AbstractPhil/geometric-vocab-english-full-a-to-z huggingface dataset:
applaud: to show approval of by clapping the hands, acclamation, or other significant sign.-to praise by words; to express approbation of; to commend; to approve.-to express approbation loudly or significantly.
applause: the act of applauding; approbation and praise publicly expressed by clapping the hands, stamping or tapping with the feet, acclamation, huzzas, or other means; marked commendation.
apple: the fleshy pome or fruit of a rosaceous tree (pyrus malus) cultivated in numberless varieties in the temperate zones.-any tree genus pyrus which has the stalk sunken into the base of the fruit; an apple tree.-any fruit or other vegetable production resembling, or supposed to resemble, the apple; as, apple of love, or love apple (a tomato), balsam apple, egg apple, oak apple.-anything round like an apple; as, an apple of gold.-to grow like an apple; to bear apples.
apple pie: a pie made of apples (usually sliced or stewed) with spice and sugar.
apple-john: a kind of apple which by keeping becomes much withered; -- called also johnapple.
appliance: the act of applying; application; [obs.] subservience.-the thing applied or used as a means to an end; an apparatus or device; as, to use various appliances; a mechanical appliance; a machine with its appliances.
applicable: capable of being applied; fit or suitable to be applied; having relevance; as, this observation is applicable to the case under consideration.
application: the act of applying or laying on, in a literal sense; as, the application of emollients to a diseased limb.-the thing applied.-the act of applying as a means; the employment of means to accomplish an end; specific use.-the act of directing or referring something to a particular case, to discover or illustrate agreement or disagreement, fitness, or correspondence; as, i make the remark, and leave you to make the application; the application of a theory.-hence, in specific uses: (a) that part of a sermon or discourse in which the principles before laid down and illustrated are applied to practical uses; the "moral" of a fable. (b) the use of the principles of one science for the purpose of enlarging or perfecting another; as, the application of algebra to geometry.-the capacity of being practically applied or used; relevancy; as, a rule of general application.-the act of fixing the mind or closely applying one's self; assiduous effort; close attention; as, to injure the health by application to study.-the act of making request of soliciting; as, an application for an office; he made application to a court of chancery.-a request; a document containing a request; as, his application was placed on file.
applique: ornamented with a pattern (which has been cut out of another color or stuff) applied or transferred to a foundation; as, applique lace; applique work.
apply: to lay or place; to put or adjust (one thing to another); -- with to; as, to apply the hand to the breast; to apply medicaments to a diseased part of the body.-to put to use; to use or employ for a particular purpose, or in a particular case; to appropriate; to devote; as, to apply money to the payment of a debt.-to make use of, declare, or pronounce, as suitable, fitting, or relative; as, to apply the testimony to the case; to apply an epithet to a person.-to fix closely; to engage and employ diligently, or with attention; to attach; to incline.-to direct or address.-to betake; to address; to refer; -- used reflexively.-to busy; to keep at work; to ply.-to visit.-to suit; to agree; to have some connection, agreement, or analogy; as, this argument applies well to the case.-to make request; to have recourse with a view to gain something; to make application. (to); to solicit; as, to apply to a friend for information.-to ply; to move.-to apply or address one's self; to give application; to attend closely (to).
appoggiatura: a passing tone preceding an essential tone, and borrowing the time it occupies from that; a short auxiliary or grace note one degree above or below the principal note unless it be of the same harmony; -- generally indicated by a note of smaller size, as in the illustration above. it forms no essential part of the harmony.
appoint: to fix with power or firmness; to establish; to mark out.-to fix by a decree, order, command, resolve, decision, or mutual agreement; to constitute; to ordain; to prescribe; to fix the time and place of.-to assign, designate, or set apart by authority.-to furnish in all points; to provide with everything necessary by way of equipment; to equip; to fit out.-to point at by way, or for the purpose, of censure or commendation; to arraign.-to direct, designate, or limit; to make or direct a new disposition of, by virtue of a power contained in a conveyance; -- said of an estate already conveyed.-to ordain; to determine; to arrange.
