AbstractPhil/geometric-vocab-english-full-a-to-z huggingface dataset:
chocolate: a paste or cake composed of the roasted seeds of the theobroma cacao ground and mixed with other ingredients, usually sugar, and cinnamon or vanilla.-the beverage made by dissolving a portion of the paste or cake in boiling water or milk.
choctaws: a tribe of north american indians (southern appalachian), in early times noted for their pursuit of agriculture, and for living at peace with the white settlers. they are now one of the civilized tribes of the indian territory.
choice: act of choosing; the voluntary act of selecting or separating from two or more things that which is preferred; the determination of the mind in preferring one thing to another; election.-the power or opportunity of choosing; option.-care in selecting; judgment or skill in distinguishing what is to be preferred, and in giving a preference; discrimination.-a sufficient number to choose among.-the thing or person chosen; that which is approved and selected in preference to others; selection.-the best part; that which is preferable.-worthly of being chosen or preferred; select; superior; precious; valuable.-preserving or using with care, as valuable; frugal; -- used with of; as, to be choice of time, or of money.-selected with care, and due attention to preference; deliberately chosen.
choicely: with care in choosing; with nice regard to preference.-in a preferable or excellent manner; excellently; eminently.
choir: a band or organized company of singers, especially in church service.-that part of a church appropriated to the singers.-the chancel.
choke: to render unable to breathe by filling, pressing upon, or squeezing the windpipe; to stifle; to suffocate; to strangle.-to obstruct by filling up or clogging any passage; to block up.-to hinder or check, as growth, expansion, progress, etc.; to stifle.-to affect with a sense of strangulation by passion or strong feeling.-to make a choke, as in a cartridge, or in the bore of the barrel of a shotgun.-to have the windpipe stopped; to have a spasm of the throat, caused by stoppage or irritation of the windpipe; to be strangled.-to be checked, as if by choking; to stick.-a stoppage or irritation of the windpipe, producing the feeling of strangulation.-the tied end of a cartridge.-a constriction in the bore of a shotgun, case of a rocket, etc.
choke pear: a kind of pear that has a rough, astringent taste, and is swallowed with difficulty, or which contracts the mucous membrane of the mouth.-a sarcasm by which one is put to silence; anything that can not be answered.
choke-strap: a strap leading from the bellyband to the lower part of the collar, to keep the collar in place.
chokeberry: the small apple-shaped or pear-shaped fruit of an american shrub (pyrus arbutifolia) growing in damp thickets; also, the shrub.
chokecherry: the astringent fruit of a species of wild cherry (prunus virginiana); also, the bush or tree which bears such fruit.
choker: one who, or that which, chokes.-a stiff wide cravat; a stock.
choking: of choke-that chokes; producing the feeling of strangulation.-indistinct in utterance, as the voice of a person affected with strong emotion.
choky chokey: tending to choke or suffocate, or having power to suffocate.-inclined to choke, as a person affected with strong emotion.
cholaemaa: a disease characterized by severe nervous symptoms, dependent upon the presence of the constituents of the bile in the blood.
cholagogue: promoting the discharge of bile from the system.-an agent which promotes the discharge of bile from the system.
cholecystotomy: the operation of making an opening in the gall bladder, as for the removal of a gallstone.
choleic: pertaining to, or obtained from, bile; as, choleic acid.
choler: the bile; -- formerly supposed to be the seat and cause of irascibility.-irritation of the passions; anger; wrath.
cholera: one of several diseases affecting the digestive and intestinal tract and more or less dangerous to life, esp. the one commonly called asiatic cholera.
choleric: abounding with, or producing choler, or bile.-easily irritated; irascible; inclined to anger.-angry; indicating anger; excited by anger.
cholerine: the precursory symptoms of cholera.-the first stage of epidemic cholera.-a mild form of cholera.
cholesteric: pertaining to cholesterin, or obtained from it; as, cholesteric acid.
cholesterin: a white, fatty, crystalline substance, tasteless and odorless, found in animal and plant products and tissue, and especially in nerve tissue, in the bile, and in gallstones.
choliambic: a verse having an iambus in the fifth place, and a spondee in the sixth or last.
chondrigen: the chemical basis of cartilage, converted by long boiling in water into a gelatinous body called chondrin.
