AbstractPhil/geometric-vocab-english-full-a-to-z huggingface dataset:
commander: a chief; one who has supreme authority; a leader; the chief officer of an army, or of any division of it.-an officer who ranks next below a captain, -- ranking with a lieutenant colonel in the army.-the chief officer of a commandery.-a heavy beetle or wooden mallet, used in paving, in sail lofts, etc.
commandery: the office or rank of a commander.-a district or a manor with lands and tenements appertaining thereto, under the control of a member of an order of knights who was called a commander; -- called also a preceptory.-an assembly or lodge of knights templars (so called) among the freemasons.-a district under the administration of a military commander or governor.
commanding: of command-exercising authority; actually in command; as, a commanding officer.-fitted to impress or control; as, a commanding look or presence.-exalted; overlooking; having superior strategic advantages; as, a commanding position.
commandment: an order or injunction given by authority; a command; a charge; a precept; a mandate.-one of the ten laws or precepts given by god to the israelites at mount sinai.-the act of commanding; exercise of authority.-the offense of commanding or inducing another to violate the law.
commemorate: to call to remembrance by a special act or observance; to celebrate with honor and solemnity; to honor, as a person or event, by some act of respect or affection, intended to preserve the remembrance of the person or event; as, to commemorate the sufferings and dying love of our savior by the sacrament of the lord's supper; to commemorate the declaration of independence by the observance of the fourth of july.
commemoration: the act of commemorating; an observance or celebration designed to honor the memory of some person or event.-whatever serves the purpose of commemorating; a memorial.
commence: to have a beginning or origin; to originate; to start; to begin.-to begin to be, or to act as.-to take a degree at a university.-to enter upon; to begin; to perform the first act of.
commencement: the first existence of anything; act or fact of commencing; rise; origin; beginning; start.-the day when degrees are conferred by colleges and universities upon students and others.
commend: to commit, intrust, or give in charge for care or preservation.-to recommend as worthy of confidence or regard; to present as worthy of notice or favorable attention.-to mention with approbation; to praise; as, to commend a person or an act.-to mention by way of courtesy, implying remembrance and good will.-commendation; praise.-compliments; greetings.
commendam: a vacant living or benefice commended to a cleric (usually a bishop) who enjoyed the revenue until a pastor was provided. a living so held was said to be held in commendam. the practice was abolished by law in 1836.
commendation: the act of commending; praise; favorable representation in words; recommendation.-that which is the ground of approbation or praise.-a message of affection or respect; compliments; greeting.
commendator: one who holds a benefice in commendam; a commendatary.
commendatory: serving to commend; containing praise or commendation; commending; praising.-holding a benefice in commendam; as, a commendatory bishop.-a commendation; eulogy.
commensal: one who eats at the same table.-an animal, not truly parasitic, which lives in, with, or on, another, partaking usually of the same food. both species may be benefited by the association.-having the character of a commensal.
commensurable: having a common measure; capable of being exactly measured by the same number, quantity, or measure.
commensurate: to reduce to a common measure.-to proportionate; to adjust.-having a common measure; commensurable; reducible to a common measure; as, commensurate quantities.-equal in measure or extent; proportionate.
commensurately: in a commensurate manner; so as to be equal or proportionate; adequately.-with equal measure or extent.
commensuration: the act of commensurating; the state of being commensurate.
comment: to make remarks, observations, or criticism; especially, to write notes on the works of an author, with a view to illustrate his meaning, or to explain particular passages; to write annotations; -- often followed by on or upon.-to comment on.-a remark, observation, or criticism; gossip; discourse; talk.-a note or observation intended to explain, illustrate, or criticise the meaning of a writing, book, etc.; explanation; annotation; exposition.
commentary: a series of comments or annotations; esp., a book of explanations or expositions on the whole or a part of the scriptures or of some other work.-a brief account of transactions or events written hastily, as if for a memorandum; -- usually in the plural; as, caesar's commentaries on the gallic war.
