AbstractPhil/geometric-vocab-english-full-a-to-z huggingface dataset:
annual: of or pertaining to a year; returning every year; coming or happening once in the year; yearly.-performed or accomplished in a year; reckoned by the year; as, the annual motion of the earth.-lasting or continuing only one year or one growing season; requiring to be renewed every year; as, an annual plant; annual tickets.-a thing happening or returning yearly; esp. a literary work published once a year.-anything, especially a plant, that lasts but one year or season; an annual plant.-a mass for a deceased person or for some special object, said daily for a year or on the anniversary day.
annuity: a sum of money, payable yearly, to continue for a given number of years, for life, or forever; an annual allowance.
annul: to reduce to nothing; to obliterate.-to make void or of no effect; to nullify; to abolish; to do away with; -- used appropriately of laws, decrees, edicts, decisions of courts, or other established rules, permanent usages, and the like, which are made void by component authority.
annular: pertaining to, or having the form of, a ring; forming a ring; ringed; ring-shaped; as, annular fibers.-banded or marked with circles.
annularity: annular condition or form; as, the annularity of a nebula.
annulata: a class of articulate animals, nearly equivalent to annelida, including the marine annelids, earthworms, gephyrea, gymnotoma, leeches, etc. see annelida.
annulated: furnished with, or composed of, rings; ringed; surrounded by rings of color.-of or pertaining to the annulata.
annulet: a little ring.-a small, flat fillet, encircling a column, etc., used by itself, or with other moldings. it is used, several times repeated, under the doric capital.-a little circle borne as a charge.-a narrow circle of some distinct color on a surface or round an organ.
annuloida: a division of the articulata, including the annelids and allied groups; sometimes made to include also the helminths and echinoderms.
annulosa: a division of the invertebrata, nearly equivalent to the articulata. it includes the arthoropoda and anarthropoda. by some zoologists it is applied to the former only.
annulose: furnished with, or composed of, rings or ringlike segments; ringed.-of or pertaining to the annulosa.
annulus: a ring; a ringlike part or space.-a space contained between the circumferences of two circles, one within the other.-the solid formed by a circle revolving around a line which is the plane of the circle but does not cut it.-ring-shaped structures or markings, found in, or upon, various animals.
annunciation: the act of announcing; announcement; proclamation; as, the annunciation of peace.-the announcement of the incarnation, made by the angel gabriel to the virgin mary.-the festival celebrated (march 25th) by the church of england, of rome, etc., in memory of the angel's announcement, on that day; lady day.
annunciator: one who announces. specifically: an officer in the church of constantinople, whose business it was to inform the people of the festivals to be celebrated.-an indicator (as in a hotel) which designates the room where attendance is wanted.
ano: a black bird of tropical america, the west indies and florida (crotophaga ani), allied to the cuckoos, and remarkable for communistic nesting.
anoa: a small wild ox of celebes (anoa depressicornis), allied to the buffalo, but having long nearly straight horns.
anode: the positive pole of an electric battery, or more strictly the electrode by which the current enters the electrolyte on its way to the other pole; -- opposed to cathode.
anodon: a genus of fresh-water bivalves, having no teeth at the hinge.
anodyne: serving to assuage pain; soothing.-any medicine which allays pain, as an opiate or narcotic; anything that soothes disturbed feelings.
anoint: to smear or rub over with oil or an unctuous substance; also, to spread over, as oil.-to apply oil to or to pour oil upon, etc., as a sacred rite, especially for consecration.-anointed.
anointment: the act of anointing, or state of being anointed; also, an ointment.
anolis: a genus of lizards which belong to the family iguanidae. they take the place in the new world of the chameleons in the old, and in america are often called chameleons.
anomaliped: alt. of anomalipede-one of a group of perching birds, having the middle toe more or less united to the outer and inner ones.
anomalistical: irregular; departing from common or established rules.-pertaining to the anomaly, or angular distance of a planet from its perihelion.
anomalous: deviating from a general rule, method, or analogy; abnormal; irregular; as, an anomalous proceeding.