chondrin: a colorless, amorphous, nitrogenous substance, tasteless and odorless, formed from cartilaginous tissue by long-continued action of boiling water. it is similar to gelatin, and is a large ingredient of commercial gelatin.
chondritic: granular; pertaining to, or having the granular structure characteristic of, the class of meteorites called chondrites.
chondro-: a combining form meaning a grain, granular, granular cartilage, cartilaginous; as, the chondrocranium, the cartilaginous skull of the lower vertebrates and of embryos.
chondrodite: a fluosilicate of magnesia and iron, yellow to red in color, often occurring in granular form in a crystalline limestone.
chondroganoidea: an order of ganoid fishes, including the sturgeons; -- so called on account of their cartilaginous skeleton.
chondropterygian: having a cartilaginous skeleton.-one of the chondropterygii.
chondropterygii: a group of fishes, characterized by cartilaginous fins and skeleton. it includes both ganoids (sturgeons, etc.) and selachians (sharks), but is now often restricted to the latter.
chondrostei: an order of fishes, including the sturgeons; -- so named because the skeleton is cartilaginous.
chondrule: a peculiar rounded granule of some mineral, usually enstatite or chrysolite, found imbedded more or less abundantly in the mass of many meteoric stones, which are hence called chondrites.
choose: to make choice of; to select; to take by way of preference from two or more objects offered; to elect; as, to choose the least of two evils.-to wish; to desire; to prefer.-to make a selection; to decide.-to do otherwise.
chooser: one who chooses; one who has the power or right of choosing; an elector.
chop: to cut by striking repeatedly with a sharp instrument; to cut into pieces; to mince; -- often with up.-to sever or separate by one more blows of a sharp instrument; to divide; -- usually with off or down.-to seize or devour greedily; -- with up.-to make a quick strike, or repeated strokes, with an ax or other sharp instrument.-to do something suddenly with an unexpected motion; to catch or attempt to seize.-to interrupt; -- with in or out.-to barter or truck.-to exchange; substitute one thing for another.-to purchase by way of truck.-to vary or shift suddenly; as, the wind chops about.-to wrangle; to altercate; to bandy words.-a change; a vicissitude.-to crack. see chap, v. t. & i.-the act of chopping; a stroke.-a piece chopped off; a slice or small piece, especially of meat; as, a mutton chop.-a crack or cleft. see chap.-a jaw of an animal; -- commonly in the pl. see chops.-a movable jaw or cheek, as of a wooden vise.-the land at each side of the mouth of a river, harbor, or channel; as, east chop or west chop. see chops.-quality; brand; as, silk of the first chop.-a permit or clearance.
chopfallen: having the lower chop or jaw depressed; hence, crestfallen; dejected; dispirited; downcast. see chapfallen.
chophouse: a house where chops, etc., are sold; an eating house.-a customhouse where transit duties are levied.
chopin: a liquid measure formerly used in france and great britain, varying from half a pint to a wine quart.-see chopine.
chopine: a clog, or patten, having a very thick sole, or in some cases raised upon a stilt to a height of a foot or more.
chopping: of chop-stout or plump; large.-shifting or changing suddenly, as the wind; also, having tumbling waves dashing against each other; as, a chopping sea.-act of cutting by strokes.
choppy: full of cracks.-rough, with short, tumultuous waves; as, a choppy sea.
chops: the jaws; also, the fleshy parts about the mouth.-the sides or capes at the mouth of a river, channel, harbor, or bay; as, the chops of the english channel.
chopstick: one of two small sticks of wood, ivory, etc., used by the chinese and japanese to convey food to the mouth.
choragus: a chorus leader; esp. one who provided at his own expense and under his own supervision one of the choruses for the musical contents at athens.
choral: of or pertaining to a choir or chorus; singing, sung, or adapted to be sung, in chorus or harmony.-a hymn tune; a simple sacred tune, sung in unison by the congregation; as, the lutheran chorals.
chorally: in the manner of a chorus; adapted to be sung by a choir; in harmony.
chord: the string of a musical instrument.-a combination of tones simultaneously performed, producing more or less perfect harmony, as, the common chord.-a right line uniting the extremities of the arc of a circle or curve.-a cord. see cord, n., 4.-the upper or lower part of a truss, usually horizontal, resisting compression or tension.-to provide with musical chords or strings; to string; to tune.-to accord; to harmonize together; as, this note chords with that.