commentation: the act or process of commenting or criticising; exposition.-the result of the labors of a commentator.
commentitious: fictitious or imaginary; unreal; as, a commentitious system of religion.
commerce: the exchange or buying and selling of commodities; esp. the exchange of merchandise, on a large scale, between different places or communities; extended trade or traffic.-social intercourse; the dealings of one person or class in society with another; familiarity.-sexual intercourse.-a round game at cards, in which the cards are subject to exchange, barter, or trade.-to carry on trade; to traffic.-to hold intercourse; to commune.
commercial: of or pertaining to commerce; carrying on or occupied with commerce or trade; mercantile; as, commercial advantages; commercial relations.
commination: a threat or threatening; a denunciation of punishment or vengeance.-an office in the liturgy of the church of england, used on ash wednesday, containing a recital of god's anger and judgments against sinners.
commingle: to mingle together; to mix in one mass, or intimately; to blend.
comminute: to reduce to minute particles, or to a fine powder; to pulverize; to triturate; to grind; as, to comminute chalk or bones; to comminute food with the teeth.
comminution: the act of reducing to a fine powder or to small particles; pulverization; the state of being comminuted.-fracture (of a bone) into a number of pieces.-gradual diminution by the removal of small particles at a time; a lessening; a wearing away.
commiseration: the act of commiserating; sorrow for the wants, afflictions, or distresses of another; pity; compassion.
commissariat: the organized system by which armies and military posts are supplied with food and daily necessaries.-the body of officers charged with such service.
commissary: one to whom is committed some charge, duty, or office, by a superior power; a commissioner.-an officer of the bishop, who exercises ecclesiastical jurisdiction in parts of the diocese at a distance from the residence of the bishop.-an officer having charge of a special service; as, the commissary of musters.-an officer whose business is to provide food for a body of troops or a military post; -- officially called commissary of subsistence.
commission: the act of committing, doing, or performing; the act of perpetrating.-the act of intrusting; a charge; instructions as to how a trust shall be executed.-the duty or employment intrusted to any person or persons; a trust; a charge.-a formal written warrant or authority, granting certain powers or privileges and authorizing or commanding the performance of certain duties.-a certificate conferring military or naval rank and authority; as, a colonel's commission.-a company of persons joined in the performance of some duty or the execution of some trust; as, the interstate commerce commission.-the acting under authority of, or on account of, another.-the thing to be done as agent for another; as, i have three commissions for the city.-the brokerage or allowance made to a factor or agent for transacting business for another; as, a commission of ten per cent on sales. see del credere.-to give a commission to; to furnish with a commission; to empower or authorize; as, to commission persons to perform certain acts; to commission an officer.-to send out with a charge or commission.
commissionary: of, pertaining to, or conferring, a commission; conferred by a commission or warrant.
commissioner: a person who has a commission or warrant to perform some office, or execute some business, for the government, corporation, or person employing him; as, a commissioner to take affidavits or to adjust claims.-an officer having charge of some department or bureau of the public service.
commissionnaire: an agent or factor; a commission merchant.-one of a class of attendants, in some european cities, who perform miscellaneous services for travelers.
commissure: a joint, seam, or closure; the place where two bodies, or parts of a body, meet and unite; an interstice, cleft, or juncture.-the point of union between two parts, as the angles of the lips or eyelids, the mandibles of a bird, etc.-a collection of fibers connecting parts of the brain or spinal marrow; a chiasma.-the line of junction or cohering face of two carpels, as in the parsnip, caraway, etc.
commit: to give in trust; to put into charge or keeping; to intrust; to consign; -- used with to, unto.-to put in charge of a jailor; to imprison.-to do; to perpetrate, as a crime, sin, or fault.-to join for a contest; to match; -- followed by with.-to pledge or bind; to compromise, expose, or endanger by some decisive act or preliminary step; -- often used reflexively; as, to commit one's self to a certain course.-to confound.-to sin; esp., to be incontinent.
