AbstractPhil/geometric-vocab-english-full-a-to-z huggingface dataset:
acute: sharp at the end; ending in a sharp point; pointed; -- opposed to blunt or obtuse; as, an acute angle; an acute leaf.-having nice discernment; perceiving or using minute distinctions; penetrating; clever; shrewd; -- opposed to dull or stupid; as, an acute observer; acute remarks, or reasoning.-having nice or quick sensibility; susceptible to slight impressions; acting keenly on the senses; sharp; keen; intense; as, a man of acute eyesight, hearing, or feeling; acute pain or pleasure.-high, or shrill, in respect to some other sound; -- opposed to grave or low; as, an acute tone or accent.-attended with symptoms of some degree of severity, and coming speedily to a crisis; -- opposed to chronic; as, an acute disease.-to give an acute sound to; as, he acutes his rising inflection too much.
acute-angled: having acute angles; as, an acute-angled triangle, a triangle with every one of its angles less than a right angle.
acuteness: the quality of being acute or pointed; sharpness; as, the acuteness of an angle.-the faculty of nice discernment or perception; acumen; keenness; sharpness; sensitiveness; -- applied to the senses, or the understanding. by acuteness of feeling, we perceive small objects or slight impressions: by acuteness of intellect, we discern nice distinctions.-shrillness; high pitch; -- said of sounds.-violence of a disease, which brings it speedily to a crisis.
ad captandum: a phrase used adjectively sometimes of meretricious attempts to catch or win popular favor.
ad hominem: a phrase applied to an appeal or argument addressed to the principles, interests, or passions of a man.
ad valorem: a term used to denote a duty or charge laid upon goods, at a certain rate per cent upon their value, as stated in their invoice, -- in opposition to a specific sum upon a given quantity or number; as, an ad valorem duty of twenty per cent.
ad-: as a prefix ad- assumes the forms ac-, af-, ag-, al-, an-, ap-, ar-, as-, at-, assimilating the d with the first letter of the word to which ad- is prefixed. it remains unchanged before vowels, and before d, h, j, m, v. examples: adduce, adhere, adjacent, admit, advent, accord, affect, aggregate, allude, annex, appear, etc. it becomes ac- before qu, as in acquiesce.
adactylous: without fingers or without toes.-without claws on the feet (of crustaceous animals).
adagio: slow; slowly, leisurely, and gracefully. when repeated, adagio, adagio, it directs the movement to be very slow.-a piece of music in adagio time; a slow movement; as, an adagio of haydn.
adam: the name given in the bible to the first man, the progenitor of the human race.-"original sin;" human frailty.
adamant: a stone imagined by some to be of impenetrable hardness; a name given to the diamond and other substances of extreme hardness; but in modern mineralogy it has no technical signification. it is now a rhetorical or poetical name for the embodiment of impenetrable hardness.-lodestone; magnet.
adamantine: made of adamant, or having the qualities of adamant; incapable of being broken, dissolved, or penetrated; as, adamantine bonds or chains.-like the diamond in hardness or luster.
adambulacral: next to the ambulacra; as, the adambulacral ossicles of the starfish.
adamite: a descendant of adam; a human being.-one of a sect of visionaries, who, professing to imitate the state of adam, discarded the use of dress in their assemblies.
adansonia: a genus of great trees related to the bombax. there are two species, a. digitata, the baobab or monkey-bread of africa and india, and a. gregorii, the sour gourd or cream-of-tartar tree of australia.  both have a trunk of moderate height, but of enormous diameter, and a wide-spreading head. the fruit is oblong, and filled with pleasantly acid pulp. the wood is very soft, and the bark is used by the natives for making ropes and cloth.
adapt: fitted; suited.-to make suitable; to fit, or suit; to adjust; to alter so as to fit for a new use; -- sometimes followed by to or for.
adaptation: the act or process of adapting, or fitting; or the state of being adapted or fitted; fitness.-the result of adapting; an adapted form.
adaptive: suited, given, or tending, to adaptation; characterized by adaptation; capable of adapting.
adar: the twelfth month of the hebrew ecclesiastical year, and the sixth of the civil. it corresponded nearly with march.
