AbstractPhil/geometric-vocab-english-full-a-to-z huggingface dataset:
admission: the act or practice of admitting.-power or permission to enter; admittance; entrance; access; power to approach.-the granting of an argument or position not fully proved; the act of acknowledging something /serted; acknowledgment; concession.-acquiescence or concurrence in a statement made by another, and distinguishable from a confession in that an admission presupposes prior inquiry by another, but a confession may be made without such inquiry.-a fact, point, or statement admitted; as, admission made out of court are received in evidence.-declaration of the bishop that he approves of the presentee as a fit person to serve the cure of the church to which he is presented.
admit: to suffer to enter; to grant entrance, whether into a place, or into the mind, or consideration; to receive; to take; as, they were into his house; to admit a serious thought into the mind; to admit evidence in the trial of a cause.-to give a right of entrance; as, a ticket admits one into a playhouse.-to allow (one) to enter on an office or to enjoy a privilege; to recognize as qualified for a franchise; as, to admit an attorney to practice law; the prisoner was admitted to bail.-to concede as true; to acknowledge or assent to, as an allegation which it is impossible to deny; to own or confess; as, the argument or fact is admitted; he admitted his guilt.-to be capable of; to permit; as, the words do not admit such a construction. in this sense, of may be used after the verb, or may be omitted.
admittance: the act of admitting.-permission to enter; the power or right of entrance; also, actual entrance; reception.-concession; admission; allowance; as, the admittance of an argument.-admissibility.-the act of giving possession of a copyhold estate.
admixture: the act of mixing; mixture.-the compound formed by mixing different substances together.-that which is mixed with anything.
admonish: to warn or notify of a fault; to reprove gently or kindly, but seriously; to exhort.-to counsel against wrong practices; to cation or advise; to warn against danger or an offense; -- followed by of, against, or a subordinate clause.-to instruct or direct; to inform; to notify.
admonition: gentle or friendly reproof; counseling against a fault or error; expression of authoritative advice; friendly caution or warning.
admonitory: that conveys admonition; warning or reproving; as, an admonitory glance.
admortization: the reducing or lands or tenements to mortmain. see mortmain.
adnate: grown to congenitally.-growing together; -- said only of organic cohesion of unlike parts.-growing with one side adherent to a stem; -- a term applied to the lateral zooids of corals and other compound animals.
adnation: the adhesion or cohesion of different floral verticils or sets of organs.
adnominal: pertaining to an adnoun; adjectival; attached to a noun.
ado: to do; in doing; as, there is nothing ado.-doing; trouble; difficulty; troublesome business; fuss; bustle; as, to make a great ado about trifles.
adobe: an unburnt brick dried in the sun; also used as an adjective, as, an adobe house, in texas or new mexico.
adolescence: the state of growing up from childhood to manhood or womanhood; youth, or the period of life between puberty and maturity, generally considered to be, in the male sex, from fourteen to twenty-one. sometimes used with reference to the lower animals.
adonis: a youth beloved by venus for his beauty. he was killed in the chase by a wild boar.-a preeminently beautiful young man; a dandy.-a genus of plants of the family ranunculaceae, containing the pheasant's eye (adonis autumnalis); -- named from adonis, whose blood was fabled to have stained the flower.
adonist: one who maintains that points of the hebrew word translated "jehovah" are really the vowel points of the word "adonai." see jehovist.
adopt: to take by choice into relationship, as, child, heir, friend, citizen, etc.; esp. to take voluntarily (a child of other parents) to be in the place of, or as, one's own child.-to take or receive as one's own what is not so naturally; to select and take or approve; as, to adopt the view or policy of another; these resolutions were adopted.
adopted: of adopt-taken by adoption; taken up as one's own; as, an adopted son, citizen, country, word.
adopter: one who adopts.-a receiver, with two necks, opposite to each other, one of which admits the neck of a retort, and the other is joined to another receiver. it is used in distillations, to give more space to elastic vapors, to increase the length of the neck of a retort, or to unite two vessels whose openings have different diameters.
adoption: the act of adopting, or state of being adopted; voluntary acceptance of a child of other parents to be the same as one's own child.-admission to a more intimate relation; reception; as, the adoption of persons into hospitals or monasteries, or of one society into another.-the choosing and making that to be one's own which originally was not so; acceptance; as, the adoption of opinions.