appointment: the act of appointing; designation of a person to hold an office or discharge a trust; as, he erred by the appointment of unsuitable men.-the state of being appointed to som/ service or office; an office to which one is appointed; station; position; an, the appointment of treasurer.-stipulation; agreement; the act of fixing by mutual agreement. hence:: arrangement for a meeting; engagement; as, they made an appointment to meet at six.-decree; direction; established order or constitution; as, to submit to the divine appointments.-the exercise of the power of designating (under a "power of appointment") a person to enjoy an estate or other specific property; also, the instrument by which the designation is made.-equipment, furniture, as for a ship or an army; whatever is appointed for use and management; outfit; (pl.) the accouterments of military officers or soldiers, as belts, sashes, swords.-an allowance to a person, esp. to a public officer; a perquisite; -- properly only in the plural.-a honorary part or exercise, as an oration, etc., at a public exhibition of a college; as, to have an appointment.
apportion: to divide and assign in just proportion; to divide and distribute proportionally; to portion out; to allot; as, to apportion undivided rights; to apportion time among various employments.
apportionment: the act of apportioning; a dividing into just proportions or shares; a division or shares; a division and assignment, to each proprietor, of his just portion of an undivided right or property.
appose: to place opposite or before; to put or apply (one thing to another).-to place in juxtaposition or proximity.-to put questions to; to examine; to try. [obs.] see pose.
apposed: placed in apposition; mutually fitting, as the mandibles of a bird's beak.
apposer: an examiner; one whose business is to put questions. formerly, in the english court of exchequer, an officer who audited the sheriffs' accounts.
apposite: very applicable; well adapted; suitable or fit; relevant; pat; -- followed by to; as, this argument is very apposite to the case.
apposition: the act of adding; application; accretion.-the putting of things in juxtaposition, or side by side; also, the condition of being so placed.-the state of two nouns or pronouns, put in the same case, without a connecting word between them; as, i admire cicero, the orator. here, the second noun explains or characterizes the first.
appositive: of or relating to apposition; in apposition.-a noun in apposition.
appraise: to set a value; to estimate the worth of, particularly by persons appointed for the purpose; as, to appraise goods and chattels.-to estimate; to conjecture.-to praise; to commend.
appraisement: the act of setting the value; valuation by an appraiser; estimation of worth.
appraiser: one who appraises; esp., a person appointed and sworn to estimate and fix the value of goods or estates.
appreciable: capable of being appreciated or estimated; large enough to be estimated; perceptible; as, an appreciable quantity.
appreciate: to set a price or value on; to estimate justly; to value.-to raise the value of; to increase the market price of; -- opposed to depreciate.-to be sensible of; to distinguish.-to rise in value. [see note under rise, v. i.]
appreciation: a just valuation or estimate of merit, worth, weight, etc.; recognition of excellence.-accurate perception; true estimation; as, an appreciation of the difficulties before us; an appreciation of colors.-a rise in value; -- opposed to depreciation.
appreciative: having or showing a just or ready appreciation or perception; as, an appreciative audience.
apprehend: to take or seize; to take hold of.-hence: to take or seize (a person) by legal process; to arrest; as, to apprehend a criminal.-to take hold of with the understanding, that is, to conceive in the mind; to become cognizant of; to understand; to recognize; to consider.-to know or learn with certainty.-to anticipate; esp., to anticipate with anxiety, dread, or fear; to fear.-to think, believe, or be of opinion; to understand; to suppose.-to be apprehensive; to fear.
apprehension: the act of seizing or taking hold of; seizure; as, the hand is an organ of apprehension.-the act of seizing or taking by legal process; arrest; as, the felon, after his apprehension, escaped.-the act of grasping with the intellect; the contemplation of things, without affirming, denying, or passing any judgment; intellection; perception.-opinion; conception; sentiment; idea.-the faculty by which ideas are conceived; understanding; as, a man of dull apprehension.-anticipation, mostly of things unfavorable; distrust or fear at the prospect of future evil.
apprehensive: capable of apprehending, or quick to do so; apt; discerning.-knowing; conscious; cognizant.-relating to the faculty of apprehension.-anticipative of something unfavorable' fearful of what may be coming; in dread of possible harm; in expectation of evil.-sensible; feeling; perceptive.