commitment: the act of committing, or putting in charge, keeping, or trust; consignment; esp., the act of committing to prison.-a warrant or order for the imprisonment of a person; -- more frequently termed a mittimus.-the act of referring or intrusting to a committee for consideration and report; as, the commitment of a petition or a bill.-a doing, or perpetration, in a bad sense, as of a crime or blunder; commission.-the act of pledging or engaging; the act of exposing, endangering, or compromising; also, the state of being pledged or engaged.
committee: one or more persons elected or appointed, to whom any matter or business is referred, either by a legislative body, or by a court, or by any collective body of men acting together.-one to whom the charge of the person or estate of another, as of a lunatic, is committed by suitable authority; a guardian.
commixture: the act or process of mixing; the state of being mingled; the blending of ingredients in one mass or compound.-the mass formed by mingling different things; a compound; a mixture.
commode: a kind of headdress formerly worn by ladies, raising the hair and fore part of the cap to a great height.-a piece of furniture, so named according to temporary fashion-a chest of drawers or a bureau.-a night stand with a compartment for holding a chamber vessel.-a kind of close stool.-a movable sink or stand for a wash bowl, with closet.
commodious: adapted to its use or purpose, or to wants and necessities; serviceable; spacious and convenient; roomy and comfortable; as, a commodious house.
commodiousness: state of being commodious; suitableness for its purpose; convenience; roominess.
commodity: convenience; accommodation; profit; benefit; advantage; interest; commodiousness.-that which affords convenience, advantage, or profit, especially in commerce, including everything movable that is bought and sold (except animals), -- goods, wares, merchandise, produce of land and manufactures, etc.-a parcel or quantity of goods.
commodore: an officer who ranks next above a captain; sometimes, by courtesy, the senior captain of a squadron. the rank of commodore corresponds with that of brigadier general in the army.-a captain commanding a squadron, or a division of a fleet, or having the temporary rank of rear admiral.-a title given by courtesy to the senior captain of a line of merchant vessels, and also to the chief officer of a yachting or rowing club.-a familiar for the flagship, or for the principal vessel of a squadron or fleet.
common: belonging or relating equally, or similarly, to more than one; as, you and i have a common interest in the property.-belonging to or shared by, affecting or serving, all the members of a class, considered together; general; public; as, properties common to all plants; the common schools; the book of common prayer.-often met with; usual; frequent; customary.-not distinguished or exceptional; inconspicuous; ordinary; plebeian; -- often in a depreciatory sense.-profane; polluted.-given to habits of lewdness; prostitute.-the people; the community.-an inclosed or uninclosed tract of ground for pleasure, for pasturage, etc., the use of which belongs to the public; or to a number of persons.-the right of taking a profit in the land of another, in common either with the owner or with other persons; -- so called from the community of interest which arises between the claimant of the right and the owner of the soil, or between the claimants and other commoners entitled to the same right.-to converse together; to discourse; to confer.-to participate.-to have a joint right with others in common ground.-to board together; to eat at a table in common.
commonage: the right of pasturing on a common; the right of using anything in common with others.
commonalty: the common people; those classes and conditions of people who are below the rank of nobility; the commons.-the majority or bulk of mankind.
commoner: one of the common people; one having no rank of nobility.-a member of the house of commons.-one who has a joint right in common ground.-one sharing with another in anything.-a student in the university of oxford, eng., who is not dependent on any foundation for support, but pays all university charges; - - at cambridge called a pensioner.-a prostitute.
commonly: usually; generally; ordinarily; frequently; for the most part; as, confirmed habits commonly continue through life.-in common; familiarly.
commonness: state or quality of being common or usual; as, the commonness of sunlight.-triteness; meanness.
commonplace: common; ordinary; trite; as, a commonplace person, or observation.-an idea or expression wanting originality or interest; a trite or customary remark; a platitude.-a memorandum; something to be frequently consulted or referred to.-to enter in a commonplace book, or to reduce to general heads.-to utter commonplaces; to indulge in platitudes.
