AbstractPhil/geometric-vocab-english-full-a-to-z huggingface dataset:
anti-federalist: one of party opposed to a federative government; -- applied particularly to the party which opposed the adoption of the constitution of the united states.
antiae: the two projecting feathered angles of the forehead of some birds; the frontal points.
antialbumid: a body formed from albumin by pancreatic and gastric digestion. it is convertible into antipeptone.
antiar: a virulent poison prepared in java from the gum resin of one species of the upas tree (antiaris toxicaria).
antiattrition: anything to prevent the effects of friction, esp. a compound lubricant for machinery, etc., often consisting of plumbago, with some greasy material; antifriction grease.
antibacchius: a foot of three syllables, the first two long, and the last short (#).
antibrachium: that part of the fore limb between the brachium and the carpus; the forearm.
antiburgher: one who seceded from the burghers (1747), deeming it improper to take the burgess oath.
antic: old; antique.-nan-odd; fantastic; fanciful; grotesque; ludicrous.-a buffoon or merry-andrew; one that practices odd gesticulations; the fool of the old play.-an odd imagery, device, or tracery; a fantastic figure.-a grotesque trick; a piece of buffoonery; a caper.-a grotesque representation.-an antimask.-to make appear like a buffoon.-to perform antics.
anticatarrhal: efficacious against catarrh.-an anticatarrhal remedy.
anticathode: the part of a vacuum tube opposite the cathode. upon it the cathode rays impinge.
antichlor: any substance (but especially sodium hyposulphite) used in removing the excess of chlorine left in paper pulp or stuffs after bleaching.
antichrist: a denier or opponent of christ. specif.: a great antagonist, person or power, expected to precede christ's second coming.
antichthon: a hypothetical earth counter to ours, or on the opposite side of the sun.-inhabitants of opposite hemispheres.
anticipate: to be before in doing; to do or take before another; to preclude or prevent by prior action.-to take up or introduce beforehand, or before the proper or normal time; to cause to occur earlier or prematurely; as, the advocate has anticipated a part of his argument.-to foresee (a wish, command, etc.) and do beforehand that which will be desired.-to foretaste or foresee; to have a previous view or impression of; as, to anticipate the pleasures of a visit; to anticipate the evils of life.
anticipation: the act of anticipating, taking up, placing, or considering something beforehand, or before the proper time in natural order.-previous view or impression of what is to happen; instinctive prevision; foretaste; antepast; as, the anticipation of the joys of heaven.-hasty notion; intuitive preconception.-the commencing of one or more tones of a chord with or during the chord preceding, forming a momentary discord.
anticlastic: having to opposite curvatures, that is, curved longitudinally in one direction and transversely in the opposite direction, as the surface of a saddle.
anticlimax: a sentence in which the ideas fall, or become less important and striking, at the close; -- the opposite of climax. it produces a ridiculous effect.
anticlinal: inclining or dipping in opposite directions. see synclinal.-the crest or line in which strata slope or dip in opposite directions.
anticlinorium: the upward elevation of the crust of the earth, resulting from a geanticlinal.
anticous: facing toward the axis of the flower, as in the introrse anthers of the water lily.
anticyclone: a movement of the atmosphere opposite in character, as regards direction of the wind and distribution of barometric pressure, to that of a cyclone.
antidotal: having the quality an antidote; fitted to counteract the effects of poison.
antidote: a remedy to counteract the effects of poison, or of anything noxious taken into the stomach; -- used with against, for, or to; as, an antidote against, for, or to, poison.-whatever tends to prevent mischievous effects, or to counteract evil which something else might produce.-to counteract or prevent the effects of, by giving or taking an antidote.-to fortify or preserve by an antidote.
antifriction: something to lessen friction; antiattrition.-tending to lessen friction.
antiguggler: a crooked tube of metal, to be introduced into the neck of a bottle for drawing out the liquid without disturbing the sediment or causing a gurgling noise.
antihelix: the curved elevation of the cartilage of the ear, within or in front of the helix. see ear.
antihypochondriac: counteractive of hypochondria.-a remedy for hypochondria.
antilegomena: certain books of the new testament which were for a time not universally received, but which are now considered canonical. these are the epistle to the hebrews, the epistles of james and jude, the second epistle of peter, the second and third epistles of john, and the revelation. the undisputed books are called the homologoumena.