apprentice: one who is bound by indentures or by legal agreement to serve a mechanic, or other person, for a certain time, with a view to learn the art, or trade, in which his master is bound to instruct him.-one not well versed in a subject; a tyro.-a barrister, considered a learner of law till of sixteen years' standing, when he might be called to the rank of serjeant.-to bind to, or put under the care of, a master, for the purpose of instruction in a trade or business.
apprenticeship: the service or condition of an apprentice; the state in which a person is gaining instruction in a trade or art, under legal agreement.-the time an apprentice is serving (sometimes seven years, as from the age of fourteen to twenty-one).
apprest: pressed close to, or lying against, something for its whole length, as against a stem,
apprise: to give notice, verbal or written; to inform; -- followed by of; as, we will apprise the general of an intended attack; he apprised the commander of what he had done.-notice; information.
apprizer: an appraiser.-a creditor for whom an appraisal is made.
approach: to come or go near, in place or time; to draw nigh; to advance nearer.-to draw near, in a figurative sense; to make advances; to approximate; as, he approaches to the character of the ablest statesman.-to bring near; to cause to draw near; to advance.-to come near to in place, time, or character; to draw nearer to; as, to approach the city; to approach my cabin; he approached the age of manhood.-to take approaches to.-the act of drawing near; a coming or advancing near.-a access, or opportunity of drawing near.-movements to gain favor; advances.-a way, passage, or avenue by which a place or buildings can be approached; an access.-the advanced works, trenches, or covered roads made by besiegers in their advances toward a fortress or military post.-see approaching.
approaching: of approach-the act of ingrafting a sprig or shoot of one tree into another, without cutting it from the parent stock; -- called, also, inarching and grafting by approach.
approbate: approved.-to express approbation of; to approve; to sanction officially.
approbation: proof; attestation.-the act of approving; an assenting to the propriety of a thing with some degree of pleasure or satisfaction; approval; sanction; commendation.-probation or novitiate.
appropriable: capable of being appropriated, set apart, sequestered, or assigned exclusively to a particular use.
appropriate: set apart for a particular use or person. hence: belonging peculiarly; peculiar; suitable; fit; proper.-to take to one's self in exclusion of others; to claim or use as by an exclusive right; as, let no man appropriate the use of a common benefit.-to set apart for, or assign to, a particular person or use, in exclusion of all others; -- with to or for; as, a spot of ground is appropriated for a garden; to appropriate money for the increase of the navy.-to make suitable; to suit.-to annex, as a benefice, to a spiritual corporation, as its property.-a property; attribute.
appropriation: the act of setting apart or assigning to a particular use or person, or of taking to one's self, in exclusion of all others; application to a special use or purpose, as of a piece of ground for a park, or of money to carry out some object.-anything, especially money, thus set apart.-the severing or sequestering of a benefice to the perpetual use of a spiritual corporation. blackstone.-the application of payment of money by a debtor to his creditor, to one of several debts which are due from the former to the latter.
appropriative: appropriating; making, or tending to, appropriation; as, an appropriative act.
appropriator: one who appropriates.-a spiritual corporation possessed of an appropriated benefice; also, an impropriator.
approve: to show to be real or true; to prove.-to make proof of; to demonstrate; to prove or show practically.-to sanction officially; to ratify; to confirm; as, to approve the decision of a court-martial.-to regard as good; to commend; to be pleased with; to think well of; as, we approve the measured of the administration.-to make or show to be worthy of approbation or acceptance.-to make profit of; to convert to one's own profit; -- said esp. of waste or common land appropriated by the lord of the manor.
approvement: approbation.-a confession of guilt by a prisoner charged with treason or felony, together with an accusation of his accomplish and a giving evidence against them in order to obtain his own pardon. the term is no longer in use; it corresponded to what is now known as turning king's (or queen's) evidence in england, and state's evidence in the united states.-improvement of common lands, by inclosing and converting them to the uses of husbandry for the advantage of the lord of the manor.
approver: one who approves. formerly, one who made proof or trial.-an informer; an accuser.-one who confesses a crime and accuses another. see 1st approvement, 2.-a bailiff or steward; an agent.
