite; not simple; as, a complex being; a complex idea.-involving many parts; complicated; intricate.-assemblage of related things; collection; complication.
complexion: the state of being complex; complexity.-a combination; a complex.-the bodily constitution; the temperament; habitude, or natural disposition; character; nature.-the color or hue of the skin, esp. of the face.-the general appearance or aspect; as, the complexion of the sky; the complexion of the news.
complexioned: having (such) a complexion; -- used in composition; as, a dark-complexioned or a ruddy-complexioned person.
complexity: the state of being complex; intricacy; entanglement.-that which is complex; intricacy; complication.
compliance: the act of complying; a yielding; as to a desire, demand, or proposal; concession; submission.-a disposition to yield to others; complaisance.
complicate: composed of two or more parts united; complex; complicated; involved.-folded together, or upon itself, with the fold running lengthwise.-to fold or twist together; to combine intricately; to make complex; to combine or associate so as to make intricate or difficult.
complication: the act or process of complicating; the state of being complicated; intricate or confused relation of parts; entanglement; complexity.-a disease or diseases, or adventitious circumstances or conditions, coexistent with and modifying a primary disease, but not necessarily connected with it.
complier: one who complies, yields, or obeys; one of an easy, yielding temper.
compliment: an expression, by word or act, of approbation, regard, confidence, civility, or admiration; a flattering speech or attention; a ceremonious greeting; as, to send one's compliments to a friend.-to praise, flatter, or gratify, by expressions of approbation, respect, or congratulation; to make or pay a compliment to.-to pass compliments; to use conventional expressions of respect.
complimentary: expressive of regard or praise; of the nature of, or containing, a compliment; as, a complimentary remark; a complimentary ticket.
complimenter: one who compliments; one given to complimenting; a flatterer.
complin: the last division of the roman catholic breviary; the seventh and last of the canonical hours of the western church; the last prayer of the day, to be said after sunset.
complot: a plotting together; a confederacy in some evil design; a conspiracy.-to plot or plan together; to conspire; to join in a secret design.
complutensian: of or pertaining to complutum (now alcala de henares) a city near madrid; as, the complutensian bible.
compluvium: a space left unroofed over the court of a roman dwelling, through which the rain fell into the impluvium or cistern.
comply: to yield assent; to accord; agree, or acquiesce; to adapt one's self; to consent or conform; -- usually followed by with.-to be ceremoniously courteous; to make one's compliments.-to fulfill; to accomplish.-to infold; to embrace.
compone: to compose; to settle; to arrange.-see compony.-divided into squares of alternate tinctures in a single row; -- said of any bearing; or, in the case of a bearing having curved lines, divided into patches of alternate colors following the curve. if there are two rows it is called counter-compony.
component: serving, or helping, to form; composing; constituting; constituent.-a constituent part; an ingredient.
comport: to bear or endure; to put up (with); as, to comport with an injury.-to agree; to accord; to suit; -- sometimes followed by with.-to bear; to endure; to brook; to put with.-to carry; to conduct; -- with a reflexive pronoun.-manner of acting; behavior; conduct; deportment.
compose: to form by putting together two or more things or parts; to put together; to make up; to fashion.-to form the substance of, or part of the substance of; to constitute.-to construct by mental labor; to design and execute, or put together, in a manner involving the adaptation of forms of expression to ideas, or to the laws of harmony or proportion; as, to compose a sentence, a sermon, a symphony, or a picture.-to dispose in proper form; to reduce to order; to put in proper state or condition; to adjust; to regulate.-to free from agitation or disturbance; to tranquilize; to soothe; to calm; to quiet.-to arrange (types) in a composing stick in order for printing; to set (type).-to come to terms.
composed: of compose-free from agitation; calm; sedate; quiet; tranquil; self-possessed.
composer: one who composes; an author. specifically, an author of a piece of music.-one who, or that which, quiets or calms; one who adjusts a difference.
composing: of compose-tending to compose or soothe.-pertaining to, or used in, composition.
compositae: a large family of dicotyledonous plants, having their flowers arranged in dense heads of many small florets and their anthers united in a tube. the daisy, dandelion, and asters, are examples.
composite: made up of distinct parts or elements; compounded; as, a composite language.-belonging to a certain order which is composed of the ionic order grafted upon the corinthian. it is called also the roman or the italic order, and is one of the five orders recognized by the italian writers of the sixteenth century. see capital.-belonging to the order compositae; bearing involucrate heads of many small florets, as the daisy, thistle, and dandelion.-that which is made up of parts or compounded of several elements; composition; combination; compound.
composition: the act or art of composing, or forming a whole or integral, by placing together and uniting different things, parts, or ingredients.-the invention or combination of the parts of any literary work or discourse, or of a work of art; as, the composition of a poem or a piece of music.-the art or practice of so combining the different parts of a work of art as to produce a harmonious whole; also, a work of art considered as such. see 4, below.-the act of writing for practice in a language, as english, latin, german, etc.-the setting up of type and arranging it for printing.-the state of being put together or composed; conjunction; combination; adjustment.-a mass or body formed by combining two or more substances; as, a chemical composition.-a literary, musical, or artistic production, especially one showing study and care in arrangement; -- often used of an elementary essay or translation done as an educational exercise.-consistency; accord; congruity.-mutual agreement to terms or conditions for the settlement of a difference or controversy; also, the terms or conditions of settlement; agreement.-the adjustment of a debt, or avoidance of an obligation, by some form of compensation agreed on between the parties; also, the sum or amount of compensation agreed upon in the adjustment.-synthesis as opposed to analysis.