anomaly: deviation from the common rule; an irregularity; anything anomalous.-the angular distance of a planet from its perihelion, as seen from the sun. this is the true anomaly. the eccentric anomaly is a corresponding angle at the center of the elliptic orbit of the planet. the mean anomaly is what the anomaly would be if the planet's angular motion were uniform.-the angle measuring apparent irregularities in the motion of a planet.-any deviation from the essential characteristics of a specific type.
anomia: a genus of bivalve shells, allied to the oyster, so called from their unequal valves, of which the lower is perforated for attachment.
anomoura: a group of decapod crustacea, of which the hermit crab in an example.
anomuran: irregular in the character of the tail or abdomen; as, the anomural crustaceans.-one of the anomura.
anon: straightway; at once.-soon; in a little while.-at another time; then; again.
anona: a genus of tropical or subtropical plants of the natural order anonaceae, including the soursop.
anonaceous: pertaining to the order of plants including the soursop, custard apple, etc.
anonym: one who is anonymous; also sometimes used for "pseudonym."-a notion which has no name, or which can not be expressed by a single english word.
anonymous: nameless; of unknown name; also, of unknown or unavowed authorship; as, an anonymous benefactor; an anonymous pamphlet or letter.
anophyte: a moss or mosslike plant which cellular stems, having usually an upward growth and distinct leaves.
anoplotherium: a genus of extinct quadrupeds of the order ungulata, whose were first found in the gypsum quarries near paris; characterized by the shortness and feebleness of their canine teeth (whence the name).
anorthite: a mineral of the feldspar family, commonly occurring in small glassy crystals, also a constituent of some igneous rocks. it is a lime feldspar. see feldspar.
anorthoscope: an optical toy for producing amusing figures or pictures by means of two revolving disks, on one of which distorted figures are painted.
another: one more, in addition to a former number; a second or additional one, similar in likeness or in effect.-not the same; different.-any or some; any different person, indefinitely; any one else; some one else.
anserated: having the extremities terminate in the heads of eagles, lions, etc.; as, an anserated cross.
anseres: a linnaean order of aquatic birds swimming by means of webbed feet, as the duck, or of lobed feet, as the grebe. in this order were included the geese, ducks, auks, divers, gulls, petrels, etc.
anseriformes: a division of birds including the geese, ducks, and closely allied forms.
anserine: pertaining to, or resembling, a goose, or the skin of a goose.-pertaining to the anseres.
answer: to speak in defense against; to reply to in defense; as, to answer a charge; to answer an accusation.-to speak or write in return to, as in return to a call or question, or to a speech, declaration, argument, or the like; to reply to (a question, remark, etc.); to respond to.-to respond to satisfactorily; to meet successfully by way of explanation, argument, or justification, and the like; to refute.-to be or act in return or response to.-to be or act in compliance with, in fulfillment or satisfaction of, as an order, obligation, demand; as, he answered my claim upon him; the servant answered the bell.-to render account to or for.-to atone; to be punished for.-to be opposite to; to face.-to be or act an equivalent to, or as adequate or sufficient for; to serve for; to repay.-to be or act in accommodation, conformity, relation, or proportion to; to correspond to; to suit.-to speak or write by way of return (originally, to a charge), or in reply; to make response.-to make a satisfactory response or return.-to render account, or to be responsible; to be accountable; to make amends; as, the man must answer to his employer for the money intrusted to his care.-to be or act in return.-to be or act by way of compliance, fulfillment, reciprocation, or satisfaction; to serve the purpose; as, gypsum answers as a manure on some soils.-to be opposite, or to act in opposition.-to be or act as an equivalent, or as adequate or sufficient; as, a very few will answer.-to be or act in conformity, or by way of accommodation, correspondence, relation, or proportion; to conform; to correspond; to suit; -- usually with to.-a reply to a change; a defense.-something said or written in reply to a question, a call, an argument, an address, or the like; a reply.-something done in return for, or in consequence of, something else; a responsive action.-a solution, the result of a mathematical operation; as, the answer to a problem.-a counter-statement of facts in a course of pleadings; a confutation of what the other party has alleged; a responsive declaration by a witness in reply to a question. in equity, it is the usual form of defense to the complainant's charges in his bill.