approving: of approve-expressing approbation; commending; as, an approving smile.
approximate: approaching; proximate; nearly resembling.-near correctness; nearly exact; not perfectly accurate; as, approximate results or values.-to carry or advance near; to cause to approach.-to come near to; to approach.-to draw; to approach.
approximation: the act of approximating; a drawing, advancing or being near; approach; also, the result of approximating.-an approach to a correct estimate, calculation, or conception, or to a given quantity, quality, etc.-a continual approach or coming nearer to a result; as, to solve an equation by approximation.-a value that is nearly but not exactly correct.
appulse: a driving or running towards; approach; impulse; also, the act of striking against.-the near approach of one heavenly body to another, or to the meridian; a coming into conjunction; as, the appulse of the moon to a star, or of a star to the meridian.
appulsive: striking against; impinging; as, the appulsive influence of the planets.
appurtenance: that which belongs to something else; an adjunct; an appendage; an accessory; something annexed to another thing more worthy; in common parlance and legal acceptation, something belonging to another thing as principal, and which passes as incident to it, as a right of way, or other easement to land; a right of common to pasture, an outhouse, barn, garden, or orchard, to a house or messuage. in a strict legal sense, land can never pass as an appurtenance to land.
appurtenant: annexed or pertaining to some more important thing; accessory; incident; as, a right of way appurtenant to land or buildings.-something which belongs or appertains to another thing; an appurtenance.
apricot: a fruit allied to the plum, of an orange color, oval shape, and delicious taste; also, the tree (prunus armeniaca of linnaeus) which bears this fruit. by cultivation it has been introduced throughout the temperate zone.
april: the fourth month of the year.-fig.: with reference to april being the month in which vegetation begins to put forth, the variableness of its weather, etc.
apriority: the quality of being innate in the mind, or prior to experience; a priori reasoning.
apron: an article of dress, of cloth, leather, or other stuff, worn on the fore part of the body, to keep the clothes clean, to defend them from injury, or as a covering. it is commonly tied at the waist by strings.-something which by its shape or use suggests an apron;-the fat skin covering the belly of a goose or duck.-a piece of leather, or other material, to be spread before a person riding on an outside seat of a vehicle, to defend him from the rain, snow, or dust; a boot.-a leaden plate that covers the vent of a cannon.-a piece of carved timber, just above the foremost end of the keel.-a platform, or flooring of plank, at the entrance of a dock, against which the dock gates are shut.-a flooring of plank before a dam to cause the water to make a gradual descent.-the piece that holds the cutting tool of a planer.-a strip of lead which leads the drip of a wall into a gutter; a flashing.-the infolded abdomen of a crab.
apron man: a man who wears an apron; a laboring man; a mechanic.
aprosos: opportunely or opportune; seasonably or seasonable.-by the way; to the purpose; suitably to the place or subject; -- a word used to introduce an incidental observation, suited to the occasion, though not strictly belonging to the narration.
apse: a projecting part of a building, esp. of a church, having in the plan a polygonal or semicircular termination, and, most often, projecting from the east end. in early churches the eastern apse was occupied by seats for the bishop and clergy.-the bishop's seat or throne, in ancient churches.-a reliquary, or case in which the relics of saints were kept.
apsidal: of or pertaining to the apsides of an orbit.-of or pertaining to the apse of a church; as, the apsidal termination of the chancel.
apsis: one of the two points of an orbit, as of a planet or satellite, which are at the greatest and least distance from the central body, corresponding to the aphelion and perihelion of a planet, or to the apogee and perigee of the moon. the more distant is called the higher apsis; the other, the lower apsis; and the line joining them, the line of apsides.-in a curve referred to polar coordinates, any point for which the radius vector is a maximum or minimum.-same as apse.
apt: fit or fitted; suited; suitable; appropriate.-having an habitual tendency; habitually liable or likely; -- used of things.-inclined; disposed customarily; given; ready; -- used of persons.-ready; especially fitted or qualified (to do something); quick to learn; prompt; expert; as, a pupil apt to learn; an apt scholar.-to fit; to suit; to adapt.