adarce: a saltish concretion on reeds and grass in marshy grounds in galatia. it is soft and porous, and was formerly used for cleansing the skin from freckles and tetters, and also in leprosy.
add: to give by way of increased possession (to any one); to bestow (on).-to join or unite, as one thing to another, or as several particulars, so as to increase the number, augment the quantity, enlarge the magnitude, or so as to form into one aggregate. hence: to sum up; to put together mentally; as, to add numbers; to add up a column.-to append, as a statement; to say further.-to make an addition. to add to, to augment; to increase; as, it adds to our anxiety.-to perform the arithmetical operation of addition; as, he adds rapidly.
addax: one of the largest african antelopes (hippotragus, / oryx, nasomaculatus).
adder: one who, or that which, adds; esp., a machine for adding numbers.-a serpent.-a small venomous serpent of the genus vipera. the common european adder is the vipera (/ pelias) berus. the puff adders of africa are species of clotho.-in america, the term is commonly applied to several harmless snakes, as the milk adder, puffing adder, etc.-same as sea adder.
adder's-tongue: a genus of ferns (ophioglossum), whose seeds are produced on a spike resembling a serpent's tongue.-the yellow dogtooth violet.
adderwort: the common bistort or snakeweed (polygonum bistorta).
addict: addicted; devoted.-to apply habitually; to devote; to habituate; -- with to.-to adapt; to make suitable; to fit.
addison's disease: a morbid condition causing a peculiar brownish discoloration of the skin, and thought, at one time, to be due to disease of the suprarenal capsules (two flat triangular bodies covering the upper part of the kidneys), but now known not to be dependent upon this causes exclusively. it is usually fatal.
addition: the act of adding two or more things together; -- opposed to subtraction or diminution.-anything added; increase; augmentation; as, a piazza is an addition to a building.-that part of arithmetic which treats of adding numbers.-a dot at the right side of a note as an indication that its sound is to be lengthened one half.-a title annexed to a man's name, to identify him more precisely; as, john doe, esq.; richard roe, gent.; robert dale, mason; thomas way, of new york; a mark of distinction; a title.-something added to a coat of arms, as a mark of honor; -- opposed to abatement.
addle: liquid filth; mire.-lees; dregs.-having lost the power of development, and become rotten, as eggs; putrid. hence: unfruitful or confused, as brains; muddled.-to make addle; to grow addle; to muddle; as, he addled his brain.-to earn by labor.-to thrive or grow; to ripen.
address: to aim; to direct.-to prepare or make ready.-reflexively: to prepare one's self; to apply one's skill or energies (to some object); to betake.-to clothe or array; to dress.-to direct, as words (to any one or any thing); to make, as a speech, petition, etc. (to any one, an audience).-to direct speech to; to make a communication to, whether spoken or written; to apply to by words, as by a speech, petition, etc., to speak to; to accost.-to direct in writing, as a letter; to superscribe, or to direct and transmit; as, he addressed a letter.-to make suit to as a lover; to court; to woo.-to consign or intrust to the care of another, as agent or factor; as, the ship was addressed to a merchant in baltimore.-to prepare one's self.-to direct speech.-act of preparing one's self.-act of addressing one's self to a person; verbal application.-a formal communication, either written or spoken; a discourse; a speech; a formal application to any one; a petition; a formal statement on some subject or special occasion; as, an address of thanks, an address to the voters.-direction or superscription of a letter, or the name, title, and place of residence of the person addressed.-manner of speaking to another; delivery; as, a man of pleasing or insinuating address.-attention in the way one's addresses to a lady.-skill; skillful management; dexterity; adroitness.
adduce: to bring forward or offer, as an argument, passage, or consideration which bears on a statement or case; to cite; to allege.
adducent: bringing together or towards a given point; -- a word applied to those muscles of the body which pull one part towards another. opposed to abducent.
adduction: the act of adducing or bringing forward.-the action by which the parts of the body are drawn towards its axis]; -- opposed to abduction.
adductor: a muscle which draws a limb or part of the body toward the middle line of the body, or closes extended parts of the body; -- opposed to abductor; as, the adductor of the eye, which turns the eye toward the nose.
adeem: to revoke, as a legacy, grant, etc., or to satisfy it by some other gift.