chordata: a comprehensive division of animals including all vertebrata together with the tunicata, or all those having a dorsal nervous cord.
chordee: a painful erection of the penis, usually with downward curvature, occurring in gonorrhea.
chore: a small job; in the pl., the regular or daily light work of a household or farm, either within or without doors.-to do chores.-a choir or chorus.
chorea: st. vitus's dance; a disease attended with convulsive twitchings and other involuntary movements of the muscles or limbs.
chorepiscopus: a "country" or suffragan bishop, appointed in the ancient church by a diocesan bishop to exercise episcopal jurisdiction in a rural district.
choriambus: a foot consisting of four syllables, of which the first and last are long, and the other short (- ~ ~ -); that is, a choreus, or trochee, and an iambus united.
chorion: the outer membrane which invests the fetus in the womb; also, the similar membrane investing many ova at certain stages of development.-the true skin, or cutis.-the outer membrane of seeds of plants.
chorister: one of a choir; a singer in a chorus.-one who leads a choir in church music.
chorographer: one who describes or makes a map of a district or region.-a geographical antiquary; one who investigates the locality of ancient places.
choroid: resembling the chorion; as, the choroid plexuses of the ventricles of the brain, and the choroid coat of the eyeball.-the choroid coat of the eye. see eye.
chorology: the science which treats of the laws of distribution of living organisms over the earth's surface as to latitude, altitude, locality, etc.
chorus: a band of singers and dancers.-a company of persons supposed to behold what passed in the acts of a tragedy, and to sing the sentiments which the events suggested in couplets or verses between the acts; also, that which was thus sung by the chorus.-an interpreter in a dumb show or play.-a company of singers singing in concert.-a composition of two or more parts, each of which is intended to be sung by a number of voices.-parts of a song or hymn recurring at intervals, as at the end of stanzas; also, a company of singers who join with the singer or choir in singer or choir in singing such parts.-the simultaneous of a company in any noisy demonstration; as, a chorus of shouts and catcalls.-to sing in chorus; to exclaim simultaneously.
chose: of choose-of choose-a thing; personal property.-imp. & p. p. of choose.
chosen: of choose-selected from a number; picked out; choice.-one who, or that which is the object of choice or special favor.
chouan: one of the royalist insurgents in western france (brittany, etc.), during and after the french revolution.
chough: a bird of the crow family (fregilus graculus) of europe. it is of a black color, with a long, slender, curved bill and red legs; -- also called chauk, chauk-daw, chocard, cornish chough, red-legged crow. the name is also applied to several allied birds, as the alpine chough.
chouse: to cheat, trick, defraud; -- followed by of, or out of; as, to chouse one out of his money.-one who is easily cheated; a tool; a simpleton; a gull.-a trick; sham; imposition.-a swindler.
chowchow: consisting of several kinds mingled together; mixed; as, chowchow sweetmeats (preserved fruits put together).-a kind of mixed pickles.
chowder: a dish made of fresh fish or clams, biscuit, onions, etc., stewed together.-a seller of fish.-to make a chowder of.
chrematistics: the science of wealth; the science, or a branch of the science, of political economy.
chreotechnics: the science of the useful arts, esp. agriculture, manufactures, and commerce.
chrestomathy: a selection of passages, with notes, etc., to be used in acquiring a language; as, a hebrew chrestomathy.
chrism: olive oil mixed with balm and spices, consecrated by the bishop on maundy thursday, and used in the administration of baptism, confirmation, ordination, etc.-the same as chrisom.
chrisom: a white cloth, anointed with chrism, or a white mantle thrown over a child when baptized or christened.-a child which died within a month after its baptism; -- so called from the chrisom cloth which was used as a shroud for it.
christ: the anointed; an appellation given to jesus, the savior.  it is synonymous with the hebrew messiah.
christ's-thorn: one of several prickly or thorny shrubs found in palestine, especially the paliurus aculeatus, zizyphus spina-christi, and z. vulgaris. the last bears the fruit called jujube, and may be considered to have been the most readily obtainable for the crown of thorns.
christcross: the mark of the cross, as cut, painted, written, or stamped on certain objects, -- sometimes as the sign of 12 o'clock on a dial.-the beginning and the ending.