commons: the mass of the people, as distinguished from the titled classes or nobility; the commonalty; the common people.-the house of commons, or lower house of the british parliament, consisting of representatives elected by the qualified voters of counties, boroughs, and universities.-provisions; food; fare, -- as that provided at a common table in colleges and universities.-a club or association for boarding at a common table, as in a college, the members sharing the expenses equally; as, to board in commons.-a common; public pasture ground.
commonty: a common; a piece of land in which two or more persons have a common right.
commonwealth: a state; a body politic consisting of a certain number of men, united, by compact or tacit agreement, under one form of government and system of laws.-the whole body of people in a state; the public.-specifically, the form of government established on the death of charles i., in 1649, which existed under oliver cromwell and his son richard, ending with the abdication of the latter in 1659.
commorancy: a dwelling or ordinary residence in a place; habitation.-residence temporarily, or for a short time.
commorant: ordinarily residing; inhabiting.-inhabiting or occupying temporarily.-a resident.
commotion: disturbed or violent motion; agitation.-a popular tumult; public disturbance; riot.-agitation, perturbation, or disorder, of mind; heat; excitement.
commove: to urge; to persuade; to incite.-to put in motion; to disturb; to unsettle.
communalism: a french theory of government which holds that commune should be a kind of independent state, and the national government a confederation of such states, having only limited powers. it is advocated by advanced french republicans; but it should not be confounded with communism.
commune: to converse together with sympathy and confidence; to interchange sentiments or feelings; to take counsel.-to receive the communion; to partake of the eucharist or lord's supper.-communion; sympathetic intercourse or conversation between friends.-the commonalty; the common people.-a small territorial district in france under the government of a mayor and municipal council; also, the inhabitants, or the government, of such a district. see arrondissement.-absolute municipal self-government.
communicable: capable of being communicated, or imparted; as, a communicable disease; communicable knowledge.-communicative; free-speaking.
communicant: one who partakes of, or is entitled to partake of, the sacrament of the lord's supper; a church member.-one who communicates.-communicating.
communicate: to share in common; to participate in.-to impart; to bestow; to convey; as, to communicate a disease or a sensation; to communicate motion by means of a crank.-to make known; to recount; to give; to impart; as, to communicate information to any one.-to administer the communion to.-to share or participate; to possess or enjoy in common; to have sympathy.-to give alms, sympathy, or aid.-to have intercourse or to be the means of intercourse; as, to communicate with another on business; to be connected; as, a communicating artery.-to partake of the lord's supper; to commune.
communication: the act or fact of communicating; as, communication of smallpox; communication of a secret.-intercourse by words, letters, or messages; interchange of thoughts or opinions, by conference or other means; conference; correspondence.-association; company.-means of communicating; means of passing from place to place; a connecting passage; connection.-that which is communicated or imparted; intelligence; news; a verbal or written message.-participation in the lord's supper.-a trope, by which a speaker assumes that his hearer is a partner in his sentiments, and says we, instead of i or you.
communion: the act of sharing; community; participation.-intercourse between two or more persons; esp., intimate association and intercourse implying sympathy and confidence; interchange of thoughts, purposes, etc.; agreement; fellowship; as, the communion of saints.-a body of christians having one common faith and discipline; as, the presbyterian communion.-the sacrament of the eucharist; the celebration of the lord's supper; the act of partaking of the sacrament; as, to go to communion; to partake of the communion.
communism: a scheme of equalizing the social conditions of life; specifically, a scheme which contemplates the abolition of inequalities in the possession of property, as by distributing all wealth equally to all, or by holding all wealth in common for the equal use and advantage of all.
communist: an advocate for the theory or practice of communism.-a supporter of the commune of paris.
communistic: of or pertaining to communism or communists; as, communistic theories.-living or having their nests in common, as certain birds.