adoptionist: one of a sect which maintained that christ was the son of god not by nature but by adoption.
adoptive: pertaining to adoption; made or acquired by adoption; fitted to adopt; as, an adoptive father, an child; an adoptive language.
adorable: deserving to be adored; worthy of divine honors.-worthy of the utmost love or respect.
adoration: the act of playing honor to a divine being; the worship paid to god; the act of addressing as a god.-homage paid to one in high esteem; profound veneration; intense regard and love; fervent devotion.-a method of electing a pope by the expression of homage from two thirds of the conclave.
adore: to worship with profound reverence; to pay divine honors to; to honor as deity or as divine.-to love in the highest degree; to regard with the utmost esteem and affection; to idolize.-to adorn.
adorer: one who adores; a worshiper; one who admires or loves greatly; an ardent admirer.
adorn: to deck or dress with ornaments; to embellish; to set off to advantage; to render pleasing or attractive.-adornment.-adorned; decorated.
adown: from a higher to a lower situation; downward; down, to or on the ground.-down.
adreamed: visited by a dream; -- used in the phrase, to be adreamed, to dream.
adriatic: of or pertaining to a sea so named, the northwestern part of which is known as the gulf of venice.
adrift: floating at random; in a drifting condition; at the mercy of wind and waves. also fig.
adroit: dexterous in the use of the hands or in the exercise of the mental faculties; exhibiting skill and readiness in avoiding danger or escaping difficulty; ready in invention or execution; -- applied to persons and to acts; as, an adroit mechanic, an adroit reply.
adroitness: the quality of being adroit; skill and readiness; dexterity.
adscript: held to service as attached to the soil; -- said of feudal serfs.-one held to service as attached to the glebe or estate; a feudal serf.
adularia: a transparent or translucent variety of common feldspar, or orthoclase, which often shows pearly opalescent reflections; -- called by lapidaries moonstone.
adulatory: containing excessive praise or compliment; servilely praising; flattering; as, an adulatory address.
adult: having arrived at maturity, or to full size and strength; matured; as, an adult person or plant; an adult ape; an adult age.-a person, animal, or plant grown to full size and strength; one who has reached maturity.
adulterant: that which is used to adulterate anything.-adulterating; as, adulterant agents and processes.
adulterate: to defile by adultery.-to corrupt, debase, or make impure by an admixture of a foreign or a baser substance; as, to adulterate food, drink, drugs, coin, etc.-to commit adultery.-tainted with adultery.-debased by the admixture of a foreign substance; adulterated; spurious.
adulteration: the act of adulterating; corruption, or debasement (esp. of food or drink) by foreign mixture.-an adulterated state or product.
adulterer: a man who commits adultery; a married man who has sexual intercourse with a woman not his wife.-a man who violates his religious covenant.
adulteress: a woman who commits adultery.-a woman who violates her religious engagements.
adulterine: proceeding from adulterous intercourse. hence: spurious; without the support of law; illegal.-an illegitimate child.
adulterous: guilty of, or given to, adultery; pertaining to adultery; illicit.-characterized by adulteration; spurious.
adultery: the unfaithfulness of a married person to the marriage bed; sexual intercourse by a married man with another than his wife, or voluntary sexual intercourse by a married woman with another than her husband.-adulteration; corruption.-lewdness or unchastity of thought as well as act, as forbidden by the seventh commandment.-faithlessness in religion.-the fine and penalty imposed for the offense of adultery.-the intrusion of a person into a bishopric during the life of the bishop.-injury; degradation; ruin.
adumbrate: to give a faint shadow or slight representation of; to outline; to shadow forth.-to overshadow; to shade.
adumbration: the act of adumbrating, or shadowing forth.-a faint sketch; an outline; an imperfect portrayal or representation of a thing.-the shadow or outlines of a figure.
adust: inflamed or scorched; fiery.-looking as if or scorched; sunburnt.-having much heat in the constitution and little serum in the blood. [obs.] hence: atrabilious; sallow; gloomy.
adustion: the act of burning, or heating to dryness; the state of being thus heated or dried.-cauterization.