adelaster: a provisional name for a plant which has not had its flowers botanically examined, and therefore has not been referred to its proper genus.
adelocodonic: applied to sexual zooids of hydroids, that have a saclike form and do not become free; -- opposed to phanerocodonic.
adelphia: a "brotherhood," or collection of stamens in a bundle; -- used in composition, as in the class names, monadelphia, diadelphia, etc.
adelphous: having coalescent or clustered filaments; -- said of stamens; as, adelphous stamens. usually in composition; as, monadelphous.
adeno-: combining forms of the greek word for gland; -- used in words relating to the structure, diseases, etc., of the glands.
adept: one fully skilled or well versed in anything; a proficient; as, adepts in philosophy.-well skilled; completely versed; thoroughly proficient.
adequacy: the state or quality of being adequate, proportionate, or sufficient; a sufficiency for a particular purpose; as, the adequacy of supply to the expenditure.
adequate: equal to some requirement; proportionate, or correspondent; fully sufficient; as, powers adequate to a great work; an adequate definition.-to equalize; to make adequate.-to equal.
adequateness: the quality of being adequate; suitableness; sufficiency; adequacy.
adessenarian: one who held the real presence of christ's body in the eucharist, but not by transubstantiation.
adhere: to stick fast or cleave, as a glutinous substance does; to become joined or united; as, wax   to the finger; the lungs sometimes adhere to the pleura.-to hold, be attached, or devoted; to remain fixed, either by personal union or conformity of faith, principle, or opinion; as, men adhere to a party, a cause, a leader, a church.-to be consistent or coherent; to be in accordance; to agree.
adherence: the quality or state of adhering.-the state of being fixed in attachment; fidelity; steady attachment; adhesion; as, adherence to a party or to opinions.
adherent: sticking; clinging; adhering.-attached as an attribute or circumstance.-congenitally united with an organ of another kind, as calyx with ovary, or stamens with petals.-one who adheres; one who adheres; one who follows a leader, party, or profession; a follower, or partisan; a believer in a particular faith or church.-that which adheres; an appendage.
adhesion: the action of sticking; the state of being attached; intimate union; as, the adhesion of glue, or of parts united by growth, cement, or the like.-adherence; steady or firm attachment; fidelity; as, adhesion to error, to a policy.-agreement to adhere; concurrence; assent.-the molecular attraction exerted between bodies in contact. see cohesion.-union of surface, normally separate, by the formation of new tissue resulting from an inflammatory process.-the union of parts which are separate in other plants, or in younger states of the same plant.
adhesive: sticky; tenacious, as glutinous substances.-apt or tending to adhere; clinging.
adhesiveness: the quality of sticking or adhering; stickiness; tenacity of union.-propensity to form and maintain attachments to persons, and to promote social intercourse.
adhibit: to admit, as a person or thing; to take in.-to use or apply; to administer.-to attach; to affix.
adiantum: a genus of ferns, the leaves of which shed water; maidenhair. also, the black maidenhair, a species of spleenwort.
adiaphorist: one of the german protestants who, with melanchthon, held some opinions and ceremonies to be indifferent or nonessential, which luther condemned as sinful or heretical.
adiaphorous: indifferent or neutral.-incapable of doing either harm or good, as some medicines.
adieu: good-by; farewell; an expression of kind wishes at parting.-a farewell; commendation to the care of god at parting.
adight: of adight-to set in order; to array; to attire; to deck, to dress.
adipic: pertaining to, or derived from, fatty or oily substances; -- applied to certain acids obtained from fats by the action of nitric acid.
adipocere: a soft, unctuous, or waxy substance, of a light brown color, into which the fat and muscle tissue of dead bodies sometimes are converted, by long immersion in water or by burial in moist places. it is a result of fatty degeneration.
adipoceriform: having the form or appearance of adipocere; as, an adipoceriform tumor.
adit: an entrance or passage. specifically: the nearly horizontal opening by which a mine is entered, or by which water and ores are carried away; -- called also drift and tunnel.-admission; approach; access.
adjacency: the state of being adjacent or contiguous; contiguity; as, the adjacency of lands or buildings.-that which is adjacent.
adjacent: lying near, close, or contiguous; neighboring; bordering on; as, a field adjacent to the highway.-that which is adjacent.
