AbstractPhil/geometric-vocab-english-full-a-to-z huggingface dataset:
absence: a state of being absent or withdrawn from a place or from companionship; -- opposed to presence.-want; destitution; withdrawal.-inattention to things present; abstraction (of mind); as, absence of mind.
absent: being away from a place; withdrawn from a place; not present.-not existing; lacking; as, the part was rudimental or absent.-inattentive to what is passing; absent-minded; preoccupied; as, an absent air.-to take or withdraw (one's self) to such a distance as to prevent intercourse; -- used with the reflexive pronoun.-to withhold from being present.
absentee: one who absents himself from his country, office, post, or duty; especially, a landholder who lives in another country or district than that where his estate is situated; as, an irish absentee.
absenteeism: the state or practice of an absentee; esp. the practice of absenting one's self from the country or district where one's estate is situated.
absinthe: the plant absinthium or common wormwood.-a strong spirituous liqueur made from wormwood and brandy or alcohol.
absinthium: the common wormwood (artemisia absinthium), an intensely bitter plant, used as a tonic and for making the oil of wormwood.
absolute: loosed from any limitation or condition; uncontrolled; unrestricted; unconditional; as, absolute authority, monarchy, sovereignty, an absolute promise or command; absolute power; an absolute monarch.-complete in itself; perfect; consummate; faultless; as, absolute perfection; absolute beauty.-viewed apart from modifying influences or without comparison with other objects; actual; real; -- opposed to relative and comparative; as, absolute motion; absolute time or space.-loosed from, or unconnected by, dependence on any other being; self-existent; self-sufficing.-capable of being thought or conceived by itself alone; unconditioned; non-relative.-positive; clear; certain; not doubtful.-authoritative; peremptory.-pure; unmixed; as, absolute alcohol.-not immediately dependent on the other parts of the sentence in government; as, the case absolute. see ablative absolute, under ablative.-in a plane, the two imaginary circular points at infinity; in space of three dimensions, the imaginary circle at infinity.
absoluteness: the quality of being absolute; independence of everything extraneous; unlimitedness; absolute power; independent reality; positiveness.
absolution: an absolving, or setting free from guilt, sin, or penalty; forgiveness of an offense.-an acquittal, or sentence of a judge declaring and accused person innocent.-the exercise of priestly jurisdiction in the sacrament of penance, by which catholics believe the sins of the truly penitent are forgiven.-an absolving from ecclesiastical penalties, -- for example, excommunication.-the form of words by which a penitent is absolved.-delivery, in speech.
absolutism: the state of being absolute; the system or doctrine of the absolute; the principles or practice of absolute or arbitrary government; despotism.-doctrine of absolute decrees.
absolutist: one who is in favor of an absolute or autocratic government.-one who believes that it is possible to realize a cognition or concept of the absolute.-of or pertaining to absolutism; arbitrary; despotic; as, absolutist principles.
absolve: to set free, or release, as from some obligation, debt, or responsibility, or from the consequences of guilt or such ties as it would be sin or guilt to violate; to pronounce free; as, to absolve a subject from his allegiance; to absolve an offender, which amounts to an acquittal and remission of his punishment.-to free from a penalty; to pardon; to remit (a sin); -- said of the sin or guilt.-to finish; to accomplish.-to resolve or explain.
absorb: to swallow up; to engulf; to overwhelm; to cause to disappear as if by swallowing up; to use up; to include.-to suck up; to drink in; to imbibe; as a sponge or as the lacteals of the body.-to engross or engage wholly; to occupy fully; as, absorbed in study or the pursuit of wealth.-to take up by cohesive, chemical, or any molecular action, as when charcoal absorbs gases. so heat, light, and electricity are absorbed or taken up in the substances into which they pass.
absorbent: absorbing; swallowing; absorptive.-anything which absorbs.-any substance which absorbs and neutralizes acid fluid in the stomach and bowels, as magnesia, chalk, etc.; also a substance e. g., iodine) which acts on the absorbent vessels so as to reduce enlarged and indurated parts.-the vessels by which the processes of absorption are carried on, as the lymphatics in animals, the extremities of the roots in plants.