christcross-row: the alphabet; -- formerly so called, either from the cross usually set before it, or from a superstitious custom, sometimes practiced, of writing it in the form of a cross, by way of a charm.
christen: to baptize and give a christian name to.-to give a name; to denominate.-to christianize.-to use for the first time.
christendom: the profession of faith in christ by baptism; hence, the christian religion, or the adoption of it.-the name received at baptism; or, more generally, any name or appelation.-that portion of the world in which christianity prevails, or which is governed under christian institutions, in distinction from heathen or mohammedan lands.-the whole body of christians.
christian: one who believes, or professes or is assumed to believe, in jesus christ, and the truth as taught by him; especially, one whose inward and outward life is conformed to the doctrines of christ.-one born in a christian country or of christian parents, and who has not definitely becomes an adherent of an opposing system.-one of a christian denomination which rejects human creeds as bases of fellowship, and sectarian names. they are congregational in church government, and baptize by immersion. they are also called disciples of christ, and campbellites.-one of a sect (called christian connection) of open-communion immersionists. the bible is their only authoritative rule of faith and practice.-pertaining to christ or his religion; as, christian people.-pertaining to the church; ecclesiastical; as, a christian court.-characteristic of christian people; civilized; kind; kindly; gentle; beneficent.
christianity: the religion of christians; the system of doctrines and precepts taught by christ.-practical conformity of one's inward and outward life to the spirit of the christian religion-the body of christian believers.
christianize: to make christian; to convert to christianity; as, to christianize pagans.-to imbue with or adapt to christian principles.-to adopt the character or belief of a christian; to become christian.
christmas: an annual church festival (december 25) and in some states a legal holiday, in memory of the birth of christ, often celebrated by a particular church service, and also by special gifts, greetings, and hospitality.
christocentric: making christ the center, about whom all things are grouped, as in religion or history; tending toward christ, as the central object of thought or emotion.
christology: a treatise on christ; that department of theology which treats of the personality, attributes, or life of christ.
chromatic: relating to color, or to colors.-proceeding by the smaller intervals (half steps or semitones) of the scale, instead of the regular intervals of the diatonic scale.
chromatics: the science of colors; that part of optics which treats of the properties of colors.
chromatism: the state of being colored, as in the case of images formed by a lens.-an abnormal coloring of plants.
chromatophore: a contractile cell or vesicle containing liquid pigment and capable of changing its form or size, thus causing changes of color in the translucent skin of such animals as possess them. they are highly developed and numerous in the cephalopods.-one of the granules of protoplasm, which in mass give color to the part of the plant containing them.
chromatoscope: a reflecting telescope, part of which is made to rotate eccentrically, so as to produce a ringlike image of a star, instead of a point; -- used in studying the scintillation of the stars.
chromatrope: an instrument for exhibiting certain chromatic effects of light (depending upon the persistence of vision and mixture of colors) by means of rapidly rotating disks variously colored.-a device in a magic lantern or stereopticon to produce kaleidoscopic effects.
chromatype: a colored photographic picture taken upon paper made sensitive with potassium bichromate or some other salt of chromium.-the process by which such picture is made.
chromic: pertaining to, or obtained from, chromium; -- said of the compounds of chromium in which it has its higher valence.
chromid: one of the chromidae, a family of fresh-water fishes abundant in the tropical parts of america and africa. some are valuable food fishes, as the bulti of the nile.
chromite: a black submetallic mineral consisting of oxide of chromium and iron; -- called also chromic iron.-a compound or salt of chromous hydroxide regarded as an acid.
chromium: a comparatively rare element occurring most abundantly in the mineral chromite. atomic weight 52.5.  symbol cr.  when isolated it is a hard, brittle, grayish white metal, fusible with difficulty. its chief commercial importance is for its compounds, as potassium chromate, lead chromate, etc., which are brilliantly colored and are used dyeing and calico printing. called also chrome.
chromogen: vegetable coloring matter other than green; chromule.-any colored compound, supposed to contain one or more chromophores.
chromograph: an apparatus by which a number of copies of written matter, maps, plans, etc., can be made; -- called also hectograph.
chromolithograph: a picture printed in tints and colors by repeated impressions from a series of stones prepared by the lithographic process.