compositor: one who composes or sets in order.-one who sets type and arranges it for use.
compost: a mixture; a compound.-a mixture for fertilizing land; esp., a composition of various substances (as muck, mold, lime, and stable manure) thoroughly mingled and decomposed, as in a compost heap.-to manure with compost.-to mingle, as different fertilizing substances, in a mass where they will decompose and form into a compost.
composure: the act of composing, or that which is composed; a composition.-orderly adjustment; disposition.-frame; make; temperament.-a settled state; calmness; sedateness; tranquillity; repose.-a combination; a union; a bond.
compote: a preparation of fruit in sirup in such a manner as to preserve its form, either whole, halved, or quartered; as, a compote of pears.
compound: in the east indies, an inclosure containing a house, outbuildings, etc.-to form or make by combining different elements, ingredients, or parts; as, to compound a medicine.-to put together, as elements, ingredients, or parts, in order to form a whole; to combine, mix, or unite.-to modify or change by combination with some other thing or part; to mingle with something else.-to compose; to constitute.-to settle amicably; to adjust by agreement; to compromise; to discharge from obligation upon terms different from those which were stipulated; as, to compound a debt.-to effect a composition; to come to terms of agreement; to agree; to settle by a compromise; -- usually followed by with before the person participating, and for before the thing compounded or the consideration.-composed of two or more elements, ingredients, parts; produced by the union of several ingredients, parts, or things; composite; as, a compound word.-that which is compounded or formed by the union or mixture of elements ingredients, or parts; a combination of simples; a compound word; the result of composition.-a union of two or more ingredients in definite proportions by weight, so combined as to form a distinct substance; as, water is a compound of oxygen and hydrogen.
compounder: one who, or that which, compounds or mixes; as, a compounder of medicines.-one who attempts to bring persons or parties to terms of agreement, or to accomplish, ends by compromises.-one who compounds a debt, obligation, or crime.-one at a university who pays extraordinary fees for the degree he is to take.-a jacobite who favored the restoration of james ii, on condition of a general amnesty and of guarantees for the security of the civil and ecclesiastical constitution of the realm.
comprehend: to contain; to embrace; to include; as, the states comprehended in the austrian empire.-to take in or include by construction or implication; to comprise; to imply.-to take into the mind; to grasp with the understanding; to apprehend the meaning of; to understand.
comprehensible: capable of being comprehended, included, or comprised.-capable of being understood; intelligible; conceivable by the mind.
comprehensibly: with great extent of signification; comprehensively.-intelligibly; in a manner to be comprehended or understood.
comprehension: the act of comprehending, containing, or comprising; inclusion.-that which is comprehended or inclosed within narrow limits; a summary; an epitome.-the capacity of the mind to perceive and understand; the power, act, or process of grasping with the intellect; perception; understanding; as, a comprehension of abstract principles.-the complement of attributes which make up the notion signified by a general term.-a figure by which the name of a whole is put for a part, or that of a part for a whole, or a definite number for an indefinite.
comprehensive: including much; comprising many things; having a wide scope or a full view.-having the power to comprehend or understand many things.-possessing peculiarities that are characteristic of several diverse groups.
compress: to press or squeeze together; to force into a narrower compass; to reduce the volume of by pressure; to compact; to condense; as, to compress air or water.-to embrace sexually.-a folded piece of cloth, pledget of lint, etc., used to cover the dressing of wounds, and so placed as, by the aid of a bandage, to make due pressure on any part.
compressed: of compress-pressed together; compacted; reduced in volume by pressure.-flattened lengthwise.
compressibility: the quality of being compressible of being compressible; as, the compressibility of elastic fluids.
compressible: capable of being pressed together or forced into a narrower compass, as an elastic or spongy substance.
compressive: compressing, or having power or tendency to compress; as, a compressive force.
compressor: anything which serves to compress-a muscle that compresses certain parts.-an instrument for compressing an artery (esp., the femoral artery) or other part.-an apparatus for confining or flattening between glass plates an object to be examined with the microscope; -- called also compressorium.-a machine for compressing gases; especially, an air compressor.
comprint: to print together.-to print surreptitiously a work belonging to another.-the surreptitious printing of another's copy or book; a work thus printed.
compromise: a mutual agreement to refer matters in dispute to the decision of arbitrators.-a settlement by arbitration or by mutual consent reached by concession on both sides; a reciprocal abatement of extreme demands or rights, resulting in an agreement.-a committal to something derogatory or objectionable; a prejudicial concession; a surrender; as, a compromise of character or right.-to bind by mutual agreement; to agree.-to adjust and settle by mutual concessions; to compound.-to pledge by some act or declaration; to endanger the life, reputation, etc., of, by some act which can not be recalled; to expose to suspicion.-to agree; to accord.-to make concession for conciliation and peace.
compromit: to pledge by some act or declaration; to promise.-to put to hazard, by some indiscretion; to endanger; to compromise; as, to compromit the honor or the safety of a nation.
comprovincial: belonging to, or associated in, the same province.-one who belongs to the same province.