absorbing: of absorb-swallowing, engrossing; as, an absorbing pursuit.
absorption: the act or process of absorbing or sucking in anything, or of being absorbed and made to disappear; as, the absorption of bodies in a whirlpool, the absorption of a smaller tribe into a larger.-an imbibing or reception by molecular or chemical action; as, the absorption of light, heat, electricity, etc.-in living organisms, the process by which the materials of growth and nutrition are absorbed and conveyed to the tissues and organs.-entire engrossment or occupation of the mind; as, absorption in some employment.
absque hoc: the technical words of denial used in traversing what has been alleged, and is repeated.
abstain: to hold one's self aloof; to forbear or refrain voluntarily, and especially from an indulgence of the passions or appetites; -- with from.-to hinder; to withhold.
abstainer: one who abstains; esp., one who abstains from the use of intoxicating liquors.
abstemious: abstaining from wine.-sparing in diet; refraining from a free use of food and strong drinks; temperate; abstinent; sparing in the indulgence of the appetite or passions.-sparingly used; used with temperance or moderation; as, an abstemious diet.-marked by, or spent in, abstinence; as, an abstemious life.-promotive of abstemiousness.
abstemiousness: the quality of being abstemious, temperate, or sparing in the use of food and strong drinks. it expresses a greater degree of abstinence than temperance.
absterge: to make clean by wiping; to wipe away; to cleanse; hence, to purge.
abstergent: serving to cleanse, detergent.-a substance used in cleansing; a detergent; as, soap is an abstergent.
abstinence: the act or practice of abstaining; voluntary forbearance of any action, especially the refraining from an indulgence of appetite, or from customary gratifications of animal or sensual propensities. specifically, the practice of abstaining from intoxicating beverages, -- called also total abstinence.-the practice of self-denial by depriving one's self of certain kinds of food or drink, especially of meat.
abstinent: refraining from indulgence, especially from the indulgence of appetite; abstemious; continent; temperate.-one who abstains.-one of a sect who appeared in france and spain in the 3d century.
abstract: withdraw; separate.-considered apart from any application to a particular object; separated from matter; existing in the mind only; as, abstract truth, abstract numbers.  hence: ideal; abstruse; difficult.-expressing a particular property of an object viewed apart from the other properties which constitute it; -- opposed to concrete; as, honesty is an abstract word.-resulting from the mental faculty of abstraction; general as opposed to particular; as, "reptile" is an abstract or general name.-abstracted; absent in mind.-to withdraw; to separate; to take away.-to draw off in respect to interest or attention; as, his was wholly abstracted by other objects.-to separate, as ideas, by the operation of the mind; to consider by itself; to contemplate separately, as a quality or attribute.-to epitomize; to abridge.-to take secretly or dishonestly; to purloin; as, to abstract goods from a parcel, or money from a till.-to separate, as the more volatile or soluble parts of a substance, by distillation or other chemical processes. in this sense extract is now more generally used.-to perform the process of abstraction.-that which comprises or concentrates in itself the essential qualities of a larger thing or of several things. specifically: a summary or an epitome, as of a treatise or book, or of a statement; a brief.-a state of separation from other things; as, to consider a subject in the abstract, or apart from other associated things.-an abstract term.-a powdered solid extract of a vegetable substance mixed with sugar of milk in such proportion that one part of the abstract represents two parts of the original substance.
abstracted: of abstract-separated or disconnected; withdrawn; removed; apart.-separated from matter; abstract; ideal.-abstract; abstruse; difficult.-inattentive to surrounding objects; absent in mind.
abstraction: the act of abstracting, separating, or withdrawing, or the state of being withdrawn; withdrawal.-the act process of leaving out of consideration one or more properties of a complex object so as to attend to others; analysis. thus, when the mind considers the form of a tree by itself, or the color of the leaves as separate from their size or figure, the act is called abstraction. so, also, when it considers whiteness, softness, virtue, existence, as separate from any particular objects.-an idea or notion of an abstract, or theoretical nature; as, to fight for mere abstractions.-a separation from worldly objects; a recluse life; as, a hermit's abstraction.-absence or absorption of mind; inattention to present objects.-the taking surreptitiously for one's own use part of the property of another; purloining.-a separation of volatile parts by the act of distillation.