advance: to bring forward; to move towards the van or front; to make to go on.-to raise; to elevate.-to raise to a higher rank; to promote.-to accelerate the growth or progress; to further; to forward; to help on; to aid; to heighten; as, to advance the ripening of fruit; to advance one's interests.-to bring to view or notice; to offer or propose; to show; as, to advance an argument.-to make earlier, as an event or date; to hasten.-to furnish, as money or other value, before it becomes due, or in aid of an enterprise; to supply beforehand; as, a merchant advances money on a contract or on goods consigned to him.-to raise to a higher point; to enhance; to raise in rate; as, to advance the price of goods.-to extol; to laud.-to move or go forward; to proceed; as, he advanced to greet me.-to increase or make progress in any respect; as, to advance in knowledge, in stature, in years, in price.-to rise in rank, office, or consequence; to be preferred or promoted.-the act of advancing or moving forward or upward; progress.-improvement or progression, physically, mentally, morally, or socially; as, an advance in health, knowledge, or religion; an advance in rank or office.-an addition to the price; rise in price or value; as, an advance on the prime cost of goods.-the first step towards the attainment of a result; approach made to gain favor, to form an acquaintance, to adjust a difference, etc.; an overture; a tender; an offer; -- usually in the plural.-a furnishing of something before an equivalent is received (as money or goods), towards a capital or stock, or on loan; payment beforehand; the money or goods thus furnished; money or value supplied beforehand.-before in place, or beforehand in time; -- used for advanced; as, an advance guard, or that before the main guard or body of an army; advance payment, or that made before it is due; advance proofs, advance sheets, pages of a forthcoming volume, received in advance of the time of publication.
advanced: of advance-in the van or front.-in the front or before others, as regards progress or ideas; as, advanced opinions, advanced thinkers.-far on in life or time.
advancement: the act of advancing, or the state of being advanced; progression; improvement; furtherance; promotion to a higher place or dignity; as, the advancement of learning.-an advance of money or value; payment in advance. see advance, 5.-property given, usually by a parent to a child, in advance of a future distribution.-settlement on a wife, or jointure.
advancer: one who advances; a promoter.-a second branch of a buck's antler.
advantage: any condition, circumstance, opportunity, or means, particularly favorable to success, or to any desired end; benefit; as, the enemy had the advantage of a more elevated position.-superiority; mastery; -- with of or over.-superiority of state, or that which gives it; benefit; gain; profit; as, the advantage of a good constitution.-interest of money; increase; overplus (as the thirteenth in the baker's dozen).-to give an advantage to; to further; to promote; to benefit; to profit.
advantageous: being of advantage; conferring advantage; gainful; profitable; useful; beneficial; as, an advantageous position; trade is advantageous to a nation.
advene: to accede, or come (to); to be added to something or become a part of it, though not essential.
advent: the period including the four sundays before christmas.-the first or the expected second coming of christ.-coming; any important arrival; approach.
adventist: one of a religious body, embracing several branches, who look for the proximate personal coming of christ; -- called also second adventists.
adventitious: added extrinsically; not essentially inherent; accidental or causal; additional; supervenient; foreign.-out of the proper or usual place; as, adventitious buds or roots.-accidentally or sparingly spontaneous in a country or district; not fully naturalized; adventive; -- applied to foreign plants.-acquired, as diseases; accidental.
adventure: that which happens without design; chance; hazard; hap; hence, chance of danger or loss.-risk; danger; peril.-the encountering of risks; hazardous and striking enterprise; a bold undertaking, in which hazards are to be encountered, and the issue is staked upon unforeseen events; a daring feat.-a remarkable occurrence; a striking event; a stirring incident; as, the adventures of one's life.-a mercantile or speculative enterprise of hazard; a venture; a shipment by a merchant on his own account.-to risk, or hazard; jeopard; to venture.-to venture upon; to run the risk of; to dare.-to try the chance; to take the risk.
adventurer: one who adventures; as, the merchant adventurers; one who seeks his fortune in new and hazardous or perilous enterprises.-a social pretender on the lookout for advancement.
adventuress: a female adventurer; a woman who tries to gain position by equivocal means.
adventurous: inclined to adventure; willing to incur hazard; prone to embark in hazardous enterprise; rashly daring; -- applied to persons.-full of hazard; attended with risk; exposing to danger; requiring courage; rash; -- applied to acts; as, an adventurous undertaking, deed, song.