adjectival: of or relating to the relating to the adjective; of the nature of an adjective; adjective.
adjective: added to a substantive as an attribute; of the nature of an adjunct; as, an adjective word or sentence.-not standing by itself; dependent.-relating to procedure.-a word used with a noun, or substantive, to express a quality of the thing named, or something attributed to it, or to limit or define it, or to specify or describe a thing, as distinct from something else. thus, in phrase, "a wise ruler," wise is the adjective, expressing a property of ruler.-a dependent; an accessory.-to make an adjective of; to form or change into an adjective.
adjoin: to join or unite to; to lie contiguous to; to be in contact with; to attach; to append.-to lie or be next, or in contact; to be contiguous; as, the houses adjoin.-to join one's self.
adjoining: of adjoin-joining to; contiguous; adjacent; as, an adjoining room.
adjourn: to put off or defer to another day, or indefinitely; to postpone; to close or suspend for the day; -- commonly said of the meeting, or the action, of convened body; as, to adjourn the meeting; to adjourn a debate.-to suspend business for a time, as from one day to another, or for a longer period, or indefinitely; usually, to suspend public business, as of legislatures and courts, or other convened bodies; as, congress adjourned at four o'clock; the court adjourned without day.
adjournment: the act of adjourning; the putting off till another day or time specified, or without day.-the time or interval during which a public body adjourns its sittings or postpones business.
adjudge: to award judicially in the case of a controverted question; as, the prize was adjudged to the victor.-to determine in the exercise of judicial power; to decide or award judicially; to adjudicate; as, the case was adjudged in the november term.-to sentence; to condemn.-to regard or hold; to judge; to deem.
adjudicate: to adjudge; to try and determine, as a court; to settle by judicial decree.-to come to a judicial decision; as, the court adjudicated upon the case.
adjudication: the act of adjudicating; the act or process of trying and determining judicially.-a deliberate determination by the judicial power; a judicial decision or sentence.-the decision upon the question whether the debtor is a bankrupt.-a process by which land is attached security or in satisfaction of a debt.
adjunct: conjoined; attending; consequent.-something joined or added to another thing, but not essentially a part of it.-a person joined to another in some duty or service; a colleague; an associate.-a word or words added to quality or amplify the force of other words; as, the history of the american revolution, where the words in italics are the adjunct or adjuncts of "history."-a quality or property of the body or the mind, whether natural or acquired; as, color, in the body, judgment in the mind.-a key or scale closely related to another as principal; a relative or attendant key. [r.] see attendant keys, under attendant, a.
adjunctive: joining; having the quality of joining; forming an adjunct.-one who, or that which, is joined.
adjuration: the act of adjuring; a solemn charging on oath, or under the penalty of a curse; an earnest appeal.-the form of oath or appeal.
adjure: to charge, bind, or command, solemnly, as if under oath, or under the penalty of a curse; to appeal to in the most solemn or impressive manner; to entreat earnestly.
adjust: to make exact; to fit; to make correspondent or conformable; to bring into proper relations; as, to adjust a garment to the body, or things to a standard.-to put in order; to regulate, or reduce to system.-to settle or bring to a satisfactory state, so that parties are agreed in the result; as, to adjust accounts; the differences are adjusted.-to bring to a true relative position, as the parts of an instrument; to regulate for use; as, to adjust a telescope or microscope.
adjustment: the act of adjusting, or condition of being adjusted; act of bringing into proper relations; regulation.-settlement of claims; an equitable arrangement of conflicting claims, as in set-off, contribution, exoneration, subrogation, and marshaling.-the operation of bringing all the parts of an instrument, as a microscope or telescope, into their proper relative position for use; the condition of being thus adjusted; as, to get a good adjustment; to be in or out of adjustment.
adjutant: a helper; an assistant.-a regimental staff officer, who assists the colonel, or commanding officer of a garrison or regiment, in the details of regimental and garrison duty.-a species of very large stork (ciconia argala), a native of india; -- called also the gigantic crane, and by the native name argala. it is noted for its serpent-destroying habits.