answerable: obliged to answer; liable to be called to account; liable to pay, indemnify, or make good; accountable; amenable; responsible; as, an agent is answerable to his principal; to be answerable for a debt, or for damages.-capable of being answered or refuted; admitting a satisfactory answer.-correspondent; conformable; hence, comparable.-proportionate; commensurate; suitable; as, an achievement answerable to the preparation for it.-equal; equivalent; adequate.
ant: a hymenopterous insect of the linnaean genus formica, which is now made a family of several genera; an emmet; a pismire.
ant egg: one of the small white egg-shaped pupae or cocoons of the ant, often seen in or about ant-hills, and popularly supposed to be eggs.
ant thrush: one of several species of tropical birds, of the old world, of the genus pitta, somewhat resembling the thrushes, and feeding chiefly on ants.-see ant bird, under ant.
ant-bear: an edentate animal of tropical america (the tamanoir), living on ants. it belongs to the genus myrmecophaga.
ant-cattle: various kinds of plant lice or aphids tended by ants for the sake of the honeydew which they secrete. see aphips.
ant-eater: one of several species of edentates and monotremes that feed upon ants. see ant-bear, pangolin, aard-vark, and echidna.
ant-hill: a mound thrown up by ants or by termites in forming their nests.
ant-lion: a neuropterous insect, the larva of which makes in the sand a pitfall to capture ants, etc. the common american species is myrmeleon obsoletus, the european is m. formicarius.
anta: a species of pier produced by thickening a wall at its termination, treated architecturally as a pilaster, with capital and base.
antacid: a remedy for acidity of the stomach, as an alkali or absorbent.-counteractive of acidity.
antagonist: one who contends with another, especially in combat; an adversary; an opponent.-a muscle which acts in opposition to another; as a flexor, which bends a part, is the antagonist of an extensor, which extends it.-a medicine which opposes the action of another medicine or of a poison when absorbed into the blood or tissues.-antagonistic; opposing; counteracting; as, antagonist schools of philosophy.
antagonistical: opposing in combat, combating; contending or acting against; as, antagonistic forces.
antagonize: to contend with; to oppose actively; to counteract.-to act in opposition.
antalgic: alleviating pain.-a medicine to alleviate pain; an anodyne.
antalkaline: anything that neutralizes, or that counteracts an alkaline tendency in the system.-of power to counteract alkalies.
antanaclasis: a figure which consists in repeating the same word in a different sense; as, learn some craft when young, that when old you may live without craft.-a repetition of words beginning a sentence, after a long parenthesis; as, shall that heart (which not only feels them, but which has all motions of life placed in them), shall that heart, etc.
antanagoge: a figure which consists in answering the charge of an adversary, by a counter charge.
antaphrodisiac: capable of blunting the venereal appetite.-anything that quells the venereal appetite.
antaphroditic: antaphrodisiac.-antisyphilitic.-an antaphroditic medicine.
antarctic: opposite to the northern or arctic pole; relating to the southern pole or to the region near it, and applied especially to a circle, distant from the pole 23¡ 28/. thus we say the antarctic pole, circle, ocean, region, current, etc.
antasthmatic: opposing, or fitted to relieve, asthma.-a remedy for asthma.
ante: each player's stake, which is put into the pool before (ante) the game begins.-to put up (an ante).
ante-: a latin preposition and prefix; akin to gr. 'anti`, skr. anti, goth. and-, anda- (only in comp.), as. and-, ond-, (only in comp.: cf. answer, along), g. ant-, ent- (in comp.). the latin ante is generally used in the sense of before, in regard to position, order, or time, and the gr. 'anti` in that of opposite, or in the place of.
antecedence: the act or state of going before in time; precedence.-an apparent motion of a planet toward the west; retrogradation.
antecedent: going before in time; prior; anterior; preceding; as, an event antecedent to the deluge; an antecedent cause.-presumptive; as, an antecedent improbability.-that which goes before in time; that which precedes.-one who precedes or goes in front.-the earlier events of one's life; previous principles, conduct, course, history.-the noun to which a relative refers; as, in the sentence "solomon was the prince who built the temple," prince is the antecedent of who.-the first or conditional part of a hypothetical proposition; as, if the earth is fixed, the sun must move.-the first of the two propositions which constitute an enthymeme or contracted syllogism; as, every man is mortal; therefore the king must die.-the first of the two terms of a ratio; the first or third of the four terms of a proportion. in the ratio a:b, a is the antecedent, and b the consequent.