antilithic: tending to prevent the formation of urinary calculi, or to destroy them when formed.-an antilithic medicine.
antilogarithm: the number corresponding to a logarithm. the word has been sometimes, though rarely, used to denote the complement of a given logarithm; also the logarithmic cosine corresponding to a given logarithmic sine.
antimacassar: a cover for the back or arms of a chair or sofa, etc., to prevent them from being soiled by macassar or other oil from the hair.
antimask: a secondary mask, or grotesque interlude, between the parts of a serious mask.
antimephitic: good against mephitic or deleterious gases.-a remedy against mephitic gases.
antimere: one of the two halves of bilaterally symmetrical animals; one of any opposite symmetrical or homotypic parts in animals and plants.
antimetabole: a figure in which the same words or ideas are repeated in transposed order.
antimonic: pertaining to, or derived from, antimony; -- said of those compounds of antimony in which this element has its highest equivalence; as, antimonic acid.
antimonious: pertaining to, or derived from, antimony; -- said of those compounds of antimony in which this element has an equivalence next lower than the highest; as, antimonious acid.
antimonite: a compound of antimonious acid and a base or basic radical.-stibnite.
antimony: an elementary substance, resembling a metal in its appearance and physical properties, but in its chemical relations belonging to the class of nonmetallic substances. atomic weight, 120. symbol, sb.
antinephritic: counteracting, or deemed of use in, diseases of the kidneys.-an antinephritic remedy.
antinomian: of or pertaining to the antinomians; opposed to the doctrine that the moral law is obligatory.-one who maintains that, under the gospel dispensation, the moral law is of no use or obligation, but that faith alone is necessary to salvation. the sect of antinomians originated with john agricola, in germany, about the year 1535.
antinomy: opposition of one law or rule to another law or rule.-an opposing law or rule of any kind.-a contradiction or incompatibility of thought or language; -- in the kantian philosophy, such a contradiction as arises from the attempt to apply to the ideas of the reason, relations or attributes which are appropriate only to the facts or the concepts of experience.
antiochian: pertaining to antiochus, a contemporary with cicero, and the founder of a sect of philosophers.-of or pertaining to the city of antioch, in syria.
antiodontalgic: efficacious in curing toothache.-a remedy for toothache.
antiparallels: straight lines or planes which make angles in some respect opposite in character to those made by parallel lines or planes.
antipathetical: having a natural contrariety, or constitutional aversion, to a thing; characterized by antipathy; -- often followed by to.
antipathy: contrariety or opposition in feeling; settled aversion or dislike; repugnance; distaste.-natural contrariety; incompatibility; repugnancy of qualities; as, oil and water have antipathy.
antipeptone: a product of gastric and pancreatic digestion, differing from hemipeptone in not being decomposed by the continued action of pancreatic juice.
antiperiodic: a remedy possessing the property of preventing the return of periodic paroxysms, or exacerbations, of disease, as in intermittent fevers.
antiperistaltic: opposed to, or checking motion; acting upward; -- applied to an inverted action of the intestinal tube.
antiperistasis: opposition by which the quality opposed asquires strength; resistance or reaction roused by opposition or by the action of an opposite principle or quality.
antiphlogistic: opposed to the doctrine of phlogiston.-counteracting inflammation.-any medicine or diet which tends to check inflammation.
antiphon: a musical response; alternate singing or chanting. see antiphony, and antiphone.-a verse said before and after the psalms.
antiphonal: of or pertaining to antiphony, or alternate singing; sung alternately by a divided choir or opposite choirs.-a book of antiphons or anthems.
antiphonary: a book containing a collection of antiphons; the book in which the antiphons of the breviary, with their musical notes, are contained.
antiphone: the response which one side of the choir makes to the other in a chant; alternate chanting or signing.
antiphony: a musical response; also, antiphonal chanting or signing.-an anthem or psalm sung alternately by a choir or congregation divided into two parts. also figuratively.
antiphrasis: the use of words in a sense opposite to their proper meaning; as when a court of justice is called a court of vengeance.
antiphthisic: relieving or curing phthisis, or consumption.-a medicine for phthisis.
antiphysical: contrary to nature; unnatural.-relieving flatulence; carminative.
antiplastic: diminishing plasticity.-preventing or checking the process of healing, or granulation.