adjuvant: a substance added to an immunogenic agent to enhance the production of antibodies.-a substance added to a formulation of a drug which enhances the effect of the active ingredient.-helping; helpful; assisting.-an assistant.-an ingredient, in a prescription, which aids or modifies the action of the principal ingredient.
adlegation: a right formerly claimed by the states of the german empire of joining their own ministers with those of the emperor in public treaties and negotiations to the common interest of the empire.
admeasure: to measure.-to determine the proper share of, or the proper apportionment; as, to admeasure dower; to admeasure common of pasture.-the measure of a thing; dimensions; size.-formerly, the adjustment of proportion, or ascertainment of shares, as of dower or pasture held in common. this was by writ of admeasurement, directed to the sheriff.
adminicular: supplying help; auxiliary; corroborative; explanatory; as, adminicular evidence.
administer: to manage or conduct, as public affairs; to direct or superintend the execution, application, or conduct of; as, to administer the government or the state.-to dispense; to serve out; to supply; execute; as, to administer relief, to administer the sacrament.-to apply, as medicine or a remedy; to give, as a dose or something beneficial or suitable. extended to a blow, a reproof, etc.-to tender, as an oath.-to settle, as the estate of one who dies without a will, or whose will fails of an executor.-to contribute; to bring aid or supplies; to conduce; to minister.-to perform the office of administrator; to act officially; as, a administers upon the estate of b.-administrator.
administration: the act of administering; government of public affairs; the service rendered, or duties assumed, in conducting affairs; the conducting of any office or employment; direction; management.-the executive part of government; the persons collectively who are intrusted with the execution of laws and the superintendence of public affairs; the chief magistrate and his cabinet or council; or the council, or ministry, alone, as in great britain.-the act of administering, or tendering something to another; dispensation; as, the administration of a medicine, of an oath, of justice, or of the sacrament.-the management and disposal, under legal authority, of the estate of an intestate, or of a testator having no competent executor.-the management of an estate of a deceased person by an executor, the strictly corresponding term execution not being in use.
administrative: pertaining to administration; administering; executive; as, an administrative body, ability, or energy.
administrator: one who administers affairs; one who directs, manages, executes, or dispenses, whether in civil, judicial, political, or ecclesiastical affairs; a manager.-a man who manages or settles the estate of an intestate, or of a testator when there is no competent executor; one to whom the right of administration has been committed by competent authority.
administratrix: a woman who administers; esp., one who administers the estate of an intestate, or to whom letters of administration have been granted; a female administrator.
admirable: fitted to excite wonder; wonderful; marvelous.-having qualities to excite wonder united with approbation; deserving the highest praise; most excellent; -- used of persons or things.
admiral: a naval officer of the highest rank; a naval officer of high rank, of which there are different grades. the chief gradations in rank are admiral, vice admiral, and rear admiral. the admiral is the commander in chief of a fleet or of fleets.-the ship which carries the admiral; also, the most considerable ship of a fleet.-a handsome butterfly (pyrameis atalanta) of europe and america. the larva feeds on nettles.
admiralship: the office or position oaf an admiral; also, the naval skill of an admiral.
admiralty: the office or jurisdiction of an admiral.-the department or officers having authority over naval affairs generally.-the court which has jurisdiction of maritime questions and offenses.-the system of jurisprudence of admiralty courts.-the building in which the lords of the admiralty, in england, transact business.
admiration: wonder; astonishment.-wonder mingled with approbation or delight; an emotion excited by a person or thing possessed of wonderful or high excellence; as, admiration of a beautiful woman, of a landscape, of virtue.-cause of admiration; something to excite wonder, or pleased surprise; a prodigy.
admire: to regard with wonder or astonishment; to view with surprise; to marvel at.-to regard with wonder and delight; to look upon with an elevated feeling of pleasure, as something which calls out approbation, esteem, love, or reverence; to estimate or prize highly; as, to admire a person of high moral worth, to admire a landscape.-to wonder; to marvel; to be affected with surprise; -- sometimes with at.
admired: of admire-regarded with wonder and delight; highly prized; as, an admired poem.-wonderful; also, admirable.
admissibility: the quality of being admissible; admissibleness; as, the admissibility of evidence.
admissible: entitled to be admitted, or worthy of being admitted; that may be allowed or conceded; allowable; as, the supposition is hardly admissible.