antecedently: previously; before in time; at a time preceding; as, antecedently to conversion.
antechamber: a chamber or apartment before the chief apartment and leading into it, in which persons wait for audience; an outer chamber. see lobby.-a space viewed as the outer chamber or the entrance to an interior part.
antecommunion: a name given to that part of the anglican liturgy for the communion, which precedes the consecration of the elements.
antedate: prior date; a date antecedent to another which is the actual date.-anticipation.-to date before the true time; to assign to an earlier date; thus, to antedate a deed or a bond is to give it a date anterior to the true time of its execution.-to precede in time.-to anticipate; to make before the true time.
antediluvian: of or relating to the period before the deluge in noah's time; hence, antiquated; as, an antediluvian vehicle.-one who lived before the deluge.
antefix: an ornament fixed upon a frieze.-an ornament at the eaves, concealing the ends of the joint tiles of the roof.-an ornament of the cymatium of a classic cornice, sometimes pierced for the escape of water.
anteflexion: a displacement forward of an organ, esp. the uterus, in such manner that its axis is bent upon itself.
antelope: one of a group of ruminant quadrupeds, intermediate between the deer and the goat. the horns are usually annulated, or ringed. there are many species in africa and asia.
antelucan: held or being before light; -- a word applied to assemblies of christians, in ancient times of persecution, held before light in the morning.
antemeridian: being before noon; in or pertaining to the forenoon. (abbrev. a. m.)
antemetic: tending to check vomiting.-a remedy to check or allay vomiting.
antemural: an outwork of a strong, high wall, with turrets, in front of the gateway (as of an old castle), for defending the entrance.
antenicene: of or in the christian church or era, anterior to the first council of nice, held a. d. 325; as, antenicene faith.
antenna: a movable, articulated organ of sensation, attached to the heads of insects and crustacea. there are two in the former, and usually four in the latter. they are used as organs of touch, and in some species of crustacea the cavity of the ear is situated near the basal joint. in insects, they are popularly called horns, and also feelers. the term in also applied to similar organs on the heads of other arthropods and of annelids.
antennule: a small antenna; -- applied to the smaller pair of antennae or feelers of crustacea.
antependium: the hangings or screen in front of the altar; an altar cloth; the frontal.
antepenultima: the last syllable of a word except two, as -syl- in monosyllable.
antepenultimate: of or pertaining to the last syllable but two.-the antepenult.
anteposition: the placing of a before another, which, by ordinary rules, ought to follow it.
antepredicament: a prerequisite to a clear understanding of the predicaments and categories, such as definitions of common terms.
anterior: before in time; antecedent.-before, or toward the front, in place; as, the anterior part of the mouth; -- opposed to posterior.
antero-: a combining form meaning anterior, front; as, antero-posterior, front and back; antero-lateral, front side, anterior and at the side.
antestature: a small intrenchment or work of palisades, or of sacks of earth.
anteversion: a displacement of an organ, esp. of the uterus, in such manner that its whole axis is directed further forward than usual.
anthelion: a halo opposite the sun, consisting of a colored ring or rings around the shadow of the spectator's own head, as projected on a cloud or on an opposite fog bank.
anthem: formerly, a hymn sung in alternate parts, in present usage, a selection from the psalms, or other parts of the scriptures or the liturgy, set to sacred music.-a song or hymn of praise.-to celebrate with anthems.
anther: that part of the stamen containing the pollen, or fertilizing dust, which, when mature, is emitted for the impregnation of the ovary.
antheridium: the male reproductive apparatus in the lower, consisting of a cell or other cavity in which spermatozoids are produced; -- called also spermary.
antheriferous: producing anthers, as plants.-supporting anthers, as a part of a flower.
antherozooid: one of the mobile male reproductive bodies in the antheridia of cryptogams.
anthobranchia: a division of nudibranchiate mollusca, in which the gills form a wreath or cluster upon the posterior part of the back. see nudibranchiata, and doris.
anthocarpous: having some portion of the floral envelopes attached to the pericarp to form the fruit, as in the checkerberry, the mulberry, and the pineapple.
anthodium: the inflorescence of a compound flower in which many florets are gathered into a involucrate head.