antipodal: pertaining to the antipodes; situated on the opposite side of the globe.-diametrically opposite.
antipodean: pertaining to the antipodes, or the opposite side of the world; antipodal.
antipodes: those who live on the side of the globe diametrically opposite.-the country of those who live on the opposite side of the globe.-anything exactly opposite or contrary.
antipope: one who is elected, or claims to be, pope in opposition to the pope canonically chosen; esp. applied to those popes who resided at avignon during the great schism.
antiputrescent: counteracting, or preserving from, putrefaction; antiseptic.
antipyrotic: good against burns or pyrosis.-anything of use in preventing or healing burns or pyrosis.
antiquarian: pertaining to antiquaries, or to antiquity; as, antiquarian literature.-an antiquary.-a drawing paper of large size. see under paper, n.
antiquary: pertaining to antiquity.-one devoted to the study of ancient times through their relics, as inscriptions, monuments, remains of ancient habitations, statues, coins, manuscripts, etc.; one who searches for and studies the relics of antiquity.
antiquate: to make old, or obsolete; to make antique; to make old in such a degree as to put out of use; hence, to make void, or abrogate.
antiquated: grown old. hence: bygone; obsolete; out of use; old-fashioned; as, an antiquated law.
antique: old; ancient; of genuine antiquity; as, an antique statue. in this sense it usually refers to the flourishing ages of greece and rome.-old, as respects the present age, or a modern period of time; of old fashion; antiquated; as, an antique robe.-made in imitation of antiquity; as, the antique style of thomson's "castle of indolence."-odd; fantastic.-in general, anything very old; but in a more limited sense, a relic or object of ancient art; collectively, the antique, the remains of ancient art, as busts, statues, paintings, and vases.
antiquity: the quality of being ancient; ancientness; great age; as, a statue of remarkable antiquity; a family of great antiquity.-old age.-ancient times; former ages; times long since past; as, cicero was an eloquent orator of antiquity.-the ancients; the people of ancient times.-an old gentleman.-a relic or monument of ancient times; as, a coin, a statue, etc.; an ancient institution. [in this sense, usually in the plural.]
antirenter: one opposed to the payment of rent; esp. one of those who in 1840-47 resisted the collection of rents claimed by the patroons from the settlers on certain manorial lands in the state of new york.
antisabbatarian: one of a sect which opposes the observance of the christian sabbath.
antiscii: the inhabitants of the earth, living on different sides of the equator, whose shadows at noon are cast in opposite directions.
antiseptic: alt. of antiseptical-a substance which prevents or retards putrefaction, or destroys, or protects from, putrefactive organisms; as, salt, carbolic acid, alcohol, cinchona.
antiseptical: counteracting or preventing putrefaction, or a putrescent tendency in the system; antiputrefactive.
antisocial: tending to interrupt or destroy social intercourse; averse to society, or hostile to its existence; as, antisocial principles.
antisolar: opposite to the sun; -- said of the point in the heavens 180¡ distant from the sun.
antispasmodic: good against spasms.-a medicine which prevents or allays spasms or convulsions.
antispast: a foot of four syllables, the first and fourth short, and the second and third long (#).
antispastic: believed to cause a revulsion of fluids or of humors from one part to another.-counteracting spasms; antispasmodic.-an antispastic agent.
antisplenetic: good as a remedy against disease of the spleen.-an antisplenetic medicine.
antistrophe: in greek choruses and dances, the returning of the chorus, exactly answering to a previous strophe or movement from right to left. hence: the lines of this part of the choral song.-the repetition of words in an inverse order; as, the master of the servant and the servant of the master.-the retort or turning of an adversary's plea against him.
antithesis: an opposition or contrast of words or sentiments occurring in the same sentence; as, "the prodigal robs his heir; the miser robs himself."  "he had covertly shot at cromwell; he how openly aimed at the queen."-the second of two clauses forming an antithesis.-opposition; contrast.
antithetical: pertaining to antithesis, or opposition of words and sentiments; containing, or of the nature of, antithesis; contrasted.
antitoxine: a substance (sometimes the product of a specific micro-organism and sometimes naturally present in the blood or tissues of an animal), capable of producing immunity from certain diseases, or of counteracting the poisonous effects of pathogenic bacteria.
antitragus: a prominence on the lower posterior portion of the concha of the external ear, opposite the tragus. see ear.