community: common possession or enjoyment; participation; as, a community of goods.-a body of people having common rights, privileges, or interests, or living in the same place under the same laws and regulations; as, a community of monks. hence a number of animals living in a common home or with some apparent association of interests.-society at large; a commonwealth or state; a body politic; the public, or people in general.-common character; likeness.-commonness; frequency.
commutation: a passing from one state to another; change; alteration; mutation.-the act of giving one thing for another; barter; exchange.-the change of a penalty or punishment by the pardoning power of the state; as, the commutation of a sentence of death to banishment or imprisonment.-a substitution, as of a less thing for a greater, esp. a substitution of one form of payment for another, or one payment for many, or a specific sum of money for conditional payments or allowances; as, commutation of tithes; commutation of fares; commutation of copyright; commutation of rations.
commutator: a piece of apparatus used for reversing the direction of an electrical current; an attachment to certain electrical machines, by means of which alternating currents are made to be continuous or to have the same direction.
commute: to exchange; to put or substitute something else in place of, as a smaller penalty, obligation, or payment, for a greater, or a single thing for an aggregate; hence, to lessen; to diminish; as, to commute a sentence of death to one of imprisonment for life; to commute tithes; to commute charges for fares.-to obtain or bargain for exemption or substitution; to effect a commutation.-to pay, or arrange to pay, in gross instead of part by part; as, to commute for a year's travel over a route.
comose: bearing a tuft of soft hairs or down, as the seeds of milkweed.
compact: joined or held together; leagued; confederated.-composed or made; -- with of.-closely or firmly united, as the particles of solid bodies; firm; close; solid; dense.-brief; close; pithy; not diffuse; not verbose; as, a compact discourse.-to thrust, drive, or press closely together; to join firmly; to consolidate; to make close; -- as the parts which compose a body.-to unite or connect firmly, as in a system.-an agreement between parties; a covenant or contract.
compactly: in a compact manner; with close union of parts; densely; tersely.
compaginate: to unite or hold together; as, the side pieces compaginate the frame.
companion: one who accompanies or is in company with another for a longer or shorter period, either from choice or casually; one who is much in the company of, or is associated with, another or others; an associate; a comrade; a consort; a partner.-a knight of the lowest rank in certain orders; as, a companion of the bath.-a fellow; -- in contempt.-a skylight on an upper deck with frames and sashes of various shapes, to admit light to a cabin or lower deck.-a wooden hood or penthouse covering the companion way; a companion hatch.-to be a companion to; to attend on; to accompany.-to qualify as a companion; to make equal.
companionable: fitted to be a companion; fit for good fellowship; agreeable; sociable.
company: the state of being a companion or companions; the act of accompanying; fellowship; companionship; society; friendly intercourse.-a companion or companions.-an assemblage or association of persons, either permanent or transient.-guests or visitors, in distinction from the members of a family; as, to invite company to dine.-society, in general; people assembled for social intercourse.-an association of persons for the purpose of carrying on some enterprise or business; a corporation; a firm; as, the east india company; an insurance company; a joint-stock company.-partners in a firm whose names are not mentioned in its style or title; -- often abbreviated in writing; as, hottinguer & co.-a subdivision of a regiment of troops under the command of a captain, numbering in the united states (full strength) 100 men.-the crew of a ship, including the officers; as, a whole ship's company.-the body of actors employed in a theater or in the production of a play.-to accompany or go with; to be companion to.-to associate.-to be a gay companion.-to have sexual commerce.
comparative: of or pertaining to comparison.-proceeding from, or by the method of, comparison; as, the comparative sciences; the comparative anatomy.-estimated by comparison; relative; not positive or absolute, as compared with another thing or state.-expressing a degree greater or less than the positive degree of the quality denoted by an adjective or adverb. the comparative degree is formed from the positive by the use of -er, more, or less; as, brighter, more bright, or less bright.-the comparative degree of adjectives and adverbs; also, the form by which the comparative degree is expressed; as, stronger, wiser, weaker, more stormy, less windy, are all comparatives.-an equal; a rival; a compeer.-one who makes comparisons; one who affects wit.