abstractly: in an abstract state or manner; separately; absolutely; by itself; as, matter abstractly considered.
abstruse: concealed or hidden out of the way.-remote from apprehension; difficult to be comprehended or understood; recondite; as, abstruse learning.
absurd: contrary to reason or propriety; obviously and fiatly opposed to manifest truth; inconsistent with the plain dictates of common sense; logically contradictory; nonsensical; ridiculous; as, an absurd person, an absurd opinion; an absurd dream.-an absurdity.
absurdity: the quality of being absurd or inconsistent with obvious truth, reason, or sound judgment.-that which is absurd; an absurd action; a logical contradiction.
abundance: an overflowing fullness; ample sufficiency; great plenty; profusion; copious supply; superfluity; wealth: -- strictly applicable to quantity only, but sometimes used of number.
abundant: fully sufficient; plentiful; in copious supply; -- followed by in, rarely by with.
abundantly: in a sufficient degree; fully; amply; plentifully; in large measure.
abuse: to put to a wrong use; to misapply; to misuse; to put to a bad use; to use for a wrong purpose or end; to pervert; as, to abuse inherited gold; to make an excessive use of; as, to abuse one's authority.-to use ill; to maltreat; to act injuriously to; to punish or to tax excessively; to hurt; as, to abuse prisoners, to abuse one's powers, one's patience.-to revile; to reproach coarsely; to disparage.-to dishonor.-to violate; to ravish.-to deceive; to impose on.-improper treatment or use; application to a wrong or bad purpose; misuse; as, an abuse of our natural powers; an abuse of civil rights, or of privileges or advantages; an abuse of language.-physical ill treatment; injury.-a corrupt practice or custom; offense; crime; fault; as, the abuses in the civil service.-vituperative words; coarse, insulting speech; abusive language; virulent condemnation; reviling.-violation; rape; as, abuse of a female child.
abusion: evil or corrupt usage; abuse; wrong; reproach; deception; cheat.
abusive: wrongly used; perverted; misapplied.-given to misusing; also, full of abuses.-practicing abuse; prone to ill treat by coarse, insulting words or by other ill usage; as, an abusive author; an abusive fellow.-containing abuse, or serving as the instrument of abuse; vituperative; reproachful; scurrilous.-tending to deceive; fraudulent; cheating.
abusiveness: the quality of being abusive; rudeness of language, or violence to the person.
abut: to project; to terminate or border; to be contiguous; to meet; -- with on, upon, or against; as, his land abuts on the road.
abutilon: a genus of malvaceous plants of many species, found in the torrid and temperate zones of both continents; -- called also indian mallow.
abutment: state of abutting.-that on or against which a body abuts or presses-the solid part of a pier or wall, etc., which receives the thrust or lateral pressure of an arch, vault, or strut.-a fixed point or surface from which resistance or reaction is obtained, as the cylinder head of a steam engine, the fulcrum of a lever, etc.-in breech-loading firearms, the block behind the barrel which receives the pressure due to recoil.
abuttal: the butting or boundary of land, particularly at the end; a headland.
abutter: one who, or that which, abuts. specifically, the owner of a contiguous estate; as, the abutters on a street or a river.
abye: to pay for; to suffer for; to atone for; to make amends for; to give satisfaction.-to endure; to abide.
abysmal: pertaining to, or resembling, an abyss; bottomless; unending; profound.
abyss: a bottomless or unfathomed depth, gulf, or chasm; hence, any deep, immeasurable, and, specifically, hell, or the bottomless pit.-infinite time; a vast intellectual or moral depth.-the center of an escutcheon.
abyssal: belonging to, or resembling, an abyss; unfathomable.
abyssinian: of or pertaining to abyssinia.-a native of abyssinia.-a member of the abyssinian church.
acacia: a roll or bag, filled with dust, borne by byzantine emperors, as a memento of mortality. it is represented on medals.-a genus of leguminous trees and shrubs. nearly 300 species are australian or polynesian, and have terete or vertically compressed leaf stalks, instead of the bipinnate leaves of the much fewer species of america, africa, etc.  very few are found in temperate climates.-the inspissated juice of several species of acacia; -- called also gum acacia, and gum arabic.