antitrochanter: an articular surface on the ilium of birds against which the great trochanter of the femur plays.
antitropous: at the extremity most remote from the hilum, as the embryo, or inverted with respect to the seed, as the radicle.
antitype: that of which the type is the pattern or representation; that which is represented by the type or symbol.
antler: the entire horn, or any branch of the horn, of a cervine animal, as of a stag.
antlia: the spiral tubular proboscis of lepidopterous insects. see lepidoptera.
antoecians: those who live under the same meridian, but on opposite parallels of latitude, north and south of the equator.
antonomasia: the use of some epithet or the name of some office, dignity, or the like, instead of the proper name of the person; as when his majesty is used for a king, or when, instead of aristotle, we say, the philosopher; or, conversely, the use of a proper name instead of an appellative, as when a wise man is called a solomon, or an eminent orator a cicero.
antonym: a word of opposite meaning; a counterterm; -- used as a correlative of synonym.
antorbital: pertaining to, or situated in, the region of the front of the orbit.-the antorbital bone.
antozone: a compound formerly supposed to be modification of oxygen, but now known to be hydrogen dioxide; -- so called because apparently antagonistic to ozone, converting it into ordinary oxygen.
anubis: an egyptian deity, the conductor of departed spirits, represented by a human figure with the head of a dog or fox.
anura: one of the orders of amphibians characterized by the absence of a tail, as the frogs and toads.
anus: the posterior opening of the alimentary canal, through which the excrements are expelled.
anvil: an iron block, usually with a steel face, upon which metals are hammered and shaped.-anything resembling an anvil in shape or use.-the incus. see incus.-to form or shape on an anvil; to hammer out; as, anviled armor.
anxiety: concern or solicitude respecting some thing or event, future or uncertain, which disturbs the mind, and keeps it in a state of painful uneasiness.-eager desire.-a state of restlessness and agitation, often with general indisposition and a distressing sense of oppression at the epigastrium.
anxious: full of anxiety or disquietude; greatly concerned or solicitous, esp. respecting something future or unknown; being in painful suspense; -- applied to persons; as, anxious for the issue of a battle.-accompanied with, or causing, anxiety; worrying; -- applied to things; as, anxious labor.-earnestly desirous; as, anxious to please.
any: one indifferently, out of an indefinite number; one indefinitely, whosoever or whatsoever it may be.-some, of whatever kind, quantity, or number; as, are there any witnesses present? are there any other houses like it?-to any extent; in any degree; at all.
anybody: any one out of an indefinite number of persons; anyone; any person.-a person of consideration or standing.
anything: any object, act, state, event, or fact whatever; thing of any kind; something or other; aught; as, i would not do it for anything.-expressing an indefinite comparison; -- with as or like.-in any measure; anywise; at all.
aonian: pertaining to aonia, in b/otia, or to the muses, who were supposed to dwell there.
aorist: a tense in the greek language, which expresses an action as completed in past time, but leaves it, in other respects, wholly indeterminate.
aorta: the great artery which carries the blood from the heart to all parts of the body except the lungs; the main trunk of the arterial system.
aoudad: an african sheeplike quadruped (the ammotragus tragelaphus) having a long mane on the breast and fore legs. it is, perhaps, the chamois of the old testament.
apaches: a group of nomadic north american indians including several tribes native of arizona, new mexico, etc.
apagoge: an indirect argument which proves a thing by showing the impossibility or absurdity of the contrary.
apagogical: proving indirectly, by showing the absurdity, or impossibility of the contrary.
aparejo: a kind of pack saddle used in the american military service and among the spanish americans. it is made of leather stuffed with hay, moss, or the like.
apart: separately, in regard to space or company; in a state of separation as to place; aside.-in a state of separation, of exclusion, or of distinction, as to purpose, use, or character, or as a matter of thought; separately; independently; as, consider the two propositions apart.-aside; away.-in two or more parts; asunder; to piece; as, to take a piece of machinery apart.
apartment: a room in a building; a division in a house, separated from others by partitions.-a set or suite of rooms.-a compartment.
apastron: that point in the orbit of a double star where the smaller star is farthest from its primary.
apathetical: void of feeling; not susceptible of deep emotion; passionless; indifferent.