chromophane: a general name for the several coloring matters, red, green, yellow, etc., present in the inner segments in the cones of the retina, held in solution by fats, and slowly decolorized by light; distinct from the photochemical pigments of the rods of the retina.
chromophore: any chemical group or residue (as no2; n2; or o2) which imparts some decided color to the compound of which it is an ingredient.
chromoplastid: a protoplasmic granule of some other color than green; -- also called chromoleucite.
chromosome: one of the minute bodies into which the chromatin of the nucleus is resolved during mitotic cell division; the idant of weismann.
chromosphere: an atmosphere of rare matter, composed principally of incandescent hydrogen gas, surrounding the sun and enveloping the photosphere. portions of the chromosphere are here and there thrown up into enormous tongues of flame.
chromotype: a sheet printed in colors by any process, as a chromolithograph. see chromolithograph.-a photographic picture in the natural colors.
chromous: of, pertaining to, or derived from, chromium, when this element has a valence lower than that in chromic compounds.
chromule: a general name for coloring matter of plants other than chlorophyll, especially that of petals.
chronic: relating to time; according to time.-continuing for a long time; lingering; habitual.
chronicle: an historical register or account of facts or events disposed in the order of time.-a narrative of events; a history; a record.-the two canonical books of the old testament in which immediately follow 2 kings.-to record in a history or chronicle; to record; to register.
chronicler: a writer of a chronicle; a recorder of events in the order of time; an historian.
chronogram: an inscription in which certain numeral letters, made to appear specially conspicuous, on being added together, express a particular date or epoch, as in the motto of a medal struck by gustavus adolphus in 1632:            christvs dvx; ergo trivmphvs.- the capitals of which give, when added as numerals, the sum 1632.-the record or inscription made by a chronograph.
chronograph: an instrument for measuring or recording intervals of time, upon a revolving drum or strip of paper moved by clockwork. the action of the stylus or pen is controlled by electricity.-same as chronogram, 1.-a chronoscope.
chronologer: same as chronologist.-a person who investigates dates of events and transactions; one skilled in chronology.
chronological: relating to chronology; containing an account of events in the order of time; according to the order of time; as, chronological tables.
chronology: the science which treats of measuring time by regular divisions or periods, and which assigns to events or transactions their proper dates.
chronometer: an instrument for measuring time; a timekeeper.-a portable timekeeper, with a heavy compensation balance, and usually beating half seconds; -- intended to keep time with great accuracy for use an astronomical observations, in determining longitude, etc.-a metronome.
chronoscope: an instrument for measuring minute intervals of time; used in determining the velocity of projectiles, the duration of short-lived luminous phenomena, etc.
chrysalid: pertaining to a chrysalis; resembling a chrysalis.-see chrysalis.
chrysalis: the pupa state of certain insects, esp. of butterflies, from which the perfect insect emerges. see pupa, and aurelia (a).
chrysaniline: a yellow substance obtained as a by-product in the manufacture of rosaniline. it dyes silk a fine golden-yellow color.
chrysanthemum: a genus of composite plants, mostly perennial, and of many species including the many varieties of garden chrysanthemums (annual and perennial), and also the feverfew and the oxeye daisy.
chrysarobin: a bitter, yellow substance forming the essential constituent of goa powder, and yielding chrysophanic acid proper; hence formerly called also chrysphanic acid.
chrysene: one of the higher aromatic hydrocarbons of coal tar, allied to naphthalene and anthracene. it is a white crystalline substance, c18h12, of strong blue fluorescence, but generally colored yellow by impurities.
chrysoberyl: a mineral, found in crystals, of a yellow to green or brown color, and consisting of aluminia and glucina. it is very hard, and is often used as a gem.
chrysochlore: a south african mole of the genus chrysochloris; the golden mole, the fur of which reflects brilliant metallic hues of green and gold.
chrysocolla: a hydrous silicate of copper, occurring massive, of a blue or greenish blue color.
chrysoidine: an artificial, yellow, crystalline dye, c6h5n2.c6h3(nh2)2. also, one of a group of dyestuffs resembling chrysoidine proper.
chrysolite: a mineral, composed of silica, magnesia, and iron, of a yellow to green color. it is common in certain volcanic rocks; -- called also olivine and peridot. sometimes used as a gem. the name was also early used for yellow varieties of tourmaline and topaz.