academic: alt. of academical-one holding the philosophy of socrates and plato; a platonist.-a member of an academy, college, or university; an academician.
academical: belonging to the school or philosophy of plato; as, the academic sect or philosophy.-belonging to an academy or other higher institution of learning; scholarly; literary or classical, in distinction from scientific.
academician: a member of an academy, or society for promoting science, art, or literature, as of the french academy, or the royal academy of arts.-a collegian.
academicism: a tenet of the academic philosophy.-a mannerism or mode peculiar to an academy.
academy: a garden or grove near athens (so named from the hero academus), where plato and his followers held their philosophical conferences; hence, the school of philosophy of which plato was head.-an institution for the study of higher learning; a college or a university. popularly, a school, or seminary of learning, holding a rank between a college and a common school.-a place of training; a school.-a society of learned men united for the advancement of the arts and sciences, and literature, or some particular art or science; as, the french academy; the american academy of arts and sciences; academies of literature and philology.-a school or place of training in which some special art is taught; as, the military academy at west point; a riding academy; the academy of music.
acadian: of or pertaining to acadie, or nova scotia.-a native of acadie.
acajou: the cashew tree; also, its fruit. see cashew.-the mahogany tree; also, its timber.
acalephae: a group of coelenterata, including the medusae or jellyfishes, and hydroids; -- so called from the stinging power they possess. sometimes called sea nettles.
acantha: a prickle.-a spine or prickly fin.-the vertebral column; the spinous process of a vertebra.
acanthaceous: armed with prickles, as a plant.-of, pertaining to, or resembling, the family of plants of which the acanthus is the type.
acanthocephala: a group of intestinal worms, having the proboscis armed with recurved spines.
acanthocephalous: having a spiny head, as one of the acanthocephala.
acanthopteri: a group of teleostean fishes having spiny fins. see acanthopterygii.
acanthopterygian: belonging to the order of fishes having spinose fins, as the perch.-a spiny-finned fish.
acanthopterygii: an order of fishes having some of the rays of the dorsal, ventral, and anal fins unarticulated and spinelike, as the perch.
acanthopterygious: having fins in which the rays are hard and spinelike; spiny-finned.
acanthus: a genus of herbaceous prickly plants, found in the south of europe, asia minor, and india; bear's-breech.-an ornament resembling the foliage or leaves of the acanthus (acanthus spinosus); -- used in the capitals of the corinthian and composite orders.
acaridan: one of a group of arachnids, including the mites and ticks.
acarina: the group of arachnida which includes the mites and ticks. many species are parasitic, and cause diseases like the itch and mange.
acatalectic: not defective; complete; as, an acatalectic verse.-a verse which has the complete number of feet and syllables.
acatalepsy: incomprehensibility of things; the doctrine held by the ancient skeptic philosophers, that human knowledge never amounts to certainty, but only to probability.
acaulescent: having no stem or caulis, or only a very short one concealed in the ground.
accadian: pertaining to a race supposed to have lived in babylonia before the assyrian conquest.
accede: to approach; to come forward; -- opposed to recede.-to enter upon an office or dignity; to attain.-to become a party by associating one's self with others; to give one's adhesion. hence, to agree or assent to a proposal or a view; as, he acceded to my request.
accelerate: to cause to move faster; to quicken the motion of; to add to the speed of; -- opposed to retard.-to quicken the natural or ordinary progression or process of; as, to accelerate the growth of a plant, the increase of wealth, etc.-to hasten, as the occurence of an event; as, to accelerate our departure.
acceleration: the act of accelerating, or the state of being accelerated; increase of motion or action; as, a falling body moves toward the earth with an acceleration of velocity; -- opposed to retardation.
accelerator: one who, or that which, accelerates. also as an adj.; as, accelerator nerves.