aptera: insects without wings, constituting the seventh linnaen order of insects, an artificial group, which included crustacea, spiders, centipeds, and even worms. these animals are now placed in several distinct classes and orders.
apteral: apterous.-without lateral columns; -- applied to buildings which have no series of columns along their sides, but are either prostyle or amphiprostyle, and opposed to peripteral.
apterous: destitute of wings; apteral; as, apterous insects.-destitute of winglike membranous expansions, as a stem or petiole; -- opposed to alate.
apteryx: a genus of new zealand birds about the size of a hen, with only short rudiments of wings, armed with a claw and without a tail; the kiwi. it is allied to the gigantic extinct moas of the same country. five species are known.
aptitude: a natural or acquired disposition or capacity for a particular purpose, or tendency to a particular action or effect; as, oil has an aptitude to burn.-a general fitness or suitableness; adaptation.-readiness in learning; docility; aptness.
aptly: in an apt or suitable manner; fitly; properly; pertinently; appropriately; readily.
aptness: fitness; suitableness; appropriateness; as, the aptness of things to their end.-disposition of the mind; propensity; as, the aptness of men to follow example.-quickness of apprehension; readiness in learning; docility; as, an aptness to learn is more observable in some children than in others.-proneness; tendency; as, the aptness of iron to rust.
aptotic: pertaining to, or characterized by, aptotes; uninflected; as, aptotic languages.
aptychus: a shelly plate found in the terminal chambers of ammonite shells. some authors consider them to be jaws; others, opercula.
apus: a genus of fresh-water phyllopod crustaceans. see phyllopod.
apyrous: incombustible; capable of sustaining a strong heat without alteration of form or properties.
aqua: water; -- a word much used in pharmacy and the old chemistry, in various signification, determined by the word or words annexed.
aquamarine: a transparent, pale green variety of beryl, used as a gem. see beryl.
aquarelle: a design or painting in thin transparent water colors; also, the mode of painting in such colors.
aquarian: of or pertaining to an aquarium.-one of a sect of christian in the primitive church who used water instead of wine in the lord's supper.
aquarium: an artificial pond, or a globe or tank (usually with glass sides), in which living specimens of aquatic animals or plants are kept.
aquarius: the water-bearer; the eleventh sign in the zodiac, which the sun enters about the 20th of january; -- so called from the rains which prevail at that season in italy and the east.-a constellation south of pegasus.
aquatic: pertaining to water; growing in water; living in, swimming in, or frequenting the margins of waters; as, aquatic plants and fowls.-an aquatic animal or plant.-sports or exercises practiced in or on the water.
aquatinta: a kind of etching in which spaces are bitten by the use of aqua fortis, by which an effect is produced resembling a drawing in water colors or india ink; also, the engraving produced by this method.
aqueduct: a conductor, conduit, or artificial channel for conveying water, especially one for supplying large cities with water.-a canal or passage; as, the aqueduct of sylvius, a channel connecting the third and fourth ventricles of the brain.
aqueous: partaking of the nature of water, or abounding with it; watery.-made from, or by means of, water.
aquiferous: consisting or conveying water or a watery fluid; as, aquiferous vessels; the aquiferous system.
aquila: a genus of eagles.-a northern constellation southerly from lyra and cygnus and preceding the dolphin; the eagle.
aquiline: belonging to or like an eagle.-curving; hooked; prominent, like the beak of an eagle; -- applied particularly to the nose
ara: the altar; a southern constellation, south of the tail of the scorpion.-a name of the great blue and yellow macaw (ara ararauna), native of south america.
arab: one of a swarthy race occupying arabia, and numerous in syria, northern africa, etc.
arabesque: a style of ornamentation either painted, inlaid, or carved in low relief. it consists of a pattern in which plants, fruits, foliage, etc., as well as figures of men and animals, real or imaginary, are fantastically interlaced or put together.-arabian.-relating to, or exhibiting, the style of ornament called arabesque; as, arabesque frescoes.
arabian: of or pertaining to arabia or its inhabitants.-a native of arabia; an arab.
arabin: a carbohydrate, isomeric with cane sugar, contained in gum arabic, from which it is extracted as a white, amorphous substance.-mucilage, especially that made of gum arabic.