adventurously: in an adventurous manner; venturesomely; boldly; daringly.
adventurousness: the quality or state of being adventurous; daring; venturesomeness.
adverb: a word used to modify the sense of a verb, participle, adjective, or other adverb, and usually placed near it; as, he writes well; paper extremely white.
adverbial: of or pertaining to an adverb; of the nature of an adverb; as, an adverbial phrase or form.
adversaria: a miscellaneous collection of notes, remarks, or selections; a commonplace book; also, commentaries or notes.
adversary: one who is turned against another or others with a design to oppose or resist them; a member of an opposing or hostile party; an opponent; an antagonist; an enemy; a foe.-opposed; opposite; adverse; antagonistic.-having an opposing party; not unopposed; as, an adversary suit.
adversative: expressing contrariety, opposition, or antithesis; as, an adversative conjunction (but, however, yet, etc. ); an adversative force.-an adversative word.
adverse: acting against, or in a contrary direction; opposed; contrary; opposite; conflicting; as, adverse winds; an adverse party; a spirit adverse to distinctions of caste.-opposite.-in hostile opposition to; unfavorable; unpropitious; contrary to one's wishes; unfortunate; calamitous; afflictive; hurtful; as, adverse fates, adverse circumstances, things adverse.-to oppose; to resist.
adversifolious: having opposite leaves, as plants which have the leaves so arranged on the stem.
advert: to turn the mind or attention; to refer; to take heed or notice; -- with to; as, he adverted to what was said.
advertency: the act of adverting, of the quality of being advertent; attention; notice; regard; heedfulness.
advertise: to give notice to; to inform or apprise; to notify; to make known; hence, to warn; -- often followed by of before the subject of information; as, to advertise a man of his loss.-to give public notice of; to announce publicly, esp. by a printed notice; as, to advertise goods for sale, a lost article, the sailing day of a vessel, a political meeting.
advertisement: the act of informing or notifying; notification.-admonition; advice; warning.-a public notice, especially a paid notice in some public print; anything that advertises; as, a newspaper containing many advertisements.
advice: an opinion recommended or offered, as worthy to be followed; counsel.-deliberate consideration; knowledge.-information or notice given; intelligence; as, late advices from france; -- commonly in the plural.-counseling to perform a specific illegal act.
advisable: proper to be advised or to be done; expedient; prudent.-ready to receive advice.
advisable-ness: the quality of being advisable or expedient; expediency; advisability.
advise: to give advice to; to offer an opinion, as worthy or expedient to be followed; to counsel; to warn.-to give information or notice to; to inform; -- with of before the thing communicated; as, we were advised of the risk.-to consider; to deliberate.-to take counsel; to consult; -- followed by with; as, to advise with friends.
advisedly: circumspectly; deliberately; leisurely.-with deliberate purpose; purposely; by design.
advisory: having power to advise; containing advice; as, an advisory council; their opinion is merely advisory.
advocate: one who pleads the cause of another. specifically: one who pleads the cause of another before a tribunal or judicial court; a counselor.-one who defends, vindicates, or espouses any cause by argument; a pleader; as, an advocate of free trade, an advocate of truth.-christ, considered as an intercessor.-to plead in favor of; to defend by argument, before a tribunal or the public; to support, vindicate, or recommend publicly.-to act as advocate.
advocation: the act of advocating or pleading; plea; advocacy.-advowson.-the process of removing a cause from an inferior court to the supreme court.
advowson: the right of presenting to a vacant benefice or living in the church. [originally, the relation of a patron (advocatus) or protector of a benefice, and thus privileged to nominate or present to it.]
adynamic: pertaining to, or characterized by, debility of the vital powers; weak.-characterized by the absence of power or force.
adytum: the innermost sanctuary or shrine in ancient temples, whence oracles were given. hence: a private chamber; a sanctum.
adze: a carpenter's or cooper's tool, formed with a thin arching blade set at right angles to the handle. it is used for chipping or slicing away the surface of wood.
ae: alt. of ae-a diphthong in the latin language; used also by the saxon writers. it answers to the gr. ai. the anglo-saxon short ae was generally replaced by a, the long / by e or ee.  in derivatives from latin words with ae, it is mostly superseded by e. for most words found with this initial combination, the reader will therefore search under the letter e.