apathy: want of feeling; privation of passion, emotion, or excitement; dispassion; -- applied either to the body or the mind. as applied to the mind, it is a calmness, indolence, or state of indifference, incapable of being ruffled or roused to active interest or exertion by pleasure, pain, or passion.
apatite: native phosphate of lime, occurring usually in six-sided prisms, color often pale green, transparent or translucent.
ape: a quadrumanous mammal, esp. of the family simiadae, having teeth of the same number and form as in man, and possessing neither a tail nor cheek pouches. the name is applied esp. to species of the genus hylobates, and is sometimes used as a general term for all quadrumana. the higher forms, the gorilla, chimpanzee, and ourang, are often called anthropoid apes or man apes.-one who imitates servilely (in allusion to the manners of the ape); a mimic.-a dupe.-to mimic, as an ape imitates human actions; to imitate or follow servilely or irrationally.
apeak: in a vertical line. the anchor in apeak, when the cable has been sufficiently hove in to bring the ship over it, and the ship is them said to be hove apeak.
apennine: of, pertaining to, or designating, the apennines, a chain of mountains extending through italy.
aperient: gently opening the bowels; laxative.-an aperient medicine or food.
aperture: the act of opening.-an opening; an open space; a gap, cleft, or chasm; a passage perforated; a hole; as, an aperture in a wall.-the diameter of the exposed part of the object glass of a telescope or other optical instrument; as, a telescope of four-inch aperture.
apery: a place where apes are kept.-the practice of aping; an apish action.
apetalous: having no petals, or flower leaves. [see illust. under anther].
apex: the tip, top, point, or angular summit of anything; as, the apex of a mountain, spire, or cone; the apex, or tip, of a leaf.-the end or edge of a vein nearest the surface.
aphakia: an anomalous state of refraction caused by the absence of the crystalline lens, as after operations for cataract. the remedy is the use of powerful convex lenses.
aphaniptera: a group of wingless insects, of which the flea in the type. see flea.
aphanite: a very compact, dark-colored /ock, consisting of hornblende, or pyroxene, and feldspar, but neither of them in perceptible grains.
aphasy: loss of the power of speech, or of the appropriate use of words, the vocal organs remaining intact, and the intelligence being preserved. it is dependent on injury or disease of the brain.
aphelion: that point of a planet's or comet's orbit which is most distant from the sun, the opposite point being the perihelion.
apheliotropism: the habit of bending from the sunlight; -- said of certain plants.
aphemia: loss of the power of speaking, while retaining the power of writing; -- a disorder of cerebral origin.
apheresis: the dropping of a letter or syllable from the beginning of a word; e. g., cute for acute.-an operation by which any part is separated from the rest.
aphesis: the loss of a short unaccented vowel at the beginning of a word; -- the result of a phonetic process; as, squire for esquire.
aphetic: shortened by dropping a letter or a syllable from the beginning of a word; as, an aphetic word or form.
aphidian: of or pertaining to the family aphidae.-one of the aphides; an aphid.
aphidophagous: feeding upon aphides, or plant lice, as do beetles of the family coccinellidae.
aphis: a genus of insects belonging to the order hemiptera and family aphidae, including numerous species known as plant lice and green flies.
aphis lion: the larva of the lacewinged flies (chrysopa), which feeds voraciously upon aphids. the name is also applied to the larvae of the ladybugs (coccinella).
aphlogistic: flameless; as, an aphlogistic lamp, in which a coil of wire is kept in a state of continued ignition by alcohol, without flame.
aphorism: a comprehensive maxim or principle expressed in a few words; a sharply defined sentence relating to abstract truth rather than to practical matters.
aphorismic: pertaining to aphorisms, or having the form of an aphorism.
aphoristical: in the form of, or of the nature of, an aphorism; in the form of short, unconnected sentences; as, an aphoristic style.
aphrodisiac: alt. of aphrodisiacal-that which (as a drug, or some kinds of food) excites to venery.
aphrodisian: pertaining to aphrodite or venus. "aphrodisian dames" [that is, courtesans].
aphrodite: the greek goddess of love, corresponding to the venus of the romans.-a large marine annelid, covered with long, lustrous, golden, hairlike setae; the sea mouse.-a beautiful butterfly (argunnis aphrodite) of the united states.
aphtha: one of the whitish specks called aphthae.-the disease, also called thrush.