accent: a superior force of voice or of articulative effort upon some particular syllable of a word or a phrase, distinguishing it from the others.-a mark or character used in writing, and serving to regulate the pronunciation; esp.: (a) a mark to indicate the nature and place of the spoken accent; (b) a mark to indicate the quality of sound of the vowel marked; as, the french accents.-modulation of the voice in speaking; manner of speaking or pronouncing; peculiar or characteristic modification of the voice; tone; as, a foreign accent; a french or a german accent.-a word; a significant tone-expressions in general; speech.-stress laid on certain syllables of a verse.-a regularly recurring stress upon the tone to mark the beginning, and, more feebly, the third part of the measure.-a special emphasis of a tone, even in the weaker part of the measure.-the rhythmical accent, which marks phrases and sections of a period.-the expressive emphasis and shading of a passage.-a mark placed at the right hand of a letter, and a little above it, to distinguish magnitudes of a similar kind expressed by the same letter, but differing in value, as y', y''.-a mark at the right hand of a number, indicating minutes of a degree, seconds, etc.; as, 12'27'', i. e., twelve minutes twenty seven seconds.-a mark used to denote feet and inches; as, 6' 10'' is six feet ten inches.-to express the accent of (either by the voice or by a mark); to utter or to mark with accent.-to mark emphatically; to emphasize.
accentor: one who sings the leading part; the director or leader.-a genus of european birds (so named from their sweet notes), including the hedge warbler. in america sometimes applied to the water thrushes.
accentuate: to pronounce with an accent or with accents.-to bring out distinctly; to make prominent; to emphasize.-to mark with the written accent.
accentuation: act of accentuating; applications of accent.-pitch or modulation of the voice in reciting portions of the liturgy.
accept: to receive with a consenting mind (something offered); as, to accept a gift; -- often followed by of.-to receive with favor; to approve.-to receive or admit and agree to; to assent to; as, i accept your proposal, amendment, or excuse.-to take by the mind; to understand; as, how are these words to be accepted?-to receive as obligatory and promise to pay; as, to accept a bill of exchange.-in a deliberate body, to receive in acquittance of a duty imposed; as, to accept the report of a committee. [this makes it the property of the body, and the question is then on its adoption.]-accepted.
acceptable: capable, worthy, or sure of being accepted or received with pleasure; pleasing to a receiver; gratifying; agreeable; welcome; as, an acceptable present, one acceptable to us.
acceptableness: the quality of being acceptable, or suitable to be favorably received; acceptability.
acceptance: the act of accepting; a receiving what is offered, with approbation, satisfaction, or acquiescence; esp., favorable reception; approval; as, the acceptance of a gift, office, doctrine, etc.-state of being accepted; acceptableness.-an assent and engagement by the person on whom a bill of exchange is drawn, to pay it when due according to the terms of the acceptance.-the bill itself when accepted.-an agreeing to terms or proposals by which a bargain is concluded and the parties are bound; the reception or taking of a thing bought as that for which it was bought, or as that agreed to be delivered, or the taking possession as owner.-an agreeing to the action of another, by some act which binds the person in law.-meaning; acceptation.
acceptation: acceptance; reception; favorable reception or regard; state of being acceptable.-the meaning in which a word or expression is understood, or generally received; as, term is to be used according to its usual acceptation.
accepter: a person who accepts; a taker.-a respecter; a viewer with partiality.-an acceptor.
acceptilation: gratuitous discharge; a release from debt or obligation without payment; free remission.
acceptor: one who accepts-one who accepts an order or a bill of exchange; a drawee after he has accepted.
access: a coming to, or near approach; admittance; admission; accessibility; as, to gain access to a prince.-the means, place, or way by which a thing may be approached; passage way; as, the access is by a neck of land.-admission to sexual intercourse.-increase by something added; addition; as, an access of territory. [in this sense accession is more generally used.]-an onset, attack, or fit of disease.-a paroxysm; a fit of passion; an outburst; as, an access of fury.
accessary: accompanying, as a subordinate; additional; accessory; esp., uniting in, or contributing to, a crime, but not as chief actor. see accessory.-one who, not being present, contributes as an assistant or instigator to the commission of an offense.
accessible: easy of access or approach; approachable; as, an accessible town or mountain, an accessible person.-open to the influence of; -- with to.-obtainable; to be got at.