aecidium: a form of fruit in the cycle of development of the rusts or brands, an order of fungi, formerly considered independent plants.
aedile: a magistrate in ancient rome, who had the superintendence of public buildings, highways, shows, etc.; hence, a municipal officer.
aegean: of or pertaining to the sea, or arm of the mediterranean sea, east of greece. see archipelago.
aegicrania: sculptured ornaments, used in classical architecture, representing rams' heads or skulls.
aegilops: an ulcer or fistula in the inner corner of the eye.-the great wild-oat grass or other cornfield weed.-a genus of plants, called also hardgrass.
aegis: a shield or protective armor; -- applied in mythology to the shield of jupiter which he gave to minerva. also fig.: a shield; a protection.
aemail ombrant: an art or process of flooding transparent colored glaze over designs stamped or molded on earthenware or porcelain.
aeneid: the great epic poem of virgil, of which the hero is aeneas.
aeolian: of or pertaining to aeolia or aeolis, in asia minor, colonized by the greeks, or to its inhabitants; aeolic; as, the aeolian dialect.-pertaining to aeolus, the mythic god of the winds; pertaining to, or produced by, the wind; aerial.
aeolic: aeolian, 1; as, the aeolic dialect; the aeolic mode.
aeolipyle: an apparatus consisting chiefly of a closed vessel (as a globe or cylinder) with one or more projecting bent tubes, through which steam is made to pass from the vessel, causing it to revolve.
aeolotropic: exhibiting differences of quality or property in different directions; not isotropic.
aeon: a period of immeasurable duration; also, an emanation of the deity. see eon.-an immeasurable or infinite space of time; eternity; a long space of time; an age.-one of the embodiments of the divine attributes of the eternal being.
aerate: to combine or charge with gas; usually with carbonic acid gas, formerly called fixed air.-to supply or impregnate with common air; as, to aerate soil; to aerate water.-to expose to the chemical action of air; to oxygenate (the blood) by respiration; to arterialize.
aeration: exposure to the free action of the air; airing; as, aeration of soil, of spawn, etc.-a change produced in the blood by exposure to the air in respiration; oxygenation of the blood in respiration; arterialization.-the act or preparation of charging with carbonic acid gas or with oxygen.
aerator: that which supplies with air; esp. an apparatus used for charging mineral waters with gas and in making soda water.
aerial: of or pertaining to the air, or atmosphere; inhabiting or frequenting the air; produced by or found in the air; performed in the air; as, aerial regions or currents.-consisting of air; resembling, or partaking of the nature of air. hence: unsubstantial; unreal.-rising aloft in air; high; lofty; as, aerial spires.-growing, forming, or existing in the air, as opposed to growing or existing in earth or water, or underground; as, aerial rootlets, aerial plants.-light as air; ethereal.
aerie: the nest of a bird of prey, as of an eagle or hawk; also a brood of such birds; eyrie. shak. also fig.: a human residence or resting place perched like an eagle's nest.
aeriferous: conveying or containing air; air-bearing; as, the windpipe is an aeriferous tube.
aerification: the act of combining air with another substance, or the state of being filled with air.-the act of becoming aerified, or of changing from a solid or liquid form into an aeriform state; the state of being aeriform.
aeriform: having the form or nature of air, or of an elastic fluid; gaseous. hence fig.: unreal.
aerify: to infuse air into; to combine air with.-to change into an aeriform state.
aerobies: microorganisms which live in contact with the air and need oxygen for their growth; as the microbacteria which form on the surface of putrefactive fluids.
aerobiotic: related to, or of the nature of, aerobies; as, aerobiotic plants, which live only when supplied with free oxygen.
aerodynamics: the science which treats of the air and other gaseous bodies under the action of force, and of their mechanical effects.
aerognosy: the science which treats of the properties of the air, and of the part it plays in nature.
aerohydrodynamic: acting by the force of air and water; as, an aerohydrodynamic wheel.
aerolite: a stone, or metallic mass, which has fallen to the earth from distant space; a meteorite; a meteoric stone.
aerolitic: of or pertaining to aerolites; meteoric; as, aerolitic iron.
aeromancy: divination from the state of the air or from atmospheric substances; also, forecasting changes in the weather.
aerometry: the science of measuring the air, including the doctrine of its pressure, elasticity, rarefaction, and condensation; pneumatics.