anthological: pertaining to anthology; consisting of beautiful extracts from different authors, especially the poets.
anthology: a discourse on flowers.-a collection of flowers; a garland.-a collection of flowers of literature, that is, beautiful passages from authors; a collection of poems or epigrams; -- particularly applied to a collection of ancient greek epigrams.-a service book containing a selection of pieces for the festival services.
anthophore: the stipe when developed into an internode between calyx and corolla, as in the pink family.
anthophyllite: a mineral of the hornblende group, of a yellowish gray or clove brown color.
anthotaxy: the arrangement of flowers in a cluster; the science of the relative position of flowers; inflorescence.
anthozoa: the class of the coelenterata which includes the corals and sea anemones. the three principal groups or orders are acyonaria, actinaria, and madreporaria.
anthracene: a solid hydrocarbon, c6h4.c2h2.c6h4, which accompanies naphthalene in the last stages of the distillation of coal tar. its chief use is in the artificial production of alizarin.
anthracite: a hard, compact variety of mineral coal, of high luster, differing from bituminous coal in containing little or no bitumen, in consequence of which it burns with a nearly non luminous flame. the purer specimens consist almost wholly of carbon. also called glance coal and blind coal.
anthracitic: of, pertaining to, or like, anthracite; as, anthracitic formations.
anthracoid: resembling anthrax in action; of the nature of anthrax; as, an anthracoid microbe.
anthraconite: a coal-black marble, usually emitting a fetid smell when rubbed; -- called also stinkstone and swinestone.
anthraquinone: a hydrocarbon, c6h4.c2o2.c6h4, subliming in shining yellow needles. it is obtained by oxidation of anthracene.
anthrax: a carbuncle.-a malignant pustule.-a microscopic, bacterial organism (bacillus anthracis), resembling transparent rods. [see illust. under bacillus.]-an infectious disease of cattle and sheep. it is ascribed to the presence of a rod-shaped bacterium (bacillus anthracis), the spores of which constitute the contagious matter. it may be transmitted to man by inoculation. the spleen becomes greatly enlarged and filled with bacteria. called also splenic fever.
anthrenus: a genus of small beetles, several of which, in the larval state, are very destructive to woolen goods, fur, etc. the common "museum pest" is a. varius; the carpet beetle is a. scrophulariae. the larvae are commonly confounded with moths.
anthropocentric: assuming man as the center or ultimate end; -- applied to theories of the universe or of any part of it, as the solar system.
anthropoglot: an animal which has a tongue resembling that of man, as the parrot.
anthropography: that branch of anthropology which treats of the actual distribution of the human race in its different divisions, as distinguished by physical character, language, institutions, and customs, in contradistinction to ethnography, which treats historically of the origin and filiation of races and nations.
anthropoid: resembling man; -- applied especially to certain apes, as the ourang or gorilla.-an anthropoid ape.
anthropoidea: the suborder of primates which includes the monkeys, apes, and man.
anthropology: the science of the structure and functions of the human body.-the science of man; -- sometimes used in a limited sense to mean the study of man as an object of natural history, or as an animal.-that manner of expression by which the inspired writers attribute human parts and passions to god.
anthropometry: measurement of the height and other dimensions of human beings, especially at different ages, or in different races, occupations, etc.
anthropomorphism: the representation of the deity, or of a polytheistic deity, under a human form, or with human attributes and affections.-the ascription of human characteristics to things not human.
anthropomorphist: one who attributes the human form or other human attributes to the deity or to anything not human.
anthropomorphite: one who ascribes a human form or human attributes to the deity or to a polytheistic deity. taylor. specifically, one of a sect of ancient heretics who believed that god has a human form, etc. tillotson.
anthropomorphous: having the figure of, or resemblance to, a man; as, an anthropomorphous plant.
anthropopathy: the ascription of human feelings or passions to god, or to a polytheistic deity.
anthroposcopy: the art of discovering or judging of a man's character, passions. and inclinations from a study of his visible features.
anti: a prefix meaning against, opposite or opposed to, contrary, or in place of; -- used in composition in many english words. it is often shortened to ant-; as, antacid, antarctic.
anti-american: opposed to the americans, their aims, or interests, or to the genius of american institutions.